Ping Me..Do you pray to "Him"?
rikijo©
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s819685.htm
This is peculiar military strategy being employed on the battlefield, no?
ROTFL
Let us "All" take this moment and pray for the anti-christ on the eve of
his un-veiling..
Me
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I think it's all a bit silly myself, but to each his own.
rikijo©
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You think giving a religious edict to soldiers in the field to pray on
behalf of a sick twisted man who is leading a crusade to bring in Jesus'
return is silly? You won't be laughing for long..
Me
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>Me <no-address_...@no-address.com> wrote in
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>> On Mon, 03 May 2004 17:58:36 GMT, "rikijo©" <kab...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Why not? He asks his soldiers to pray for him. Why don't you?
>>>
>>>
>>>http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s819685.htm
>>>
>>>This is peculiar military strategy being employed on the battlefield,
>>>no? ROTFL
>>>
>>>Let us "All" take this moment and pray for the anti-christ on the eve
>>>of his un-veiling..
>>
>> I think it's all a bit silly myself, but to each his own.
>>
>
>You think giving a religious edict to soldiers in the field to pray on
>behalf of a sick twisted man who is leading a crusade to bring in Jesus'
>return is silly? You won't be laughing for long..
I'm laughing uproariously, but it has nothing to do with Bush:
<http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200405/SPE20040503a.html>
"We have 19 of 23 officers who served with [Kerry]. We have every
commanding officer he ever had in Vietnam. They all signed a letter
that says he is unfit to be commander-in-chief"
ThePsyko
Yeouch!! SPNAK!!
ThePsyko
reminds me of a dream I had two nights ago.. I was dressed all in black
and riding a black horse chasing somebody with a sword in my hand..
somebody else (don't know who, all I know is it was a friend) rode up
beside me and swung his sword, slicing cleanly through my neck.. without
a single scratch on me I turned towards him laughing said "you can't
kill satan".
That was when I woke up..
Me
I wouldn't test that theory if I were you. I suspect you might find
that it really is a bit silly. ;-)
I know... twas just a dream.
BuZZard
"Me" <no-address_...@no-address.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 3 May 2004 18:14:17 -0400 (EDT), "ThePsyko"
> <thepsyko...@itookmyprozac.com> wrote:
>
> >Me wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 03 May 2004 17:58:36 GMT, "rikijo©" <kab...@hotmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Why not? He asks his soldiers to pray for him. Why don't you?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s819685.htm
> >> >
> >> >This is peculiar military strategy being employed on the battlefield,
> >no?
> >> >ROTFL
> >> >
> >> >Let us "All" take this moment and pray for the anti-christ on the eve
of
> >> >his un-veiling..
> >>
> >> I think it's all a bit silly myself, but to each his own.
> >
> >reminds me of a dream I had two nights ago.. I was dressed all in black
> >and riding a black horse chasing somebody with a sword in my hand..
> >somebody else (don't know who, all I know is it was a friend) rode up
> >beside me and swung his sword, slicing cleanly through my neck.. without
> >a single scratch on me I turned towards him laughing said "you can't
> >kill satan".
> >
> >kids horse ride, drunk. MUAHAHAHA
>
> I wouldn't test that theory if I were you. I suspect you might find
> that it really is a bit silly. ;-)
>
> I know... twas just a dream.
A weird one at that.. sleeping on a kids ride all drunk and stuff.
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<no-address_...@no-address.com> wrote:
<snip>
>I'm laughing uproariously, but it has nothing to do with Bush:
>
><http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200405/SPE20040503a.html>
>
>"We have 19 of 23 officers who served with [Kerry]. We have every
>commanding officer he ever had in Vietnam. They all signed a letter
>that says he is unfit to be commander-in-chief"
your source is suspect though i expect you hit their (laff) paypal
button regularly ...
CNS news has no cred ... they claim accreditation from, get this,
the Pentagon, the Knesset, the Department of State, the US senate and
house of reps and the EU
http://www.cnsnews.com/corporate/affiliations.asp
bwhahahahhahaha .... fascist mispresenting wankers ...
mediatransparency.org has this to say about their parent body, the
Media Research Center:
http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipients/mrc.htm
"...it is Bozell's Media Research Center that stands out as the
right's preeminent media cop. Bozell is a Republican operative with
credentials earned in George Bush's 1988 presidential campaign. The
nephew of William F. Buckley, he headed the Conservative Victory
Committee that year. He is also connected to the Political Club for
Growth, a network of conservative and libertarian activists and groups
sympathetic to cutting taxes and shrinking government.
What Bozell and others perceive as liberal bias often means presenting
information about government help for the poor, the homeless, the
weak, and so on -- information that conflicts with the objectives of
the right.
...
Opposes any traces of liberalism on TV or in films. Chairman L. Brent
Bozell III publishes the newsletter TV, ETC., with an advisory board
that includes Elliot Abrams, Mona Charen, Pete DuPont, and Rush
Limbaugh."
muhahahhaha ... yucky
a further investigation of their funding sources reveals the usual
array of far right extremist foundations
http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on_any_recipient.php?203
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V--V
Member of the Feminist Junta
"There is a well-established pattern of suppression
and distortion of scientific findings
by high-ranking Bush administration political
appointees across numerous federal agencies.
These actions have consequences for human
health, public safety, and community well-being.
...
There is significant evidence that the scope
and scale of the manipulation, suppression,
and misrepresentation of science by the Bush
administration are unprecedented."
2004 UCS report Scientific Integrity in Policymaking
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/rsi/page.cfm?pageID=1322
ThePsyko
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stating in news:c76js7$bqvn$1...@ID-99150.news.uni-berlin.de:
post edit!!
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/(bb|[^b]{2})/ that is the Question
ThePsyko
Public Enemy #7
http://prozac.iscool.net
rikijo©
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> On Tue, 04 May 2004 02:50:48 GMT, mouse <mo...@hole.invalid> wrote:
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>>
>> Me <no-address_...@no-address.com> parroted:
>>>...to. Terrorist attacks world wide are WAY down. If Kerry were
>>>elected he'd appease the scum and make things FAR worse. You don't
>>>appease a bully. It never gets you anything more that additional
>>>violence.
>>
>> Violence begets violence.
>>
>> Where do you get this factoid about attacks being WAY down?
>>
>>http://www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/0306bm29.pdf
>>Trends in the Incidence of International Terror Attacks on Americans
>>
>>http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/
>>Patterns of Global Terrorism
>>
>>http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/1999report/373317.jpg
>>
>>
>> d00d, you need to reformat and start over-
>>your programming is fatally flawed.
>>
>
> dood, you need to wake up and find recent data.
>
> <http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2003/31569.htm>
>
> The numbers are down 45% from 2001 and are now the lowest they've been
> since 1969.
Now you spund like the idiots that have been watching polls instead of
taking ionto account on the reasons behind the conflict to begin with.
Those same polls have clouded judgement of Americans since the entire
conflict started. They(Americans) are confused..
If someone kills your entire familly BUT the overall crime rate was down
2.3% would it make any difference to you, dum dum..
Thats not reality, its sugar coated wishful thinking, br0..
BuZZard
"ThePsyko" <thep...@itookmyprozac.com> wrote in message
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What are you talking about?
Me
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>Me <no-address_...@no-address.com> wrote in
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>> dood, you need to wake up and find recent data.
>>
>> <http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2003/31569.htm>
>>
>> The numbers are down 45% from 2001 and are now the lowest they've been
>> since 1969.
>
>Now you spund like the idiots that have been watching polls instead of
>taking ionto account on the reasons behind the conflict to begin with.
>Those same polls have clouded judgement of Americans since the entire
>conflict started. They(Americans) are confused..
>If someone kills your entire familly BUT the overall crime rate was down
>2.3% would it make any difference to you, dum dum..
>Thats not reality, its sugar coated wishful thinking, br0..
Nobodys done anything to "my family" since 9/11 and terrorist attacks
on others world wide are down. That means a lot any way you look at
it. There is no down side, unless you happen to be a crazy muslim
intent on killing all non-muslims as their kook manual commands.
rikijo©
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Its amazing! This is the second deception of reality, you are now
justifying the confict based on the original act that started it, and
all acts that happen afterewards are justified by the original act.
You have been own3d...you have no reason..
Its funny how the war on terror became war on Iraq, let me tell you my
friend, the reason terrorist attacks are down is not ONLY due to U.S.
efforts alone. The entire world clamped down on security and intercepted
attacks by the dozens..from U.K. to the Phillipines. There has to be some
kind of CNN mantra-special add from the pentagon running telling you guys
this bullshit but you can beleieve what you want, just remember, they
just got to Iraq, and look whats going on over there now..We'll see
anyways, right?
Is it acceptable on premise of 'reason' that the illegal invasion of a
sovereighn country was acceptable due to the fact you can now attest to
an overall drop in present attack levels??-You mean to tell me someone
can try make you believe that this is proper common sense, and WIN?
Damn, are you ever in trouble if you ever piss me off, brother LOL
Me
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>Me <no-address_...@no-address.com> wrote in
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Surely you can set XNews to not quote the header. That's kinda
pointless, don't ya think?
>> On Tue, 04 May 2004 06:45:01 GMT, "rikijo©" <kab...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Me <no-address_...@no-address.com> wrote in
>>>news:d8id90t4ulb2o7rtu...@4ax.com:
>>>
>>
>>>> dood, you need to wake up and find recent data.
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2003/31569.htm>
>>>>
>>>> The numbers are down 45% from 2001 and are now the lowest they've
>>>> been since 1969.
>>>
>>>Now you spund like the idiots that have been watching polls instead of
>>>taking ionto account on the reasons behind the conflict to begin with.
>>>Those same polls have clouded judgement of Americans since the entire
>>>conflict started. They(Americans) are confused..
>>>If someone kills your entire familly BUT the overall crime rate was
>>>down 2.3% would it make any difference to you, dum dum..
>>>Thats not reality, its sugar coated wishful thinking, br0..
>>
>> Nobodys done anything to "my family" since 9/11 and terrorist attacks
>> on others world wide are down. That means a lot any way you look at
>> it. There is no down side, unless you happen to be a crazy muslim
>> intent on killing all non-muslims as their kook manual commands.
>>
>
>Its amazing! This is the second deception of reality, you are now
>justifying the confict based on the original act that started it, and
>all acts that happen afterewards are justified by the original act.
>
>You have been own3d...you have no reason..
There's plenty of reason as I've already pointed out.
>Its funny how the war on terror became war on Iraq, let me tell you my
>friend, the reason terrorist attacks are down is not ONLY due to U.S.
>efforts alone. The entire world clamped down on security and intercepted
>attacks by the dozens..from U.K. to the Phillipines. There has to be some
>kind of CNN mantra-special add from the pentagon running telling you guys
>this bullshit but you can beleieve what you want, just remember, they
>just got to Iraq, and look whats going on over there now..We'll see
>anyways, right?
Yep. :-)
>Is it acceptable on premise of 'reason' that the illegal invasion of a
>sovereighn country was acceptable due to the fact you can now attest to
>an overall drop in present attack levels??
I've told you repeatedly why. The list is long enough and I'm not
wasting any more bandwidth or keyboard time on it. <yawn>
>You mean to tell me someone
>can try make you believe that this is proper common sense, and WIN?
>
>Damn, are you ever in trouble if you ever piss me off, brother LOL
LOL. Meaning?
rikijo©
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According to freelance journalist Wayne Madsden, "George W Bush's blood
lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs and his constant
references to 'evil doers,' in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders,
bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of
Revelations--the anti-Christ."
Madsen, a Washington-based writer and columnist, who often writes for
Counterpunch, says that people close to the pope claim that amid these
concerns, the pontiff wishes he was younger and in better health to
confront the possibility that Bush may represent the person prophesized
in Revelations. John Paul II has always believed the world was on the
precipice of the final confrontation between Good and Evil as foretold in
the New Testament.
Before he became pope, Karol Cardinal Wojtyla said, "We are now standing
in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone
through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide
circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing
the final confrontation between the church and the anti-Church, of the
Gospel versus the anti-Gospel."
The pope worked tirelessly to convince leaders of nations on the UN
Security Council to oppose Bush's war resolution on Iraq. Vatican sources
claim they had not seen the pope more animated and determined since he
fell ill to Parkinson's Disease. In the end, the pope did convince the
leaders of Mexico, Chile, Cameroon and Guinea to oppose the U.S.
resolution.
Madsen contends that "Bush is a dangerous right-wing ideologue who
couples his political fanaticism with a neo-Christian blood cult."
rikijo©
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THE DANGERS OF FUNDAMENTALIST BELIEFS ON
GEORGE BUSH AND ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY.
ISLAMIC & ISRAELI FUNDAMENTALISM AND HOW THEY INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER
AND WITH U.S. POLICY
By Larry Ross, Secretary, New Zealand Nuclear Free Peacemaking
Association.
Researcher into nuclear, peace and religious issues.
Delivered to The Christchurch Unitarian Fellowship, Sunday March 21, 2004
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
George Bush is the most powerful man in history. President of the world's
only superpower or hyper power, the United States, he controls an arsenal
of conventional and nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their
delivery vehicles capable of destroying all life on earth many times
over. With the end of the cold war no other country rivals the U.S. and
George Bush has announced the US will never allow a challenger to arise.
Bush considers God a key political ally, according to an article from
Capitol Hill Blue as reported by Scripps Howard News Service March 5,
2003. He wrote: Bush told a conference of lawmakers that people cannot
"claim to know all the ways of Providence"
"Yet we can trust in them, placing our confidence in the loving God
behind all of life and all of history" he said "May he guide us now"
(LR Comment: Whatever happens' whatever I do, could be due to Providence.
So place your confidence in God, as he is behind all of history. Trust
them, trust us. God, or Providence is really responsible for anything
that happens)
"Bush has constantly prayed about the Iraqi situation and come to the
conclusion that the man (Saddam Hussein) must be disarmed for the safety
and security of the American people" (LR Comment: I claim that God has
instructed me through prayer, to disarm Saddam Hussein. That means I can
go to war and kill thousands of people and that this is the result of
what God told me to do in my prayers)
Bush said "he is sustained by the prayers of the people." (LR Comment:
Bush is claiming that the prayers of the people help him make the
decision to go to war)
"Le Monde, the influential Paris daily, said in one editorial that Bush
"is convinced he is inspired by God, and he is dangerous"" (LR Comment:
As he claims to read the Bible and pray every day and thereby claims to
get divine guidance, he can claim to follow that divine guidance whatever
he may do. Even launching a nuclear armageddon could be an act of divine
guidance as he says we "cannot know all the ways of Providence"
"Bush is a self-described born-again Christian, at least in part because
of a battle with the bottle. Born an Episcopalian, he is now a Methodist.
He prays daily and often participates in West Wing Bible studies." Bush
said "I pray for strength, I pray for guidance, I pray for forgiveness.
And I pray to offer my thanks for a kind and generous almighty god. (LR
Comment: Is it strength and guidance to bomb, knowing you will kill and
maim thousands of innocent people who you know are no threat to you. Do
you really believe that a kind and generous almighty God will forgive you
these horrendous crimes? Or is that just the cynical wishful thinking of
a duplicitous war criminal?)
Bush said "We're being challenged. We're meeting those challenges because
of our faith" (LR Comment: How he meets those challenges is with 'shock
and awe' massive bombing campaigns and spreading tons of DU weaponry that
will kill, and cause mutations is innocent people for 4.5 billion years.
That's not really me doing it he might claim. It is "because of our faith
and providence" he says)
One of the best papers I've read is on this subject is:
"BUSH'S ARMAGEDDON OBSESSION, REVISITED"
http://www.counterpunch.org/hill01042003.html
by Michael Ortiz Hill. Author of Dreaming the End of the World
I will quote a lot from it but suggest you get the original from the
above website.
To quote: " The man is delusional and the shape of his delusion is
specifically apocalyptic in belief and intent. That Bush would attack so
many vital systems on so many fronts from foreign policy to the
environment may seem confusing from the point of view of Realpolitik but
becomes transparent in terms of the apocalyptic worldview to which he
subscribes. All systems are supposed to go down so the Messiah can come
and Bush, seemingly, has taken on the role of the one who brings this to
pass."
"The Reverend Billy Graham taught Bush to live in anticipation of the
Second Coming but it was his friendship with Dr Tony Evans that shaped
Bush's political understanding of how to deport himself in an apocalyptic
era. Dr Evans, the Pastor of a large Dallas Church and a founder of the
Promise Keepers movement taught Bush about "how the world should be seen
from a divine viewpoint"
"S.R. Shearer of Antipas Ministries writes, "Most leaders of the Promise
Keepers embrace a doctrine of 'end times (eschatology) known as
'dominionism. Dominionism pictures the seizure of earthy (temporal) power
by the people of God as the only means through which the world can be
rescued…
"It is the eschatology that Bush has imbibed; an eschatology through
which he has gradually (and easily) come to see himself as an agent of
God who has been called by him to 'restore the earth to God's control' a
'chosen vessel' so to speak, to bring Restoration of All Things. Shearer
calls this delusion, "Messianic leadership" - that is to say usurping the
role usually ascribed to the Messiah.
"In the book Bush at War, Bob Woodward writes, "Most presidents have high
hopes. Some have grandiose visions of what they will achieve, and he was
firmly in that camp. "To answer these attacks and rid the world of evil"
says Bush. And again he said:
"We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in
defense of this great nation"
"Woodward comments, "The president was casting his mission and that of
the country in the grand vision of Gods Master Plan.
All the objections from the highest Republican and International and
Allied authorities, including the Pentagon, to his war on Iraq "is in the
least relevant to Bush." His advisors are the extremist neocons that he
has surrounded himself with and agree with him and "his mandate is from
God"
"The scriptured text that informs Bush understanding of and enactment of
the End Of Days (Revelations 19) depicts Christ returning as the Heavenly
Avenger. Revelations is the only New Testament book that justifies
violence of any kind, and this it takes to the limit
"…Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the
nations. And I saw an angel standing in the sun who cried in a low voice
to all the birds flying in mid-air - come gather together for the great
supper of God, so you may eat the flesh of kings, generals and mighty
men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and
slave, small and great"
"Such is "the glory of the coming of the Lord. Truth, carnage, and the
ecstasy of vultures. In a ruined world the Messiah slays the antichrist
and creates "a new heaven and a new earth" The dead are judged, the
Christians saved and the rest of us damned to eternal torment. The new
Jerusalem is established and the Lord rules it with an iron sceptre"
"It is not inconceivable that Bush is literally and determinedly drawn
consciously and unconsciously, toward the enactment of such a scenario,
as he believes, for God's sake. Indeed the stark relentlessness of his
policy in the Middle East suggests as much"
The well-known American author Gore Vidal, commenting on previous US
Administrations made similar comments about Bush in his article "The
Erosion of the American Dream" 19/3/03
http://wwwcounterpunch.org/vidal03132003.html
"No, he certainly is worse(than previous Administrations). We've never
had a kind of reckless one who may believe - and there's a whole history
now that he's inspired by love of Our Lord -that he is an apocalyptic
Christian who'll be going to Heaven while the rest of us go to blazes.
"..we have been at war steadily since 1950. I did a pamphlet "A Perpetual
War For Perpetual Peace"...we have the Enemy of the Month. One month its
Noreiega-king of drugs. Another one, its Gaddafi - we bombed and killed
his daughter. We've moved from one enemy to another and the press and
media has never been
more disgusting….The censorship here is so tight in all of the newspapers
and particularly in network television. So nobodies getting the facts…"
Michael Oritiz Hill found that Revelations was more of a pagan myth 2000
years before Christ and rewritten into Biblical text some 300 years after
Christ's death. Martin Luther found the vindictive God of Revelations
incompatible with the gospels and relegated it to the Appendix of his
translation of the New Testament. All Protestant Reformers except Calvin
regarded apocalyptic millennialism to be heresy.
"This pagan myth recycled as a suspiciously unchristian Biblical text
found new credence in the 19th century when John Darby virtually revived
the Montanist heresy and invested it with a passionate literalism. Darby
left the priesthood of the Church of Ireland and preached Revelations as
both prophecy and imminent history. In this he inaugurated a lineage in
which Bush's mentors, the Reverend Billy Graham and Dr Tony Evans are
recent heirs.
PREPARING FOR THE APOCALYPSE?
In the 2002 Nuclear Posture Review, Bush lowered the barrier against the
use of nuclear weapons, and decried they may be used as part of the
conventional weapons mix, as needed to win a victory.
In violation of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, he also arranged to
make a new generation of nuclear weapons - called mini-nukes or bunker
busters. He announced the right to wage pre-emptive war against any
country suspected of harbouring terrorists, or was otherwise deemed to be
a threat to US interests of US allies. He also claimed the right to use
nuclear weapons against nuclear or non-nuclear states - whether or not
they had attacked the U.S. The 7 countries named in the Pentagon's
Nuclear Posture Review in the March 10, 2002 Los Angelos Times were the
so-called "axis of evil"
Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and 4 others ; Libya, Syria, Russia and China.
President Bush has demonstrated that he will knowingly tell a number of
lies, in order to fool the US Senate and US public into supporting a
major war against a small country - Iraq. He and his allies, the UK,
Australia, Italy and Spain will defy the United Nations and even threaten
to use nuclear weapons in some circumstances against Iraq - thus,
possibly precipitating a series of events which could culminate in a
nuclear world war that could end humanity. Gambling with the very future
of humanity is a very big gamble to take based on known lies. They knew
that Iraq could not strike back, had no nuclear weapons, did not
participate in the 9/11 attack, had no links to Al-Qaeda and no weapons
of mass destruction.
In spite of extensive counselling by other states and intelligence
experts in the US and top Republicans and international experts that his
claims were not true or were exaggerated, Bush surrounded by his
Administration of neoconservative war planners was not moved. He went
ahead with his unjustified, illegal war in defiance of the United Nations
and the majority of people everywhere. For example; 90% of the Spanish
public opposed Spain going to war with Iraq. Last week democracy
prevailed and the Spanish people voted out of office the Government that
took them into that war. Will this happen in England, Italy and
Australia?
As the famous author, Johnathon Schell said in The Nation 29/3/04, " 549
American soldiers and uncounted thousands of Iraqis, military and
civilian, have died; some $125 US billion has been expended; no weapons
of mass destruction have been found; the economy is a disaster;
electricity and water are sometime things; America's former well-wishers,
the Shiites, are impatient with the occupation; terrorist bombs are
taking a heavy toll; and Iraq as a whole, far from being a model for
anything, is a cautionary lesson in the folly of imperial rule in the
21st century….yet all this is only part of the cost of the decision to
invade and occupy Iraq"
Arundhati Roy, another famous author said in her brilliant article The
New American Century in the 9/2/04 issue of The Nation, The "new
Imperialism is already upon us. It's a remodelled, streamlined version of
what we once knew. For the first time in history , a single empire with
an arsenal of weapons that could obliterate the world in an afternoon has
complete, unipolar, economic and military hegemony."
FUNDAMENTALIST INFLUENCES ON BUSH AND FOREIGN POLICY
The question is how much do Bush's Christian fundamentalist beliefs
influence his decisions to tell a pack of lies to fool people into
supporting his phoney war and killing thousands of people; spreading tons
of depleted uranium weapons to contaminate Iraq causing countless deaths
and mutations there and in neighbouring countries for 4.5 billion years,
making new far more dangerous nuclear and pre-emptive war doctrines,
ushering in a new nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation era, thus
increasing the dangers of a nuclear war, spurning environment crisis such
as global warming and the Pentagon's vitally important report on "abrupt
climate change that could precipitate nuclear conflict, mega-droughts,
famine etc", withdrawing from international treaties, record US deficits,
suppressing US civil liberties and the militarisation of space to protect
American dominance and many other issues.
Is all this a manifestation of Christian Fundamentalism? Was Bush chosen
by God to dominate the world as he claims? Or is his professed Christian
Fundamentalism mixed with appeals to patriotism a cloak to get the
support of the uninformed, misinformed and religiously confused? Can he
use protestations of Godly communication to excuse and divinely justify
his crimes?
Are we to believe that its all necessary to support Bush's so-called war
on terrorism? Tony Blair, PM of Britain and John Howard, PM of Australia
apparently think so. They seem ready to follow Bush into any war he
chooses to launch against any new enemy he cares to name, with any excuse
he cares to make, and any risks he cares to take - even a nuclear war
that could end humanity. Now that's an imbecilic dog-like devotion worthy
of the Guinness Book of Records. I've never seen the like of this kind of
dedicated infantilism in politics before. I hope people support Helen
Clarke's position enough to ensure she doesn't buckle any more than she
has already in sending so-called nation-building humanitarian military
forces to Iraq and Afghanistan. It must be hard as leader of a small
state to keep a sane head and an even policy when your three much more
powerful major allies are going war crazy - apparently with 'skies the
limit' 'whose next' support for Bush's insanely dangerous pre-emptive
nuclear policy.
Bush's $125 billion strategy simply makes many more terrorists
and piles up horrendous debts for America's grandchildren to repay.
Terrorist reactions provide violent tangible excuses for Bush and his
English and Australian poodles to strengthen their war on terrorism. It's
a self-fulfilling prophecy - the Bush PR man's dream scenario.
As a born again Christian fundamentalist, it suits Bush's strategy to mix
religious terminology with his military/political message. It resonates
with the majority of the US public - 70% of whom believed his lies,
endlessly given, as fact by the media. Thus they supported his war.
In his brilliant article in The Guardian Weekly 3/10/03, George Monbiot
explores how US leaders now see themselves as priests, with a divine
mission to rid the world of its demons - so 8)many of whom have been
created and supported by the U.S. - like Saddam Hussein.
Monbiot mentions "Clifford Longley and his book Chosen People in which he
says the American founding fathers sensed they were guided by a divine
purpose. For example George Washington
claimed, in his inaugural address, that every step towards independence
was "distinguished by some token of providential agency." …The American
revolutionaries believed that the English had broken their covenant: the
Americans had now become the chosen people, with a divine duty to deliver
the world to God's dominion… (The Jews actually got in their claim before
the Americans. They claimed to be god's chosen people. Perhaps the
Americans had not heard in 1776 about the Jews prior heavenly claim.
Maybe the Americans should apply for a franchise) " It's not just that
the Americans are God's chosen people; America itself is seen as a divine
project. In his farewell address, Ronald Reagan spoke of his country as a
"shining city on the hill", a reference to the Sermon On The Mount. But
what Jesus was describing was not a temporal Jerusalem, but the kingdom
of heaven. Not only, in Reagan's account, was God's kingdom to be found
in the United States of America, but the kingdom of hell could also now
be located on earth: the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union, against which
His holy warriors were pitched….The flag has become as sacred as the
Bible; the name of the nation as holy as the name of God. The presidency
is turning into a priesthood. So those who question Bush's foreign policy
are no longer merely critics; they are blasphemers. The US has a divine
mission, as Bush suggested in January 2003…'TO DEFEND…THE HOPES OF ALL
MANKIND"
"The dangers of a national divinity scarcely require explanation. Japan
went to war in the 1930's convinced, like Bush, that it possessed a
heaven-sent mission to "liberate" Asia and extend the realm of its divine
imperium. It would, the fascist theoretician Kita Ikki predicted, "light
the darkness of the entire world"
It didn't. It created a series of hells on earth. What would the divinely
inspired Japanese have done with nuclear weapons?. What will the born
again, divinely inspired Bush Administration, with the new nuclear
permissiveness and lowered nuclear barriers, do with the greatest nuclear
arsenal in history, against its various named "axis of evil" states and
other named enemies.?
The Billionaire, George Soros, writing in The Guardian January 26, 2004,
said "I contend that the Bush Administration has deliberately exploited
September 11 to pursue policies that the American public would not have
otherwise tolerated….the country is in the hands of a group of extremists
whose strong sense of mission is matched only by their false sense of
certitude. This distorted view postulates that because we are stronger
than others, we must know better and we must have right on our side.
That is where religious fundamentalism comes together with market
fundamentalism to form the ideology of American supremacy."
Sometimes the very rich are also very smart, smart enough to think of
other things than their King Midas preoccupations of adding yet more
wealth. You don't have to be a Rhodes scholar to know that a nuclear war
can atomise all your wealth, as well as you, your children and
grandchildren - quickly - and make the planet uninhabitable for the few
remnants of population. The few rich powerful fundamentalist Christians
who believe in the end-times and that they will be raptured up to heaven
may be working for this kind of nuclear armageddon. But for the majority
of mankind, they want this world to continue and for man and human
society to achieve its expanding potential.
Israeli and Islamic Fundamentalism
Michael Oritz Hill in his article (above) said "Revelations is much
believed by Muslim fundamentalists, and like their Christian compatriots
they also thrill to redemption through apocalypse. Jewish fundamentalist
of course do not believe in Revelations but have nonetheless made common
cause with the Christian Right.
"It's a very tragic situation in which Christian fundamentalists, certain
groups of them that focus on Armageddon and the Rapture and the role of a
war between Muslims and Jews in bringing about the Second Coming, are
involved in a folie a deux with extremist Jews," said Ian Lustick, author
of "For The Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel". The
Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition (and yes it is a single tradition) is
being led by it's fringe into the abyss and the rest of us with it.
"The world has been readied for the fire but the critical element is the
Bush Administration. Never in the history of Christendom has there been a
moment when this rogue element has carried anything like the credibility
and political power that it carries now."
In another article: "Bush's Armageddon Obsession" by Michael Oritz Hill
in Counterpunch Oct 19, 2002, he writes of the influence of Hal Lindsay's
book "The Late Great Planet Earth" (sales 15 million copies) "shaping
fundamentalist thoughts on apocalyptic matters. Written within the
geopolitical fantasies of the cold war, Lindsey writes "As Armageddon
begins with the invasion of Israel by the Arabs and the Russian
confederacy, and their consequent swift destruction, the greatest period
of Jewish conversion to their true Messiah will begin" I'd rather not
believe that Bush is moving according to Lindseys' game plan but the
simple fact is we don't know.
The Administration's systematic alienation of our Arab allies ( soon
leaving Israel as our only viable ally in the Mideast) raises disturbing
questions."
(My analysis: Bush has not only lowered the nuclear barrier and created
pre-emptive doctrines to attack any other state, he has named 2 nuclear
powers in the Nuclear Posture Review, as potential targets - Russia and
China. Ask yourself what leaders in their right mind would plan and tell
their own people and the world, that America with about 10,000 nuclear
weapons, (and possibly with Britain's 1,000 nuclear weapons if Tony Blair
goes along, as he has to date, with Bush's vision), would contemplate
attacking Russia and/or China, who also have about 10,000 nuclear
weapons. To put it mildly that could mean the end of the world many times
over. But to devoted Christian Fundamentalists like Bush and his
supporters, they think (or let others think for them) that it is end-
times soon, the promised day of judgement, the final Armageddon which
they interpret as promised in the Bible. Fundamentalists believe they
will be raptured to heaven while the rest of us will suffer the eternal
fires of hell. As a believer, Bush may feel quite pleased to be playing
such a key role in God's plan. It's difficult to prove. More research is
needed because of the many indicators about these supremely important
questions.
Bush and his PR team are too cunning to spell it out, as they must know
it would wake the sleeping giant - the American public. However the
extraordinarily Bush mideast policies do line up and set the stage for
something like Hal Lindsey's predictions to come true.
Oritz goes on to write about Islamic Fundamentalism:
" Lindsey's book influenced not only American Fundamentalist culture, but
had a pervasive effect on fundamentalist Islams' apocalyptic worldview.
According to David Cook, the American expert on Islamic apocalyptic
literature, until the late 80's this element of Muslim culture had been
fairly static for centuries. "The contemporary Muslim" says Cook, "sees
the present world turned upside down by Christian millennialism…In
defense, Muslins make heavy use of the Bible, or as one might say, the
Bible seen through the eyes of Hal Lindsey. There are Muslim readings of
the book of Daniel, Ezekial and Revelation. The only difference is that
the 'good guys' are Muslims, not Christians" This strange cross-
fertilisation between cultures has placed us in the situation in which
the current administration and Radical Islam share a common worldview in
which peace descends after Evil is defeated in an apocalyptic battle.
Both parties sing the same song: God will lead our warriors to victory
against the forces of darkness. We are at an extraordinary and critical
historical moment….It is clear, that we should be afraid for we are
profoundly endangered by the passions of both Christian and Muslim
fundamentalisms."
In the article 'THE WIDENING CRUSADE" by Sydney H. Schanberg in the New
York Village Voice, he says:
"The Israeli bombing raid on Syria Oct 5 , 2003 was an expansion of the
Bush policy, carried out by the Sharon government but with the implicit
approval of Washington. ( This underlines what I said before about Bush
setting the stage in the Mideast for a Hal Lindsay Armageddon script)
"People close to the president say that his conversion to evangelical
Methodism, after a life of aimless carousing, markedly informs his
policies, both foreign and domestic. In the soon to be published "The
Faith Of George W. Bush (Tarcher/Penguin), author Stephen Mansfield
writes ( in the advance proofs) that in the election year 2,000, Bush
told Texas preacher James Robison, one of his spiritual mentors: "I feel
like God wants me to run for president. I can't explain it, but I sense
my country is going to need me….I know it won't be easy on me or my
family, but God wants me to do it.
Mansfield reports: "Aides found him face down on the floor in prayer in
the Oval office"….he framed America's challenges in nearly Biblical
language "Saddam Hussein is an evildoer Bush said, He has to go"
"….policy… will be processed in terms of the personal, in terms of the
moral, and in terms of a sense of divine purpose that propels the present
to meet the challenges of its time"
"Most of the men and women who are advocating the Bush Doctrine…are not
opportunists in search of power, most of them truly believe in their
vision of a world crusade under the American flag. They are serious, and
they now have power at the top.
( My analysis on this is that Bush knew about the neocoms global
domination plan in 2,000 and that is why he said what he did to Texas
preacher James Robison in 2,000 " I sense my country is going to need
me…I know it won't be easy….but God wants me to do it" From this and the
other papers quoted herein, I conclude that Bush believes that all his
decisions and actions are part of a divine plan, or God's instructions,
and that as President, he does not have to answer for them to anyone.
Lying prostate on the floor praying is another indicator of Bush's mental
condition or mindset. His long litany of decisions that spell big
problems - even catastrophes in the short and long term, is another
indicator that he believes that as end times are almost upon us, God will
soon be taking over the fate of the world for the final judgement and
Armageddon. So why worry about such details as catastrophic rapid climate
change - he might think. In fact his policy decisions do reflect a crazy
kind of consistency, if considered in the context of a Christian
apocalyptic fundamentalist philosophy. Also, his quite appalling series
of lies used to justify the war with Iraq, so convincingly parroted by
Tony Blair and John Howard, can all be excused by Bush, as simply
following divine orders - part of the divine plan. Who are we to question
or know what is so clearly (to Bush) God's will?
For Bush, mentally armed with the Christian Fundamentalist religion,
anything is possible and everything can be divinely justified, No wonder
he doesn't take advice from some of the best minds in the U.S. and
elsewhere. These are mere mortals. Bush has God telling him what to do
and his fundamentalist vision. Bush, in daily communication with God
through prayer, does not question what is obviously God's will and plan.
Another excellent article by Sydney Schanberg "George Bush , Make Believe
President" appeared in the Village Voice February 18, 2004.
He said Bush is "not qualified, not truthful, not wise and…a limited man
missing many qualifications for the job…who has made a mess of almost
everything and put the country at risk in many ways… He seems addled and
stunned….with reckless spending and record deficits"
Another excellent article in the same vein is
"Bush and God Scam: Don't Buy It" available
in:http://www.commondreams.org/ on March 10, 2003 , just before the US
invasion of Iraq.
by Ira Chernus, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of
Colorado at Boulder
He said the Whitehouse " is mounting a massive campaign to paint the
president as a man on a divine mission, a man who sees himself as an
agent of God….Wrap the flag around God, and who can question your moral
credibility? If Bush stands with God, those who actively oppose his war
must be down below with Satan….nothing can stop this Christian soldier
from marching out to war."
The essentials of fundamentalist thought and doctrine is told by Gary
North in his article "The Unannounced Reason Behind American
Fundamentalism's Support for the State of Israel" written in July 19,
2,000. He is also the author of "Conspiracy: A Biblical View" . It can be
downloaded at http://www.freebooks.com
"According to premillennialists, who are known as dispensationalists,
Jesus will come secretly in the clouds and raise deceased Christians -
and only Christians - from the dead. Immediately thereafter, every true
Christian will be transported bodily into the sky, and from there to
heaven: the Rapture event….
The Rapture-based escape from history is now universally believed by
fundamentalists to be imminent. Generations of fundamentalists have
believed that they will escape bodily death. They will be transported
into the sky, like Elijah, though without benefit of chariots. When? The
answer: Soon…..Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
The doctrine of imminent rapture allows Christians to believe seriously
that they can go to heaven without dying. Millions of Americans believe
this today.
The fundamentalist movement thrives on the doctrine of the imminent
Rapture, not the indefinitely postponed Rapture.
( My analysis. As mentioned in various quotes, George Bush identifies
himself as part of the evangelical Christian fundamentalist movement...
thus he must see the rapture as coming soon when he and other
fundamentalists will go bodily to heaven. Again, this helps establish why
George Bush seems so unconcerned by such trivia as global warming, huge
deficits, (Bush's)God's divine lies to extend (Bush's) God's kingdom by
war, and thousands - maybe millions of dead. It's all part of the plan as
prophesied)
Israel's Fundamentalist Policies
14) Since about 1948, US policy has been to unstintingly support the
state of Israel. This has sometimes proved difficult, especially today
when Israel is so obviously expanding its territory into Palestine in
defiance of international law and many UN resolutions. Orthodox Jews
believe God gave them the territory called Palestine and that they have a
right to occupy it. Thus there is continued expansion of Jewish
settlements in Palestine territory. Sharon is building a great wall in
Palestine territory in order to steal more land under the guise of
protecting the illegal Israeli settlers from terrorism. He has stepped up
military raids into Palestine as well as increasing assassination and
bombings in Palestine. All this in the name of making war against
terrorism. However it is the illegal Israeli occupation, persecution, and
murder of Palestinians which provokes terrorism . The U.S. and Israel
call any opposition to this murderous program "anti-sematic". The US
continues to give Israel at least $3 billion US a year, so identifying
itself in this any many other ways as Israel's chief ally and sponsor.
Fundamentalists give unwavering support to "the nation of Israel in order
to keep the Israelis alive until after the Rapture." Gary North wrote.
Fundamentalists are so powerful in the US, and are so entrenched in the
administration, and Israel is so essential to the fundamentalist vision,
that support for Israel will go on even though it may seem to others to
be very much against U.S. real interests. It's very easy to see how the
fundamentalist script for Armageddon is being made a self-fulfilling
prophecy.
Although this Unitarian paper is long, it only skims the surface of the
thousands of available articles on the subject you can find on Internet.
I don't have the time today to explore the other interacting influences
for war on the Bush Administration. In addition to (1) the Christian
Right or fundamentalist influence there is (2) the military - industrial-
scientific- academic-intelligence-political complex warned about by
President Eisenhower in his valedictory address in 1961 when he left
office, (3) the very powerful neoconservative individuals in high policy-
making positions in the Bush Administration, their publications and Think
Tanks and (4) the mutually supportive interactions between them.
When you can see the total picture of mutually supporting, financially
dedicated rich individuals and organizations, you can understand how
large and powerful is the American momentum, like 15) some giant machine
out of control, that is racing us all toward Armageddon. It surely is the
great tragedy of our known Universe, that such a promising race of
beings, with such a glittering, shining potential future, may blow it all
away because of their flaws.
What Can We Do As Individuals and Organizations to Prevent A Nuclear
Armageddon?
Write anti-war and nuclear-free peace letters to media and politicians
Vote for the most peaceful anti-war nuclear-free politicians
Give financial support to those working for peace
However I think that preventing an armageddon will take a lot more than
this - a lot more money - a lot more organisation and people - a lot more
ideas. Remember we are facing a divinely self-anointed huge empire
marching toward global domination or nuclear self-extinction.
Unitarians should have a special interest in this task. Whereas
Christians believe they have a better world to look forward to,
Unitarians and many others know they only will ever have one world.
If we destroy it - then that's the end of the story. No more humanity
No more future. No more grandchildren - just a burnt out orb for billions
of years. So lets get busy and see if we can save it.
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Republicans are desperately grasping at straws in an attempt to garner
votes for our President as he makes a bid for reelection. Argument after
argument has been offered in favor of President Bush and subsequently
countered.
Bush, we were told, defended our country from an aggressor. Yes, he did -
an unarmed "aggressor" whose last aggression was quelled 13 years ago.
Bush, we were told, defends the unborn. Yes, he does - the 1% who are
murdered through partial birth abortion (yet he does nothing for the 99%
murdered before birth and condemns to death the 1% conceived through rape
or incest). Bush, we were told, is fiscally conservative. Yes, he is - if
you believe "fiscal conservatism" means temporarily cutting taxes and
then spending more than any President since Johnson. Bush, we were told,
defends the traditional family. Yes, he does - at the same time he stabs
social conservatives in the back by passing legislation giving special
rights to homosexuals.
One as yet unaddressed argument, however, is that offered to me by Andrew
Sandlin. The argument is that Bush is a Christian and therefore worthy of
my vote. This final argument might carry some weight...if it were true.
But it's not. George W. Bush is no Christian, and I'll tell you why.
Every year since taking office the President has hosted an Iftaar dinner
which Islamic "holy leaders" have attended. The Iftaar is a banquet held
at the beginning of the Muslim month of Ramadan. In 2001 the President
was honored to welcome his guests during the "holy month of Ramadan," in
2002 he was honored that his guests attended to help "usher in the holy
month of Ramadan," and in 2003 he was pleased to host his guests during
the "blessed month of Ramadan."
Again, every year since taking office the President has acknowledged the
Muslim "holiday" Eid al-Fitr and issued greetings on that day. In 2001
the President called the false god Allah "God" and once again referred to
the "holy month of Ramadan," in 2002 he respected the "vibrant faith of
Islam," and in 2003 he said that Ramadan "commemorates the revelation of
God's word in the holy Koran to the prophet Mohammed."
"Holy" and "blessed" are religious words which grant credence to that to
which they are applied. Indeed, applying such words to Islam is
completely contrary to the Biblical example of Elijah who mocked the
false gods of the prophets of Baal.
Additionally, in I Cor. 10:14 Paul warns, "Wherefore, my dearly beloved,
flee from idolatry." A little later in the same chapter he says: "But I
say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to
devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship
with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils:
ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils."
The notes in my New Geneva Study Bible say: "Paul is grieved that some of
the Corinthians are participating in pagan meals that had an inseparable
element of idolatry" and "behind pagan rituals is the reality of Satan's
work, and Christians should have nothing to do with that."
So President Bush has participated in pagan "holidays," and legitimized
them by his actions. What else has he done?
On September 14th, 2001, he attended a post-9/11 "Day of Prayer" at the
National Cathedral. During the service he reverently listened to the
message delivered by Muzammil Siddiqi, a Muslim imam, "who offered
prayers and verses from the Koran." He then sat under the prayer of a
Jewish Rabbi.
According to The American Heritage Dictionary, worship is "The reverent
love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a sacred object" and "the
ceremonies, prayers, or other religious forms by which this love is
expressed." Respecting and sitting under the prayers and teachings of a
Muslim imam and a Jewish Rabbi easily falls under that definition...and
so Bush, in essence, sat and worshipped with pagans. At the very least,
that action violates the Third Commandment which warns against bowing
down to or serving other gods and it also lends an aura of legitimacy to
those pagan religions.
As if all the above is not enough...there's more.
In late November of last year Bush was asked by a reporter about his view
that "freedom is a gift from 'the Almighty'" and if he believed that
"'Muslims worship the same Almighty' as [he] and other Christians do."
Bush said, "I do say that freedom is the Almighty's gift to every person.
I also condition it by saying freedom is not America's gift to the
world...It's much greater than that, of course. And I believe we worship
the same god."
Also, according to an article in the December issue of Newsweek, Bush
told the spokesman of the Iraqi Governing Council: "Dr. al-Rubaie, I want
you to convey this message to Mr. Sistani. Tell him that I pray to the
same god he prays to...Tell Sistani I have nothing but praise for your
religion."
John MacArthur has this to say about the notion that God and Allah are
the same god:
"Allah is another name for Satan because 'the Allah of Islam' is not the
true and living God...The fact of the matter is all false religions have
a god or gods, and to call some entity of your own manufacturing or some
demon or Satan himself “god” doesn’t make it so. The Allah of Islam is
not God…is not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is not the God and
Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ." Additionally, MacArthur tells us, "God
the true and living God is not Allah! That has to be made clear. We are
not talking about the same god. They are monotheistic, they have one god,
but their god is not a trinity--that is not the true god. They do not
believe in God as a trinity; therefore, that’s not the true god. They do
not even believe that He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They
believe He is the God of Abraham, whose true and legitimate heir was
Ishmael…so they rewrite the Scripture."
Equating Satan (the god of Islam) with the Trinitarian Christian God is
nothing less than blasphemy. Such unitarian universalism directly
contradicts John 14:6, which reads: "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way,
the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
Bush, however, has not blasphemed God merely once. Last month, while
speaking about faith-based programs, he said, "Miracles happen as a
result of the love of the Almighty, professed, by the way, taught, by the
way, by religions from all walks of life, whether it be Christian,
Jewish, Muslim, Hindu -- people who have heard that universal call to
love a neighbor just like you'd like to be loved yourself, and then
surround someone who hurts with love."
Josh Matthews of Polemics had this to say: "All of those religions except
one teach obedience to man-made rules. You can call that 'virtue' if you
want (stealing a pagan Greek term), but it ain't love as defined by God's
Word." In the end, Bush does not profess Christianity - he professes
pantheism.
Finally, to top it all off, during a February 2002 visit to Japan George
W. Bush and his wife "visited the Meiji Shrine, a major venue for Shinto
worshippers in Tokyo." This article says, "Bush and the first lady paid
their respects by bowing in front of the main shrine hall before signing
a registry book, including a brief comment on their visit." They also
both "clapped their hands" to awaken the spirit in the shrine.
According to this site, "During WWII, Japanese and Korean Christians who
refused to worship...at Shinto shrines were put to death." On that same
site, Japanese Christian Rev. Isaac Ishiguro says, "According to the
Shinto ritual, clapping hands and bows are [the] Shinto style of
worship...The verb 'SANPAI' in Japanese means SAN=visit or go [and]
PAI=worship. In Japanese all the media reported, 'Bush SANPAIed at Meiji
shrine.' The other reason we as Japanese strongly believe that Bush did
worship at Meiji shrine [is] because prime minister Koizumi could not
participate with Bush according to the Japanese Constitution. Why[?] If
Koizumi goes in and bow, it is official worship at religious place, so he
[declined] to go in to avoid such accusation[s]. Therefore Bush's bow and
written name on the shrine list [is] official worship in public.
To sum everything up, Bush has participated in pagan festivals,
worshipped alongside Muslims and Jews, equated the idol of Islam with the
One True God, profaned the love of the One True God, and worshipped at a
pagan Shinto shrine. In short, he has unrepentantly broken every one of
the first three Commandments.
If Bush is a Christian then he has committed such serious sins that until
and unless he repents of them he is not fit to hold office. More likely,
however, is that Bush is a unitarian and a universalist and thus a
heretic.
Replies: 23 comments
If Bush is not a Christian then Solomon wasn't an Israelite and Caiaphas
wasn't a Jew.
He is in dire need of repentance, but he's still a Christian.
That word "apostacy" means something, after all.
Posted by Kelly @ 02/09/2004 07:13 PM PST
Yes, you could easily also consider Bush to be apostate.
I'm not sure I see how he can honestly be called a Christian, though. For
one thing, the analogies you offered are questionable...Israelites and
Jews were classified racially and were not necessarily all in the
covenant. Christians are of all races. Your analogy doesn't entirely make
sense to me.
As this blogger says, "Faulty analogy. One was an Israelite by virtue of
being a citizen of national racial Israel through physical birth or
through naturalized citizenship (Romans 9:3-5; Exodus 12:48-49). In
contrast, a Christian is one that has true faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
as Savior and is thereby justified in the sight of God (Romans 10:9-11)."
Are you trying to say Bush is a Christian because he's professed
Christianity? In that case you must accept that Al Gore is a Christian
because he has said, in so many words, "I am a born-again Christian." It
takes more than a profession of Christianity to be a Christian. Mormons
will profess to be Christians and yet they are clearly cultists. Bush's
profession is meaningless if his actions and theology do not back up his
words.
Bush is a member of the visible church...I'll grant that. Every
appearance suggests, however, that he is not a member of the invisible
church.
Posted by Pieter Friedrich @ 02/09/2004 10:36 PM PST
Was Solomon a Christian? (Defining a Christian to be one who follows
after the true God, that is). I believe he was. Yet he sinned. He
worshipped false gods with his wives. No one will deny that he did things
that no Christian ought to do! Yet I don't know of anyone who would say
that Solomon thereby lost his salvation and is in hell right now.
Not to excuse anything that Bush has done, but I still think we ought to
be extremely careful about judging whether or not he is a Christian.
Posted by Jamie @ 02/10/2004 07:20 AM PST
I, like many Christians, would like to believe that Dubya is a Christian,
but Christians don't believe that heaven is open to faiths other than
Christianity; and Bush has repeatedly said such things that have more in
common with unitarian universalism than with the historic Christian
faith. If he can't even affirm Christianity's basic exclusive claims,
then what conclusions can we draw? People will say he's a weak Christian,
but even weak Christians know that Christians go to heaven and people of
other faiths go to hell.
Posted by Toni @ 02/10/2004 08:05 AM PST
I agree that we need to be careful about determining the salvation of
someone who claims Christianity, but I also think that there is a place
for accountability when one claims to be a Christian. The Bible does say
that we are to look at the fruits of those who proclaim Christ, and we
are also to examine ourselves.
Because of his important position, and because of his uncritical support
by many Christians, Bush is leading many astray by his false worship of
other gods and his statements about "many ways" to come to God.
Galatians 1:8-10 says:
"But even if we or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you
than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said
before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you
than what you have received let him be accursed. For do I now persuade
men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I
would not be a bondservant of Christ."
Kelly's point about apostasy and Jamie's about Solomon are very true.
God, however, holds those who take HIs name and live however they please,
very harshly. Also, what say you about Bill Clinton, who regularly went
to church and called himself a Christian? Was his serial adultery and his
support of abortion and legalized theft (welfare) enough to question his
faith in God? I though Pieter's analogy about Mormons was also very true.
I have no problem with saying that a Mormon is not a Christian because he
says that there is another way to God than Christ. Does that apply to
Bush, as well?
Posted by Carmon @ 02/10/2004 08:19 AM PST
Jamie: I am trying to be careful. I believe I can say fairly certainly
that Bush is not a Christian...but if you'll notice in the last paragraph
of my post I very carefully did not actually say he is not a Christian. I
said he could be a Christian who is merely living in very serious sin.
But yes, we do need to be careful about juding another's salvation.
I don't know for sure where Solomon is right now. If he didn't repent of
his sins then he is, I believe, in Hell. What's probable, however, is
that in writing the book of Ecclesiastes he did repent...in which case
he's in Heaven.
And I think Mom and Toni pretty well covered your other points.
Posted by Pieter Friedrich @ 02/10/2004 09:18 AM PST
Bravo, Pieter! I'm in complete agreement about the wayward ways of our
"Christian" President.
While Kelly and Jamie make good points, I think the real problem is the
sinfulness of the Methodist Church in this matter.
If things were working properly, Bush would be called to repentance by
his church for how he is publicly breaking the first three commandments,
and he would then face the choice of repentance or excommunication, and
we could easily say whether or not he was still a Christian. This of
course, is not happening, and all we can conclude is that he is a man who
claims to follow Christ, and then blasphemes his Lord; certainly not
someone who should be supported by Christians for public office.
Posted by Josh A. @ 02/10/2004 10:31 AM PST
Simple definition of a Christian - person who is given Trinitarian
baptism in a church that believes the Creeds.
It's the objectivity of the covenant thing - he has been baptized in a
Christian church, hasn't he? And he hasn't been excommunicated, which, as
Josh pointed out, is a serious failure.
I want to make it clear that I'm not talking about whether he's "saved"
or not - that's why I deliberately used Solomon and Caiaphas. The Bible
makes it clear that Solomon repented, but we have no such assurance for
Caiaphas.
Since Mr. Bush is living in the middle of blatant idolatry (like Solomon
did, sacrificing to the gods of his wives) but he hasn't been
excommunicated, and he hasn't died in his sin, then I think we have to
say that he's a Christian - and beg God to be merciful to him and grant
him repentance!
Posted by Kelly @ 02/10/2004 12:37 PM PST
Kelly: If I understand you correctly, you're arguing in favor of
baptismal regeneration...something in which I do not believe. However,
rather than debating that theological issue, I think we can assume for
the sake of simplicity that when I say "Bush is not a Christian" I mean
"Bush is not saved" and not "Bush is not baptized."
Also, you said that a simple definition of a Christian is someone "given
Trinitarian baptism in a church that believes the Creeds." That is,
someone who is baptized is a member of the visible church. I said in an
earlier comment that Bush is a member of the visible church. When I say
"Bush is not a Christian" I mean that he's not, to all appearances, a
member of the invisible church.
Although I think you're trying to argue baptismal regeneration, we're not
actually differing that much - we're arguing semantics is what we're
doing.
Posted by Pieter Friedrich @ 02/10/2004 02:39 PM PST
"George W. Bush is no Christian, and I'll tell you why."
What audacity! True, but what audacity!
Now, to be sure, in the present milieu doctrinal discernment is
essentially non-existent. This is one of the reasons the Auburn Four (and
Sandlin) can even dare to promote the things they are doing in ostensibly
Reformed circles.
The legacy of liberalism and existentialism (and the latest incarnation
of relativism, postmodernism) has made its mark on modern American
thinking and too many professing Christians fail to operate on the basis
of antithesis.
In short, Bush in practice does and says things that are aggressively
opposed to a Christian doctrinal and world-and-life view, but he says he
is a Christian (he probably had H2O sprinkled on him or he was dunked in
the liquid), and therefore he is a "Christian."
Nonsense. Even from the perspective of the visible church (as understood
within the parameters of historic Reformed orthodoxy, not "Auburnism"),
one cannot be in blatant heresy and be considered a Christian from a
doctrinal basis.
Is he religious? Certainly. His religion is a syncretistic blasphemous
mix. Does he typically express his syncretistic religiousity in
Christian-friendly terms? Mostly, but there is wide fluctuation even in
that realm.
To be part of the visible Church does not necessarily mean one is a
Christian. Indeed, being a part of *a* visible church doesn't even mean
that one is part of *the* visible church. One of the marks of a true
church is the proper excercise of discipline.
If a member of a visible church repeatedly made statements such as the
following, but that church neglected to excercise discipline and in the
event of repeated occurences, failed to excommunicate the offender, that
church does not bear the mark of a true church:
Ramadan "commemorates the revelation of God's word in the holy Koran to
the prophet Mohammed."
Anyone that defends this, makes excuses for it, downplays it, or in any
other way attempts to run damage control for it, partakes of it.
Posted by FJ De Angelis @ 02/10/2004 03:24 PM PST
Pieter, I wasn't advocating baptismal regeneration, and I'd forgotten
that you said he's a member of the visible church, but not of the
invisible.
What I meant by calling him a Christian is "He's a member of the visible
church."
I'm sorry for the confusion.
The thought that was in the back of my mind when I posted that, is that
since Bush is a member of the visible church, if he dies in his sin
(apostate) he's a whole heck of a lot worse off than the average heathen
who never even heard the gospel. Technically, he's one of us, and we
ought to be extra diligent in praying for his repentance and salvation.
Posted by Kelly @ 02/10/2004 04:13 PM PST
Where do I start? First I wont delve into this too much before I take
some more time to think about it. Having 400 pages to read on the
Reformation in the next couple days for an exam gives me less than
adequate time to deliberate, but I trust this thread will be still going
on once I have a little more time.
Just to touch on the issue of Bush not being pro-life. He obviously is,
there are certain political realities. He can't declare abortion illegal,
unfortunately. He's done his best to appoint pro-life or at least not
pro-Roe judges in the face of the stiffest judicial appointment
opposition this country has possibly ever seen.
As I said I'll hop back in in a couple days should this thread still be
active. However I would just like to throw in now how dangerous I feel it
is to declare the condition of someone's soul. Calling to task Bush for
being overly sympathetic to Muslim beliefs is one thing. Declaring him a
heretic is quite another.
I'm not sure if I misread somewhere, but I don't see how the Methodist
church (one which is overly sympathetic to homosexuality, and a very
liberal church in general), or any other church excommunicating him would
make him not a Christian. Hope that's not what was meant by whoever said
that, I think maybe it was Kelly? I'm sure I need to remind people of the
great men throughout history who have been excommunicated.
Posted by Ryan Breslin @ 02/10/2004 07:31 PM PST
EDIT ABOVE: sorry, meant to say in the last line: "I'm sure I DON'T need
to remind..."
Posted by Ryan @ 02/10/2004 07:33 PM PST
Ryan stated:
"However I would just like to throw in now how dangerous I feel it is to
declare the condition of someone's soul. Calling to task Bush for being
overly sympathetic to Muslim beliefs is one thing. Declaring him a
heretic is quite another."
Pieter hasn't commented on his soul -- simply his repeated, consistent
public actions and public statements. A material distinction.
We're not talking about some 'backsliding' or area of weakness in his
life (say, for example, if he were tempted with drunkeness or lusting
after women, or other heteropraxy; or say, mucking around with the
doctrine of Justification, or other heterodoxy).
Rather, we're talking about his consistent, repeated, public confession
of faith, well documented in numerous sources.
In short, we don't have to attempt to peer into his soul or read his
heart, but simply read his open declarations regarding religion and
observe his repeated practice -- all with a smile on his face.
Pieter has clearly established and documented the following facts:
For years running, Bush has participated in the "blessed month of
Ramadan."
For years running, he has acknowledged "Eid al-Fitr."
He stated Ramadan "commemorates the revelation of God's word in the holy
Koran to the prophet Mohammed."
He attended worship services at the National Cathedral, "reverently"
listening to ministers of the devil, a Muslim imam and Jewish rabbi
(Jewish rabbis are not ministers of the true and living God, for they
mock and blaspheme the Son). They are contrary to all men.
He stated publically that Muslims and Christians "worship the same god."
Documented from Newsweek, Bush stated "Dr. al-Rubaie, I want you to
convey this message to Mr. Sistani. Tell him that I pray to the same god
he prays to...Tell Sistani I have nothing but praise for your religion."
He has stated, "Miracles happen as a result of the love of the Almighty,
professed, by the way, taught, by the way, by religions from all walks of
life, whether it be Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu."
In February 2002, he visited the Meiji Shrine, a shrine of the Shinto
religion. The Japanese Times stated, "Bush and the first lady paid their
respects by bowing in front of the main shrine hall before signing a
registry book, including a brief comment on their visit."
These things are all well documented; there is no bearing of false
witness taking place; it is not necessary to read his heart, as all is
necessary is to read his public confession of faith.
As I previously stated, in the present milieu doctrinal discernment is
essentially non-existent.
Jay Adams noted well:
"That is one reason why biblical preaching, with its sharp antithesis,
rubs many people the wrong way: It is hard for modern minds to accept.
For a long time now educational institutions, newspapers, magazines,
radio, TV, etc. have inculcated continuum thinking. Antithetical thinking
is dismissed as fanatical or worse. Consequently, when Christians (all of
whom have been affected by this environment) hear antithetical views
expressed, they sound discordant. And indeed they are! Because anything
goes, discernment is not placed at a premium." (Jay Adams, A Call to
Discernment. ), p. 30
Posted by FJ De Angelis @ 02/10/2004 08:25 PM PST
Okay, this is rediculous. That is just absolutely wonderful that God has
given you the ability to look into people's souls to discern their
salvation. While you're at it, was my conversion false? Because I still
sin from time to time. And I would bank on the fact that you break every
single one of the 10 commandments every day in one way or the other.
Perhaps it is by glorfiying this sorry excuse for a blog and making it
priority #1 in your life? I stop my sarcastic attempt at imitating your
critiques there, hoping that you see the error of hastilly comdemning our
President to Hell. You after s (I hope you do), and I would venture to
say that you fail to say sorry every time. Bush makes mistakes, and
though he doesn't apologize to Pieter, I refuse to question his
salvation.
And if you seek to comment on Bush's failure to end all abortion, let's
delve into a little civics lesson. These men that some label, "Founding
Fathers", created a system of government with what we call, "checks and
balances". The Executive branch, (President Bush right now), does not
possess the power to just end things that are wrong. He can give his
position and promise his signature on a bill, but it stops there. Bush
has done so, and followed through on his first oppurtunity. (Partial-
Birth Abortion ban) Also, consider that our nation has already made
abortion legal. That is a law affirmed by the United States Supreme
Court. (*enter checks and balances*) President Bush cannot just overrule
what they say. It stinks sometimes, but he can't. So don't rip into him
for not doing what he cannot do. Don't dare accuse him of essentially
being pro-choice by being inactive.
Oh, and by the way, by condemning your Republican President, (and yes,
pro-life), you are creating a wonderful oppurtunity for a Democratic and
pro-choice President to have the platform. It's either Bush or Kerry,
take your pick. And while you are sitting at home pondering ways to
shatter Bush and push pro-life agendas, I'll be out working to make sure
that our current leader stays in office. Is it not ironic that you accuse
Bush for inactivity that helps the pro-choice cause, but your own actions
HELP the pro-choice cause?
Posted by Matt Adkins @ 02/10/2004 10:05 PM PST
Okay, this is rediculous. That is just absolutely wonderful that God has
given you the ability to look into people's souls to discern their
salvation.
Did you bother reading the comment directly above yours in which FJ De
Angelis says "Pieter hasn't commented on his soul"? I didn't think so.
You should take a moment to read it. I never said a word about Bush's
soul. I made observations about his actions and drew conclusions. Or did
you bother reading the comment which quoted Galatians 1:8-10? I didn't
think so.
While you're at it, was my conversion false? Because I still sin from
time to time. And I would bank on the fact that you break every single
one of the 10 commandments every day in one way or the other.
I did not say that Bush was a heretic because he sins. I said that Bush
is probably a heretic because of the doctrines he verbally adheres
to...doctrines of universalism and unitarianism and pantheism. Those
beliefs run completely contrary to basic Christian teaching and to the
creeds and to the commandments. I won't speak to you because I have not
seen any of your actions by which to judge you. The difference between me
and Bush, however, is that while I do sin I realize that the things I do
are sinful and I repent of them. Bush sins by believing and professing
that which is contrary to basic Christian doctrine and he doesn't believe
it is sin and so he doesn't repent of it.
Perhaps it is by glorfiying this sorry excuse for a blog and making it
priority #1 in your life?
Not only is that an ad hominem, but it's hypocritical. Here you accuse me
of judging Bush's soul while you assume that simply because I run a blog
I make it my #1 priority in life and place it above God. I want you to
apologize for that.
Bush makes mistakes, and though he doesn't apologize to Pieter, I refuse
to question his salvation.
Nowhere did I say he needed to apologize to me. I said he needed to
repent to God. And since his sins have all been public he ought to also
set the record straight and correct his false statements.
And if you seek to comment on Bush's failure to end all abortion, let's
delve into a little civics lesson.
Let me give you a little civics lesson. Article I, Section VIII, Clause
XI of the United States Constitution says that Congress (and only
Congress) has the power to declare war. Now, remember when we went to war
last year? The president took us to war without a Congressional
Declaration of War...which is contrary to the Constitution. Additionally,
after taking a Constitutional Law class and an American Government class
I can tell you that the president has the ability to issue executive
orders...as many as he wants as often as he wants and about whatever he
wants. Not only that, but his EOs have the force of law.
So yes, the president does possess the power to do whatever he dang well
pleases and yes, he does possess the power to do much more than merely
state his position and promise to sign bills. Should he possess that
power? No. Does he? Yes. Could Bush end abortion tomorrow morning with an
executive order? Yes. Would he get reelected? No. Would that matter?
Let's just say that such an order would save the lives of one and a half
million babies a year. Which do you think matters more? Bush's reelection
or the lives of those babies? I think the answer's obvious. The only
reason Bush has not yet ended abortion with an EO is because he, like all
the other GOP presidents since 1973, doesn't have the guts.
Also, consider that our nation has already made abortion legal. That is a
law affirmed by the United States Supreme Court.
You should take a day very soon and pick up a book about the American
government and read about how the Supreme Court works. The Supreme Court
cannot make law...it can only interpret law and the Constitution, and its
interpretations can be changed. In other words, abortion is not "a law
affirmed by the US SC." Rather, it is an interpretation of the
Constitution offered by people who were at one time Supreme Court
justices.
Don't dare accuse him of essentially being pro-choice by being inactive.
I didn't. I accused him of being only partially pro-life because he
believes it's ok to murder babies conceived through rape or incest and of
being uselessly pro-life.
Oh, and by the way, by condemning your Republican President, (and yes,
pro-life), you are creating a wonderful oppurtunity for a Democratic and
pro-choice President to have the platform.
Two things.
1) It's not my job to worry about whether a Republican or a Democrat will
get into office. It's my job to make sure I vote for someone who is
principled and who will do what God says is right (Bush fails on both
counts) and to do my best to hold whoever is in office accountable for
what they do. If a Democrat gets into office I'll rip into him for his
faults just as much as I rip into Bush, if not more.
2) Since it's my responsibility to vote for a Godly candidate, I cannot
(and wouldn't anyways) vote for a Democrat. However, I sincerely believe
that a Democratic president would be good for our country. With the GOP-
controlled House and Senate everything a Democratic president tried to do
would be countered by the federal legislature...whereas Bush is allowed
to get away with anything because he's a Republican. I'd go into this
more but I'm writing an article about it.
And while you are sitting at home pondering ways to shatter Bush and push
pro-life agendas, I'll be out working to make sure that our current
leader stays in office.
Actually, I'll be sitting at home pondering ways to undermine Bush while
I also ponder ways to encourage people to vote for alternative and
strongly Christian candidates such as Michael Peroutka or Judge Roy
Moore. Will they win? Not without a miracle. Does that mean you shouldn't
vote for them? No.
Is it not ironic that you accuse Bush for inactivity that helps the pro-
choice cause, but your own actions HELP the pro-choice cause?
Is it not fascinating how you never cease to assume? Try reading this
post...that's what I've been doing for the pro-life cause. Take a look at
these pictures...I organized that rally. Also consider that all the major
pro-lifers at the pro-life rally I recently attended were disgusted with
Bush.
Posted by Pieter Friedrich @ 02/10/2004 11:46 PM PST
So yes, the president does possess the power to do whatever he dang well
pleases...
Petey, Executive Orders are not immune from congressional oversight or
the reach of the courts. So before you go off chastising Matt, make sure
you have your facts straight.
"A 1950s Supreme Court decision overturning a Harry Truman executive
order offers the sharpest guide to what constitutes a legitimate
executive order. The court invalidated the Truman order on the grounds
that it attempted to make law. The court further ruled that an executive
order is valid only when the president is acting pursuant to an act of
Congress or to the Constitution itself." -
http://slate.msn.com/id/1005300
As far as executive orders go, Bush reinstated the "Mexico City Policy"
directing the State Dept. to block funding of international agencies that
council and perform abortions. That was in fact the first act he took as
President.
To think that the Supreme Court and/or the Congress would not overturn an
Executive Order is naive at best. The reinstating of the "Mexico City
Policy" drew such ire that the House International Relations Committee
voted to overturn it.
I applaud your efforts in the pro-life movement. I believe you to be
sincere in your beliefs. This however doesn't change the fact that unless
you vote for Bush you are being counter-productive towards the cause of
life in the long run. A Bush Presidency sees pro-life judges appointed to
federal courts, and with a retirement on the Supreme Court, possibly
there as well. Drawing votes away from Bush and given to a Democrat will
cause enormous setbacks to the pro-life movement.
And as far as telling Matt to apologize? That seems quite petty, he said
he was being sarcastic in response to your viscous attacks on the
President's standing with God.
My opinion is that Bush acknowledges Muslim beliefs (by acknowledge, I
mean acknowledges that they exist) and is cordial to them because he
believes it isn't the place of the President to discriminate against
certain religions on some level. The main reason is for geo-political
purposes to garner favor with Islamic leaders here in America in order to
advance his (correct) agenda abroad. I know you disagree with his foreign
policy, but that's not the point of this discussion, so refrain from
commenting on it.
What follows is an account of something highly publicized during the 2000
election:
"In 1993, discussing his decision around age 40 to accept Christ as his
personal savior, Bush told a Houston Post reporter that--as the reporter
paraphrased it--'heaven is open only to those who accept Jesus Christ.'"
"According to Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard, Bush says his mother
then called Billy Graham to straighten him out. Graham advised him to
"never play God" by ruling on who gets into heaven."..."'My faith tells
me that acceptance of Jesus Christ as my savior is my salvation, and I
believe that,' Bush says."
So maybe you would then say that Rev. Graham gave Bush poor council.
Whatever the case, it establishes that Bush has acknowledged the truth of
John 14: 6.
Posted by Ryan Breslin @ 02/11/2004 01:16 AM PST
Wow! The troops are getting a little personal sounding around the
edges...
I have to admit that I was greatly educated by the references and the
links to articles. Thanks.
As for the salvation issue, it is clear in scripture that believing that
Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God, that he died and rose
again is the basis of salvation. Revelation 3:8, etc. emphasizes "not
denying" Christ's name as a key issue rather then "having fellowship"
with worshippers of the false God's.
I am glad to be learning more about Bush's weaknesses in his statements
about faith.
I'm just writing to caution the personal "tinge" to the posts and to
suggest a different perspective.
Posted by Patrick Klansek @ 02/11/2004 12:03 PM PST
No one is perfect. But George Bush is the best that we have, and a WORLD
better than any other candidate. It is your DUTY as a christian to make
sure that the one who will help our cause most is elected. That means
that if you are a christian, you WILL go out and vote for George Bush. He
has flaws, and major ones, but we can use all the help that we can get.
Posted by Nick Taylor @ 02/14/2004 09:58 AM PST
You can't question someone's faith if they don't vote for someone. Their
common sense is completely lacking since he would be the man to best
further the cause of life and morality in this race. You are right, he's
not perfect, he's not even ideal. But he is a good man, and a good
President, even if it wasn't for his foreign policy goals, which put him
over the top for me.
4 years until we have a President we can all agree on. SANTORUM IN 2008!
Posted by Ryan Breslin @ 02/14/2004 10:38 AM PST
Please help expose George W. Bush. He is loyal to preserving the interest
of the American dependance on foreign oil. He is claiming to be a
Christian to win votes but defy Christian doctrines. He considers the
muslim faith as another vibrant faith. He refers to them as holy and
blessed. This is heresy.
George W. Bush policies of making the US more dependent on Oil from the
muslim world is helping the spread of muslim. About 50 years ago,
Christianity was the dominant religion in Africa. Now the muslim religion
is taking over Africa and having more influence in Europe, thanks to oil
money. We are also indirectly helping Osaman Bin Laden with our
dependence on their oil.
Please pray for America to wean itself from imported oil.
Posted by Yaw Sekyere @ 02/14/2004 03:40 PM PST
The spread of muslim? Let's try proper English, ok? I suppose the
Presidet has began to invest research into hydrogen fuel cells to stay on
foreign oil? No, he's not great on the enviorment, it's one of my biggest
complaints about him actually. It's such a simplified, asinine argument
to say this was a war for oil. You can have a legitimate disagreement
about the administration's methods for dealing with this problem, but to
say he wants more oil is just plain stupid. So, so, passé...
Posted by Ryan Breslin @ 02/14/2004 04:15 PM PST
Woah...I just posted a comment about Bush in another spot in your blog
and then read this...I basically echoed your points. *blush*
Unintentionally so.
Posted by Katherine @ 04/08/2004 10:19 AM PST
rikijo©
Bush the Infallible
by Jeffrey A. Tucker
It is slowly dawning on people that to understand George W., one must
understand his religious impulses, which all evidence suggests are
intensely important to him. His views are no different from that of the
typical evangelical who absorbed his faith from the American Baptist
culture. But they merit closer attention when they are held by an
arrogant man with his finger on the button and who is contemplating total
war.
Concerning this arrogance, Richard Cohen writes that "Bush's rigidity can
come across as smugness. This has always been his least appealing
quality, and it was on display, or so I was told, at a lunch he had for
network anchors before the State of the Union message. He reportedly came
across as cocky, not so much sure of himself as too sure of himself….
Maybe this single-mindedness of the president's is the product of his
deep religious belief – the conviction that he has been chosen for the
task of decking Hussein."
I don't watch television so I hadn't seen this aspect of Bush on display
– until the other day when I watched a video feed from MSNBC. Bush was
holding a press conference with economists who had endorsed his stimulus
plan. He took questions after. None of the questions concerned economics.
There was a question on Iraq, a question on race quotas, and one other I
can't remember. They were all reasonable. What struck me the most was
Bush's demeanor.
As the questions were being asked, he looked down at the table and around
the room, not at the questioner. He impatiently drummed his fingers on
the table, as if he knew in advance that nothing could be asked that was
really worth asking. His attitude was that if it needed to be known, he
would have already have said it. All inquiries were just an imposition on
him, an insult to his own sense of certainty. His answers consisted of
barking back the stated position, along with a reminder that the position
had already been stated. There was no attempt to charm, no attempt to
inform, no attempt to hide his disdain.
How does he get away with it? The White House holds all the cards. All
the reporters present were there at the permission of the White House.
Any reporter who wrote to denounce Bush's stonewalling, or raise
questions about his state of mind, would be quickly barred from future
events. The news organization that published that story would be punished
as well. The press needs access, and so plays along to prevent reprisal.
There's another element too, namely that most of these reporters have an
ideological admiration for the executive state. They may disagree with
Bush's politics, but they adore the power of the office he inhabits.
Bush's behavior that day probably qualifies as routine, but because I
hadn't seen Bush in action recently, I found it startling. What gives a
person that sense of certainty, that swagger that no one but himself
ought to be in charge of what is known and what is not known? Power,
certainly. Maybe that explanation is enough. And yet, Cohen is right to
bring Bush's religious sensibility into it. There is something
recognizably regional and sectarian in his religious way, a product of a
doctrinal sensibility that thrives in the Southern region of the United
States. It is woven into the culture in myriad way. Bush has adopted it
as his own.
In the state of the union address, Bush said the following: "There is
power – wonder-working power – in the goodness and idealism and faith of
the American people." His cadence in these lines come from the hymn by
Lewis E. Jones, a revival hymn from 1899 once sung in the streets to whip
up religious frenzy for prohibition (which Gary North calls the "'last
hurrah' in politics for American fundamentalists").
"There is power, power, wonder working power," go the words, "In the
precious blood of the Lamb." The sentiments are classically revivalist.
All Bush did was replace Jesus as the source of the wonder-working power
with the idealism and faith of the American people. He said this as if
everyone should recognize the hymn and the meaning, though Europeans
couldn't possibly, and few even in the West and East Coast of the US
could have any idea what he was referencing. It was code designed to
liven the hearts of the faithful – the tribe of evangelicals who
constitute his strongest support base.
Bush is by birth a member of the Episcopal Church, but because he is
"born again" as an adult – long past the "age of accountability" of 10–13
years old when a person born into this religion is supposed to be saved –
his religious sense was shaped by a gripping personal experience and an
uncritical embrace of evangelical doctrine. This holds to the Calvinist
idea of the security of the believer ("once saved, always saved") but
rejects the corollary Calvinist idea that God has predestined all men to
salvation or damnation in favor of the view that all must make a choice
to accept Jesus's invitation to salvation. Once the choice is made,
salvation is assured.
The faith is classically low church. As for sacraments, there are only
two (called ordinances): Baptism and the Lord's Supper. They are purely
symbolic, social statements by believers designed purely for purposes of
public profession. All grace is imparted by the choice of Jesus, after
which all sins are cleansed and your permanently valid ticket to Heaven
is issued.
The obvious question presents itself: if one is assured of salvation by
one's personal choice, and one thereby becomes constitutionally incapable
of committing sins that separate the soul from God, what reason is there
to avoid a fall into complete lawlessness? The Presbyterian religion has
managed to avoid this fate by placing a strict emphasis on obedience to
the law as part of religious obligation, not for purposes of salvation,
but to display deference to God's word. It is precisely the mix of the
belief in predestination, combined with the emphasis on strict behavioral
controls, that gave Presbyterians the reputation of being "the frozen
chosen."
The evangelical strain, however, has no stodginess deriving from a strong
emphasis on law and obedience. The culture of the evangelical religion
includes standards for behavior, but they center on pietistic tropes
condemning drinking, cursing, gambling, and other sins of the flesh.
Rather, the emphasis is on the need to make a one-time choice for good,
after which point all struggle is over. In the case of Jimmy Carter's
brand of the Southern Baptist religion, this impulse leads to Progressive
politics of using the state to do good works to improve society. For
Bush, it works itself out through the arena of foreign policy.
The common element here – and here is where evangelicalism dovetails with
Puritanism – is a firm conviction in the purity of the individual
believer who has been saved by choice and then by faith alone. The
spirit, after all, has been saved, so the believer has little need to
police himself on whether he is committing sins of the spirit (despair,
presumption, envy, obstinacy, and the like). The spiritually penetrating
writings of St. John of the Cross or Thomas à Kempis do not resonate at
all because, in the words of the hymn Bush quoted, the believer is
permanently "free from the burden of sin." Any remaining impieties are
bound up with observably bad behaviors which do not finally impact on the
soul. One can "backslide," but one cannot lose salvation. To do one's
duty as a Christian means not to save oneself – to work out one's
salvation in fear and trembling – but to convince others to assist in
crushing the evil that is roaming freely out there in the world.
What this produces is, in the first instance, a notably unreflective
faith. Apart from the initial choice to embrace Jesus, there is no
spiritual struggle at work, no questioning at the heart of prayer, no
self-criticism, no internal moral drama taking place in one's life. In
fact, to doubt at all is to bring into question not only one's salvation
but the entire apparatus of religious doctrine, the core tenet of which
is the surety of salvation once it is chosen. The greatest insult one can
deliver to one who holds this view is to question the likelihood that
someone is going to shoot straight to Heaven when he dies.
Christianity once clearly taught that a king who kills innocents and
squanders the people's money is endangering his immortal soul. By raising
this prospect, bishops and priests and theologians have restrained the
war-like behavior of princes from the 4th century on. But what if the
prince believes that he is assured of salvation because of his own
choice, regardless of what the church says? We have here an entirely
different constellation of incentives at work. Might Bush believe there
is no eternal price to pay for killing thousands, even millions, in a
good cause, since there is nothing he could do to endanger his immortal
soul?
There is another trait of the evangelical religion with some bearing on
understanding Bush's cockiness. It is the belief in direct revelation
from God. Most evangelicals accept this idea without question (polls
suggest 2 out of 3). Before every decision in life, they believe, one
must "pray about it." Now, praying is a great thing. But what we have
here is not prayer designed to focus the mind and heart on the things of
God. The purpose of the prayer in this case is to seek guidance from God
directly, in whatever form in which it may be given. God has a will for
your life, and it is your job to discover it through direct, one-on-one
communication.
Because God doesn't actually talk in direct words as he does in the
Bible, one must look for signs or find a feeling of some sort to discover
the messages God is trying send. It is hardly surprising that many people
who pray this way come away with messages from God that accord remarkably
with what they want to do in any case. The difference is that the
evangelical often walks with the conviction that his own subjective
impressions and choices have been blessed by God Almighty. It's hard to
argue with that.
Now, I say all this not to ridicule anyone's religious faith. Of course,
it should be clear that these views depart substantially from orthodox
Christian doctrine. It is enough of a refutation to note that the
combination of important doctrines here (that a person is implacably
saved for all eternity from the moment of choosing, combined with the
necessity of direct revelation from God) have never been believed by
Christians in any part of the world until they became the core of
revivalist doctrine in 19th century America. To this day, it is utterly
unknown in Europe, which is one reason Europeans find Bush so alarming.
Socially, there is no great harm to these teachings. They have produced
good people and good, productive communities. It can be a beautiful
faith, but, nonetheless, it is a faith unbound from tradition, unleashed
from scholarship, and thoroughly tied to individual experience. That is
why it begins to matter when a person who holds these views has his
finger on the button, a person who believes that he was personally
transformed by a born-again experience, a person who is obviously
transfixed by the personal power he possesses. This combination can be
dangerous. We may soon find out just how dangerous. Free from the burden
of sin, and hearing messages from God, George W. Bush may use his power
not to work wonders, but to bring about great harm.
February 14, 2003
Jeffrey Tucker [send him mail] is vice president of the Mises Institute.
Copyright © 2003 LewRockwell.com
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The occult Bush family 'dossier'
Hidden secrets of Tony Blair's MSWord 'dodgey dossier' revealed
When Saddam Hussein talked of 'the devil Bush' he may not have been so
far from the truth. U.S. president George W. Bush, his father and
grandfather are proven initiates of this multi-generational occult lodge.
George W. was tapped (initiated) in 1968 at the group's Yale University
HQ, a mausoleum known as 'the tomb'. [see Kris Millegan and Anthony
Sutton sites]
John Kerry (D) and George W. Bush (R) both members of Skull and Bones,
America's most powerful secret society
Adolf Hitler was also obsessed with the occult, in his case the Thule
Society which was closely inter-connected with German Theosophists. The
jolly roger, skull and cross bones, "der Totenkopf" was an emblem worn by
Hitler's SS soldiers and emblazoned on SS armoured cars and tanks. The SS
was a religious cult of Hitler worship. If the Nazis' occult lodges had
been exposed and shut down, not treated as a taboo, millions of lives
could have been saved. The second world war need never have happened.
Unless you want the occult fuelling a totalitarian West's Third World War
'on terror' and their 'New World Order' - please - do your bit to expose
the George W. Bush and the bonesmen.
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Contents
Dossier of articles on Skull and Bones at Yale University
Use of the skull and cross bones motif by Hitler's SS - a
military/religious cult
Use of the skull and cross bones motif by groups at the UK political
extremes
When a mass murderer purports to be a follower of Jesus Christ how do we
tell whether they're lying?
Skulls the movie - released in 2000
Skull and Bones Links
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Third SS Panzer Division 'Der Totenkopf'
Living quarters of the Dutch Volunteer Legion
on the Leningrad front, December 1943
Adolf Hitler was also obsessed with the occult, in his case the Thule
Society which was closely inter-connected with German Theosophists. The
jolly roger, skull and cross bones, "der Totenkopf" was an emblem worn by
Hitler's SS soldiers and emblazoned on SS armoured cars and tanks. (see
pictures and text by A.J. Barker throughout this page particularly that
of Paul Hausser). The SS was a religious cult of Hitler worship. If the
Nazis' occult lodges had been exposed and shut down, not treated as a
taboo, millions of lives could have been saved. The second world war need
never have happened. Unless you want the occult fuelling a totalitarian
West's Third World War 'on terror' and their 'New World Order' - please -
do your bit to expose the George W. Bush and the bonesmen.
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Skull and bones motif used by UK far left and far right
Advocates of hatred and violence at both ends of the left-right political
spectrum in the UK use the skull and cross bones as their symbol. Both
the following groups have a higher profile than their actual support in
the country might suggest, probably because their controversial ideas
attract attention.
Combat 18
Far right race-hate organisation Combat 18 (known to some as wombat 18)
use the skull and cross bones logo on their web site. www.combat18.org
Is it necessary to point out to any vaguely intelligent person why Combat
18 is not a nice organisation? Their open support for the Nazis and
'White Power' (do whites really need any more power?) and anti-Jewish
stance unashamedly welds them in with race-hate atrocities committed by
the SS and Gestpo etc. in World War II.
One section of the combat 18 web forum is entitled 'The Zyklon Zone',
taking its name from IG Farben's poison gas used for mass murder in Nazi
death camps. The two sub-sections of this forum zone are demeaningly
entitled 'Jew Stuff' and 'Blackie Stuff'.
Only someone who rejoices in the worst excesses of man's inhumanity to
man could support or connect themselves with such an organisation.
Class War
Hailing from the extreme left, skull and cross bones logo users Class War
believe that "violence is a necessary part of the class war".
www.classwaruk.org
Class War are left wing advocates of violence, blaming the upper and
middle 'ruling' classes as a whole for the ills of working people and
advocating a fundamentalist Marxist worldview. They make no distinction
between well-off groups and individuals that fight for social justice and
those selfish capitalists that work to destroy the lives and communities
of the poor, exploiting and legitimising the jealousy of the poor for the
rich. I have been personally criticised by Class War's Paul Marsh for
exposing what I believe to be their infiltration by Britain's
counterintelligence service MI5.
Class War supports important groups such as Against Prison Slavery but
attacks Britain's first black MP Diane Abbott for "maintaining close
relations with the biggest racists of the lot, the Metropolitan Police".
Class War also blame the MP personally for Hackney's "bizzare mixture of
grinding poverty and wealthy middle class idiots".
One of the issues Class War appear to have avoided is the fact that far-
right organisations such as Combat 18 (above) and the BNP are essentially
working class movements.
In an era where the U.S. administration is leading the world into a state
of permanent 'war on terrorism' Class War's violent response and
perpetuation of the 'war' mindset begs the question "can you fight
violence with violence?" In fact the issues raised by Class War lie at
the heart of differences on the left between those that see man's
propensity for violence against the person as the solution and those that
see it as the problem.
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Bones or the Bible? testing the spirit
If someone, such as George W. Bush, John Kerry or Tony Blair is
pretending to be a Christian there is a sure fire way of putting them on
the spot to see if they are telling the truth. Dig out your Bible and see
1 John 4:2-3
The skull and cross bones is used in the third degree 'rebirth'
initiation of freemasons - in a mockery of being 'born again' into the
kingdom of Jesus Christ.
My other 'dossier' on the Bush family's business connections with the
Nazis
Documented Evidence of a Secret Business and Political Alliance Between
the U.S. "Establishment" and the Nazis - Before, During and After World
War II - up to the Present.http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html
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Skulls (2000)
Get hold of 'Skulls' the movie (2000) - one of the most chillingly
courageous Hollywood films I've seen in the last fifteen years - it makes
you wonder if the mediocre reviews the film received were not part of the
web of conspiracy cast by the bonesmen! There is also a sequel.
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Skull and Bones Links
Death's Head: Piracy, Plunder and Foreign Policy
http://www.rense.com/general48/deathead.htm
THE US FLIES THE JOLLY ROGER - WITH SKULL AND BONES LEADERS AT THE HELM -
By: Dorothy Anne Seesehttp://www.etherzone.com/2003/sees062503.shtml
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The skull and bones at Yale
Do, do, do see this also - Tony
Oct03 - Fleshing out Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones secret retreat: Deer Island (spelt 'Deer Iland')
24Oct03 - Yale Herald - Of skulls and bones: More secrets of the tomb
05Oct04 - CBS television 60 minutes - Skull And Bones
Symbolism of the Skull and Crossbones, otherwise known as the Deaths Head
22May03 - Strike The Root - Death's Head: Piracy, Plunder and Foreign
Policy
Secrets of the Tomb book excerpt: The Legend of Skull and Bones
25Sep02 - USA Today - White House 'Bonesman' Leads Nation Into the Dark
04Sep02 - MSNBC - Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths
of Power
Tony Gosling - 18Aug02 - The Skull and Bones fraternity at Yale
University
07Aug00 - Time Magazine - Proof that George W. Bush is a member of the
Skull and Bones
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography ~ Chapter 7 ~ Skull and Bones:
The Racist Nightmare at Yale
1. Honeymoon
2. The Tomb
3. Britain's Yale Flying Unit
4. Other Important Bonesmen
5. Bush's Own Bones
6. The Yale Tories Who Made Skull and Bones
7. GUIDE TO THE YALE FAMILY CHART
8. NOTES
The Order of Skull and Bones - Chris Millegan (CTRL)
1. The Secret Origins of Skull & Bones
2. Secrets of the "Tomb"
3. Networks of Power
4. Name Roster of the Secret Establishment
5. China and the Opium Wars
6. The War on Drugs: An "Intellectual Fraud"
7. George Bush, Skull & Bones and the JFK Assassination
8. Motives for the Conspiracy
9. The Illuminati: Subverting the Body Politic
10. Skull & Bones = Illuminati?
11. World History: Plan or Accident?
Sources
23Apr01 - New York Observer - At Skull and Bones, Bush's Secret Club
Initiates Ream Gore
old - CTRL report on Skull and Bones
23Dec02 - Tony (this page's editor) refused permission to be editor of
open directory project page critical of the Skull and Bones
Some skull and bones links
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Bush family: corruption and Nazi collaboration timeline
READ UP ON OCCULTISM:
DON'T DIE OF IGNORANCE!!
1. Unholy Alliance, A history of Nazi involvement with the occult, Peter
Levenda, forward by Norman Mailer, Continuum publishing, 2002.
2. The occult roots of Nazism, secret aryan cults and their influence on
Nazi ideology, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, NYU press, 1992.
3. The Occult Conspiracy, secret societies-their influence and power in
world history, Michael Howard, Destiny books, 1989.
4. The Dark Worship, Toyne Newton. 2002
5. Erwin W. Lutzer, 'Hitler's Cross, the revealing story of how the Cross
of Christ was used as a symbol of the Nazi agenda.' pub. Moody press,
Chicago, 1995 [available from more mainstream bookshops].
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If you have audio: Skull and Bones - The Connection - WBUR 90.9 FM,
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Latest book: Fleshing out Skull and Bones
Investigations into America's most powerful secret society
Edited by Kris Millegan published by Trine Day October 2003
http://www.fleshingoutskullandbones.com
Through these doors pass the members of the Order of Skull & Bones, a
small secret society founded at Yale University in 1832 that has risen to
the top of American political and economic power. Three U.S. Presidents,
two Chief Justices of the United States, over twenty U.S. Senators, and
many congressmen, cabinet officers, judges and state officials are
testimony to the power, privilege and prestige of Bones.
What do these elite secret society members have over us regular folks?
Who are they? What do they do? Did members of Skull & Bones really
finance Hitler? Do they hold the bones of Geronimo in their Tomb? This
book is your chance to investigate these questions and more.
“These secret societies are behind it all,” my father told me many years
ago, During the early ‘50s he was a CIA branch chief, head of the East
Asia intelligence analysis office. “The Vietnam War,” he said soberly,
“is about drugs.” Many years later I finally had some understanding of
what Dad was talking about. I wish I had asked more questions. Such as,
was he talking about the Order of Skull and Bones?
It’s a symbol used by pirates, poisons and the Nazis but it’s also a
“fraternity” at Yale University. College kids having fun? Well, … ?
Fifteen juniors are tapped each year. Around 2,500 Yale graduates have
been members, mostly white males from wealthy Northeastern families:
Bush, Bundy, Cheney, Dodge, Ford, Goodyear, Harriman, Heinz, Kellogg,
Phelps, Pillsbury, Rockefeller, Taft, Vanderbilt, Weyerhaeuser and
Whitney are some of the names on its roster. Minorities were brought into
membership in the 1950s, and the first women were admitted in 1991,
The Order of Skull and Bones is a secret society begun at Yale by William
Huntington Russell. His cousin Samuel Russell’s family enterprise was the
largest American opium smuggler. When Russell & Co. worked with the
world’s largest smuggler, the Scottish firm Jardine-Matheson, they were
known as the Combination.
Many New England and Southern families in the “China Trade” sent their
sons to Yale, and many were tapped into Skull and Bones. From Yale,
Bonesmen went into and were very influential in the worlds of commerce,
communications, diplomacy, education, intelligence, finance, law and
politics.
http://www.fleshingoutskullandbones.com
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The Health Establishment and the Order of Skull & Bones
An SS armoured car in the
fighting in Danzig, September 1939
Skull and Bones secret retreat: Deer Island (spelt 'Deer Iland')
from
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/CarolASThompson/theorder.htm
From: America's Secret Establishment, An Introduction to the Order of
Skull & Bones, by Antony C. Sutton. Liberty House Press, 1986, pages 89-
91.
William H. Welch (1850-1934, Skull & Bones 1870) founded and was the
first director of the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns
Hopkins.
Welch's ties to Skull and Bones are explicitly noted in his papers
collection in the Johns Hopkins archives: Folder 67/13-15, YALE COLLEGE
"Skull and Bones," 1871-1933.
Welch papers Series II / Johns Hopkins Medical Institute
He was a correspondent of George D. Miller from 1870 to 1929. George
Douglas Miller (also S&B 1870) was the "Patriarch" who donated the Deer
Iland retreat to the group, and requested that peculiar spelling of the
word "island."
The History of Deer Island / NewRuins.com
1916 Postcard of Deer Island / Vintage Views
Simon Flexner
"As Dr. Welch gradually retired, Father [Simon Flexner] stepped into his
shoes as the leader of the American scientific medical establishment.
Under successive governors he served as chairman of the Public Health
Council of the State of New York, an advisory body to the Board of Health
that had administrative powers of its own. For my brother and me, it was
particularly delightful that the very low number of our automobile
license plate indicated a high state official who it was wise for the
police not to tangle with." (Maverick's Progress. An Autobiography. By
James Thomas Flexner. Fordham University Press, 1996.) Simon Flexner
married into the Maryland aristocracy. His wife's father, James Carey
Thomas, was one of the founding trustees of JHU and was influential in
establishing the medical school.
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Of skulls and bones: More secrets of the tomb
SS Obergruppenfuhrer Karl Wolff with Benito Mussolini.
Note Wolff's skull and cross bones 'totenkopf' on his hat
http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=2523
Native Americans groups fight to recover lost skulls of Geronimo.
BY NOAM RUDNICK - 24th October 2003
An axe pried open the iron door of the tomb, and Pat[riarch] Bush entered
and started to dig...Pat[riarch] James dug deep and pried out the trophy
itself...I showered and hit the hay...a happy man...''
So recounts a document thought to be an internal record from the Skull
and Bones Society. "Pat[riarch] Bush" is Prescott Bush, father of an
American political dynasty. His "trophy" is the skull of Geronimo, the
Native American spiritual and military leader laid to rest in 1909 at
Fort Still, Oklahoma, where Bush and fellow Bonesmen were stationed nine
years later.
Alexandra Robbins, ES '98, has researched Bush's secret society
extensively. Her recent book, Secrets of the Tomb, has heightened
interest in the activities of Skull and Bones. She attests to the
legitimacy of the story, "The text looks to be an authentic Bones
document describing Prescott Bush and other Bonesmen robbing Geronimo's
grave and cleaning the skull with carbolic acid." In interviews with
Robbins, Bonesmen have admitted that there is a skull in the tomb that
they call Geronimo.
Current Members of Skull and Bones chose not to comment on the legitimacy
of the allegations.
Apache tribal leader Ned Anderson was informed of the alleged theft in
1986. As an ancestor of Geronimo, Anderson petitioned the Federal Bureau
of Investigations to force the return of the skull. Noting that Apaches
have a "great fear and respect for death," Anderson said that he hoped to
honor Geronimo's express wish to be laid to rest in "Arizona acorn
country."
Unwilling to remove himself from the case entirely and yield all his
evidence to the FBI, Anderson withdrew his request for action. Instead,
he arranged to meet with George H. W. Bush's, DC '48, brother Jonathan in
New York City. Anderson recounts that Bush sounded "very encouraging"
during their initial meeting. Eleven days later, Bush presented the
display case. Anderson refused to accept the skull because it appeared to
belong to a small child. Bush acknowledged this fact but claimed that it
was the only relevant artifact in the society's possession.
He urged Anderson to accept the display and sign a document verifying
that the society was not in possession of Geronimo's skull. Anderson
refused.
Since the meeting in Manhattan, no further efforts to recover the skull
have been made. Anderson puts great faith in the Bonesmen. "I believe
that those who are involved need to come clean on this," he said. "I
think they'll come around and do what is appropriate."
Jim Adams, managing editor of Indian Country Today, provides an
explanation for the notable absence of recovery efforts. "Apache tribal
governments seem reluctant to raise the issue because it does violate
taboos about speaking about the dead. This doesn't mean they're not
concerned; rather they have their own laws of secrecy."
Native Americans are far from unconcerned. Adams' publication, the
leading Native American news source, has run several articles on the
secret society's alleged possession of the skull. On Oct. 6, 60 Minutes
televised a segment on Skull and Bones that briefly addressed the
society's posession of Geronimo's skull.
James Craven, an economics professor at Clark College, suggests that such
media exposure is leading to action. "In the near future, there will
finally be large groups of Natives showing up in front of 'the tomb' to
protest this ugly racism and grave robbing by the Bones, and they will
not be leaving until that skull and any other Native artifacts have been
returned."
Adams expressed similar sentiments. "My sense is that American Indians in
general are appalled—outraged by the accusation, but not surprised," he
said. "Remains of ancestors have been exploited and desecrated for
centuries in the name of anthropology or simply for idle curiosity. But
even by these standards, it's bizarre and embarrassing that a supposedly
elite group would use the remains of any human being for its own
entertainment."
SS gruppenfuhrer Theodor Eicke, commander of the SS Totenkopf Division on
the Eastern front 1942. Prior to being appointed to the command of the
Totenkopf he was chief of the concentration camps. 'Papa' Eicke was shot
down and killed in February 1943 near Orelka while visiting a forward
unit in his Fieseler Storch
Supposing the grave-robbing allegations are true, why would the Skull and
Bones be interested in the head of Geronimo? Robbins suggests that the
answer lies in their name. "Bones as a society is preoccupied with death;
skulls, skeletons, and artwork depicting death are prevalent in the tomb.
When Bonesmen steal things they use the euphemism that they are taking
'gifts to the goddess' whom they honor within the tomb." The focus on
death is not arbitrary. The society emphasizes mortality in order to
illustrate the necessity of success.
Robbins, herself a member of Scroll and Key, attests to the centrality of
ritualized stealing in many of the societies at Yale. Each class attempts
to outdo its predecessor in the acquisition of valuables. In addition to
Geronimo's skull, the Bonesmen's tomb is rumored to contain the skull of
Pancho Villa and Adolf Hitler's silverware.
Robbins expresses outrage at Skull and Bones' behavior. "I think it's
ridiculous that Bonesmen's sense of entitlement is broad enough to
include items that allegedly don't belong to them. The items they
supposedly steal as a prank or competition may be valuable and meaningful
to the actual owners. It's appalling that proper authorities have not
forced their way into the tomb to retrieve the items that don't belong in
there."
The legality of Skull and Bones' behavior is dubious. According to Adams,
members of Skull and Bones have violated laws preventing the desecration
of graves and should be held responsible as felons. "If it is true that
Skull and Bones and its corporate parent RTA Inc., continue to hold these
skulls, my belief would be that they are participating in a continuing
conspiracy to be in possession of stolen property." Many are quick to
cite the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act as
grounds for prosecuting Skull and Bones. Ironically, it was George H. W.
Bush, DC '48, a member of Skull and Bones, who signed this bill into law
in 1990. However, NAGPRA only applies to organizations that receive
federal funding. The University, in fact, was forced to return certain
artifacts previously held by its Peabody Museum in accordance with the
bill. However, secret societies are not directly affiliated with the
University, exempting them from NAGPRA jurisdiction.
"SS Oberstgruppenfuhrer Paul Hausser (seen here as an Obergruppenfuhrer
while commanding the Das Reich Division in Russia, winter 1941) was
unquestionably the ablest military commander in the Waffen SS. After the
war he sought to re-establish the reputation of the SS and claimed that
the foreign units of the SS were really the precursors of the NATO army.
Hausser's skull and cross bones 'totenkopf' is on his hat."
by A.J. Barker
While the society's exemption from NAGPRA relies on financial
independence from Yale, the two organizations are in fact closely
intertwined. As Robbins emphasizes, the administration hasn't taken steps
against the societies because administrators have historically been
members. To this day, prominent figures on the Yale faculty and
administration are members of Yale secret societies. There has always
been a kinship between society men at the faculty, administration, and
undergraduate levels. This close connection may explain Yale's failure to
investigate the activity of certain students.
In addition to being high-ranking members of the Yale administration,
members of Skull and Bones work in important governmental positions. The
upcoming presidential election could potentially pit Bonesman against
Bonesman.
George Bush, DC '68, and John Kerry, JE '66, both members of the society,
could be hurt by their involvement in an organization that allegedly
takes part illegal behavior. "I think these politicians are caught in a
real conflict between their loyalty to Bones and their oaths as public
servants if they don't take positive steps to return any human remains.
The reports about Geronimo certainly poison relations between the
Presidency and the tribes," Adams said.
Whatever the repercussions, many see the society's behavior as wholly
reprehensible, particularly among those who would run for high public
office. "[The theft] is a metaphor for something much bigger and even
uglier. It is the ugly racism and hubris of the in-bred power elites who
seek to infiltrate positions of power," Craven said.
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Skull And Bones
Oct. 5, 2003
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60minutes/main576332.shtm
(CBS) There are secrets that George W. Bush guards at least as carefully
as any entrusted to a president.
He's forbidden to share these secrets even with the vice president --
secrets he has held ever since his days as an undergraduate at Yale.
In his senior year, Mr. Bush - like his father and his grandfather -
belonged to Skull and Bones, an elite secret society that includes some
of the most powerful men of the 20th century.
All Bonesmen, as they're called, are forbidden to reveal what goes on in
their inner sanctum, the windowless building on the Yale campus that is
called "The Tomb."
There are conspiracy theorists who see Skull and Bones behind everything
that goes wrong, and occasionally even right in the world.
Apart from presidents, Bones has included cabinet officers, spies,
Supreme Court justices, statesmen and captains of industry - and often
their sons, and lately their daughters, too.
It’s a social and political network like no other. And they've responded
to outsiders with utter silence – until an enterprising Yale graduate,
Alexandra Robbins, managed to penetrate the wall of silence in her book,
“Secrets of the Tomb.” Correspondent Morley Safer reports.
”I spoke with about 100 members of Skull and Bones and they were members
who were tired of the secrecy, and that's why they were willing to talk
to me,” says Robbins. “But probably twice that number hung up on me,
harassed me, or threatened me.”
Secret or not, Skull and Bones is as essential to Yale as the
Whiffenpoofs, the tables down at a pub called Mory's, and the Yale mascot
- that ever-slobbering bulldog.
Skull and Bones, with all its ritual and macabre relics, was founded in
1832 as a new world version of secret student societies that were common
in Germany at the time. Since then, it has chosen or "tapped" only 15
senior students a year who become patriarchs when they graduate --
lifetime members of the ultimate old boys' club.
“Skull and Bones is so tiny. That's what makes this staggering,” says
Robbins. “There are only 15 people a year, which means there are about
800 living members at any one time.”
But a lot of Bonesmen have gone on to positions of great power, which
Robbins says is the main purpose of this secret society: to get as many
members as possible into positions of power.
“They do have many individuals in influential positions,” says Robbins.
“And that's why this is something that we need to know about.”
President Bush has tapped five fellow Bonesmen to join his
administration. Most recently, he selected William Donaldson, Skull and
Bones 1953, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Like the
President, he's taken the Bones oath of silence.
Ron Rosenbaum, author and columnist for the New York Observer, has become
obsessed with cracking that code of secrecy.
“I think there is a deep and legitimate distrust in America for power and
privilege that are cloaked in secrecy. It's not supposed to be the way we
do things,” says Rosenbaum. “We're supposed to do things out in the open
in America. And so that any society or institution that hints that there
is something hidden is, I think, a legitimate subject for investigation.”
His investigation is a 30-year obsession dating back to his days as a
Yale classmate of George W. Bush. Rosenbaum, a self-described
undergraduate nerd, was certainly not a contender for Bones. But he was
fascinated by its weirdness.
“It's this sepulchral, tomblike, windowless, granite, sandstone bulk that
you can't miss. And I lived next to it,” says Rosenbaum. “I had passed it
all the time. And during the initiation rites, you could hear strange
cries and whispers coming from the Skull and Bones tomb.”
Despite a lifetime of attempts to get inside, the best Rosenbaum could do
was hide out on the ledge of a nearby building a few years ago to
videotape a nocturnal initiation ceremony in the Tomb's courtyard.
“A woman holds a knife and pretends to slash the throat of another person
lying down before them, and there's screaming and yelling at the
neophytes,” he says.
Robbins says the cast of the initiation ritual is right out of Harry
Potter meets Dracula: “There is a devil, a Don Quixote and a Pope who has
one foot sheathed in a white monogrammed slipper resting on a stone
skull. The initiates are led into the room one at a time. And once an
initiate is inside, the Bonesmen shriek at him. Finally, the Bonesman is
shoved to his knees in front of Don Quixote as the shrieking crowd falls
silent. And Don Quixote lifts his sword and taps the Bonesman on his left
shoulder and says, ‘By order of our order, I dub thee knight of
Euloga.’"
It’s a lot of mumbo-jumbo, says Robbins, but it means a lot to the people
who are in it.
“Prescott Bush, George W's grandfather, and a band of Bonesmen, robbed
the grave of Geronimo, took the skull and some personal relics of the
Apache Chief and brought them back to the tomb,” says Robbins. “There is
still a glass case, Bonesmen tell me, within the tomb that displays a
skull that they all refer to as Geronimo.”
“The preoccupation with bones, mortality, with coffins, lying in coffins,
standing around coffins, all this sort of thing I think is designed to
give them the sense that, and it's very true, life is short,” says
Rosenbaum. “You can spend it, if you have a privileged background,
enjoying yourself, contributing nothing, or you can spend it making a
contribution.”
And plenty of Bonesmen have made a contribution, from William Howard
Taft, the 27th President; Henry Luce, the founder of Time Magazine; and
W. Averell Harriman, the diplomat and confidant of U.S. presidents.
“What's important about the undergraduate years of Skull and Bones, as
opposed to fraternities, is that it imbues them with a kind of mission
for moral leadership,” says Rosenbaum. “And it's something that they may
ignore for 30 years of their life, as George W. Bush seemed to
successfully ignore it for quite a long time. But he came back to it.”
Mr. Bush, like his father and grandfather before him, has refused to talk
openly about Skull and Bones. But as a Bonesman, he was required to
reveal his innermost secrets to his fellow Bones initiates.
“They're supposed to recount their entire sexual histories in sort of a
dim, a dimly-lit cozy room. The other 14 members are sitting on plush
couches, and the lights are dimmed,” says Robbins. “And there's a fire
roaring. And the, this activity is supposed to last anywhere from between
one to three hours.”
What’s the point of this?
”I believe the point of the year in the tomb is to forge such a strong
bond between these 15 new members that after they graduate, for them to
betray Skull and Bones would mean they'd have to betray their fourteen
closest friends,” says Robbins.
One can't help but make certain comparisons with the mafia, for example.
Secret society, bonding, stakes may be a little higher in one than the
other. But everybody knows everything about everybody, which is a form of
protection.
“I think Skull and Bones has had slightly more success than the mafia in
the sense that the leaders of the five families are all doing 100 years
in jail, and the leaders of the Skull and Bones families are doing four
and eight years in the White House,” says Rosenbaum.
Bones is not restricted to the Republican Party. Yet another Bonesman has
his eye on the Oval Office: Senator John Kerry, Democrat, Skull & Bones
1966.
“It is fascinating isn't it? I mean, again, all the people say, ‘Oh,
these societies don't matter. The Eastern Establishment is in decline.’
And you could not find two more quintessential Eastern establishment,
privileged guys,” says Rosenbaum. “I remember when I was a nerdy
scholarship student in the reserve book room at, at the Yale Library, and
John Kerry, who at that point styled himself ‘John F. Kerry’ would walk
in.”
“There was always a little buzz,” adds Rosenbaum. “Because even then he
was seen to be destined for higher things. He was head of the Yale
Political Union, and a tap for Skull and Bones was seen as the natural
sequel to that.”
David Brooks, a conservative commentator who has published a book on the
social dynamics of the upwardly mobile, says that while Skull & Bones may
be elite and secret, it's anything but exciting.
“My view of secret societies is they're like the first class cabin in
airplanes. They're really impressive until you get into them, and then
once you're there they're a little dull. So you hear all these conspiracy
theories about Skull and Bones,” says Brooks.
“And to me, to be in one of these organizations, you have to have an
incredibly high tolerance for tedium 'cause you're sittin' around
talking, talking, and talking. You're not running the world, you're just
gassing.”
Gassing or not, the best-connected white man's club in America has moved
reluctantly into the 21st Century.
“Skull and Bones narrowly endorsed admitting women,” says Robbins. “The
day before these women were supposed to be initiated, a group of
Bonesmen, including William F. Buckley, obtained a court order to block
the initiation claiming that letting women into the tomb would lead to
date rape. Again more legal wrangling; finally it came down to another
vote and women were admitted and initiated.”
But Skull & Bones now has women, and it’s become more multicultural.
“It has gays who got the SAT scores, it's got the gays who got the
straight A's,” says Brooks. “It's got the blacks who are the president of
the right associations. It's different criteria. More multicultural, but
it's still an elite, selective institution.”
On balance, it may be bizarre, but on a certain perspective, does it
provide something of value?
“You take these young strivers, you put them in this weird castle. They
spill their guts with each other, fine. But they learn something beyond
themselves. They learn a commitment to each other, they learn a
commitment to the community,” says Brooks. “And maybe they inherit some
of those old ideals of public service that are missing in a lot of other
parts of the country.”
And is that relationship, in some cases, stronger that family or faith?
“Absolutely,” says Robbins. “You know, they say, they say the motto at
Yale is, ‘For God, for country, and for Yale.’ At Bones, I would think
it's ‘For Bones.'”
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Symbolism of the Skull and Crossbones, otherwise known as the Deaths Head
http://bks.ark11.net/symbdeathshead.htm
A brief overview- by Parplethlon
The image of the Skull and Crossbones is recognised in the popular
imagination the world over first and foremost as the flag flown by
pirates on the high seas going about their business of looting, rape and
murder - it seemingly being nothing more than a device meant ot strike
fear into the hearts of those who saw a ship flying the dreaded flag
bearing down on them. And though not complete bull-shit, being the effect
would have been existent in those on the receiving end of the banner
bearing the Skull and Crossbones, there is a whole lot more to the
origin, use and meanings of the symbol; such a simple explanation doesn’t
suffice.
To begin with, the very image of a legendary pirate captain appears to
confirm a greater, deeper meaning. Going out on a limb, firstly the
wearing of a patch - being one-eyed is of major significance when we
recall Odin/Wotan, the chief of the Gods of the Norse, Tuetonic peoples,
and Horus, the Hawk-headed son of the resurrected Osiris, who ‘sets
things to right’, are both one-eyed - or at the least have lost an eye;
Odin sacrificing an eye for wisdom, while the eye of Horus was lost
battling Set (cosmic destructive energies). Then of course there is the
obligatory bird on the pirates shoulder; here we might bring to mind
Odins ravens, his eyes in the sky, Huginn and Muninn, and their portrayal
in John Boorman’s excellent film ‘Excalibur’ accompanying Merlin, or
perhaps the Egyptian rendition of a persons soul as a bird - the Ba bird.
If one was really game, one could draw comparisons between a pirates
wooden leg - bared below the knee with the trouser leg rolled up, and the
candidate for 3 rd degree, that of a Master Mason, in Freemasonry being
similarly attired… and even further, maybe at the extreme limit of where
only Fool’s don’t fear to tread, is the pirates hunt, seizure and
secreting away of treasure - just as legend ascribes to the Poor Knights
of the Temple of Solomon - the Knights Templar.
The Templars, formed in 1118 and ‘disbanded’ in 1307, are surrounded by
myth and legend, from searching and reputedly finding the Holy Grail, the
Ark of the Covenant, sacred Gnostic texts even more dangerous than those
found by the Dead Sea or at Nag Hammadi in Egypt, to the disappearance of
their naval fleet from La Rochelle just before King Phillipe of France
moved to have all Templars arrested and their assets seized. Some say if
it wasn’t the first, then one of the trips the Templare made across the
Atlantic to various locations in North America(1). And others, while
agreeing the Templars most probably did make a couple of trans-Atlantic
crossings prior to Columbus famed journey of 1492, the La Rochelle fleet
more likely found a sage haven in Scotland(2) as the nation and its King,
Robert the Bruce, were excommunicated by Rome at the time and therefore
somewhat beyond the reach of Papal Bulls and Edicts. In fact, Baigent and
Leigh, and Knight and Lomas agree, contend the very Scottish victory over
the English at Bannockburn in 1314, that which ended English designs on
Scotland, was due to a mounted charge of Templars throwing themselves
into the fray late in the day(3). The connection here with the Skull and
Crossbones is that it was the Templars marine battle flag. The Scottish
destination of the Templars in 1307 is further implied by the tale
relating that Robert the Bruce’s remains were placed in such a ‘skull and
crossbones’ manner(4), though the more concrete evidence is that of a
large number of Templar gravestones found in Scotland(5), not to mention
the very existence of Rosslyn Chapel(6). Whatsmore, the concentration of
these anonymous, spartan gravestones, as the centuries go by gradually
develop more elaborate, florid and decidedly Masonic, incorporating both
the Masonic square and compass and on some examples, the skull and
crossbones itself in place of the single, undated flat stones bearing the
outline of the particular knights sword(7). That Masonry has roots in the
Templars is a matter beyond the scope of the present piece, is dealt with
thoroughly elsewhere and considering the above is undoubtedly a
certainty. The use of the Skull and Crossbones in Freemasonry beyond that
already mentioned on some headstones, is nearly as prevalent as the
aforementioned ubiquitous square and compass; being a feature of the hilt
of ceremonial swords, embroidered on the aprons or sashes worn by
brethren or most impressively, stirringly employed in the ritual of the 3
rd degree, from whence on completion a Mason is thereafter a Master
Mason. The 3 rd degree is a ritual raising from the dead following the
candidate’s re-enactment of the first Mason - Hiram Abiff’s death at the
hands of the traitors Jubela, Jubelo and Jubelum(8), the three Juwees.
Already noted is the strange attire worn during the ceremony, which is
exactly as a condemned heretic was brought to the gallows in the Middle
Ages(9). The Skull and Crossbones themselves are placed on the death
shroud from which the brother is raised, the ‘Worshipful Master’(a
masonic ‘master of ceremonies’) then explains the bones are ‘emblems of
mortality’, from which this rite of initiation could be speculated to be
a revelation of the illusory nature of the material realm, as well as
being a figurative death within the brother of those elements of his
person rooted in the physical world and our five most basic senses used
to interact and interpret it - eternity awaits…
A more completely modern usage of the Skull and Crossbones, in this
instance referred to as the Death’s Head, was among the SS of Nazi era
Germany. Apart from its most visible use on the officers caps, it is
probably most famously, or infamously, prominent use was the very highly
regarded Totenkopfring/Deaths Head Ring awarded to SS officers in
recognition of their “…personal achievement, devotion to duty, and
loyalty to the Fuhrer and his ideals.”(10) Though to say what reasons the
SS had for adopting the Deaths Head/Skull and Crossbones beyond a
connection with the past German military units who too used the symbol in
their insignia(11), an ongoing tradition, would be pure guesswork, the
reverence with which the Totenkopfrings were held intimates something
greater than mere military insignia. Upon death or on leaving the SS, the
officers rings were retuned to officialdom whereon they were sent to the
SS castle of Wewelsburg in Wesphalia where they were placed in a
particular chest kept in the castle’s main tower(12,13). Though rarely
more than a footnote in history books, Wewelsburg was ultimately of more
import to the SS; it was to be reconstructed as the most sacred temple of
the SS, emulating Camelot of the Knights of the Round Table(14). At the
centre of the Wewelsburg complex, the castle said to house the Holy Grail
and/or the Ark of the Covenant(15). Essentially, the castle, moreso than
the surrounding planned township, was conceived to be the mystical axis
of the world(16) - in an esoteric sense, the centre from which all
universal creative movement is imparted.
Focussing directly on the Skull and Crossbones or Death’s Head, that is
the constituent parts to the whole, a further wealth of value may be
revealed to us. The Skull and the two human thigh bones crossed are in
some instances ascribed the astrological rulership of the first zodiacal
sign Aries and the 9 th sign Sagittarius(17), both positive, Fire signs,
the former cardinal - more dominant, while the latter is mutable -
passive. The combination of Aries and Sagittarius, ruled by Mars and
Jupiter respectively, brings together leadership and courage with
profound philosophical thought. There is however another system that
ascribes the rulership of the entire skeleton, and the skin as well, to
Capricorn(18), which puts things into quite a different perspective.
Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, whom in a shallow sense is more or less
just that old scythe carrier, the Grim Reaper or plain old ‘Death’.
However, looking at the picture in its entirety, the death signified by
Capricorn, which is the physical death, is at once the beginning of the
path to incarnation, the re-birth itself being the domain of Capricorn’s
opposite Cancer(19). This death and re-birth is carved into the very
fabric of the great medieval cathedrals; Capricorn - death - situated at
the portal/doorway, running up the nave through the zodiac to a Cancerian
re-birth at the altar(20).
The skeleton of Capricorn finds further significance in the form of the
‘Mithraic Cap’; its form at once imitating the sigil of Capricorn - the
cap itself being the fish tail while the very skull it is placed on is
the head of the goat… this being the case, it serves to bring the head,
ruled by Aries in touch with the feet of Pisces(21), the first and last
signs of the zodiac. The significance of uniting the first and last -
Alpha to Omega - that of completion, initiation, enlightenment is further
enhanced by Capricorn’s sexual connotations; the sigil being both soft
and hard is the phallus while Capricorn’s opposite, Cancer, is entirely
soft - the vulva, kteis, yoni, cunt(22). The combination of which while
engendering life, a Horus to Isis and Osiris, is also the uniting of male
and female, the melding of opposites that tantrically(sex magic) is
required to attain a state of enlightened initiation - nirvana.
Alchemically, of the 3 great principles of Sulphur, Mercury and Salt, it
is Salt by way of a well known sigil hints at further revelations in this
area; “…this widely used sigil [salt sigil] was derived from the capital
letter, the theta, of the Greek Thanatos which meant ‘death’”(23). Salt
in this direction is connected with the thought processes of man(24), the
very seat of thought - the grey matter of the brain housed by the skull
is the very veil to be pierced(25) to gaze upon the true nature of
reality/Isis unveiled. In this sense then, Salt is “…the dross left over
when life has fled, it is the skull, the death’s head; it is the white
powder left behind when the gold is extracted, It is the ash of thought.”
(26) Be that as it may, the skull is not so much a ‘sentence of death’,
but as Hedsel reveals its position in the old mythologies “…tend to
present the image of the head as a castle, from which the soul, or
princess, peers out from one of the windows. In the fairy lore, the
castellated head is the guardian of our spiritual activity. A comely
knight rides out of the castle in search of the Holy Grail.”(27) This
quest for the ultimate truth being no less than coming to grips with,
understanding the nature of the cosmos, and hence in turn oneself -
essentially a godlike acquisition of profound knowledge, the root of all
religious concepts and philosophies(28).
Further, a flower being “…the glorified reflection of last years sun…that
flower is not a product of the present years Earthly and Spiritual
activity…[but is] a manifestation of forces engendered in the previous
year…”(29), the implication of drawing an analogy with humans is the
“…the head-forces of man are the transformed forces carried over from a
previous growth into the present lifetime.”(30) This transmission through
incarnations occurs via the thigh-bones, wherein it is the Alchemical
‘fixed salt’ thus situated where a person’s being, their very essence is
recorded(31). The femur is thus an ‘inheritor’ and an ‘organ of
generation’, the intimation though is obviously not sexual, for the
‘indestructible nucleus’ that is “…the fixed salt transports the
conciousness acquired by an individual demanding a modification of form
in order to provide his conciousness the means of expressing itself.”(32)
Goes a long way in explaining a ‘ritual cannibalism’ such as in the
inbibing of the host in Christian churches and perhaps was the reason
behind the quasi-masonic group ‘Skull and Bones’, numbering among them
Prescott Bush - George Dubya’s grandfather, raiding the Native American
leader Geronimo’s grave and taking his remains back to their lodge.(33)
Whatever the case, a wealth of meaning encapsulated by the Skull and
Crossbones/Deaths Head, and whatsmore, this is just the briefest of
outlines.
Notes:
1. Micheal Baigent, Richard Leigh “The Temple and the Lodge” 1996 and
Christopher Knight, Robert Lomas “The Hiram Key” 1997
2. Baigent & Leigh, 1996; p 98-116
3. Ibid, p 61-65, Knight & Lomas 1997; p 388
4. Baigent & Leigh, 1996; p 68-9
5. Ibid, p 24-35
6. Rosslyn Chapel, built circa 1440-80, is an elaborately decorated
‘chapel’ not far from Edinburgh, Scotland. Although it is literally
covered with carvings, the iconography contains no Christian elements,
rather they are Templar, Masonic and Celtic.
7. Op cit
8. Knight & Lomas 1997; p 11-21
9. Ibid, facing p 176
10. Robin Lumsden “SS Regalia” 1995; p 57
11. Ibid, p 32
12. Ibid, p 57-8
13. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke “Occult Roots of Nazism” 1992; p 187
14. Peter Moon “The Black Sun” 1997; p 67-8
15. Ibid, p 68 & 109
16. Goodrick-Clarke 1992; p 188
17. Emille Grillot de Grivy “Sorcery, Magic and Alchemy” 1991; p 241-2
18. Mark Hedsel “The Zelator” 1999; p 350
19. Ibid, p 351
20. Ibid
21. Ibid, p 353-5
22. Ibid, p 356-7. Of interest, Aleister Crowley’s spelling of ‘magick’
with its ‘k’ is said by some to derive from the ‘kteis’ - note also
Crowley’s self- nomination as the Great Beast 666(the number of Sorath,
the demon of the Sun), and his aim of mating with Babalon(the moon) -
conjoining of polarities.
23. Hedsel 1999; p 120
24. Ibid
25. Ibid, p 45
26. Ibid, p 120
27. Ibid, p 341
28. A good study of the meaning of the Grail is “The Mystery of the
Grail” by Julius Evola, Inner Traditions International, 1994
29. Op cit, p 340
30. Ibid, p 341
31. Andre Vandenbrock “Al-Kemi - A Memoir” 1987; p 172-7
32. Ibid, p 285
33. Moon 1997; p 275-7
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Death's Head: Piracy, Plunder and Foreign Policy
by Douglas Herman - May 22, 2003
http://www.strike-the-root.com/
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and
jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands,
killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? ~ Kahlil Gibran
Piracy is a poor type of foreign policy.
The lawless practice of seizing ships for commercial gain that plagued
the coasts of the Americas in the late 17th century seems to have evolved
into the outright seizure of ships of state in the 21st century. When
Bartholomew Roberts, a man of some principle, captured 400 ships in four
short years of piracy before being killed in battle, he skirted the law
of man, preemptively striking his prey, yet doubtful he ever justified
his actions before God.
Blackbeard flourished for one short year toward the end of the Golden Age
of Piracy (1689-1718), seizing some 40 ships before being killed in
bloody, hand-to-hand battle at Ocracoke Inlet in 1718. Perhaps had he
been born later and served aboard the USN aircraft carrier Abraham
Lincoln, for example, Captain Edward Teach could have helped capture an
entire vassal state without so much as risking his neck (he was
beheaded). One man’s act of piracy for selfish gain is another man’s
grand, patriotic act.
“The line between officially sanctioned acts and actual piracy was always
a fine one,” said Libby Klekowsli, a biologist researching Captain Kidd’s
excursion into the Connecticut River . Historical documents list well
over 500 English “pirates, buccaneers, corsairs” independently attacking
“targets of opportunity.” Privateers like Morgan and Drake acted under
the sanction of sovereign states, ostensibly raiding enemy shipping under
the aegis of exploration while sharing the plunder with king or queen.
That fine line between legality and acts of piracy often got a man
knighted—Sir Francis Drake, Sir Henry Morgan—or hung from the neck, if
not beheaded in battle.
The conquest of Iraq by seizing command of the skies and seas,
surrounding her and outgunning this lumbering warship of a country with
broadsides represents the capture of a trophy ship by a buccaneer. The
treasure beneath the sands of Iraq —black gold in the form of billions of
barrels of oil--exceeds in value all the gold from all the fleets of
Spanish galleons that ever sailed. Seen from the perspective of a 17th
century buccaneer, the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld foreign policy of plundering
countries on the high seas makes good economic sense. All that is lacking
is legality and a suitable pirate banner.
The glyphic devices of Christopher Moody’s banner (pictured above), while
designed in the early 18th century, perhaps best symbolizes occupied Iraq
. The winged hourglass symbolizes the fleeting notion of liberty, or, if
you prefer, the insistent, never-ending search for WMD. The upraised arm
symbolizes tyranny both past, present and to come, while the grinning
skull symbolizes victims, both American and Iraqi, of depleted radiation
poison or perhaps only the mocking of our moral ambiguity.
The black flag, death’s head, jolly Roger or skull and crossbones still
flies prominently—although hardly visibly—from the ship of American
foreign policy as she plows through uncharted waters. Truthfully, the
days of swashbuckling pirates never really died in North America but
became more secretive, sinister and—some say—far more dangerous. The flag
of convenience hoisted by our captains of industry, banking, law,
military and media (or propaganda) resembles not Old Glory but the
death’s head pictured to the left (322). While you and I sing garbled
stanzas to the Stars and Stripes, the most powerful men in America salute
the death’s head banner of a secret society at Yale University in
Connecticut.
“Those on the inside know it as The Order. Others have known it for more
than 150 years as Chapter 322,” said Antony C. Sutton, author of the
book, America ’s Secret Establishment, a revealing look inside the Skull
and Bones Society. “It was also once known as ‘The Brotherhood of
Death’,” Sutton added. “The power of the place remains unmistakable . . .
. To rival institutions and academic reformers there was something
irritating and disquieting about old Yale College .”
Disquieting? Consider our last three presidents, whether Republican or
Democrat, attended Yale and, not coincidentally, the “terror expert”
governing Iraq , Paul Bremer III, is another Yale insider. Former CIA
Director James Woolsey, who lauded the approach of "World War IV," John
Bolton and Lewis Libby, all Yale. All powerful. Disquieting.
The elite and powerful, some say altogether sinister, cult of the Skull
and Bones Society—think of the masked revelers in the movie “Eyes Wide
Shut"--traces its origins back to Germany . From there the philosophy of
an all-powerful state, sharing many of the same tenets and rituals of the
Third Reich, took root with the WASPs of New England, many of whom could
trace their roots, ironically, to buccaneer brethren. Not surprisingly,
the Nazis adopted a parallel vision, decorating the military badges
(shown at left) of their SS special forces with a death’s head lifted, as
was that of Yale’s Skull and Bones Society, from the existing flags and
symbols of piracy, murder and mayhem.
While many Bonesmen of Yale downplay the symbolism and fascist pageantry
that occurs in the windowless meeting hall--known as “The Tomb”--as
nothing more than youthful merriment and harmless initiation rites, some
critics see a darker side, suggesting the “double cross” of the black
flag signifies a truer ambition, similar to the more explicit motto of
the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad—“By way of deceit, thou shalt
make war.”
Examples of subverted, occupied, undermined or double-crossed nations
lend weight to those who contend a US conspiracy for unlimited global
power is well underway. “Between 1945 and now, the US has never stopped
being at war with the world. For 58 years, there has never been a single
year in which it has not bombed and occupied another country, and in most
years, it has attacked two or more countries at the same time,” said
Professor of English literature, Uzma Khan. “I haven’t even touched upon
America ’s non-military, CIA-backed interference in the governance of
sovereign countries all over the world,” she added.
Doug Henwood, author of Spooks In Blue, said, “There is something
profoundly undemocratic about the culture . . . . The CIA’s Yale is the
Yale of secret societies, like the infamous Skull and Bones, whose alumni
fill the Agency.” By contrast to the eastern elites playing at pirate,
playing at spy, helming a ship with a madman’s eye, let us pause to
consider a buccaneer who actually lived and died by a code, by principles
yet foreign to our jingoist’s mode of saluting the death’s head, but
usually attired in black tie while lesser worlds explode.
Article 1—“Every man has a vote in affairs of moments; has equal title to
the fresh provisions, or strong liquors at any time seized, and may use
them at pleasure, unless a scarcity makes it necessary, for the good of
all, to vote a retrenchment,” wrote Bartholomew Roberts in his Articles.
Notice the almost Jeffersonian phrases at beginning and end. Recall that
these Articles--eleven in all--were written long before the US
Constitution, and since then have not been improved upon but rather
eroded by those who would sail us into a war in the name of God, while
play-acting at pirate.
Will we Americans simply be remembered by the world as just another band
of pirates? Bigger but no better? Toward the end of the Golden Age of
Pirates, the repercussions of resentment by land dwellers eventually
overtook most of these buccaneers; those not killed in battle were
captured and hung. Bartholomew Roberts, killed in 1722. Blackbeard 1718.
Captain Kidd, hung by the neck and then allowed to rot, in 1701. The
difference between pirates and those who play at being pirates is that
the swashbuckler risked his own neck. Antony Sutton said of the modern
pretender: “These prominent men are really immature juveniles at heart.
The horrible reality is that these little boys have been dominant in
world affairs. No wonder we have wars and violence.”
Nowadays we may find ourselves charmed by the legends of buccaneers while
overlooking the reality, and yet some legends offer a colorful story and
a moral lesson as well. While the banner of Calico Jack Rackham (left)
resembles the flag of the world champion NFL Buccaneers of Tampa Bay
(home of CentCom), Calico Jack became known as much for his crew as for
his exploits. Legendary lady pirate, Ann Bonny, a quick-triggered
cutthroat attired in trousers, fought alongside Jack and may have been
his mistress. When their ship was attacked in 1720, Rackham and many of
his men fled to the hold while Ann Bonny and another woman, Mary Read,
remained on deck and resisted their captors. Pregnant, the two women
avoided the gallows, and Bonny witnessed the execution of Calico Jack.
“I’m sorry to see you here, Jack,” she said, “but if you’d have fought
like a man you needn’t hang like a dog.”
And perhaps if we conducted ourselves like men, instead of spoiled, rich
kids playing at pirate, the world wouldn’t snarl at us like dogs.
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Book Excerpt: The Legend of Skull and Bones
http://www.secretsofthetomb.com/excerpt.asp
by Alexandra Robbins
Sometime in the early 1830s, a Yale student named William H. Russell -
the future valedictorian of the class of 1833 - traveled to Germany to
study for a year. Russell came from an inordinately wealthy family that
ran one of the United States' most despicable business organizations of
the nineteenth century: Russell and Company, an opium empire. Russell
would later become a member of the Connecticut State Legislature,
agGeneral in the Connecticut National Guard, and the founder of the
Collegiate and Commercial Institute in New Haven. While in Germany,
Russell befriended the leader of an insidious German secret society that
hailed the death.s head as its logo. Russell soon became caught up in
this group, itself a sinister outgrowth of the notorious eighteenth
century society of the Illuminati. When Russell returned to the U.S., he
found an atmosphere so anti-Masonic that even his beloved Phi Beta Kappa,
the honor society, had been unceremoniously stripped of its secrecy.
Incensed, Russell rounded up a group of the most promising students in
his class - including Alphonso Taft, the future Secretary of War,
Attorney General, Minister to Austria, Ambassador to Russia, and father
of future President William Howard Taft - and out of vengeance
constructed the most powerful secret society the United States has ever
known.
The men called their organization the "Brotherhood of Death," or, more
informally, "The Order of Skull and Bones." They adopted the
numerological symbol 322 because their group was the second chapter of
the German organization, founded in 1832. They worshipped the goddess
Eulogia, celebrated pirates, and covertly plotted an underground
conspiracy to dominate the world.
Fast forward 170 years. Skull and Bones has curled its tentacles into
every reach of American society. This tiny club has set up networks that
have thrust three members to the most powerful political position in the
world. And its power is only increasing - the 2004 Presidential election
might showcase the first time each ticket has been led by a Bonesman. The
secret society now, as one historian admonishes, is "'an international
mafia' . . . unregulated and all but unknown." In its quest to create a
New World Order that restricts individual freedoms and places ultimate
power solely in the hands of a small cult of wealthy, prominent families,
Skull and Bones has already succeeded in infiltrating nearly every major
research, policy, financial, media, and government institution in the
country. Skull and Bones, in fact, has been running the United States for
years.
Skull and Bones cultivates its talent by selecting members from the
junior class at Yale University, a school known for its strange, Gothic
elitism and its rigid devotion to the past. The society screens its
candidates carefully, favoring Protestants, or, now, white Catholics,
with special affection for the children of wealthy, East Coast Skull and
Bones members. Skull and Bones has been dominated by approximately two
dozen of the country.s most prominent families - Bush, Bundy, Harriman,
Lord, Phelps, Rockefeller, Taft, and Whitney, among them - who are
encouraged by the society to inter-marry so that the society.s power is
consolidated. In fact, the society forces members to confess their entire
sexual histories so that Skull and Bones, as a eugenics overlord, can
determine whether a new Bonesman will be fit to carry on the bloodlines
of the powerful Skull and Bones dynasties. A rebel will not make Skull
and Bones; nor will anyone whose background in any way indicates that he
will not sacrifice for the greater good of the larger organization.
As soon as initiates are allowed into the "tomb," a dark, windowless
crypt in New Haven with a roof that serves as a landing pad for the
society's private helicopter, they are sworn to silence and told they
must forever deny that they are members of this organization. During
initiation, which involves ritualistic psychological conditioning, the
juniors wrestle in mud and are physically beaten - this stage of the
ceremony represents their "death" to the world as they have known it.
They then lie naked in coffins, masturbate, and reveal to the society
their innermost sexual secrets. After this cleansing, the Bonesmen give
the initiates robes to represent their new identities as individuals with
a higher purpose. The society anoints the initiate with a new name,
symbolizing his rebirth and re-christening as Knight X, a member of The
Order. It is during this initiation that the new members are introduced
to the artifacts in the tomb, among them Nazi memorabilia - including a
set of Hitler's silverware - dozens of skulls, and an assortment of
decorative tchochkes: coffins, skeletons, and innards. They are also
introduced to "the Bones whore," the tomb's only full-time resident, who
helps to ensure that the Bonesmen leave the tomb more mature than when
they entered.
Members of Skull and Bones must make some sacrifices to the society - and
they are threatened with blackmail so that they remain loyal - but they
are remunerated with honors and rewards, including a graduation gift of
$15,000 and a wedding gift of a tall grandfather clock. Though they must
tithe their estates to the society, each member is guaranteed financial
security for life; in this way, Bones can ensure that no member will feel
the need to sell the secrets of the society in order to make a living.
And it works: no one has ever publicly breathed a word about his Skull
and Bones membership, ever. Bonesmen are automatically offered jobs at
the many investment banks and law firms dominated by their secret society
brothers. They are also given exclusive access to the Skull and Bones
island, a lush retreat built for millionaires, with a lavish mansion and
a bevy of women at the members. disposal.
The influence of the cabal begins at Yale, where Skull and Bones has
appropriated university funds for its own use, leaving the school
virtually impoverished. Skull and Bones. corporate shell, the Russell
Trust Association, owns nearly all of the university.s real estate, as
well as most of the land in Connecticut. Skull and Bones has controlled
Yale.s faculty and campus publications so that students cannot speak
openly about the secret society. "Year by year," the campus' only anti-
society publication stated during its brief tenure in 1873, "the deadly
evil is growing."
The year in the tomb at Yale instills within members an unwavering
loyalty to Skull and Bones society. Members have been known to stab their
Skull and Bones pins into their skin to keep them in place during
swimming or bathing. The knights (as the student members are called)
learn quickly that their allegiance to the society must supercede all
else - family, friendships, country, God. They are taught that once they
get out into the world, they are expected to reach positions of
prominence so that they can further elevate the society.s status and help
promote the standing of their fellow Bonesmen.
This purpose has driven Bonesmen to ascend to the top levels of so many
fields that, as one historian observes, "at any one time The Order can
call on members in any area of American society to do what has to be
done." Several Bonesmen have been senators, congressmen, Supreme Court
justices, and cabinet officials. There is a Bones cell in the CIA, which
uses Skull and Bones as a recruiting ground because the members are so
obviously adept at keeping secrets. Society members dominate financial
institutions such as J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and Brown
Brothers Harriman, where at one time more than a third of the partners
were Bonesmen. Through these companies, Skull and Bones provided
financial backing to Adolf Hitler because the society then followed a
Nazi - and now follows a neo-Nazi - doctrine. At least one dozen Bonesmen
have been linked to the Federal Reserve, including the first Chairman of
the New York Federal Reserve. Skull and Bones members control the wealth
of the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford families.
Skull and Bones has also taken steps to control the American media. Two
of its members founded the law firm that represents the New York Times.
Plans for both Time and Newsweek magazines were hatched in the Skull and
Bones tomb. The society has controlled publishing houses such as Farrar,
Straus, & Giroux. In the 1880s, Skull and Bones created the American
Historical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the
American Economic Association so that the society could ensure that
history would be written under its terms and promote its objectives. The
society then installed its own members as the presidents of these
associations.
Under the society's direction, Bonesmen developed and dropped the nuclear
bomb and navigated the Bay of Pigs invasion. Skull and Bones members had
ties to Watergate and the Kennedy assassination. They control the Council
of Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission so that they can push
their own political agenda. Skull and Bones government officials have
used the number 322 as codes for highly classified diplomatic
assignments. The society discriminates against minorities and fought for
slavery; indeed, as evidence eight out of twelve of Yale.s residential
colleges are named for slave owners while none are named for
abolitionists. The society encourages misogyny: it did not admit women
until the 1990s because members did not believe women were capable of
handling the Skull and Bones experience and because they said they feared
incidents of date rape. This society also encourages grave robbing: deep
within the bowels of the tomb are the stolen skulls of the Apache Chief
Geronimo, Pancho Villa, and former President Martin van Buren.
Finally, the society has taken measures to ensure that the secrets of
Skull and Bones slip ungraspable like sand through open fingers.
Journalist Ron Rosenbaum, who wrote a long but not probing article about
the society in the 1970s, claimed that a source warned him not to get too
close.
"What bank do you have your checking account at?" this party asked me in
the middle of a discussion of the Mithraic aspects of the Bones ritual. I
named the bank. "Aha," said the party. "There are three Bonesmen on the
board. You'll never have a line of credit again. They'll tap your phone.
They'll. . ." . . . The source continued: "The alumni still care. Don't
laugh. They don't like people tampering and prying. The power of Bones is
incredible. They've got their hands on every lever of power in the
country. You'll see - it's like trying to look into the Mafia."
In the 1980s, a man known only as "Steve" had contracts to write two
books on the society, using documents and photographs he had acquired
from the Bones crypt. But Skull and Bones found out about Steve. The
society broke into his apartment, stole the documents, harassed the
author, and scared him into hiding, where he has remained ever since. The
books were never completed. In Universal Pictures' Spring 2000 thriller
The Skulls, an aspiring journalist is writing a profile of the society
for the New York Times. When he sneaks into the tomb, the Skulls murder
him. Similarly, in the real Skull and Bones tomb is a bloody knife in a
glass case. It is said that when a Bonesman stole documents from the
society and threatened to publish Skull and Bones. secrets if they did
not pay him a determined amount of money, the society used that knife to
kill him.
This, then, is the legend of Skull and Bones.
*** It is astonishing that so many people continue to believe, even in
modern America in the twenty-first century, that a tiny college club
wields such an enormous amount of influence on the world.s only
superpower. The breadth of clout ascribed to this organization is
practically as wide-ranging as the leverage afforded to the satirical
secret society of the Stonecutters in an episode of the television show
The Simpsons. The Stonecutters theme song included the lyrics:
Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down? We do!
We do. Who leaves the Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under
wraps? We do! We do. Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve
Guttenberg a star? We do! We do.
Certainly, the society does cross boundaries in order to attempt to stay
out of the public spotlight. When I wrote an article about the society
for The Atlantic Monthly in May 2000, an older Bonesman said to me, "If
it's not portrayed positively, I'm sending a couple of my friends after
you." After the article was published, I received a telephone call at my
office from a fellow journalist, who is a member of Skull and Bones. He
scolded me for writing the article - "writing that article was not an
ethical or honorable way to make a decent living in journalism," he
condescended - and then asked me how much I had been paid for the story.
When I refused to answer, he hung up. Fifteen minutes later, he called
back.
"I have just gotten off the phone with our people."
"Your people?" I snickered.
"Yes" Our people."
He told me that the society demanded to know where I got my information.
"I've never been in the tomb and I did nothing illegal in the process of
reporting this article," I replied.
"Then you must have gotten something from one of us. Tell me whom you
spoke to. We just want to talk to them," he wheedled.
"I don't reveal my sources." Then he got angry. He screamed at me for a
while about how dishonorable I was for writing the article.
"A lot of people are very despondent over this!" he yelled. "Fifteen Yale
juniors are very, very upset!"
I thanked him for telling me his concerns.
"There are a lot of us at newspapers and at political journalism
institutions," he coldly hissed. "Good luck with your career" - and he
slammed down the phone.
Skull and Bones, particularly in recent years, has managed to pervade
both popular and political culture. In the 1992 race for the Republican
presidential nomination, Pat Buchanan accused President George Bush of
running "a Skull and Bones presidency." In 1993, during Jeb Bush's
Florida gubernatorial campaign, one of his constituents asked him,
"You're familiar with the Skull and Crossbones Society?" When Bush
responded, "Yeah, I've heard about it," the constituent persisted, "Well,
can you tell the people here what your family membership in that is?
Isn't your aim to take control of the United States?" In January 2001,
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd used Skull and Bones in a simile:
"When W. met the press with his choice for attorney general, John
Ashcroft, before Christmas," Dowd wrote, "he vividly showed how important
it is to him that his White House be as leak-proof as the Skull & Bones
'tomb.'"
Later that year, the Universal Pictures film introduced the secret
society to a new demographic perhaps uninitiated into the doctrines of
modern-day conspiracy theory. At about the time the movie was being pre-
screened in theaters - and perhaps in anticipation of the election of
George W. Bush - a letter was distributed to Bonesmen from Skull and
Bones headquarters. .In view of the political happenings in the barbarian
world,. the memo read, .I feel compelled to remind all of the tradition
of privacy and confidentiality essential to the well being of our Order
and strongly urge stout resistance to the seductions and blandishments of
the Fourth Estate.. This vow of silence remains the society.s most
important rule. Bonesmen have been exceedingly careful not to break this
code of secrecy, and have kept specific details about the organization
out of the press. Indeed, given the unusual, strict written reminder to
stay silent, members of Skull and Bones may well refuse to speak to any
member of the media ever again.
But they have already spoken to me. When? Over the past three years. Why?
Perhaps because I am a member of one of Skull and Bones' kindred Yale
secret societies. Perhaps because some of them are tired of the Skull and
Bones legend, of the claims of conspiracy theorists and some of their
fellow Bonesmen. What follows, then, is the truth about Skull and Bones.
And if that truth does not contain all of the conspiratorial elements
that the Skull and Bones legend projects, it is perhaps all the more
interesting for this fact. The story of Skull and Bones is not just the
story of a remarkable secret society, but a remarkable society of
secrets, some with basis in truth, some nothing but fog. Much of the way
we understand the world of power involves myriad assumptions of
connection and control, of cause and effect, and of coincidence that
surely cannot be coincidence.
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White House 'Bonesman' Leads Nation Into the Dark
By Alexandra Robbins
USA TODAY http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/11.05A.robbins.bones.htm
Wednesday, 25 September, 2002
"My senior year (at Yale University) I joined Skull and Bones, a secret
society," President Bush wrote in his autobiography, "so secret, I can't
say anything more."
He doesn't have to. He's practically turning the government into a secret
society - an old-boy, throwback establishment that even holds its secret
spy-court proceedings in an elaborately locked, windowless room that
sounds similar to the Bones' elaborately locked, practically windowless
"tomb," or campus clubhouse.
Bush, a loyal and particularly active member of Skull and Bones, a
mysterious, historically misogynist Yale-based secret society, seems to
have done almost all he can to promote a level of secrecy in government
not seen since the Nixon administration:
* Last month, Bush-appointed Assistant Attorney General Robert McCallum,
a member of Bush's 1968 Skull and Bones class, filed pleadings in U.S.
District Court seeking to extend executive privilege to any government
official in pardon cases; the move makes information on presidential
pardons more secret than it has ever been.
* After 9/11, without initially telling Congress, Bush assembled a shadow
government assigned to secret bunkers somewhere on the East Coast. He
also tried to cut off some members of Congress from classified
information about the anti-terrorist campaign.
* The USA Patriot Act Bush eagerly signed lets the FBI - with permission
from a secret Washington "spy court" - view some customer records; store
owners cannot reveal the review
* In October 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft released a memo
encouraging federal agencies to withhold as much information as possible
from the public.
* A month later, just before documents from the Reagan-Bush
administration were to be released, Bush signed an executive order
severely hindering public access to former presidents' records.
* Bush also signed legislation that jails or fines journalists who
publish sensitive leaks, essentially reviving the Official Secrecy Act
that President Clinton vetoed.
Bush has a "fetish for secrecy," Vanderbilt University professor emeritus
Hugh Davis Graham, now deceased, told the National Journal earlier this
year.
Granted, pressing issues of national security merit a level of secrecy.
But security and secrecy are not always necessary companions, and some of
these examples suggest secrecy for secrecy's sake, such as the pardons
and the Reagan documents. Also, a government that operates in secret
prevents its constituents from holding it accountable and so may be more
prone to arbitrariness and ill-considered conduct. This administration
may even be doing itself a disservice with its excess secrecy, which can
cause people to conjure up much more malicious and elitist scenarios than
may actually exist.
That is what has happened with Skull and Bones, which operates a powerful
alumni network but, despite the lore, does not run a secret world
government, collaborate with Nazis or require initiates to lie naked in a
coffin.
Bonesmen have long helped Bush; he received a fair chunk of his early
business financing from them and turned to them for help when he needed a
job, investors and campaign assistance. Even his baseball-team purchase
involved at least one Bonesman. As president, Bush has appointed fellow
Bonesmen to high-level positions, such as Edward McNally, the general
counsel of the Office on Homeland Security and senior associate counsel
on national security. Yet, although one of his first social gatherings at
the White House was a Skull and Bones reunion, Bush feigned ignorance
when asked recently about Bones: "The thing is so secret that I'm not
even sure it still exists," he replied.
Is it a coincidence that the federal government suddenly prioritizes
secrecy when a Skull and Bones president is in power? Maybe. But there's
no question that the Bush administration increasingly resembles the
Bones' dark, locked tomb.
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Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power
THE TODAY SHOW
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Sept. 4 — Inside a cold, foreboding structure of brown sandstone in New
Haven, Conn., lives one of the most heavily shrouded secret societies in
American history.
Yale’s super-elite Skull and Bones, a 200-year-old organization whose
roster is stocked with some of the country’s most prominent families:
Bush, Harriman, Phelps, Rockefeller, Taft, and Whitney. Journalist
Alexandra Robbins, herself a member of another of Yale’s secret
societies, interviewed more than a hundred Bonesmen and writes about the
rituals that make up the organization. Read an excerpt from her book ‘The
Secrets of the Tomb’ below.
Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power by
Alexandra Robbins
THE LEGEND OF SKULL AND BONES
Sometime in the early 1830s, a Yale student named William H.Russell—the
future valedictorian of the class of 1833- traveled toGermany to study
for a year. Russell came from an inordinately wealthy family that ran one
of America’s most despicable business organizations of the nineteenth
century: Russell and Company, an opium empire. Russell would later become
a member of the Connecticut state legislature, a general in the
Connecticut National Guard, and the founder of the Collegiate and
Commercial Institute in New Haven. While in Germany, Russell befriended
the leader of an insidious German secret society that hailed the death’s
head as its logo. Russell soon became caught up in this group, itself a
sinister outgrowth of the notorious eighteenth-century society the
Illuminati. When Russell returned to the United States, he found an
atmosphere so Anti-Masonic that even his beloved Phi Beta Kappa, the
honor society, had been unceremoniously stripped of its secrecy.
Incensed, Russell rounded up a group of the most promising students in
his class-including Alphonso Taft, the future secretary of war, attorney
general, minister to Austria, ambassador to Russia, and father of future
president William Howard Taft-and out of vengeance constructed the most
powerful secret society the United States has ever known.
Yale’s secret society exposed
September 4, 2002 — Journalist and author Alexandra Robbins discusses her
book “Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the
Hidden Paths of Power” with “Today’s” Ann Curry.
The men called their organization the Brotherhood of Death, or, more
informally, the Order of Skull and Bones. They adopted the numerological
symbol 322 because their group was the second chapter of the German
organization and founded in 1832. They worshiped the goddess Eulogia,
celebrated pirates, and plotted an underground conspiracy to dominate the
world.
Fast-forward 170 years. Skull and Bones has curled its tentacles into
every corner of American society. This tiny club has set up networks that
have thrust three members into the most powerful political position in
the world. And the group’s influence is only increasing-the 2004
presidential election might showcase the first time each ticket has been
led by a Bonesman. The secret society is now, as one historian
admonishes, ” ‘an international mafia’. . . unregulated and all but
unknown.” In its quest to create a New World Order that restricts
individual freedoms and places ultimate power solely in the hands of a
small cult of wealthy, prominent families, Skull and Bones has already
succeeded in infiltrating nearly every major research, policy, financial,
media, and government institution in the country. Skull and Bones, in
fact, has been running the United States for years.
Skull and Bones cultivates its talent by selecting members from the
junior class at Yale University, a school known for its strange, Gothic
elitism and its rigid devotion to the past. The society screens its
candidates carefully, favoring Protestants and, now, white Catholics,
with special affection for the children of wealthy East Coast Skull and
Bones members. Skull and Bones has been dominated by about two dozen of
the country’s most prominent families—Bush, Bundy, Harriman, Lord,
Phelps, Rockefeller, Taft, and Whitney among them—who are encouraged by
the society to intermarry so that its power is consolidated. In fact,
Skull and Bones forces members to confess their entire sexual histories
so that the club, as a eugenics overlord, can determine whether a new
Bonesman will be fit to mingle with the bloodlines of the powerful Skull
and Bones dynasties. A rebel will not make Skull and Bones; nor will
anyone whose background in any way indicates that he will not sacrifice
for the greater good of the larger organization.
As soon as initiates are allowed into the “tomb,” a dark, windowless
crypt in New Haven with a roof that serves as a landing pad for the
society’s private helicopter, they are sworn to silenceand told they must
forever deny that they are members of this organization. During
initiation, which involves ritualistic psychological conditioning, the
juniors wrestle in mud and are physically beaten—this stage of the
ceremony represents their “death” to the world as they have known it.
They then lie naked in coffins, masturbate, and reveal to the society
their innermost sexual secrets. After this cleansing, the Bonesmen give
the initiates robes to represent their new identities as individuals with
a higher purpose. The society anoints the initiate with a new name,
symbolizing his rebirth and rechristening as Knight X, a member of the
Order. It is during this initiation that the new members are introduced
to the artifacts in the tomb, among them Nazi memorabilia—including a set
of Hitler’s silverware-dozens of skulls, and an assortment of decorative
tchotchkes: coffins, skeletons, and innards. They are also introduced to
“the Bones whore,” the tomb’s only full-time resident, who helps to
ensure that the Bonesmen leave the tomb more mature than when they
entered.
Members of Skull and Bones must make some sacrifices to the society—and
they are threatened with blackmail so that they remain loyal—but they are
remunerated with honors and rewards, including a graduation gift of
$15,000 and a wedding gift of a tall grandfather clock. Though they must
tithe their estates to the society, each member
is guaranteed financial security for life; in this way, Bones can ensure
that no member will feel the need to sell the secrets of the society in
order to make a living. And it works: No one has publicly breathed a word
about his Skull and Bones membership, ever.
Bonesmen are automatically offered jobs at the many investment banks and
law firms dominated by their secret society brothers. They are also given
exclusive access to the Skull and Bones island, a lush retreat built for
millionaires, with a lavish mansion and a bevy of women at the members’
disposal.
The influence of the cabal begins at Yale, where Skull and Bones has
appropriated university funds for its own use, leaving the school
virtually impoverished. Skull and Bones’ corporate shell, the Russell
Trust Association, owns nearly all of the university’s real estate, as
well as most of the land in Connecticut. Skull and Bones has controlled
Yale’s faculty and campus publications so that students cannot speak
openly about it. “Year by year,” the campus’s only anti-society
publication stated during its brief tenure in 1873, “the deadly evil is
growing.”
The year in the tomb at Yale instills within members an unwavering
loyalty to Skull and Bones. Members have been known to stab their Skull
and Bones pins into their skin to keep them in place during swimming or
bathing. The knights (as the student members are called) learn quickly
that their allegiance to the society must supersede all else: family,
friendships, country, God. They are taught that once they get out into
the world, they are expected to reach positions of prominence so that
they can further elevate the society’s status and help promote the
standing of their fellow Bonesmen.
This purpose has driven Bonesmen to ascend to the top levels of so many
fields that, as one historian observes, “at any one time The Order can
call on members in any area of American society to do what has to be
done.” Several Bonesmen have been senators, congressmen, Supreme Court
justices, and Cabinet officials. There is a Bones cell in the CIA, which
uses the society as a recruiting ground because the members are so
obviously adept at keeping secrets. Society members dominate financial
institutions such as J. P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and Brown
Brothers Harriman, where at one time more than a third of the partners
were Bonesmen. Through these companies, Skull and Bones provided
financial backing to Adolf Hitler because the society then followed a
Nazi-and now follows a neo-Nazi—doctrine. At least a dozen Bonesmen have
been linked to the Federal Reserve, including the first chairman of the
New York Federal Reserve. Skull and Bones members control the wealth of
the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford families.
Skull and Bones has also taken steps to control the American media.
Two of its members founded the law firm that represents the New York
Times. Plans for both Time and Newsweek magazines were hatched in the
Skull and Bones tomb. The society has controlled publishing houses such
as Farrar, Straus & Giroux. In the 1880s, Skull and Bones created the
American Historical Association, the American Psychological Association,
and the American Economic Association so that the society could ensure
that history would be written under its terms and promote its objectives.
The society then installed its own members as the presidents of these
associations.
Under the society’s direction, Bonesmen developed and dropped the nuclear
bomb and choreographed the Bay of Pigs invasion. Skull and Bones members
had ties to Watergate and the Kennedy assassination. They control the
Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission so that they
can push their own political agenda. Skull and Bones government officials
have used the number 322 as codes for highly classified diplomatic
assignments. The society discriminates against minorities and fought for
slavery; indeed eight out of twelve of Yale’s residential colleges are
named for slave owners while none are named for abolitionists. The
society encourages misogyny: it did not admit women until the 1990s
because members did not believe women were capable of handling the Skull
and Bones experience and because they said they feared incidents of date
rape. This society also encourages grave robbing: deep within the bowels
of the tomb are the stolen skulls of the Apache chief Geronimo, Pancho
Villa, and former president Martin Van Buren.
Finally, the society has taken measures to ensure that the secrets of
Skull and Bones slip ungraspable like sand through open fingers.
Journalist Ron Rosenbaum, who wrote a long but not probing article about
the society in the 1970s, claimed that a source warned him not to get too
close.
“What bank do you have your checking account at?” this party asked me in
the middle of a discussion of the Mithraic aspects of the Bones ritual.
I named the bank. “Aha,” said the party. “There are three Bonesmen on the
board. You’ll never have a line of credit again.
They’ll tap your phone. They’ll. . . ” . . .The source continued: “The
alumni still care. Don’t laugh. They don’t like people tampering and
prying. The power of Bones is incredible. They’ve got their hands on
every lever of power in the country. You’ll see—it’s like trying to look
into the Mafia.”
In the 1980s, a man known only as Steve had contracts to write two books
on the society, using documents and photographs he had acquired from the
Bones crypt. But Skull and Bones found out about Steve. Society members
broke into his apartment, stole the documents, harassed the would-be
author, and scared him into hiding, where he has remained ever since. The
books were never completed. In Universal Pictures’ thriller The Skulls
(2000), an aspiring journalist is writing a profile of the society for
the New York Times. When he sneaks into the tomb, the Skulls murder him.
The real Skull and Bones tomb displays a bloody knife in a glass case. It
is said that when a Bonesman stole documents and threatened to publish
society secrets if the members did not pay him a determined amount of
money, they used that knife to kill him.
This, then, is the legend of Skull and Bones. It is astonishing that so
many people continue to believe, even in twenty-first-century America,
that a tiny college club wields such an enormous amount of influence on
the world’s only superpower. The breadth of clout ascribed to this
organization is practically as wide-ranging as the leverage of the
satirical secret society the Stonecutters introduced in an episode of The
Simpsons. The Stonecutters theme song included the lyrics:
Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down? We do! We do. . .
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We do! We do.
Certainly, Skull and Bones does cross boundaries in order to attempt to
stay out of the public spotlight. When I wrote an article about the
society for the Atlantic Monthly in May 2000, an older Bonesman said to
me, “If it’s not portrayed positively, I’m sending a couple of my friends
after you.” After the article was published, I received a telephone call
at my office from a fellow journalist, who is a member of Skull and
Bones.
He scolded me for writing the article—”writing that article was not an
ethical or honorable way to make a decent living in journalism,” he
condescended —and then asked me how much I had been paid for the story.
When I refused to answer, he hung up. Fifteen minutes later, he called
back.
“I have just gotten off the phone with our people.” “Your people?” I
snickered.
“Yes. Our people.” He told me that the society demanded to know where I
got my information.
“I’ve never been in the tomb and I did nothing illegal in the process of
reporting this article,” I replied.
“Then you must have gotten something from one of us. Tell me whom you
spoke to. We just want to talk to them,” he wheedled. “I don’t reveal my
sources.”
Then he got angry. He screamed at me for a while about how dishonorable I
was for writing the article. “A lot of people are very despondent over
this!” he yelled. “Fifteen Yale juniors are very, very upset!” I thanked
him for telling me his concerns.
“There are a lot of us at newspapers and at political journalism
institutions,” he coldly hissed. “Good luck with your career”—and he
slammed down the phone.
Skull and Bones, particularly in recent years, has managed to pervade
both popular and political culture. In the 1992 race for the Republican
presidential nomination, Pat Buchanan accused President George Bush of
running “a Skull and Bones presidency.”
In 1993, during Jeb Bush’s Florida gubernatorial campaign, one of his
constituents asked him, “You’re familiar with the Skull and Crossbones
Society?” When Bush responded, “Yeah, I’ve heard about it,” the
constituent persisted, “Well, can you tell the people here what your
family membership in that is? Isn’t your aim to take control of the
United States?” In January 2001, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd
used Skull and Bones in a simile: “When W. met the press with his choice
for attorney general, John Ashcroft, before Christmas, he vividly showed
how important it is to him that his White House be as leak-proof as the
Skull & Bones ‘tomb.’”
That was less than a year after the Universal Pictures film introduced
the secret society to a new demographic perhaps uninitiated into the
doctrines of modern-day conspiracy theory. Not long before the movie was
previewed in theaters—and perhaps in anticipation of the election of
George W. Bush—a letter was distributed to members from Skull and Bones
headquarters. “In view of the political happenings in the barbarian
world,” the memo read, “I feel compelled to remind all of the tradition
of privacy and confidentiality essential to the well-being of our Order
and strongly urge stout resistance to the seductions and blandishments of
the Fourth Estate.” This vow of silence remains the society’s most
important rule. Bonesmen have been exceedingly careful not to break this
code of secrecy, and have kept specific details about the organization
out of the press. Indeed, given the unusual, strict written reminder to
stay silent, members of Skull and Bones may well refuse to speak to any
member of the media ever again.
But they have already spoken to me. When? Over the past three years. Why?
Perhaps because I am a member of one of Skull and Bones’ kindred Yale
secret societies. Perhaps because some of them are tired of the Skull and
Bones legend, of the claims of conspiracy theorists and some of their
fellow Bonesmen. What follows, then, is the truth about Skull and Bones.
And if this truth does not contain all of the conspiratorial elements
that the Skull and Bones legend projects, it is perhaps all the more
interesting for that fact. The story of Skull and Bones is not just the
story of a remarkable secret society, but a remarkable society of
secrets, some with basis in truth, some nothing but fog. Much of the way
we understand the world of power involves myriad assumptions of
connection and control, of cause and effect, and of coincidence that
surely cannot be coincidence.
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The Skull and Bones fraternity at Yale University: - Tony Gosling 18Aug02
President George W. Bush, past president Bush senior and his father are
all three proven initiates of this occult lodge based at a windowless
mausoleum - I kid you not - The Tomb on the Yale campus.
New York Observer investigation http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?
ID=2511
A death cult at the heart of the United States establishment? Impossible
surely? But look a little closer and you'll see that seems to be exactly
what George W Bush's family club, the order of Skull and Bones, is. Known
variously as 'Bonesmen', 'The Order' and 'The Russell Trust Association',
George W.Bush's father and grandfather were both initiated into this
'society' who's badge is a skull and cross bones with the lodge number
322 below it.
Lodge 322 is believed to have been founded on June 28th 1832. And the
Skull and Bones are believed to have a commemoration ceremony on 28th
June every year. This year (2002) on this date George W. Bush was
relieved of his presidency for several hours, Dick Cheyne took over
running the world's only superpower while Bush was 'undergoing hospital
tests'.
If the Nazis' occult Thule Society had been exposed in the twenties
millions might not have died - I would like to see the 'Bonesmen' and any
other secret groups hungry for power fully exposed as unfit to hold
positions of public responsibility.
Author and researcher Antony Sutton died earlier this year on June 17th
2002. He was a British born émigré to the USA and spent much of his
academic time researching links from the US establishment and business
world to fascism and communism. Particularly enlightening is his research
on the financing of the Nazi party which he attributed to Wall street
bankers - see his book 'Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler'. Sutton was a
research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, from 1968
to 1973. He was a former economics professor at California State
University, Los Angeles. He was born in London in 1925 and educated at
the universities of London, Gottingen and California.
In September 1977 an article appeared in the US magazine Esquire. Sutton
explains it detailed much of the mumbo-jumbo associated with the
Bonesmen. When a new member is initiated into the order "Tonight", he is
told, "he will die to the world and be born again into The Order as he
will thenceforth refer to it. The Order is a world unto itself in which
he will have a new name and fourteen new blood brothers, also with new
names."
When Rosenbaum starts to enquire about The Order he is told: "They don't
like people tampering and prying. The power of Bones is incredible.
They've got their hands on every lever of power in the country. You'll
see - it's like trying to look into the Mafia. Remember, they're secret
society too."
The Washington Post broached the subject on 25th February 2000 - 'Shred
This After Reading!' Lloyd Grove called the article:
"Before George W. Bush was a good ol' boy, he was a member of Skull and
Bones. Author Ron Rosenbaum calls this club "the most powerful of all
secret societies in the strange Yale secret-society system." Its roster
includes Averell Harriman, Henry Stimson, Henry Luce, Sen. John Kerry (D-
Mass.) and Dubya's dad, former president George Bush. They all engaged in
"certain occult rituals of the ruling class," as Rosenbaum writes, in a
windowless mausoleum on Yale's New Haven, Conn., campus."
"Although the club dates back to the mid-19th century, Hollywood has just
discovered it. "The Skulls," written and produced by D.C. native and Yale
grad John Pogue, premieres next month. The movie portrays a sinister
conspiracy, a la John Grisham's "The Firm," in which sons of the power
elite have their flesh branded with a skull and crossbones, and keep the
society's secrets on pain of death. The real Skull and Bones has a
similar mania for secrecy, but that didn't stop us from casting a wide
net for the reactions of "Bonesmen" to this crass vulgarization of their
sacred brotherhood. Dubya and Kerry didn't return our calls, but we
managed to talk to a few."
"Washington writer Christopher Buckley told us: "Don't quote me, or I
shall have to come and kill you, burn down your house and rape your
dog!" Former Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin said the real thing was
bad enough without resorting to Hollywood spin: "It strikes me that if
anybody wants to make fun of it in such a gross way, that lets Skull and
Bones off the hook." And Oklahoma University President and former senator
David Boren cautioned: "Make sure you say that when you asked me about
this, I gasped and threw the telephone on the floor. There was never any
branding. I'm much too chicken to belong to anything that requires your
flesh to be burned. Officially, my response is silence.""
Finally here's a two year old interview from Time magazine with Bush
happily admitting his family are in the cult. Extracted from: 'My
Heritage Is Part Of Who I Am', by Walter Isaacson, Time Magazine, August
7th 2000 (Time Volume 156, No. 6),
……..ISAACSON: But you sure shared a lot of the same upbringing: Andover,
Yale, even Skull and Bones. Did you have any qualms, say, about joining
an elite secret club like Bones?
GEORGE W. BUSH: No qualms at all. I was honored. I was fairly nonchalant.
I didn't view it as a great heritage thing. I didn't take it all that
seriously.
ISAACSON: Demystify it a bit for those who might think it's a cross
between a Masonic Lodge and the Trilateral Commission. Did your father
show up for your initiation, like your grandfather showed up for his?
GEORGE W. BUSH: Without revealing all the great secrets? I got a few of
my old club mates who could demystify it right off the bat. My dad didn't
tap me. Someone a year ahead of me tapped me. There was an entry
celebration. I can't remember whether my dad showed up or not. I don't
think so………………
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07Aug00 - Time Magazine - Proof that George W. Bush is a member of the
Skull and Bones
Time magazine August 7, 2000 Volume 156, No. 6
Campaign 2000/Republican Convention/Interview
www.Time.com
"My Heritage Is Part of Who I Am"
In conversation, Bush exudes both a folksy confidence and an eagerness to
charm. In a recent 90-minute talk with managing editor Walter Isaacson,
he discussed how his family affected his career.
by Walter Isaacson; George W. Bush
......TIME: But you [George W and father] sure shared a lot of the same
upbringing: Andover, Yale, even Skull and Bones. Did you have any qualms,
say, about joining an elite secret club like Bones?
BUSH: No qualms at all. I was honored. I was fairly nonchalant. I didn't
view it as a great heritage thing. I didn't take it all that seriously.
TIME: Demystify it a bit for those who might think its a cross between a
Masonic Lodge and the Trilateral Commission. Did your father show up for
your initiation, like your grandfather showed up for his?
BUSH: Without revealing all the great secrets? I got a few of my old club
mates who could demystify it right off the bat. My dad didn't tap me.
There was an entry celebration. I can't remember whether my dad showed up
or not. I don't think so.
TIME: What was the most important thing about your family legacy?
BUSH: The unconditional love I got from my family liberated me. It gave
me a sense of security. We were all at a church in Maine recently and the
preacher asked whether anyone in the congregation had a perfect family,
and the only hand that went up without hesitation was Dad's. It helped
Jeb and me not be afraid of defeat.......
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George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography
by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm
http://www.tarpley.net/bush7.htm
Chapter 7 ~ Skull and Bones: The Racist Nightmare at Yale
``Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that
when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should
set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were
entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity
should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage
to renew the battle which their fathers began....'' -- Abraham Lincoln --
1. Honeymoon
The U.S. Navy delivered George Bush back home for good on Christmas Eve,
1944; the war in the Pacific raged on over the next half year, with
Allied forces taking Southeast Asia, the Netherlands East Indies
(Indonesia), and islands such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Barbara Pierce quit Smith College in her sophomore year to marry George.
Prescott and Mother Bush gave a splendid prenuptial dinner at the
Greenwich Field Club. The wedding took place January 6, 1945, in the Rye,
New York Presbyterian Church, as the U.S. Third Fleet bombarded the main
Philippine island of Luzon in preparation for invasion. Afterwards there
was a glamorous reception for 300 at Appawamis Country Club. The
newlyweds honeymooned at The Cloisters, a five-star hotel on Sea Island,
Georgia, with swimming, tennis and golf.
George's next assignment was to train pilots at Norfolk, Virginia Naval
Air Station. ``George's duty ... was light. As for other young marrieds,
whose husbands were between warzone tours, this was kind of an extended
(and paid) honeymoon.''@s2
Japan surrendered in August. That fall, George and Barbara Bush moved to
New Haven where Bush entered Yale University. He and Barbara moved into
an apartment at 37 Hillhouse Avenue, across the street from Yale
President Charles Seymour.
College life was good to George, what he saw of it. A college career
usually occupies four years. But we know that George Bush is a rapidly
moving man. Thus he was pleased with the special arrangement made for
veterans, by which Yale allowed him to get his degree after attending
classes for only two and a half years.
Bush and his friends remember it all fondly, as representatives of the
Fashionable Set: ``[M]embers of [Bush's] class have since sighed with
nostalgia for those days of the late 1940s.... Trolley cars still rumbled
along the New Haven streets. On autumn afternoons they would be crowded
with students going out to football games at the Yale Bowl, scattering
pennies along the way and shouting `scramble' to the street kids diving
for them''[emphasis added].@s3
In 1947, Barbara gave birth to George W. Bush, the President's namesake.
By the time of his 1948 graduation, he had been elected to Phi Beta
Kappa, an honor traditionally associated with academic achievement. A
great deal is known about George Bush's career at Yale, except the part
about books and studies. Unfortunately for those who would wish to
consider his intellectual accomplishment, everything about that has been
sealed shut and is top secret. The Yale administration says they have
turned over to the FBI custody of all of Bush's academic records,
allegedly because the FBI needs such access to check the resume; of
important office holders.
From all available testimony, his mental life before college was anything
but outstanding. His campaign literature claims that, as a veteran, Bush
was ``serious'' at Yale. But we cannot check exactly how he achieved
election to Phi Beta Kappa, in his abbreviated college experience.
Without top secret clearance, we cannot consult his test results, read
his essays, or learn much about his performance in class. We know that
his father was a trustee of the university, in charge of
``developmental'' fundraising. And his family friends were in control of
the U.S. secret services.
A great deal is known, however, about George Bush's status at Yale.
His fellow student John H. Chafee, later a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
and Secretary of the Navy, declared: ``We didn't see much of him because
he was married, but I guess my first impression was that he was--and I
don't mean this in a derogatory fashion--in the inner set, the movers and
shakers, the establishment. I don't mean he put on airs or anything, but
... just everybody knew him.''
Chafee, like Bush, and Dan Quayle, was in the important national
fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE or the ``Dekes''). But Chafee says,
``I never remember seeing him there. He wasn't one to hang around with
the fellows.''
2. The Tomb
George Bush, in fact, passed his most important days and nights at Yale
in the strange companionship of the senior-year Skull and Bones Society.
@s5
Out of those few who were chosen for Bones membership, George was the
last one to be notified of his selection--this honor is traditionally
reserved for the highest of the high and mighty.
His father, Prescott Bush, several other relatives and partners, and
Roland and Averell Harriman, who sponsored the Bush family, were also
members of this secret society.
The undoubted political and financial power associated with Skull and
Bones has given rise to many popular questions about the nature and
origin of the group. Its members have fed the mystery with false leads
and silly speculations.
The order was incorporated in 1856 under the name ``Russell Trust
Association.'' By special act of the state legislature in 1943, its
trustees are exempted from the normal requirement of filing corporate
reports with the Connecticut Secretary of State.
As of 1978, all business of the Russell Trust was handled by its lone
trustee, Brown Brothers Harriman partner John B. Madden, Jr. Madden
started with Brown Brothers Harriman in 1946, under senior partner
Prescott Bush, George Bush's father.
Each year, Skull and Bones members select (``tap'') 15 third-year Yale
students to replace them in the senior group the following year.
Graduating members are given a sizeable cash bonus to help them get
started in life. Older graduate members, the so-called ``Patriarchs,''
give special backing in business, politics, espionage and legal careers
to graduate Bonesmen who exhibit talent or usefulness.
The home of Skull and Bones on the Yale campus is a stone building
resembling a mausoleum, and known as ``the Tomb.'' Initiations take place
on Deer Island in the St. Lawrence River (an island owned by the Russell
Trust Association), with regular reunions on Deer Island and at Yale.
Initiation rites reportedly include strenuous and traumatic activities of
the new member, while immersed naked in mud, and in a coffin. More
important is the ``sexual autobiography'': The initiate tells the Order
all the sex secrets of his young life. Weakened mental defenses against
manipulation, and the blackmail potential of such information, have
obvious permanent uses in enforcing loyalty among members.
The loyalty is intense. One of Bush's former teachers, whose own father
was a Skull and Bones member, told our interviewer that his father used
to stab his little Skull and Bones pin into his skin to keep it in place
when he took a bath.
Members continue throughout their lives to unburden themselves on their
psycho-sexual thoughts to their Bones Brothers, even if they are no
longer sitting in a coffin. This has been the case with President George
Bush, for whom these ties are reported to have a deep personal meaning.
Beyond the psychological manipulation associated with freemasonic
mummery, there are very solid political reasons for Bush's strong
identification with this cult.
Observers of Skull and Bones, apologists and critics alike, have accepted
various deceptive notions about the order. There are two outstanding,
among these falsehoods:
1) that it is essentially an American group, an assembly of wealthy,
elite ``patriots''; it is in fact, an agency for British Empire
penetration and subversion of the American republic; and
2) that it is somehow the unique center of conspiratorial control over
the United States. This misconception is certainly understandable, given
the rather astonishing number of powerful, historically important and
grotesquely anti-human individuals, who have come out of Skull and Bones.
But there are in fact congruent organizations at other Ivy League
colleges, which reflect, as does Skull and Bones, the over-arching
oligarchical power of several heavily intermarried financier families.
The mistaken, speculative notions may be corrected by examining the
history of Skull and Bones, viewed within the reality of the American
Eastern Establishment.
Skull and Bones--the Russell Trust Association--was first established
among the class graduating from Yale in 1833. Its founder was William
Huntington Russell of Middletown, Connecticut. The Russell family was the
master of incalculable wealth derived from the largest U.S. criminal
organization of the nineteenth century: Russell and Company, the great
opium syndicate.
There was at that time a deep suspicion of, and national revulsion
against, freemasonry and secret organizations in the United States,
fostered in particular by the anti-masonic writings of former U.S.
President John Quincy Adams. Adams stressed that those who take oaths to
politically powerful international secret societies cannot be depended on
for loyalty to a democratic republic.
But the Russells were protected as part of the multiply-intermarried
grouping of families then ruling Connecticut (see accompanying chart).
The blood-proud members of the Russell, Pierpont, Edwards, Burr,
Griswold, Day, Alsop and Hubbard families were prominent in the pro-
British party within the state. Many of their sons would be among the
members chosen for the Skull and Bones Society over the years.
The background to Skull and Bones is a story of Opium and Empire, and a
bitter struggle for political control over the new U.S. republic.
Samuel Russell, second cousin to Bones founder William H., established
Russell and Company in 1823. Its business was to acquire opium from
Turkey and smuggle it into China, where it was strictly prohibited, under
the armed protection of the British Empire.
The prior, predominant American gang in this field had been the syndicate
created by Thomas Handasyd Perkins of Newburyport, Massachusetts, an
aggregation of the self-styled ``blue bloods'' or Brahmins of Boston's
north shore. Forced out of the lucrative African slave trade by U.S. law
and Caribbean slave revolts, leaders of the Cabot, Lowell, Higginson,
Forbes, Cushing and Sturgis families had married Perkins siblings and
children. The Perkins opium syndicate made the fortune and established
the power of these families. By the 1830s, the Russells had bought out
the Perkins syndicate and made Connecticut the primary center of the U.S.
opium racket. Massachusetts families (Coolidge, Sturgis, Forbes and
Delano) joined Connecticut (Alsop) and New York (Low) smuggler-
millionaires under the Russell auspices.
** Certain of the prominent Boston opium families, such as Cabot and
Weld, did not affiliate directly with Russell, Connecticut and Yale, but
were identified instead with Harvard.
John Quincy Adams and other patriots had fought these men for a quarter
century by the time the Russell Trust Association was set up with its
open pirate emblem--Skull and Bones.
With British ties of family, shipping and merchant banking, the old New
England Tories had continued their hostility to American independence
after the Revolutionary War of 1775-83. These pretended conservative
patriots proclaimed Thomas Jefferson's 1801 presidential inauguration
``radical usurpation.''
The Massachusetts Tories (``Essex Junto'') joined with Vice President
Aaron Burr, Jr. (a member of the Connecticut Edwards and Pierpont
families) and Burr's cousin and law partner Theodore Dwight, in political
moves designed to break up the United States and return it to British
allegiance.
The U.S. nationalist leader, former Treasury Secretary Alexander
Hamilton, exposed the plan in 1804. Burr shot him to death in a duel,
then led a famous abortive conspiracy to form a new empire in the
Southwest, with territory to be torn from the U.S.A. and Spanish Mexico.
For the ``blue bloods,'' the romantic figure of Aaron Burr was ever
afterwards the symbol of British feudal revenge against the American
republic.
The Connecticut Tory families hosted the infamous Hartford Convention in
1815, toward the end of the second war between the U.S. and Britain (the
War of 1812). Their secessionist propaganda was rendered impotent by
America's defensive military victory. This faction then retired from the
open political arena, pursuing instead entirely private and covert
alliances with the British Empire. The incestuously intermarried
Massachusetts and Connecticut families associated themselves with the
British East India Company in the criminal opium traffic into China.
These families made increased profits as partners and surrogates for the
British during the bloody 1839-42 Opium War, the race war of British
forces against Chinese defenders.
Samuel and William Huntington Russell were quiet, wary builders of their
faction's power. An intimate colleague of opium gangster Samuel Russell
wrote this about him:
While he lived, no friend of his would venture to mention his name in
print. While in China, he lived for about twenty-five years almost as a
hermit, hardly known outside of his factory [the Canton warehouse
compound] except by the chosen few who enjoyed his intimacy, and by his
good friend, Hoqua [Chinese security director for the British East India
Company], but studying commerce in its broadest sense, as well as its
minutest details. Returning home with well-earned wealth he lived
hospitably in the midst of his family, and a small circle of intimates.
Scorning words and pretensions from the bottom of his heart, he was the
truest and staunchest of friends; hating notoriety, he could always be
absolutely counted on for every good work which did not involve
publicity.
The Russells' Skull and Bones Society was the most important of their
domestic projects ``which did not involve publicity.''
A police-blotter type review of Russell's organization will show why the
secret order, though powerful, was not the unique organ of
``conspiracy'' for the U.S. Eastern Establishment. The following
gentlemen were among Russells' partners:
Augustine Heard (1785-1868): ship captain and pioneer U.S. opium
smuggler.
John Cleve Green (1800-75): married to Sarah Griswold; gave a fortune in
opium profits to Princeton University, financing three Princeton
buildings and four professorships; trustee of the Princeton Theological
Seminary for 25 years.
Abiel Abbott Low (1811-93): his opium fortune financed the construction
of the Columbia University New York City campus; father of Columbia's
president Seth Low.
John Murray Forbes (1813-98): his opium millions financed the career of
author Ralph Waldo Emerson, who married Forbes's daughter, and bankrolled
the establishment of the Bell Telephone Company, whose first president
was Forbes's son.
Joseph Coolidge: his Augustine Heard agency got $10 million yearly as
surrogates for the Scottish dope-runners Jardine Matheson during the
fighting in China; his son organized the United Fruit Company; his
grandson, Archibald Cary Coolidge, was the founding executive officer of
the Anglo-Americans' Council on Foreign Relations.
Warren Delano, Jr.: chief of Russell and Co. in Canton; grandfather of
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Russell Sturgis: his grandson by the same name was chairman of the Baring
Bank in England, financiers of the Far East opium trade.
Such persons as John C. Green and A.A. Low, whose names adorn various
buildings at Princeton and Columbia Universities, made little attempt to
hide the criminal origin of their influential money. Similarly with the
Cabots, the Higginsons and the Welds for Harvard. The secret groups at
other colleges are analogous and closely related to Yale's Skull and
Bones.
Princeton has its ``eating clubs,'' especially Ivy Club and Cottage Club,
whose oligarchical tradition runs from Jonathan Edwards and Aaron Burr
through the Dulles brothers. At Harvard there is the ultra-blue-blooded
Porcelian (known also as the Porc or Pig club); Theodore Roosevelt
bragged to the German Kaiser of his membership there; Franklin Roosevelt
was a member of the slightly ``lower'' Fly Club.
A few of the early initiates in Skull and Bones went on to careers in
obvious defiance of the order's oligarchical character; two such were the
scientists Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (Skull and Bones 1837), and William
Chauvenet (Skull and Bones 1840). This reflects the continued importance
of republican factions at Yale, Harvard and other colleges during the
middle three decades of the nineteenth century. Silliman and Chauvenet
became enemies of everything Skull and Bones stood for, while the Yale
secret group rapidly conformed to the Russells' expectations.
Yale was the northern college favored by southern slaveowning would-be
aristocrats. Among Yale's southern students were John C. Calhoun, later
the famous South Carolina defender of slavery against nationalism, and
Judah P. Benjamin, later Secretary of State for the slaveowners'
Confederacy.
Young South Carolinian Joseph Heatly Dulles, whose family bought their
slaves with the money from contract-security work for the British
conquerors in India, was in a previous secret Yale group, the ``Society
of Brothers in Unity.'' At Yale Dulles worked with the Northern
secessionists and attached himself to Daniel Lord; their two families
clove together in the fashion of a gang. The Lords became powerful Anglo-
American Wall Street lawyers, and J.H. Dulles's grandson was the father
of Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles.
In 1832-33 Skull and Bones was launched under the Russell pirate flag.
Among the early initiates of the order were Henry Rootes Jackson (S&B
1839), a leader of the 1861 Georgia Secession Convention and post-Civil
War president of the Georgia Historical Society (thus the false accounts
of the ``good old slavery days'' and the ``bad northern invaders''); John
Perkins, Jr. (S&B 1840), chairman of the 1861 Louisiana Secession
Convention, who fled abroad for 13 years after the Civil War; and William
Taylor Sullivan Barry (S&B 1841), a national leader of the secessionist
wing of the Democratic Party during the 1850s, and chairman of the 1861
Mississippi Secession Convention.
Alphonso Taft was a Bonesman alongside William H. Russell in the Class of
1833. As U.S. Attorney General in 1876-77, Alphonso Taft helped organize
the backroom settlement of the deadlocked 1876 presidential election. The
bargain gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency (1877-81) and withdrew
the U.S. troops from the South, where they had been enforcing blacks'
rights.
Alphonso's son, William Howard Taft (S&B 1878), was U.S. President from
1909 to 1913. President Taft's son, Robert Alphonso Taft (S&B 1910), was
a leading U.S. Senator after World War II; his family's Anglo-Saxon
racial/ancestral preoccupation was the disease which crippled Robert
Taft's leadership of American nationalist ``conservatives.''
Other pre-Civil War Bonesmen were:
William M. Evarts (S&B 1837): Wall Street attorney for British and
southern slaveowner projects, collaborator of Taft in the 1876 bargain,
U.S. Secretary of State 1877-81;
Morris R. Waite (S&B 1837): Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1874-
88, whose rulings destroyed many rights of African- Americans gained in
the Civil War; he helped his cohorts Taft and Evarts arrange the 1876
presidential settlement scheme to pull the rights- enforcing U.S. troops
out of the South;
Daniel Coit Gilman (S&B 1852): co-incorporator of the Russell Trust;
founding president of Johns Hopkins University as a great center for the
racialist eugenics movement;
Andrew D. White (S&B 1853): founding president of Cornell University;
psychic researcher; and diplomatic cohort of the Venetian, Russian and
British oligarchies;
Chauncey M. Depew (S&B 1856): general counsel for the Vanderbilt
railroads, he helped the Harriman family to enter into high society.
By about the mid-1880s, the Skull and Bones membership roster began to
change from its earlier, often ``scholarly,'' coloration; the change
reflected the degradation of American political and economic life by
imperialist, neo-pagan and racialist ideology.
Irving Fisher (S&B 1888) became the racialist high priest of the
economics faculty (Yale professor 1896-1946), and a famous merchant of
British Empire propaganda for free trade and reduction of the non-white
population. Fisher was founding president of the American Eugenics
Society under the financial largesse of Averell Harriman's mother.
Gifford Pinchot (S&B 1889) invented the aristocrats' ``conservation''
movement. He was President Theodore Roosevelt's chief forester,
substituting federal land-control in place of Abraham Lincoln's free-
land-to-families farm creation program. Pinchot's British Empire
activitism included the Psychical Research Society and his vice-
presidency of the first International Eugenics Congress in 1912.
Helping Pinchot initiate this century's racialist environmentalism were
his cohorts George W. Woodruff (S&B 1889), Teddy Roosevelt's Assistant
Attorney General and Acting Interior Secretary; and Henry Solon Graves
(S&B 1892), chief U.S. forester 1910-20. Frederick E. Weyerhauser (S&B
1896), owner of vast tracts of American forest, was a follower of
Pinchot's movement, while the Weyerhauser family were active
collaborators of British-South African super-racist Cecil Rhodes. This
family's friendship with President George Bush is a vital factor in the
present environmentalist movement.
With Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888) we come to the Eastern Liberal
Establishment which has ruled America during the twentieth century.
Stimson was President Taft's Secretary of War (1911-13), and President
Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State (1929-33). As Secretary of War (1940-
45), this time under President Harry Truman, Stimson pressed Truman to
drop the atomic bomb on the Japanese. This decision involved much more
than merely ``pragmatic'' military considerations. These Anglophiles, up
through George Bush, have opposed the American republic's tradition of
alliance with national aspirations in Asia; and they worried that the
invention of nuclear energy would too powerfully unsettle the world's
toleration for poverty and misery. Both the U.S. and the Atom had better
be dreaded, they thought.
The present century owes much of its record of horrors to the influential
Anglophile American families which came to dominate and employ the Skull
and Bones Society as a political recruiting agency, particularly the
Harrimans, Whitneys, Vanderbilts, Rockefellers and their lawyers, the
Lords and Tafts and Bundys.
The politically aggressive Guaranty Trust Company, run almost entirely by
Skull and Bones initiates, was a financial vehicle of these families in
the early 1900s. Guaranty Trust's support for the Bolshevik and Nazi
revolutions overlapped the more intense endeavors in these fields by the
Harrimans, George Walker and Prescott Bush a few blocks away, and in
Berlin.
Skull and Bones was dominated from 1913 onward by the circles of Averell
Harriman. They displaced remaining traditionalists such as Douglas
MacArthur from power in the United States.
For George Bush, the Skull and Bones Society is more than simply the
British, as opposed to the American, strategic tradition. It is merged in
the family and personal network within which his whole life has been, in
a sense, handed to him prepackaged.
3. Britain's Yale Flying Unit
During Prescott Bush's student days, the Harriman set at Yale decided
that World War I was sufficiently amusing that they ought to get into it
as recreation. They formed a special Yale Unit of the Naval Reserve
Flying Corps, at the instigation of F. Trubee Davison. Since the United
States was not at war, and the Yale students were going to serve Britain,
the Yale Unit was privately and lavishly financed by F. Trubee's father,
Henry Davison, the senior managing partner at J.P. Morgan and Co. At that
time, the Morgan bank was the official financial agency for the British
government in the United States. The Yale Unit's leader was amateur pilot
Robert A. Lovett. They were based first on Long Island, New York, then in
Palm Beach, Florida.
The Yale Unit has been described by Lovett's family and friends in a
collective biography of the Harriman set:
Training for the Yale Flying Unit was not exactly boot camp. Davison's
father ... helped finance them royally, and newspapers of the day dubbed
them ``the millionaires' unit.'' They cut rakish figures, and knew it;
though some dismissed them as dilettantes, the hearts of young Long
Island belles fluttered at the sight....
[In] Palm Beach ... they ostentatiously pursued a relaxed style. ``They
were rolled about in wheel chairs by African slaves amid tropical gardens
and coconut palms,'' wrote the unit's historian.... ``For light exercise,
they learned to glance at their new wristwatches with an air of easy
nonchalance''.... [Lovett] was made chief of the unit's private club, the
Wags, whose members started their sentences, ``Being a Wag and therefore
a superman''....
Despite the snide comments of those who dismissed them as frivolous rich
boys, Lovett's unit proved to be daring and imaginative warriors when
they were dispatched for active duty in 1917 with Britain's Royal Naval
Air Service.
Lovett was transferred to the U.S. Navy after the U.S. joined Britain in
World War I.
The Yale Flying Unit was the glory of Skull and Bones. Roland Harriman,
Prescott Bush and their 1917 Bonesmates selected for 1918 membership in
the secret order these Yale Flying Unit leaders: Robert Lovett, F. Trubee
Davison, Artemus Lamb Gates, and John Martin Vorys. Unit flyers David
Sinton Ingalls and F. Trubee's brother, Harry P. Davison (who became
Morgan vice chairman), were tapped for the 1920 Skull and Bones.
Lovett did not actually have a senior year at Yale: ``He was tapped for
Skull and Bones not on the Old Campus but at a naval station in West Palm
Beach; his initiation, instead of being conducted in the `tomb' on High
Street, occurred at the headquarters of the Navy's Northern Bombing Group
between Dunkirk and Calais.''
Some years later, Averell Harriman gathered Lovett, Prescott Bush and
other pets into the utopian oligarchs' community a few miles to the north
of Palm Beach, called Jupiter Island (see Chapter 4).
British Empire loyalists flew right from the Yale Unit into U.S.
strategymaking positions:
F. Trubee Davison was Assistant U.S. Secretary of War for Air from 1926
to 1933. David S. Ingalls (on the board of Jupiter Island's Pan American
Airways) was meanwhile Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aviation
(1929-32). Following the American Museum of Natural History's Hitlerite
1932 eugenics congress, Davison resigned his government Air post to
become the Museum's president. Then, under the Harriman-Lovett national
security regime of the early 1950s, F. Trubee Davison became Director of
Personnel for the new Central Intelligence Agency.
Robert Lovett was Assistant Secretary of War for Air from 1941-45.
Lovett's 1918 Bonesmate Artemus Gates (chosen by Prescott and his
fellows) became Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air in 1941. Gates
retained this post throughout the Second World War until 1945. Having a
man like Gates up there, who owed his position to Averell, Bob, Prescott
and their set, was quite reassuring to young naval aviator George Bush;
especially so, when Bush would have to worry about the record being
correct concerning his controversial fatal crash.
4. Other Important Bonesmen
Richard M. Bissell, Jr. was a very important man to the denizens of
Jupiter Island.
He graduated from Yale in 1932, the year after the Harrimanites bought
the island. Though not in Skull and Bones, Bissell was the younger
brother of William Truesdale Bissell, a Bonesman from the class of 1925.
Their father, Connecticut insurance executive Richard M. Bissell, Sr.,
had put the U.S. insurance industry's inside knowledge of all fire-
insured industrial plants at the disposal of government planners during
World War I.
The senior Bissell, a powerful Yale alumnus, was also the director of the
Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of the Hartford Retreat for the Insane;
there, in 1904, Yale graduate Clifford Beers underwent mind-destroying
treatment which led this mental patient to found the Mental Hygiene
Society, a major Yale-based Skull and Bones project. This would evolve
into the CIA's cultural engineering effort of the 1950s, the drugs and
brainwashing adventure known as ``MK-Ultra.''
Richard M. Bissell, Jr. studied at the London School of Economics in 1932
and 1933, and taught at Yale from 1935 to 1941. He then joined Harriman's
entourage in the U.S. government. Bissell was an economist for the
Combined Shipping Adjustment Board in 1942-43, while Averell Harriman was
the U.S. leader of that board in London.
In 1947 and 1948, Bissell was executive secretary of the ``Harriman
Commission,'' otherwise known as the President's Commission on Foreign
Aid. When Harriman was the administrator of the Marshall Plan, Bissell
was assistant administrator.
Harriman was director of Mutual Security (1951-53), while Bissell was
consultant to the director of Mutual Security 1952.
Bissell then joined F. Trubee Davison at the Central Intelligence Agency.
When Allen Dulles became CIA Director, Bissell was one of his three
aides.
Why could this be of interest to our Floridians? We saw in Chapter 4,
that the great anti-Castro covert initiative of 1959-61 was supervised by
an awesome array of Harriman agents. We need now add to that assessment
only the fact that the detailed management of the invasion of Cuba, and
of the assassination planning, and the training of the squads for these
jobs, was given into the hands of Richard M. Bissell, Jr.
This 1961 invasion failed. Fidel Castro survived the widely-discussed
assassination plots against him. But the initiative succeeded in what was
probably its core purpose: to organize a force of multi-use professional
assassins.
The Florida-trained killers stayed in business under the leadership of
Ted Shackley. They were all around the assassination of President Kennedy
in 1963. They kept going with the Operation Phoenix mass murder of
Vietnamese civilians, with Middle East drug and terrorist programs, and
with George Bush's Contra wars in Central America.
Harvey Hollister Bundy (S&B 1909) was Henry L. Stimson's Assistant
Secretary of State (1931-33); then he was Stimson's Special Assistant
Secretary of War, alongside Assistant Secretary Robert Lovett of Skull
and Bones and Brown Brothers Harriman.
Harvey's son William P. Bundy (S&B 1939) was a CIA officer from 1951 to
1961; as a 1960s defense official, he pushed the Harriman- Dulles scheme
for a Vietnam war. Harvey's other son, McGeorge Bundy (S&B 1940), co-
authored Stimson's memoirs in 1948. As President John Kennedy's Director
of National Security, McGeorge Bundy organized the whitewash of the
Kennedy assassination, and immediately switched the U.S. policy away from
the Kennedy pullout and back toward war in Vietnam.
There was also Henry Luce, a Bonesman of 1920 with David S. Ingalls and
Harry Pomeroy. Luce published Time magazine, where his ironically-named
``American Century'' blustering was straight British Empire doctrine:
Bury the republics, hail the Anglo-Saxon conquerors.
William Sloane Coffin, tapped for 1949 Skull and Bones by George Bush and
his Bone companions, was from a long line of Skull and Bones Coffins.
William Sloane Coffin was famous in the Vietnam War protest days as a
leader of the left protest against the war. Was the fact that he was an
agent of the Central Intelligence Agency embarrassing to William Sloane?
This was no contradiction. His uncle, the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin
(S&B 1897), had also been a ``peace'' agitator, and an oligarchical
agent. Uncle Henry was for 20 years president of the Union Theological
Seminary, whose board chairman was Prescott Bush's partner Thatcher
Brown. In 1937, Henry Coffin and John Foster Dulles led the U.S.
delegation to England to found the World Council of Churches, as a
``peace movement'' guided by the pro-Hitler faction in England.
The Coffins have been mainstays of the liberal death lobby, for
euthanasia and eugenics. The Coffins outlasted Hitler, arriving into the
CIA in the 1950s.
Amory Howe Bradford (S&B 1934) married Carol Warburg Rothschild in 1941.
Carol's mother, Carola, was the acknowledged head of the Warburg family
in America after World War II. This family had assisted the Harrimans'
rise into the world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; in
concert with the Sulzbergers at the New York Times, they had used their
American Jewish Committee and B'nai B'rith to protect the Harriman-Bush
deals with Hitler. This made it nice for Averell Harriman, just like
family, when Amory Howe Bradford worked on the Planning Group of
Harriman's NATO secretariat in London, 1951-52. Bradford was meanwhile
assistant to the publisher of the New York Times, and went on to become
general manager of the Times.
Other modern Bonesmen have been closely tied to George Bush's career.
George Herbert Walker, Jr. (S&B 1927) was the President's uncle and
financial angel. In the 1970s he sold G.H. Walker & Co. to White, Weld &
Co. and became a director of White, Weld; company heir William Weld, the
original federal prosecutor of Lyndon LaRouche and current Massachusetts
governor, is an active Bush Republican.
Publisher William F. Buckley (S&B 1950) had a family oil business in
Mexico. There Buckley was a close ally to CIA covert operations manager
E. Howard Hunt, whose lethal antics were performed under the eyes of
Miami Station and Jupiter Island.
David Lyle Boren (S&B 1963) was assistant to the director of the Office
of Civil and Defense Mobilization, and a propaganda analyst for the U.S.
Information Agency, before graduating from Yale. Thus while he was
imbibing the British view at Oxford University (1963-65), Boren was
already an Anglo-American intelligence operative, listed in the
``speakers bureau'' of the American embassy in London. David Boren was
elected to the U.S. Senate in 1979 and became chairman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee.
Though a Democrat (who spoke knowingly of the ``parallel government''
operating in Iran-Contra), Boren's Intelligence Committee rulings have
been (not unexpectedly) more and more favorable to his ``Patriarch'' in
the White House.
5. Bush's Own Bones
Among the traditional artifacts collected and maintained within the High
Street Tomb are human remains of various derivations. The following
concerns one such set of Skull and Bones.
Geronimo, an Apache faction leader and warrior, led a party of warriors
on a raid in 1876, after Apaches were moved to the San Carlos Reservation
in Arizona territory. He led other raids against U.S. and Mexican forces
well into the 1880s; he was captured and escaped many times.
Geronimo was finally interned at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He became a farmer
and joined a Christian congregation. He died at the age of 79 years in
1909, and was buried at Fort Sill. Three-quarters of a century later, his
tribesmen raised the question of getting their famous warrior reinterred
back in Arizona.
Ned Anderson was Tribal Chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe from 1978
to 1986. This is the story he tells:
Around the fall of 1983, the leader of an Apache group in another section
of Arizona said he was interested in having the remains of Geronimo
returned to his tribe's custody. Taking up this idea, Anderson said that
the remains properly belonged to his group as much as to the other
Apaches. After much discussion, several Apache groups met at a kind of
summit meeting held at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The army authorities were not
favorable to the meeting, and it only occurred through the intervention
of the office of the Governor of Oklahoma.
As a result of this meeting, Ned Anderson was written up in the
newspapers as an articulate Apache activist. Soon afterwards, in late
1983 or early 1984, a Skull and Bones member contacted Anderson and
leaked evidence that Geronimo's remains had long ago been pilfered--by
Prescott Bush, George's father. The informant said that in May of 1918,
Prescott Bush and five other officers at Fort Sill desecrated the grave
of Geronimo. They took turns watching while they robbed the grave, taking
items including a skull, some other bones, a horse bit and straps. These
prizes were taken back to the Tomb, the home of the Skull and Bones
Society at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut. They were put into a display
case, which members and visitors could easily view upon entry to the
building.
The informant provided Anderson with photographs of the stolen remains,
and a copy of a Skull and Bones log book in which the 1918 grave robbery
had been recorded. The informant said that Skull and Bones members used
the pilfered remains in performing some of their Thursday and Sunday
night rituals, with Geronimo's skull sitting out on a table in front of
them.
Outraged, Anderson traveled to New Haven. He did some investigation on
the Yale campus and held numerous discussions, to learn what the Apaches
would be up against when they took action, and what type of action would
be most fruitful.
Through an attorney, Ned Anderson asked the FBI to move into the case.
The attorney conveyed to him the Bureau's response: If he would turn over
every scrap of evidence to the FBI, and completely remove himself from
the case, they would get involved. He rejected this bargain, since it did
not seem likely to lead toward recovery of Geronimo's remains.
Due to his persistence, he was able to arrange a September 1986 Manhattan
meeting with Jonathan Bush, George Bush's brother. Jonathan Bush vaguely
assured Anderson that he would get what he had come after, and set a
followup meeting for the next day. But Bush stalled-- Anderson believes
this was to gain time to hide and secure the stolen remains against any
possible rescue action.
The Skull and Bones attorney representing the Bush family and managing
the case was Endicott Peabody Davison. His father was the F. Trubee
Davison mentioned above, who had been president of New York's American
Museum of Natural History, and personnel director for the Central
Intelligence Agency. The general attitude of this Museum crowd has long
been that ``Natives'' should be stuffed and mounted for display to the
Fashionable Set.
Finally, after about 11 days, another meeting occurred. A display case
was produced, which did in fact match the one in the photograph the
informant had given to Ned Anderson. But the skull he was shown was that
of a ten-year-old child, and Anderson refused to receive it or to sign a
legal document promising to shut up about the matter.
Anderson took his complaint to Arizona Congressmen Morris Udahl and John
McCain III, but with no results. George Bush refused Congressman McCain's
request that he meet with Anderson.
Anderson wrote to Udahl, enclosing a photograph of the wall case and
skull at the ``Tomb,'' showing a black and white photograph of the living
Geronimo, which members of the Order had boastfully posted next to their
display of his skull. Anderson quoted from a Skull and Bones Society
internal history, entitled Continuation of the History of Our Order for
the Century Celebration, 17 June 1933, by The Little Devil of D'121.
From the war days [W.W. I] also sprang the mad expedition from the School
of Fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, that brought to the T[omb] its most
spectacular ``crook,'' the skull of Geronimo the terrible, the Indian
Chief who had taken forty-nine white scalps. An expedition in late May,
1918, by members of four Clubs [i.e. four graduating-class years of the
Society], Xit D.114, Barebones, Caliban and Dingbat, D.115, S'Mike D.116,
and Hellbender D.117, planned with great caution since in the words of
one of them: ``Six army captains robbing a grave wouldn't look good in
the papers.'' The stirring climax was recorded by Hellbender in the Black
Book of D.117: ``... The ring of pick on stone and thud of earth on earth
alone disturbs the peace of the prairie. An axe pried open the iron door
of the tomb, and Pat[riarch] Bush entered and started to dig. We dug in
turn, each on relief taking a turn on the road as guards.... Finally Pat
[riarch] Ellery James turned up a bridle, soon a saddle horn and rotten
leathers followed, then wood and then, at the exact bottom of the small
round hole, Pat[riarch] James dug deep and pried out the trophy
itself.... We quickly closed the grave, shut the door and sped home to
Pat[riarch] Mallon's room, where we cleaned the Bones. Pat[riarch] Mallon
sat on the floor liberally applying carbolic acid. The Skull was fairly
clean, having only some flesh inside and a little hair. I showered and
hit the hay ... a happy man....''@s9
The other grave robber whose name is given, Ellery James, we encountered
in Chapter 1--he was to be an usher at Prescott's wedding three years
later. And the fellow who applied acid to the stolen skull, burning off
the flesh and hair, was Neil Mallon. Years later, Prescott Bush and his
partners chose Mallon as chairman of Dresser Industries; Mallon hired
Prescott's son, George Bush, for George's first job; and George Bush
named his son, Neil Mallon Bush, after the flesh-picker.
In 1988, the Washington Post ran an article, originating from the
Establishment-line Arizona Republic, entitled ``Skull for Scandal: Did
Bush's Father Rob Geronimo's Grave?'' The article included a small quote
from the 1933 Skull and Bones History of Our Order: ``An axe pried open
the iron door of the tomb, and ... Bush entered and started to dig....''
and so forth, but neglected to include other names beside Bush.
According to the Washington Post, the document which Bush attorney
Endicott Davison tried to get the Apache leader to sign, stipulated that
Ned Anderson agreed it would be ``inappropriate for you, me [Jonathan
Bush] or anyone in association with us to make or permit any publication
in connection with this transaction.'' Anderson called the document
``very insulting to Indians.'' Davison claimed later that the Order's own
history book is a hoax, but during the negotiations with Anderson, Bush's
attorney demanded Anderson give up his copy of the book.
Bush crony Fitzhugh Green gives the view of the President's backers on
this affair, and conveys the arrogant racial attitude typical of Skull
and Bones:
``Prescott Bush had a colorful side. In 1988 the press revealed the
complaint of an Apache leader about Bush. This was Ned Anderson of San
Carlos, Oklahoma [sic], who charged that as a young army officer Bush
stole the skull of Indian Chief [sic] Geronimo and had it hung on the
wall of Yale's Skull and Bones Club. After exposure of `true facts' by
Anderson, and consideration by some representatives in Congress, the
issue faded from public sight. Whether or not this alleged skullduggery
actually occurred, the mere idea casts the senior Bush in an adventurous
light''[emphasis added].
George Bush's crowning as a Bonesman was intensely, personally important
to him. These men were tapped for the Class of 1948:
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley
Lucius Horatio Biglow, Jr.
George Herbert Walker Bush
John Erwin Caulkins
William Judkins Clark
William James Connelly, Jr.
George Cook III
David Charles Grimes
Richard Elwood Jenkins
Richard Gerstle Mack
Thomas Wilder Moseley
George Harold Pfau, Jr.
Samuel Sloane Walker, Jr.
Howard Sayre Weaver
Valleau Wilkie, Jr.
Survivors of this 1948 Bones group were interviewed for a 1988 Washington
Post campaign profile of George Bush. The members described their
continuing intimacy with and financial support for Bush up through his
1980s vice-presidency. Their original sexual togetherness at Yale is
stressed:
The relationships that were formed in the ``Tomb'' ... where the
Society's meetings took place each Thursday and Sunday night during the
academic year, have had a strong place in Bush's life, according to all
11 of his fellow Bonesmen who are still alive.
Several described in detail the ritual in the organization that builds
the bonds. Before giving his life history, each member had to spend a
Sunday night reviewing his sex life in a talk known in the Tomb as CB, or
``connubial bliss''....
``The first time you review your sex life.... We went all the way around
among the 15,'' said Lucius H. Biglow Jr., a retired Seattle attorney.
``That way you get everybody committed to a certain extent.... It was a
gradual way of building confidence.''
The sexual histories helped break down the normal defenses of the
members, according to several of the members from his class. William J.
Connelly, Jr. ... said, ``In Skull and Bones we all stand together, 15
brothers under the skin. [It is] the greatest allegiance in the world.''
Here is our future U.S. President with the other wealthy, amoral young
men, excited about their future unlimited power over the ignorant common
people, sharing their sex secrets in a mausoleum surrounded by human
remains. The excited young men are entirely directed by the
``Patriarchs,'' the cynical alumni financiers who are the legal owners of
the Order.
6. The Yale Tories Who Made Skull and Bones
This chart depicts family relationships which were vital to the persons
appearing on the chart. At less exalted levels of society, one is
supposed to be praised or blamed only according to one's own actions. But
in these Yale circles, ``family''--genealogy--is an overwhelming
consideration when evaluating individuals. Thus what we present here is
more than simply a system of associations. It is a tradition which has
operated powerfully on the emotions and judgment of the leaders of Yale
University; they have merged their own identities into this tradition.
Lines are directed downwards from parents to their children. A double
hyphen--signifies the marriage of the persons on either side.
7. GUIDE TO THE YALE FAMILY CHART
1) Rev. Nodiah Russell: One of 10 or 12 men who founded Yale University
in 1701. Yale Trustee 1701-13. Pastor, First Congregational Church,
Middletown, Ct. ca. 1691-1716.
2) Rev. James Pierpont: Most celebrated of the Yale founders. Yale
Trustee, 1701-14.
3) William Russell: Yale Trustee 1745-61. Pastor, First Congregational
Church, Middletown, Ct. 1716-61.
4) Jonathan Edwards: Graduated Yale 1720. Ultra-Calvinist theologian,
president of Princeton University (called then ``College of New
Jersey'').
5) Rev. Nodiah Russell: Graduated Yale 1750.
6) Pierpont Edwards (1750-1826): Made Master of Connecticut Masons by the
British Army occupying New York in 1783; he administered the estate of
the traitor Benedict Arnold.
7) Aaron Burr, Sr.: Graduated yale 1735. President of Princeton
University (``College of New Jersey'').
8) Matthew Talcott Russell: Graduated Yale 1769. Deacon of First
Congregational Church, Middletown, Ct. for 30 years. Lawyer for the
Middletown Russell family. Died ca. 1817.
9) Captain John Russell. Died 1801 or 1802.
10) Henry W. Edwards: Governor of Connecticut 1833, 1835-38. Protector of
Samuel Russell's opium-financed enterprises, patron of William Huntington
Russell's new secret society, Skull and Bones.
11) Aaron Burr, Jr.: U.S. Vice President 1801-08. Killed Alexander
Hamilton in a duel in 1804. Secession conspirator. Acquitted of treason
in 1807, but wanted for murder, he fled to England. Returned to U.S.A. in
1812. Wall Street lawyer, 1812-36. Hero of imperial Anglo- Americans.
12) Theodore Dwight (1764-1846): Law partner of his cousin Aaron Burr,
Jr. Secretary of the secessionist Hartford Convention, 1815. He united
the Connecticut pro-British party with Massachusetts ``Essex Junto.''
13) Timothy Dwight: Secessionist. President of Yale, 1795-1817.
14) William Huntington Russell (1809-85): Graduated Yale 1833. Founder of
Skull and Bones Society (or Russell Trust Association), which came to
dominate Yale. Founded prep school for boys, 1836. His secret
organization spread in the 1870s to Phillips Academy, the Andover,
Massachusetts prep school.
15) Samuel Russell: Born in 1789 in the main ancestral house of the
Russell family of Middletown. This house had been owned by the co-
founder of Yale, Nodiah Russell (1), and by William Russell (3) and his
wife Mary, sister-in-law to Jonathan Edwards.
He became head of the Middletown Russells. He established Russell and Co.
in 1823, which by the 1830s superseded Perkins syndicate as largest
American opium smuggling organization. His partners included leading
Boston families.
He founded the Russell Manufacturing Company, Middletown, in 1837; he was
president of Middlesex County Bank. During the formative years of Skull
and Bones, the fabulously wealthy Samuel Russell was undisputed king of
Middletown.
Note to Reader:
For the sake of clarity, we have omitted from this chart the ancestral
line from Rev. James Pierpont (2) to his great grandson Rev. John
Pierpont. Rev. John Pierpont wrote poetry for the pro-British
secessionists; he denounced President Thomas Jefferson for saying that
Pierpont's New England relatives were ``under the influence of the whore
of England.'' Rev. John was an employee of Aaron Burr's family during
Burr's western conspiracy. Rev. John's daughter Juliet married
Connecticut-born British banker Junius Morgan and gave birth to U.S.
financial kingpin John Pierpont Morgan, named for his grandfather Rev.
John.
8. NOTES:
1. Speech at Lewistown, Illinois, August 17, 1858; quoted in James Mellon
(editor), The Face of Lincoln (New York: Viking Press, 1979), p. 35.
2. Fitzhugh Green, George Bush: An Intimate Portrait (New York:
Hippocrene Books, 1989), p. 41.
3. Nicholas King, George Bush: A Biography (New York: Dodd, Mead &
Company, 1980), p. 38.
4. Green, op. cit., p. 47.
5. Ibid., p. 48.
6. Among the sources used for this section are:
Skull and Bones membership list, 1833-1950, printed 1949 by the Russell
Trust Association, New Haven, Connecticut, available through the Yale
University Library, New Haven.
Biographies of the Russells and related families, in the Yale University
Library, New Haven, and in the Russell Library, Middletown, Connecticut.
Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the
Rise of Modern Finance (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990).
Anthony C. Sutton, How the Order Creates War and Revolution, (Phoenix:
Research Publications, Inc., 1984).
Anthony C. Sutton, America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the
Order of Skull and Bones, (Billings, Mt.: Liberty House Press, 1986).
Anton Chaitkin, Treason in America: From Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman,
second edition (New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1985).
Anton Chaitkin, ``Station Identification: Morgan, Hitler, NBC,'' New
Solidarity, Oct. 8, 1984.
Interviews with Bones members and their families.
7. Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the
World They Made--Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy (New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), pp. 90-91.
8. Ibid., p. 93.
9. Interview with Ned Anderson, Nov. 6, 1991.
10. Quoted in Ned Anderson to Anton Chaitkin, Dec. 2, 1991, in possession
of the authors.
11. Article by Paul Brinkley-Rogers of the Arizona Republic, in the
Washington Post, Oct. 1, 1988.
12. Green, op. cit., p. 50.
13. Bob Woodward and Walter Pincus, ``Bush Opened Up To Secret Yale
Society,'' Washington Post, Aug. 7, 1988.
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The Order of Skull and Bones
by Chris Millegan
1. The Secret Origins of Skull & Bones
2. Secrets of the "Tomb"
3. Networks of Power
4. Name Roster of the Secret Establishment
5. China and the Opium Wars
6. The War on Drugs: An "Intellectual Fraud"
7. George Bush, Skull & Bones and the JFK Assassination
8. Motives for the Conspiracy
9. The Illuminati: Subverting the Body Politic
10. Skull & Bones = Illuminati?
11. World History: Plan or Accident?
Sources
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1. The Secret Origins of Skull & Bones
The story begins at Yale, where three threads of American social history
-- espionage, drug smuggling and secret societies -- intertwine into one.
Elihu Yale was born near Boston, educated in London, and served with the
British East India Company, eventually becoming governor of Fort Saint
George, Madras, in 1687. He amassed a great fortune from trade and
returned to England in 1699. Yale became known as quite a philanthropist;
upon receiving a request from the Collegiate School in Connecticut, he
sent a donation and a gift of books. After subsequent bequests, Cotton
Mather suggested the school be named Yale College, in 1718.
A statue of Nathan Hale stands on Old Campus at Yale University. There is
a copy of that statue in front of the CIA's headquarters in Langley,
Virginia. Yet another stands in front of Phillips Academy in Andover,
Massachusetts (where George H.W. Bush ('48) went to prep school and
joined a secret society at age twelve).
Nathan Hale, along with three other Yale graduates, was a member of the
"Culper Ring," one of America's first intelligence operations.
Established by George Washington, it was successful throughout the
Revolutionary War. Nathan was the only operative to be ferreted out by
the British, and after speaking his famous regrets, he was hanged in
1776. Ever since the founding of the Republic, the relationship between
Yale and the "Intelligence Community" has been unique.
In 1823, Samuel Russell established Russell and Company for the purpose
of acquiring opium in Turkey and smuggling it to China. Russell and
Company merged with the Perkins (Boston) syndicate in 1830 and became the
primary American opium smuggler. Many of the great American and European
fortunes were built on the "China"(opium) trade.
One of Russell and Company's Chief of Operations in Canton was Warren
Delano, Jr., grandfather of Franklin Roosevelt. Other Russell partners
included John Cleve Green (who financed Princeton), Abiel Low (who
financed construction of Columbia), Joseph Coolidge and the Perkins,
Sturgis and Forbes families. (Coolidge's son organized the United Fruit
company, and his grandson, Archibald C. Coolidge, was a co-founder of the
Council on Foreign Relations.)
William Huntington Russell ('33), Samuel's cousin, studied in Germany
from 1831-32. Germany was a hotbed of new ideas. The "scientific method"
was being applied to all forms of human endeavor. Prussia, which blamed
the defeat of its forces by Napoleon in 1806 on soldiers only thinking
about themselves in the stress of battle, took the principles set forth
by John Locke and Jean Rosseau and created a new educational system.
Johan Fitche, in his "Address to the German People," declared that the
children would be taken over by the State and told what to think and how
to think it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel took over Fitche's chair at the University
Of Berlin in 1817, and was a professor there until his death in 1831.
Hegel was the culmination of the German idealistic philosophy school of
Immanuel Kant.
To Hegel, our world is a world of reason. The state is Absolute Reason
and the citizen can only become free by worship and obedience to the
state. Hegel called the state the "march of God in the world" and the
"final end". This final end, Hegel said, "has supreme right against the
individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the state." Both
fascism and communism have their philosophical roots in Hegellianism.
Hegellian philosophy was very much in vogue during William Russell's time
in Germany.
When Russell returned to Yale in 1832, he formed a senior society with
Alphonso Taft ('33). According to information acquired from a break-in to
the "tomb" (the Skull and Bones meeting hall) in 1876, "Bones is a
chapter of a corps in a German University.... General Russell, its
founder, was in Germany before his Senior Year and formed a warm
friendship with a leading member of a German society. He brought back
with him to college, authority to found a chapter here." So class
valedictorian William H. Russell, along with fourteen others, became the
founding members of "The Order of Scull and Bones," later changed to "The
Order of Skull and Bones".
The secretive Order of Skull and Bones exists only at Yale. Fifteen
juniors are "tapped" each year by the seniors to be initiated into next
year's group. Some say each initiate is given $15,000 and a grandfather
clock. Far from being a campus fun-house, the group is geared more toward
the success of its members in the post-collegiate world.
The family names on the Skull and Bones roster roll off the tongue like
an elite party list -- Lord, Whitney, Taft, Jay, Bundy, Harriman,
Weyerhaeuser, Pinchot, Rockefeller, Goodyear, Sloane, Stimson, Phelps,
Perkins, Pillsbury, Kellogg, Vanderbilt, Bush, Lovett and so on.
William Russell went on to become a general and a state legislator in
Connecticut. Alphonso Taft was appointed U.S. Attorney General, Secretary
of War (a post many "Bonesmen" have held), Ambassador to Austria, and
Ambassador to Russia (another post held by many "Bonesmen"). His son,
William Howard Taft ('87), is the only man to be both President of the
United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
2. Secrets of the "Tomb"
The Order flourished from the very beginning in spite of occasional
squalls of controversy. There was dissension from some professors, who
didn't like its secrecy and exclusiveness. And there was backlash from
students, showing concern about the influence "Bones" was having over
Yale finances and the favoritism shown to "Bonesmen."
In October of 1873, Volume 1, Number 1, of The Iconoclast was published
in New Haven. It was only published once and was one of very few openly
published articles on the Order of Skull and Bones.
From The Iconoclast:
"We speak through a new publication. because the college press is closed
to those who dare to openly mention 'Bones'....
"Out of every class Skull and Bones takes its men. They have gone out
into the world and have become, in many instances, leaders in society.
They have obtained control of Yale. Its business is performed by them.
Money paid to the college must pass into their hands, and be subject to
their will. No doubt they are worthy men in themselves, but the many,
whom they looked down upon while in college, cannot so far forget as to
give money freely into their hands. Men in Wall Street complain that the
college comes straight to them for help, instead of asking each graduate
for his share. The reason is found in a remark made by one of Yale's and
America's first men: 'Few will give but Bones men and they care far more
for their society than they do for the college....'
"Year by year the deadly evil is growing. The society was never as
obnoxious to the college as it is today, and it is just this ill-feeling
that shuts the pockets of non-members. Never before has it shown such
arrogance and self-fancied superiority. It grasps the College Press and
endeavors to rule it all. It does not deign to show its credentials, but
clutches at power with the silence of conscious guilt.
"To tell the good which Yale College has done would be well nigh
impossible. To tell the good she might do would be yet more difficult.
The question, then, is reduced to this -- on the one hand lies a source
of incalculable good -- on the other a society guilty of serious and far-
reaching crimes. It is Yale College against Skull and Bones!! We ask all
men, as a question of right, which should be allowed to live?"
At first, the society held its meetings in hired halls. Then in 1856, the
"tomb", a vine-covered, windowless, brown-stone hall was constructed,
where to this day the "Bonesmen" hold their "strange, occultish"
initiation rites and meet each Thursday and Sunday.
On September 29, 1876, a group calling itself "The Order of File and
Claw" broke into the Skull and Bones' holy of holies. In the "tomb" they
found lodge-room 324 "fitted up in black velvet, even the walls being
covered with the material." Upstairs was lodge-room 322, "the 'sanctum
sanctorium' of the temple... furnished in red velvet" with a pentagram on
the wall. In the hall are "pictures of the founders of Bones at Yale, and
of members of the Society in Germany, when the chapter was established
here in 1832." The raiding party found another interesting scene in the
parlor next to room 322.
From "The Fall Of Skull And Bones":
"On the west wall, hung among other pictures, an old engraving
representing an open burial vault, in which, on a stone slab, rest four
human skulls, grouped about a fools cap and bells, an open book, several
mathematical instruments, a beggar's scrip, and a royal crown. On the
arched wall above the vault are the explanatory words, in Roman letters,
'We War Der Thor, Wer Weiser, Wer Bettler Oder, Kaiser?' and below the
vault is engraved, in German characters, the sentence; 'Ob Arm, Ob Beich,
im Tode gleich.'
The picture is accompanied by a card on which is written, 'From the
German Chapter. Presented by D. C. Gilman of D. 50'."
Daniel Coit Gilman ('52), along with two other "Bonesmen," formed a
troika which still influences American life today. Soon after their
initiation in Skull and Bones, Daniel Gilman, Timothy Dwight ('49) and
Andrew Dickinson White ('53) went to study philosophy in Europe at the
University of Berlin. Gilman returned from Europe and incorporated Skull
and Bones as Russell Trust, in 1856, with himself as Treasurer and
William H. Russell as President. He spent the next fourteen years in New
Haven consolidating the order's power.
Gilman was appointed Librarian at Yale in 1858. Through shrewd political
maneuvering, he acquired funding for Yale's science departments
(Sheffield Scientific School) and was able to get the Morrill Land Bill
introduced in Congress, passed and finally signed by President Lincoln,
after being vetoed by President Buchanan.
This bill, "donating public-lands for State College for agriculture and
sciences", is now known as the Land Grant College Act. Yale was the first
school in America to get the federal land scrip and quickly grabbed all
of Connecticut's share at the time. Pleased by the acquisitions, Yale
made Gilman a Professor of Physical Geography.
Daniel was the first President of the University of California. He also
helped found, and was the first president of, John Hopkins.
Gilman was first president of the Carnegie Institution and involved in
the founding of the Peabody, Slater and Russell Sage Foundations.
His buddy, Andrew D. White, was the first president of Cornell University
(which received all of New York's share of the Land Grant College Act),
U.S. Minister to Russia, U.S. Ambassador to Berlin and first president of
the American Historical Association. White was also Chairman of the
American delegation to the first Hague Conference in 1899, which
established an international judiciary.
Timothy Dwight, a professor at Yale Divinity School, was installed as
president of Yale in 1886. All presidents since, have been either
"Bonesmen" or directly tied to the Order and its interests.
The Daniel/Gilman/White trio was also responsible for the founding of the
American Economic Association, the American Chemical Society and the
American Psychological Association. Through their influences on John
Dewey and Horace Mann, this trio continues to have an enormous impact on
education today.
3. Networks of Power
In his book "America's Secret Establishment," Antony Sutton outlined the
Order of Skull and Bones' ability to establish vertical and horizontal
"chains of influence" that ensured the continuity of their conspiratorial
schemes.
The Whitney-Stimson-Bundy links represent the "vertical chain".
W. C. Whitney ('63), who married Flora Payne (of the Standard Oil Payne
dynasty), was Secretary of the Navy. His attorney was a man named Elihu
Root. Root hired Henry Stimson ('88), out of law school. Stimson took
over from Root as Secretary of War in 1911, appointed by fellow Bonesman
William Howard Taft. Stimson later became Coolidge's Governor-General of
the Philippine Islands, Hoover's Secretary of State, and Secretary of War
during the Roosevelt and Truman administrations.
Hollister Bundy ('09) was Stimson's special assistant and point man in
the Pentagon for the Manhattan Project. His two sons, also members of
Skull and Bones, were William Bundy ('39) and McGeorge Bundy ('40) --
both very active in governmental and foundation affairs.
The two brothers, from their positions in the CIA, the Department of
Defense and the State Department, and as Special Assistants to Presidents
Kennedy and Johnson, exercised significant impact on the flow of
information and intelligence during the Vietnam "War."
William Bundy went on to be editor of Foreign Affairs, the influential
quarterly of the Council on Foreign Affairs (CFR). McGeorge became
president of the Ford Foundation.
Another interesting group of "Bonesmen" is the Harriman/Bush crowd.
Averil Harriman ('13), "Elder Statesman" of the Democratic Party, and his
brother Roland Harriman ('17) were very active members. In fact, four of
Roland's fellow "Bonesmen" from the class of 1917 were directors of Brown
Brothers, Harriman, including Prescott Bush ('17), George Bush's dad.
Since the turn of the century, two investment bank firms -- Guaranty
Trust and Brown Brothers, Harriman -- were both dominated by members of
Skull and Bones. These two firms were heavily involved in the financing
of Communism and Hitler's regime.
Bonesman share an affinity for the Hegellian ideas of the historical
dialectic, which dictates the use of controlled conflict - - thesis
versus anti-thesis -- to create a pre-determined synthesis. A synthesis
of their making and design, where the state is absolute and individuals
are granted their freedoms based on their obedience to the state -- a New
World Order.
Funding and political maneuvering on the part of "Bonesmen" and their
allies helped the Bolsheviks prevail in Russia. In defiance of federal
laws, the cabal financed industries, established banks and developed oil
and mineral deposits in the fledgling U.S.S.R.
Later, Averil Harriman, as minister to Great Britain in charge of Lend-
Lease for Britain and Russia, was responsible for shipping entire
factories into Russia. According to some researchers, Harriman also
oversaw the transfer of nuclear secrets, plutonium and U. S. dollar
printing plates to the U.S.S.R.
In 1932, the Union Banking Corporation of New York City had enlisted four
directors from the ('17) cell and two Nazi bankers associated with Fritz
Thyssen, who had been financing Hitler since 1924.
From "George Bush; The Unauthorized Biography":
"President Franklin Roosevelt's Alien Property Custodian, Leo T. Crowley,
signed Vesting Order Number 248 [11/17/42] seizing the property of
Prescott Bush under the Trading with Enemy Act. The order, published in
obscure government record books and kept out of the news, Note #4
explained nothing about the Nazis involved; only that the Union Banking
Corporation was run for the 'Thyssen family' of 'Germany and/or
Hungary' -- 'nationals ... of a designated enemy country.'
"By deciding that Prescott Bush and the other directors of the Union
Banking Corporation were legally 'front men for the Nazis', the
government avoided the more important historical issue: In what way 'were
Hitler's Nazis themselves hired, armed, and instructed by' the New York
and London clique of which Prescott Bush was an executive manager? ...
"4. New York Times, December 16, 1944, ran a five-paragraph page 25
article on actions of the New York State Banking Department. Only the
last sentence refers to the Nazi bank, as follows: 'The Union Banking
Corporation, 39 Broadway, New York, has received authority to change its
principal place of business to 120 Broadway.'
"The Times omitted the fact that the Union Banking Corporation had been
seized by the government for trading with the enemy, and the fact that
120 Broadway was the address of the government's Alien Property
Custodian."
After the war, Prescott went on to become a U. S. Senator from
Connecticut and favorite golfing partner of President Eisenhower.
Prescott claims responsibility for getting Nixon into politics and takes
personal credit for bringing Dick on board as Ike's running mate in 1952.
4. Name Roster of the Secret Establishment
There were so many "Yalies" in the OSS that Yale's drinking tune, the
"Whiffenpoof Song", became an "unofficial" song of the OSS. Many in the
OSS were "Bonesmen" or belonged to the other Yale senior societies.
Robert Lovett ('18), Harriman's childhood friend, had been tapped into
Skull & Bones by Prescott Bush's cell of '17 and was a director at Brown
Brothers, Harriman.
Again, from "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography":
"On October 22, 1945, Secretary of War Robert Patterson created the
Lovett Committee, chaired by Robert A. Lovett, to advise the government
on the post-World War II organization of U.S. intelligence activities....
The new agency would 'consult' with the armed forces, but it must be the
sole collecting agency in the field of foreign espionage and
counterespionage. The new agency should have an independent budget, and
its appropriations should be granted by Congress without public hearings.
Lovett appeared before the Secretaries of State, War, and Navy on
November 14, 1945.... Lovett pressed for a virtual resumption of the
wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS).... The CIA was established in
1947 according to the prescription of Robert Lovett, of Jupiter Island."
Gaddis Smith, a history professor at Yale, said, "Yale has influenced the
Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the
CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion." And "Bonesman" have been foremost
among the "spooks" building the CIA's "haunted house."
F. Trubee Davison ('18) was Director of Personnel at the CIA in the early
years. Some of the other "Bonesmen" connected with the intelligence
community are:
Sloane Coffin, Jr. ('49)
V. Van Dine ('49)
James Buckley ('44)
Bill Buckley ('50)
Hugh Cunnigham ('34)
Hugh Wilson ('09)
Reuben Holden ('40)
Charles R. Walker ('16)
Yale's 'unofficial' Secretary of War, Robert D. French ('10)
Archibald MacLiesh ('15)
Dino Pionzio ('50), CIA Deputy Chief of Station during Allende overthrow
William and McGeorge Bundy
Richard A. Moore ('3?)
Senator David Boren ('63)
Senator John Kerry ('66)
...and, of course, George Herbert Walker Bush. Bush tapped Coffin, who
tapped Buckley.
Some other prominent Bonesmen include:
Henry Luce ('20), Time-Life
John Thomas Daniels ('14), founder Archer Daniels Midland
Gifford Pinchot ('89), President Theodore Roosevelt's chief forester
Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser ('96)
Harold Stanley ('08), founder of Morgan Stanley, investment banker
Alfred Cowles ('13), Cowles Communication
Henry P. Davison ('20), senior partner Morgan Guaranty Trust
Thomas Cochran ('04) Morgan partner
Senator John Heinz ('31)
Pierre Jay ('92), first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
George Herbert Walker, Jr. ('27), financier and co-founder of the NY Mets
Artemus Gates ('18), President of New York Trust Company, Union Pacific,
TIME, Boeing Company
William Draper III (50), the Defense Department, UN and Import-Export
Bank
Dean Witter, Jr.('44), investment banker
Senator Jonathan Bingham ('36)
Potter Stewart ('36), Supreme Court Justice
Senator John Chaffe ('47)
Harry Payne Whitney ('94), husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt, investment
banker
Russell W. Davenport ('23), editor Fortune Magazine, created Fortune 500
list
Evan G. Galbraith ('50), Ambassador to France and Managing Director of
Morgan Stanley
Richard Gow ('55), president Zapata Oil
Amory Howe Bradford ('34), husband of Carol Warburg Rothschild and
general manager for the New York Times
C. E. Lord ('49), Comptroller of the Currency
Winston Lord ('59), Chairman of CFR, Ambassador to China and assistant
Secretary of State in the Clinton administration
Ever since Nixon re-established America's political relationship with
China, many of our ambassadors to that country have been Bonesmen,
including George Bush, the first Chief U. S. Liaison Officer to the
Peoples Republic of China.
5. China and the Opium Wars
Why all this interest in China? Well, China, among other things, is one
of the largest producers and users of opiates in the world.
For a while, in the 1800s, the Yankee Clippers in Connecticut and
Massachusetts were the fastest ships on the ocean. Speed was crucial to
the opium trade; whoever made the trip from Turkey/India to Macao/Hong
Kong/Shanghai first got the most for their goods.
During the Opium Wars, the U.S. chose to stand on the sidelines and cheer
for the English and French, knowing that treaty obligations would bring
the U.S. a share in the spoils. Russell and Company was at times the only
trading house operating in Canton and used the opportunity to developed
strong commercial ties and handsome profits.
Powerful national interests were behind the drug trade, because American
traders were badly in need of some article the Chinese would buy, since
by this time the seal breeding grounds had been nearly wiped out. If the
Chinese had not bought opium from Americans, then United States imports
of silk, porcelain and tea would have to paid in precious coin, which was
in short supply. In 1843, when the Port of Shanghai was opened, Russell
and Co. was one of its earliest traders.
In 1903, Yale Divinity School set up a program of schools and hospitals
in China. Mao Zedong was among the staff. During the intrigues of China
in the 1930s and '40s, American intelligence called upon the resources of
"Yale in China", and George Bush's cousin and fellow "Bonesman" Reuben
Holden.
After stints as UN Ambassador and Chairman of the Republican National
Committee for the beleaguered Richard Nixon, George Bush was sent to look
after the "China trade". The Bush family is still very much involved in
the economic activities of "Red" China.
Many researchers contend that George Bush has been with CIA since the
early 1950s, and that one of his jobs was to consolidate and co-ordinate
the worldwide narcotics industry, the largest industry on Earth. Some say
that one of the reasons behind the Vietnam "Police Action" was a cover
for the consolidation of the "Golden Triangle".
6. The War on Drugs: An "Intellectual Fraud"
Before the Vietnam "War", the Golden Triangle was run by French
Intelligence and Corsican mobsters. After the French bailed out and
America moved in, the triangle was run by U.S. intelligence, with aid
from Sicilian mobsters. This narcotics network is well documented in "The
Politics of Heroin in S. E. Asia" by Alfred McCoy, "The Great Heroin
Coup" by Henrik Kruger and "Double-Cross" by Sam and Chuck Giancana.
Vice-President George Bush, as Chairman of President Reagan's cabinet-
level working group and as Director of the National Narcotics
Interdiction System, was the highest U. S. governmental official involved
in the "war on drugs".
Frances Mullen, Jr., former head of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA),
called Bush's efforts "an intellectual fraud" and "a liability rather
than an asset". Soon after these statements, Mullen resigned and the
resultant General Accounting Office (GAO) report was buried.
In July, 1985, the suppressed GAO paper reported that there were "no
benefits from the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, directed
by George Bush. In fact, the overall effect was to encourage supply...."
Monika Jensen-Stevenson, a "60 Minutes" producer, quit her job after the
CBS news program refused to air the story she had uncovered relating to
the covert drug trade. Her book, "Kiss The Boys Goodbye", details how our
intelligence community used the apparatus of the POW/MIA governmental
agencies as a cover for the trafficking of opiates from the "Golden
Triangle".
President Reagan appointed Reform Party founder and Texas billionaire
Ross Perot to the President's Advisory Council on Foreign Intelligence.
Reagan made Perot a special presidential investigator, looking into
America's POW and MIAs from the Vietnam "War".
Ross took the job to heart and spent considerable time and money in
pursuit of the quest. He was given special clearance and access. He asked
questions and interviewed everyone he could find.
From "Kiss The Boys Goodbye":
"Relations between Bush and Perot had gone downhill ever since the Vice-
President had asked Ross Perot how his POW/ MIA investigations were
going.
'Well, George, I go in looking for prisoners,' said Perot, 'but I spend
all my time discovering the government has been moving drugs around the
world and is involved in illegal arms deals.... I can't get at the
prisoners because of the corruption among our own people.'
"This ended Perot's official access to the highly classified files as a
one-man presidential investigator. 'I have been instructed to cease and
desist,' he had informed the families of missing men early in 1987."
The wholesale importation of cocaine into the U.S. during "Iran/Contra"
is also well documented. George Bush, is known "to be in the loop" with
many of the players keeping in contact directly with his office.
Also, there has been much speculation as to the use of the off-shore
rigs, pipelines and other assets of Zapata Offshore being used for
narcotic trans-shipments.
Narcotics such as cocaine and heroin cannot be manufactured without the
precursor chemicals. One of the largest makers of these precursor
chemicals is the Eli Lilly Company of Indianapolis, Indiana. The Quayle
family is a large stockholder, and George Bush has been on the Board of
Directors. Eli Lilly is also the company that first synthesized LSD for
the CIA.
7. George Bush, Skull & Bones and the JFK Assassination
Rodney Stich's book "Defrauding America" tells of a "deep-cover CIA
officer" assigned to a counter-intelligence unit, code-named Pegasus.
This unit "had tape-recordings of plans to assassinate Kennedy" from a
tap on the phone of J. Edgar Hoover. The people on the tapes were
"[Nelson] Rockefeller, Allen Dulles, [Lyndon] Johnson of Texas, George
Bush and J. Edgar Hoover."
Could George Bush be involved in the JFK assassination?
In 1963, Bush was living in Houston, busily carrying out his duties as
president of the Zapata Offshore oil company. He denied the existence of
a note sent by the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover to "Mr. George Bush of the
CIA." When news of the note surfaced, the CIA first said they never
commented on employment questions, but later relented said yes, a "George
Bush" was mentioned in the note, but that it was "another" George Bush,
not the man who took office in the White House in 1988.
Some intrepid reporters tracked down the "other" George Bush and
discovered that he was just a lowly clerk who had shuffled papers for the
CIA for about six months. He never received any interagency messages from
anybody at the FBI, let alone the Queen Mary.
It is also worth noting that a CIA code word for Bay of Pigs was
Operation Zapata, and that two of the support vessels were named Barbara
and Houston.
Many say that George Bush was high up on the CIA ladder at the time,
running proprietorial vehicles and placed in a position of command,
responsible for many of the Cubans recruited into "service" at the time.
All through the Iran-Contra affair, Felix Rodriguez, the man who captured
and had Che Guevara killed for the CIA, always seemed to call Bush's
office first.
From The Realist (Summer, 1991):
"Bush was working with the now-famous CIA agent, Felix Rodriguez,
recruiting right-wing Cuban exiles for the invasion of Cuba. It was
Bush's CIA job to organize the Cuban community in Miami for the
invasion.... A newly discovered FBI document reveals that George Bush was
directly involved in the 1963 murder of President John Kennedy. The
document places marksmen by the CIA. Bush at that time lived in Texas.
Hopping from Houston to Miami weekly, Bush spent 1960 and '61 recruiting
Cubans in Miami for the invasion....
"George Bush claims he never worked for the CIA until he was appointed
Director by former Warren Commission director and then president Jerry
Ford in 1976. Logic suggests that is highly unlikely. Of course, Bush has
a company duty to deny being in the CIA. The CIA is a secret
organization. No one ever admits to being a member. The truth is that
Bush has been a top CIA official since before the 1961 invasion of Cuba,
working with Felix Rodriguez. Bush may deny his actual role in the CIA in
1959, but there are records in the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba that
expose Bush's role..."
On the Watergate tapes, June 23, 1972, referred to in the media as the
'smoking gun' conversation, Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman,
were discussing how to stop the FBI investigation into the CIA Watergate
burglary. They were worried that the investigation would expose their
connection to 'the Bay of Pigs thing.' Haldeman, in his book "The Ends of
Power", reveals that Nixon always used code words when talking about the
1963 murder of JFK. Haldeman said Nixon would always refer to the
assassination as 'the Bay of Pigs'.
On that transcript we find Nixon discussing the role of George Bush's
partner, Robert Mosbacher, as one of the Texas fundraisers for Nixon. On
the tapes Nixon keeps referring to the 'Cubans' and the 'Texans.' The
'Texans' were Bush, Mosbacher and Baker. This is another direct link
between Bush and evidence linking Nixon and Bush to the Kennedy
assassination."
8. Motives for the Conspiracy
So, why would an intelligence agency/secret society want to smuggle drugs
and assassinate JFK?
Well, they make a lot of money, and they garner intelligence assets
through their participation. There's also the rationale that the world is
a seamy and unseemly place, and if you're going to be the 'big boy' on
the block, you better know what's going on. And what better way of
knowing than by running it yourself? There are also some who theorize
that the covert drug trade fits with plans to destabilize American
families and society. Through demoralizing and fracturing the body
politic, they can impose their will using psychological warfare and the
political alchemy of the Hegellian dialectic.
James Shelby Downard's article, "Sorcery, Sex, Assassination and the
Science of Symbolism ," an underground classic, links American historical
events with a wild, numerological, grand occult plan "to turn us into
cybernetic mystery zombies". The assassination of JFK, this article
contends, was the performance of a public occult ritual called The
Killing of the King, designed as a mass-trauma, mind-control assault
against our U.S. national body-politic.
During Operation Sunrise, Operation Blowback, Operation Paperclip and
others, thousands of Nazi scientists, researchers and administrators were
brought to the United States after World War II. Many were "smuggled"
into the country against direct, written, orders from President Harry S.
Truman.
Project Monarch was the resumption of a mind-control project called
Marionette Programming, which started in Nazi Germany. The basic
component of the Monarch Program is the sophisticated manipulation of the
mind, using extreme trauma to induce Multiple Personality Disorder.
Mr. Downward feels that the perpetrators purposefully murdered JFK in
such a way as to affect our National identity and cohesiveness -- to
fracture America's soul. Even the blatancy of their conspiracy was
designed to show "their superiority" and "our futility".
There have been studies that show a correlation between the JFK
assassination and the rise in violence in society, distrust of government
and other extensions of social ills.
9. The Illuminati: Subverting the Body Politic
Why this attack against our body politic?
In 1785, a bolt of lightning struck a courier en route to Paris from
Frankfort-on-the-Main. A tract written by Adam Weishaupt, founder of the
Illuminati, "Original Shift in Days of Illuminations," was recovered from
the dead messenger, containing the secret society's long-range plan for
"The New World Order through world revolution".
The Bavarian Government outlawed the society and in 1787 published the
details of The Illuminati conspiracy in "The Original Writings of the
Order and Sect of the Illuminati."
In Adam Weishaupt's own words:
"By this plan, we shall direct all mankind in this manner. And, by the
simplest means, we shall set all in motion and in flames. The occupations
must be so allotted and contrived that we may, in secret, influence all
political transactions."
There is disagreement among scholars as to whether or not the Illuminati
survived its banishment. Nevertheless, the group had been quite
successful in attracting members and had allied itself with the extensive
Masonic networks.
The Illuminati was publicly founded May 1, 1776 at the University of
Ingolstadt by Weishaupt, Professor of Canon Law. It was a very "learned"
society; Weishaupt drew the earliest members of his new order from among
his students.
On December 5, 1776, students at William and Mary College founded a
secret society, Phi Beta Kappa. A second chapter was formed, at Yale, in
1780. The anti-Masonic movement in the United States during the 1820s
held groups such as Phi Beta Kappa in a bad light. Because of pressure,
the society went public. This is noted by some researchers as the direct
cause of the appearance of Yale's Order of Skull and Bones.
In "The Cyclopedia Of Fraternities", a genealogical chart of general
Greek-Letter college fraternities in the United States, shows Phi Beta
Kappa as "the parent of all the fraternal systems in [American] higher
education." There is only one "side" lineal descendant: the Yale chapter
of 1780. The line then continues to Skull and Bones in 1832, and on
through the other "only at Yale" senior societies, Scroll & Key and
Wolf's Head.
Phi Beta Kappa is the "first three Greek letters, for 'Philosophia Biou
Kubernetes' or 'Love of wisdom, the helmsman of life'." A skull homophone
is scull, a quick, gliding boat and part of Skull & Bones first
nomenclature.
John Robison, a professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh University
in Scotland and a member of a Freemason Lodge, said that he was asked to
join the Illuminati. After study, he concluded the purposes of the
Illuminati were not for him.
In 1798, he published a book called "Proofs Of A Conspiracy":
"An association has been formed for the express purpose of rooting out
all the religious establishments and overturning all the existing
governments.... the leaders would rule the World with uncontrollable
power, while all the rest would be employed as tools of the ambition of
their unknown superiors."
"Proofs of A Conspiracy" was sent to George Washington. Responding to the
sender of the book with a letter, the president said he was aware the
Illuminati were in America. He felt that the Illuminati had "diabolical
tenets" and that their object was "a separation of the People from their
government."
In "Proofs Of A Conspiracy", Robison printed the ceremony of initiation
of the "Regent degree" in Illuminism. In it "a skeleton is pointed out to
him [the initiate], at the feet of which are laid a crown and a sword. He
is asked 'whether that is the skeleton of a king, nobleman or a beggar.'
As he cannot decide, the president of the meeting says to him, 'The
character of being a man is the only one that is importance'".
This is, essentially, the same as the writing in the Skull & Bones
"tomb":
"Wer war der Thor, wer Weiser, Bettler oder Kaiser? Ob Arm, ob Reich, im
Tode gleich."
Which reads:
"Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or
rich, all's the same in death."
10. Skull & Bones = Illuminati?
Is the Order of the Skull & Bones part of the Illuminati?
When a person is initiated into Skull & Bones, they are given a new name,
similar to the practice of the Illuminati. And many recorded Illuminati
members can be shown to have contact and/or strong influences with many
of the professors that taught "Bonesmen" in Berlin.
When a secret society conspires against the sovereignty of a king, they
need to organize, raise funds, make their plans operational, and
hopefully bring them to fruition.
Could we have in the United States a secret society that has used the
"National Security State" as a cover for their nefarious plans?
From "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography":
"That September [1951], Robert Lovett replaced Marshall as secretary of
defense. Meanwhile, Harriman was named director of the Mutual Security
Agency, making him the U.S. chief of the Anglo-American military
alliance. By now, Brown Brothers, Harriman was everything but commander-
in-chief.
"A central focus of the Harriman security regime in Washington (1950-53)
was the organization of covert operations and 'psychological warfare.'
Harriman, together with his lawyers and business partners, Allen and John
Foster Dulles, wanted the government's secret services to conduct
extensive propaganda campaigns and mass-psychology experiments within the
U.S.A., and paramilitary campaigns abroad....
"The Harriman security regime created the Psychological Strategy Board
(PSB) in 1951. The man appointed director of the PSB [was] Gordon
Gray.... Gordon's brother, R.J. Reynolds chairman Bowman Gray Jr., was
also a naval intelligence officer, known around Washington as the
'founder of operational intelligence.' Gordon Gray became a close friend
and political ally of Prescott Bush; and Gray's son became for Prescott's
son, George, his lawyer and the shield of his covert policy."
So you have the Whitney/Stimson/Bundy clan and the Harriman/Bush boys
wielding a tremendous amount of influence on the political, economic and
social affairs of America and the world. Then you have Prescott Bush's
buddy Richard Nixon as an activist vice-president. Then, a nation-
chilling assassination, some time under LBJ with the Bundy boys keeping
things in line, then Nixon as President with "Bonesmen" aides Ray Price
('51) and Richard A. Moore. Some time out for a Trilateralist-Democrat-
patsy president, followed by Prescott's son as an activist vice-president
under Reagan. Next, we get a Skull and Bones president who declares a
"New World Order" while beating up on his business partner, Saddam
Hussein.
After twelve years of Republican administrations, Bush passes the reins
to his drug smuggling buddy from Arkansas, Bill Clinton, who studied at
Yale Law School. According to some researchers, Clinton was recruited as
a CIA operative while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. Could this be the "old
Hegallian historical dialectic process"?
11. World History: Plan or Accident?
Will we get another failed Democratic administration? A scandal as
disgraceful as Nixon's fall? When Robert P. Johnson (William Barr) told
Clinton in a bunker in Arkansas that "you are our fair-haired boy, but
you do have competition for the job you seek. We would never put all our
eggs in one basket. You and your state have been our greatest asset....
Mr. Casey wanted me to pass on to you, that unless you fuck up and do
something stupid, you are number one on our short list for shot at the
job you always wanted."
So, you have William Casey -- CIA Director, George Bush's campaign
manager and Sovereign Knight of Malta -- speaking through the proxy of
George Bush's last Attorney General to George's rival in the 1992 federal
elections. Is it all just a show and sham for U.S. hoi polloi?
Perhaps so, if there exists the type of control over the electoral
process as told by Mae Brussell and the suppressed book "VoteScam,"
written by Jim and Ken Collier:
"...Your vote and mine may now be a meaningless bit of energy directed by
preprogrammed computers-which can be fixed to select certain pre-ordained
candidates and leave no footprints or paper trail.
"In short, computers are covertly stealing your vote.
"--For almost three decades the American vote has been subject to
government-sponsored electronic theft.
"--The vote has been stolen from you by a cartel of federal "national
security" bureaucrats, who include higher-ups in the Central Intelligence
Agency, political party leaders, Congressmen, co-opted journalists -- and
the owners and managers -- of the major Establishment news media, who
have decided in concert that how America's votes are counted, by whom
they are counted and how the results are verified and delivered to the
public is, as one of them put it, 'Not a proper area of inquiry.'
"--By means of an unofficial private corporation named News Election
Service (NES), the Establishment press has actual physical control of the
counting and dissemination of the vote, and it refuses to let the public
know how it is done."
Is the American electorate subjected to cyclic propaganda, pre-selected
candidates and winners, and psychological warfare to alienate Americans
from the institutions established to serve them by the Constitution? Are
the Democratic and Republican National Parties used for a Hegellian
experiment in controlled conflict?
Pamela Churchill Harriman, Averil's wife, is one of the Democratic
Party's biggest fund-raisers. She once gave Bill a job as director of her
"PAM PAC" when he was defeated for governor in 1980. Bill paid her back
by appointing her as Ambassador to France.
Another Harriman/Bush friend, Eugene Stetson ('34), was an assistant
manager for Prescott Bush at Brown Brothers, Harriman's New York office.
He organized the H. Smith Richardson Foundation. The foundation, in the
late 1950s, participated in the MKULTRA, the CIA's domestic covert
psychological warfare operation. The Richardson Foundation helped to
finance the testing of psychotropic drugs, including LSD, at Bridgewater
Hospital in Massachusetts, the center of some of the most brutal MK-ULTRA
experiments.
During the Iran-Contra operations, the H. Smith Richardson Foundation was
a "private donors steering committee," working with the National Security
Council to co-ordinate the Office of Public Diplomacy. This was an effort
to propagandize in favor of and run cover for the Iran-Contra operations,
and to coordinate published attacks on opponents of the program.
The H. Smith Richardson Foundation also runs the Center for Creative
Leadership at Langley to "train leaders of the CIA," as well as another
center near Greensboro, North Carolina, that trains CIA and Secret
Service Agents. Almost everyone who achieves the military rank of general
also gets this training.
This is just the tip of an iceberg. You also have eugenics and population
control, suppressed history and technology, yearly retreats, profitable
partnerships with brutal dictators, deals with "terrorists", the
involvement of the Knights of Malta, war- mongering and profiteering,
mind-control, secret societies for teens, ritual magic and more -- all
spinning the dark threads in the web of conspiracy that our spinning blue
ball has gotten caught in.
We've got a whole new crop of "Bonesmen" coming up, including George H.W.
Bush's son George W. Bush ('68), Governor of Texas.
When Don Schollander ('68), the Olympic gold-medalist and only known
Skull and Bones member living in Portland, was contacted by Willamette
Week reporter John Schrang regarding his involvement in the Order, he
said, "It's really something I can't talk about."
Not wouldn't, but "couldn't".
In wake of Antony Sutton's first ground-breaking exposes of the Order,
the Sterling Library at Yale has refused to allow any other researchers
access to the Russell Trust papers.
Daniel Gilman, like most Bonesmen, makes no mention of Skull & Bones or
the Russell Trust in his memoirs or biographies.
So, are we all just 'fodder" for a secret society with satanic overtones
that is attempting to form a one world government with themselves at the
helm? Or is the Order of Skull and Bones just a bunch of frat boys from
Yale? Wanna bet your future on it?
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At Skull and Bones, Bush's Secret Club Initiates Ream Gore
by Ron Rosenbaum
http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=4136
This column ran on page 1 in the 4/23/01 edition of The New York
Observer.
It’s the primal scene of American power, of Bush family values. For two
centuries, the initiation rite of Skull and Bones has shaped the
character of the men who have shaped the American character, including
two Presidents named Bush.
And last Saturday, April 14–for the first time ever–that long-secret rite
was witnessed by a team of outsiders, including this writer.
Using high-tech night-vision video equipment able to peer through the
gloom into the inner courtyard of the Skull and Bones "Tomb" in New
Haven, The Observer team witnessed:
• The George W. effect: intoxicated by renewed proximity to Presidential
power, a robed Bonesman posing as George W. harangued initiates in an
eerily accurate Texas drawl: "I’m gonna ream you like I reamed Al Gore"
and "I’m gonna kill you like I killed Al Gore."
• Privileged Skull and Bones members mocked the assault on Abner Louima
by crying out repeatedly, "Take that plunger out of my ass!"
• Skull and Bones members hurled obscene sexual insults ("lick my
bumhole") at initiates as they were forced to kneel and kiss a skull at
the feet of the initiators.
• Other members acted out the tableau of a throat-cutting ritual murder.
It’s important to remember this is not some fraternity initiation. It is
an initiation far more secret–and far more significant, in terms of real
power in the United States–than that of the Cosa Nostra. If the Bushes
are "the WASP Corleones"–as the ever more stingingly waspish Maureen Dowd
has suggested–this is how their "made men" (and women) are made.* It’s an
initiation ceremony that has bonded diplomats, media moguls, bankers and
spies into a lifelong, multi-generational fellowship far more influential
than any fraternity. It was–and still remains–the heart of the heart of
the American establishment.
Further revelations turned up by the Observer Bones Investigation Unit
include:
• The words to the secret Skull and Bones "death mantra."
• Copies of the Skull and Bones tax returns, obtained through Freedom of
Information Act requests, raise questions about the legitimacy of the
secret society’s claim to charitable tax-exempt deduction
status–particularly relevant considering recent criticism of the Bush tax
plan for favoring the privileged few.
• A possible explanation emerged in the course of the initiation ceremony
for George W.’s decision to run for President in the first place.
‘The Devil Equals Death’
The Observer Mission Impossible expedition had its inception several
months ago with a phone call from Peggy Adler, the research associate on
my previous Skull and Bones piece in The Observer (July 17, 2000). She is
the demon investigator and former Iran-contra committee staffer who,
among other coups, cross-referenced corporate boards to crack the "RTA
code," the corporate shell game by which the corporate shell of the Skull
and Bones society, the Russell Trust Association, shielded its paper
trail from prying eyes by changing its name to RTA Inc.
Ms. Adler said she had been approached by a member of the Yale community
who wanted to share with us a remarkable coup of his own: He had found a
way last year, in April of 2000, to audiotape the Skull and Bones
initiation ceremony. And he wanted to know if we’d be interested in an
attempt to videotape it this time.
And so one afternoon last December, shortly after the Bush electoral
victory had been certified, I met with the intrepid fellow; he booted up
his laptop and let me listen to the sounds of a ceremony that had been
the subject of fevered speculation for nearly two centuries now.
Of course, there is more to Skull and Bones than the mystical mumbo-jumbo
of its rituals. The rituals are less important than the relationships–the
bonds of power and influence that develop between Skull and Bones
initiates after they graduate. But the relationships are first forged by
the rituals and fact that the founders of Time Inc. and the C.I.A., as
well as several Secretaries of State and National Security Advisors–the
men who made the decision to drop the Hiroshima bomb, invade the Bay of
Pigs and plunge us into Vietnam, the Tafts, the Bundys, the Buckleys, the
Harrimans, the Lovetts–all took part in this initiation ritual may have
something to do with the real world power of those bonds. The unspoken
understanding, the comfort level with the clandestine, the nods and winks
with which power is exercised.
The initiation ceremony begins the process of inculcating into the elect
of the elite (just 15 out of 1,300 in every Yale class) the same mystical
sense of mission that allowed the British Old Boy network to rule a
worldwide empire.
The whole phenomenon is rarely looked into beyond the exotic ritual
trappings (although Evan Thomas and Walter Isaacson talk about the world-
wide web of Bones foreign policy mandarins in The Wise Men). But it’s
something I’ve been investigating off and on for a quarter of a century
now. I am the Ahab of Skull and Bones, pursuing the white whale (or white
male) leviathan to the utmost depths. As an undergraduate at Yale I lived
next door to the Skull and Bones Tomb, and back in 1977 I published the
first outsider’s investigation into Skull and Bones, its rituals and its
influence on American political culture (an updated version of that
piece, revised to include my chilly exchange with George and Barbara Bush
on Air Force Two, can be found in my recent nonfiction collection, The
Secret Parts of Fortune).
And so it was momentous for me to actually hear the sounds of the Skull
and Bones initiation on that laptop. But in listening to it, awe gave way
to a mixture of puzzlement and embarrassment–and an even deeper,
unsatisfied curiosity.
In part it was the fact that the ritual was heard but not seen. My Yale
source had found a previously unexploited perch from which to record the
sounds of the ceremonies, but could glimpse them only incompletely. He
reported a figure dressed like the devil, another one in a hooded-
skeleton costume and others in robes. The thing that stood out for me,
listening to it, was what I’ve come to think of as "the death mantra."
Yes, the death mantra–here it is, the three-line Skull and Bones
initiation-ritual theme that has bound three Presidents (including the
present one) to their secret society:
‘THE HANGMAN EQUALS DEATH!
THE DEVIL EQUALS DEATH!
DEATH EQUALS DEATH!’
Most of the speculative lore about the Skull and Bones ritual has
centered on its death fixation. Beyond the obvious skull-and-crossbones
insignia, of course, the most persistent story is that initiates spend
their senior year in the basement crypt of the Bones Tomb taking turns
lying in a coffin and, in two long, intense, psycho-drama
autobiographical sessions in said coffins, recount their personal and
sexual history to the other 14 chosen ones. The better to bond for life
with those they know best and prepare for their destiny as stewards of
the ruling class.
The death-centered imagery, the injunction to initiates that they must
"die to the barbarian world" and be reborn in the Elysian company of the
elect of "The Order," as they call it, is what makes Skull and Bones as
radically different from a college fraternity as the Gambino family is
from the "hunting and fishing club" that was their nominal headquarters.
The hangman equals death. The devil equals death. Death equals death ….
What the hell is going on there? Is it a puzzle in logic, like "All men
are mortal. Socrates is mortal …"? Does it solve out to "The hangman
equals the devil?"
Could one detect a capital-punishment theme here–the hangman as
executioner presaging George W.’s prolific execution rate as Texas
governor? "George W. equals death," you might say.
And what about the devil? (Well, the figure dressed like the devil.) Is
that the secret they’ve been covering up ever since the society was
founded in 1832, the offshoot of a German secret society: devil worship?
A fulfillment of the paranoid fantasies of the fundamentalist right, who
believe the Eastern establishment is a front for Satanic conspiracy.
Probably not, but it made me more eager to participate in this year’s
caper: the attempt to see as well as hear it, to capture it all on
video–for educational, historical and journalistic purposes to document a
defining rite of passage of the American ruling class.
Oh, yes–before we get to the night-vision videotape, there was one more
thing, the embarrassing part of the audiotape, the OOGA-BOOGA part. Part
of the ceremony on the tape involved an initiation master ordering the
neophytes to fetch bones and uttering the (I guess) fake Tarzan-movie
"native" chant "OOGA BOOGA." It left me feeling embarrassed for Skull and
Bones. Hard to ever take seriously again anyone whose defining life-
mission moment includes an OOGA BOOGA.
But as it turned out, "OOGA BOOGA" was not evident in this year’s
ceremony, as far as we were able to tell. Perhaps it was an
improvisation, like this year’s impersonation of George W. ("I’ll ream
you like I reamed Al Gore") was.
The Observer Mission Impossible Force met to plot strategy an hour before
sunset on initiation night, Saturday, April 12. It is not widely known,
but Tap Night, which occurs on Thursday, is not generally the same as
initiation night. The good stuff happens on Saturday night, and already
limos are cruising the quiet streets that crisscross the Yale campus,
conveying initiates of other secret societies to their rituals. Bones
initiates come on foot, knock on the massive triple-locked wooden door of
the Tomb and are conveyed to the first stage of the ritual. But we are
getting ahead of ourselves.
Let me just mention how much I admired the intrepid Yale members of the
Observer Bones Task Force for displaying the kind of curiosity,
initiative and heretical, skeptical impulse apparently absent on most Ivy
campuses, if you believe David Brooks’ recent Atlantic Monthly cover
story on get-along-go-along premature careerists. The guys on my team
will make more of a real contribution than any of the smug secret-society
types.
First on the agenda was a quick examination of the Bones income-tax
filings, which an outside consultant to the team had obtained through
Freedom of Information Act requests. He and Peggy Adler pointed out to me
a couple of dubious assertions on the Form 990’s (Return of Organization
Exempt from Income Tax), which called into question certain of the
grounds for charitable exemption. In particular, there was the assertion
in the 1997 RTA Incorporated filing (Part VI, line 80b) that the
organization was not "related … through common membership, governing
bodies, trustees, officers etc. to any other exempt or non-exempt
organization."
Contradicting that assertion is information on the filing of the Deer
Island Club Corporation. Deer Island is the private island of the Skull
and Bones Society, located in the St. Lawrence River. It is the place
where Bones members bring their families for summer get-togethers. It is
wholly owned and run by Skull and Bones members, apparently contradicting
Bones’ claim of "no relationship" to another exempt organization, and
appearing to contradict the strictly educational and charitable mission
for which RTA gets its exemption for Skull and Bones.
The consultant argues in a memo that the purpose of the 80b question on
the Bones deduction claim form "is to prevent tax exempt charities from
undertaking non-charitable activities by hiding them in another
corporation. This is of course precisely what RTA Inc. is accomplishing
through the Deer Island Club Corporation. In order to conceal this
arrangement however RTA Inc. denies its connection to the DICC."
In fact, he goes on, "RTA and the DICC are so closely linked that for all
intents and purposes RTA Inc. does own Deer Island despite its claims to
the contrary."
I’m not going to go into the whole tax issue here. Perhaps the Bones
shell corporation has a good and valid reason for claiming that it has no
connection to the Bones private-island country club.** Perhaps this sort
of thing goes on all the time among the private charities of the
privileged. I don’t think Deer Island will become George W. Bush’s
Whitewater. But one might think that a scrupulous White House counsel
would want to look at the kind of tax information George W.’s secret
society is filing on his behalf. Particularly since he’s promising
enormous windfalls for the privileged, the tax breaks his secret society
takes should be utterly beyond suspicion. Does the President, I’d like to
know, claim his Skull and Bones dues as a charitable deduction, when the
only charity seems to be providing a club house and country house for the
privileged? The RTA filing claims Skull and Bones exists "for the benefit
of Yale University." But Yale–which celebrates three centuries of
luminous atainments this weekend–ought to question what "benefit" it gets
from chants of "lick my bumhole" and the mockery of Abner Louima.
Anyway, as night came falling and we choreographed the evening’s caper, I
felt that we were carrying on an old-fashioned, longstanding tradition:
the natural reaction of the democratic (small D) tradition to elitist
power that conceals itself within the cloak of privilege and secrecy. And
for me, it was a culmination of my own quarter-century quest, one that
had become personalized lately by the fact that our Skull and Bones
President had been a classmate of mine at Yale.
‘Run, Neophyte, Run!’
At last, zero hour approached. For two centuries, the outside world had
wondered and fantasized about what was about to happen, what actually
went on in the fabled Skull and Bones initiation. There’s a long
tradition of Yale secret societies (including Bones) raiding other secret
societies to capture their ritual artifacts. In the 1970’s, an all-woman
break-in team published photographs of the Bone’s Tomb’s interior. But
tonight, for the first time ever, we would attempt to capture the actual
secret initiation ritual and bring it to light for anthropological study.
Our team’s equipment included three night-vision-capable digital-video
cameras, one tape recorder, a stepladder and two walkie-talkies. (I could
never get mine to work.) Because of a recent injury which limits my
mobility, I was stationed at a listening post with my tape recorder while
the video-cam team proceeded to their more perilous perch at the forward
base (as those of us in special ops call it). We planned to rendezvous
afterward for me to view the tape.
We split up just as the whoops and groans, the screams and moans began to
emanate from inside the Tomb and the masters of the Skull and Bones
initiation began establishing the posts they’d man for the occult psycho-
drama to come.
From my post, I could see through an open window shadowy figures walking
very close above my head. Later I’ll put my audio impressions together
with the video-cam record the other team obtained for a more complete
picture, but first let me transcribe some of the notes I made from
listening in. Fragmentary as they are, they capture some of the
strangeness, and perhaps the kind of disorientation the initiates
themselves experienced there in the courtyard of Skull and Bones.
First, there was the guy posing as George W. He seemed to be a bit
disgruntled at being given this role–a feeling he expressed by calling
out in his George W. drawl to another "Patriarch" (as they’re called): "I
got the power to bomb the crap out of China and they give me this
station."
Then someone–one of the initiates?–called out "Uncle Toby!" (Many Bone
ritual personae are taken from Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy– you
gotta give them credit there for good taste.)
"Uncle Toby!" the cry repeated.
"Shut up, neophyte."
"Take that plunger out of my ass, Uncle Toby."
Presumably, this mocking Louima reference was a ploy to scare initiates
into thinking Uncle Toby was going to give them the plunger treatment.
That cheerful rectal theme was followed up by:
"I’m gonna ream you like I reamed Al Gore!" from the George W. imitator.
Followed by "Help me! It’s the devil!"
And then "George W." really getting into it: "I’m gonna kill you like I
killed Al Gore."
Silence. Then a door opened. Voices–half of them, it seemed, women–were
screaming: "Run! Neophyte! Run, neophyte!"
(The neophytes are, of course, the new initiates.)
From my post, I could only see hooded figures racing about in the
darkness above my head, accompanied by cries of:
"Run, neophyte!"
"Find the femur!"
And (again): "Take that plunger out of my ass, Uncle Toby!"
Then silence for awhile. The neophyte seemed to have gone back inside the
Tomb. After which one of the Patriarchs complained, "We ought to get
better blood than this fuckin’ syrup, man."
It was only later that I learned what the blood was for: the whole
throat-slitting "barbarian" tableau after the skull-kissing.
But first there was a different kind of kissing being referred to. There
were cries of "Lick my bumhole, neophyte!" "Lick my ass, neophyte!" "Do
you like my bum, neophyte?" (Despite these heartfelt pleas, we did not
witness any of those acts being consummated.)
The bumhole tribute was followed by more cries of "Get the femur!" and at
least part of the death mantra I’d heard before: "DEATH EQUALS DEATH."
Following which, "George W." chimed in with "I’m the President of the
motha-fuckin’ U.S.A."–apparently just for the sheer pleasure of saying
it. (He was sounding more like the real George W. all the time.)
It began to be clear that what was going on outside in the courtyard was
the climax of an initiation ceremony that began inside the Tomb. There,
it’s reputed, the initiates must first enter into a coffin and "die to
the barbarian world," to the world of "savages" (all but the Skull and
Bones elect), in order to be reborn as a member of "The Order." Then
comes the skull-kissing and the throat-slashing.
Two hours later, after all 15 of the initiates had burst out to be
harangued and scared, I approached the rendezvous point with the night-
vision camera team. This was the moment of truth: The night-vision team
wasn’t sure what their digicams had picked up. With their own eyes they’d
gotten evocative glimpses, but the playback on the camera’s swing-out
view screens would be the first time, so far as we knew, any outsider had
really seen the legendary ritual. A ritual three Presidents, a few
Supreme Court justices, maybe a dozen Senators (including 2004 Democratic
Presidential contender John Kerry–which would mean a head-to-head, Skull-
to-Skull smackdown with George W.), several Secretaries of State,
literary and cultural luminaries including John Hersey and William F.
Buckley, had all undergone.
The footage was ghostly, it was grainy–but from the angles of the night-
vision cams, we were able to piece together a narrative of what happened
when the initiates emerged one at a time from the preliminaries inside
the Tomb.
First they were led forward by a figure in a devil costume. Not really a
sinister, Satanic-looking figure but, as one of the team put it, "More
like Satan’s Little Helper."
A shrill, menacing and sometimes blood-curdling chorus of cries and
screams and imprecations accompanied the emergence:
"Hurry, neophyte!" "Run, neophyte!"
"Find the femur, neophyte!" Along with the occasional "Lick my bumhole!"
"Remove the plunger!"—type outcries.
The devil figure pulled them into a white tent in the courtyard where, we
think, they found their femurs and emerged with what looked like a thigh
bone, although it was impossible to tell whether it once belonged to a
human or not.
When they reemerged from the tent, they were led to the centerpiece of
this part of the ritual.
They were forced face-to-face with a shocking tableau: a guy holding what
seemed like a butcher knife, wearing a kind of animal-skin "barbarian"
look, stood over what seemed to be a woman covered in fake blood and not
much else. The neophyte then approached a skull a few feet away from the
knife-wielder-and-victim tableau. The neophyte knelt and kissed the
skull, at which point the guy with the knife knelt and cut the throat of
the prone figure. (Well, pretended to cut the throat.)
I’m not sure what it all means. I’ve yet to decode the mystical
significance of this, although I do love to think of former President
George Bush kissing the skull. Obviously, it has something to do with
subservience. Kiss the skull of power. Bow down to The Order. But what
about the "barbarian" cutting the throat of his victim?
Does it mean "One dies to the barbarian world"? Does it mean "Death to
the barbarians"? Does it endorse cutthroat tactics? Is that how they
enforce silence and secrecy?
I plan to continue my relentless study of the hermeneutics of the Bones
rituals, myths and symbolism based on these new revelations, and perhaps
with the help of a Bones graduate who feels the time has come to lift the
veil on the silly (and no longer even secret) symbolism of their society.
(Contact me privately c/o The Edgy Alliance, 577 Second Avenue, Box 105,
N.Y., N.Y. 10016.)
All that death imagery, though: Maybe it’s meant to be a first
ritualistic confrontation with Mortality, the skull as a memento mori
designed to instill in the "neophyte" a sense of the gravity of one’s
mission in life.
In that regard, consider the direct relevance of at least one aspect of
the ritual to George W. That recurrent phrase: "Run, neophyte, run!"
Think about it. When George W. was first considering the fairly serious
shift from baseball-team owner (whose major achievement was trading away
Sammy Sosa) to governor of Texas, or when he was considering the shift
from one-term governor of Texas to President of the United States, what
decided him–what made him think he could pull it off, despite years as a
semi-permanent neophyte? Could it be that what he heard, echoing in his
brain, down the corridors of the years, was the injunction from that
long-ago April night when he was a Skull and Bones initiate? When he bent
down to kiss the skull and heard, resounding in his ears, the command:
"Run, neophyte, run!"
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CTRL report on Skull and Bones
From http://www.ctrl.org
[The following is from a "white paper" written for Japanese readership.
The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of ctrl.org
or its editors]
George Bush, Skull & Bones and the New World Order
Paul Goldstein
Jeffrey Steinberg
George Bush, Skull & Bones and the New World Order
A New American View -- International Edition White Paper
April 1991
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction .............................ii
The Order of Skull & Bones.......... ......2
Initiation and Ritual......................7
The Spartan Model ........................10
Henry Stimson: Master Bonesman............13
Stimson's Kindergarten and the Cold War...16
Vietnam: The Bonesmen's Debacle.......... 19
Bush in Profile...........................23
The Order's Network.......................25
The New World Order.......................28
The Persian Gulf War......................31
Implications for Japan ...................34
Bibliography..............................38
Some Prominent Members....................39
Selected Quotations.......................43
Introduction
This special report is intended to assist the Japanese audience in more
fully understanding the present policies of the United States under the
administration of President George Bush. It explains the thinking behind
America's military adventure in the Persian Gulf and its current
attitudes toward the Middle East region.
In so doing, we provide a glimpse into the most powerful organization in
America--the Order of Skull & Bones. This secret fraternity is based at
Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where many of the leading
members of the U.S. government and the American intelligence community
received their formal education. The Order, as it is referred to by its
members, is a bastion of White Anglo Saxon Protestant (WASP) culture,
which is at the core of the American 20th century outlook.
The reader will learn that President George Herbert Walker Bush's concept
of the New World Order is an old idea, one which has its origins in the
philosophy and beliefs of the secret Skull & Bones fraternity. Today in
particular, this is the prevailing outlook of the U.S. government, many
of whose most influential members, like the president himself, are part
of the Skull & Bones network. These men seek to recreate the American
imperium of the immediate post-World War II period, an era which
President Bush frequently refers to as "the American Century."
The powerful men of Skull & Bones genuinely believe that they have a
strategic and moral "right" to control world affairs. Consequently, they
take upon themselves the authority to crush any rivalrous threat to U.S.
imperial leadership, whether by current allies, such as Japan, Germany or
Great Britain, or by Cold War adversaries, like the Soviet Union. The
members of the Order, due to their narrow WASP upbringing, view with
particular suspicion the maneuverings of Zionist Israel and its affluent,
influential lobby in the United States.
Bush, his fellow Bonesmen and their like-thinking elitist allies in the
American Establishment see themselves as New World Order warriors, an
American samurai caste of sorts, whose mission is restoring American
greatness. They intend to utilize the institutional networks of the U.S.
government and key private agencies, such as the New York Council on
Foreign Relations, to advance their purpose.
The Skull & Bones members believe in the idea of "constructive chaos." By
keeping their true policy intentions secret, by constantly sending out
mixed signals on all critical policy issues, they consciously seek to sow
confusion among both their nominal "friends" and "enemies" alike.
The fulcrum for the policy of constructive chaos is, at present, the
Middle East situation. Although U.S. military action in the region has
for the time being subsided, America's military power will remain a
critical determinant in the future of that vital zone of conflict.
American military power is aimed at securing undisputed control over the
vast reservoir of oil -- not at necessarily fostering any permanent
alignment of local states or combinations of regional interests.
If President George Bush and his fellow true believers are successful,
the United States will be first among equals in the New World Order. This
is their goal. It is also the quest of the Bonesmen of the Order of Skull
& Bones -- America's warrior aristocracy.
THE ORDER OF SKULL & BONES
Skull & Bones was founded at Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut in
1832. It is the oldest and most prestigious of Yale's seven secret
societies. Among the others are: Scroll & Key, Book & Snake, Wolf's Head,
Eliahu, and Berzelius. These fraternities serve as a recruiting ground
for young men destined for careers in government, law, finance and other
influential sectors of American life. Skull & Bones is the elite of the
elite among these secret societies. Only Scroll & Key can claim a near
equal influence on American affairs over the past 160 years.
Unlike the Greek fraternities on most other American university campuses,
Skull & Bones and its similar secret societies exist exclusively at Yale.
They are not part of any nationwide public association. The other elite
Ivy League colleges, Harvard and Princeton have similar exclusive secret
societies. Yet, even among these few universities, the secret societies
of Yale -- led by Skull & Bones -- are unchallenged in their influence on
American political affairs.
According to some accounts, the Skull & Bones secret society at Yale has
an underground affiliation with two other societies which were
simultaneously founded at two other locations. The number "322" that
appears under the skull and crossbones on the Order's emblem is believed
to indicate the year of its founding -- 1832 -- and the fact that it is
the second lodge within an international system. By some accounts, the
lodge holding the number "1" is in Germany and the lodge numbered "3" is
based at another American college.
Since its founding, Skull & Bones has only inducted about 2,500 members.
At any given time, only about 600 or so members of the Order are alive.
This small number underscores the tremendous concentration of power in
the hands of its members.
If the members of Skull & Bones were to select a Hall of Fame from among
their own elite ranks, some of the people whose names would almost
certainly appear at the top of the list would be:
* Alphonso Taft, a founding member of the Order who served as the
Secretary of War under President Rutherford B. Hayes (1876-1880).
* William Howard Taft, the only man to ever serve as both the President
of and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
* Henry Lewis Stimson, partner in the Wall Street law firm of Root and
Stimson, Secretary of War under President Taft (1908-1912), Governor
General of the Philippines (1926-1928), Secretary of State under
President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) and Secretary of War under
Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (1940-1946).
* Averell Harriman, investment banker with Brown Brothers Harriman,
director of the Lend-Lease program of the U.S. State Department (1941-
1942), U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1943-1946), Governor of New
York, Under Secretary of State for Asia (1961-1963), and presidential
secret envoy to Soviet leaders Stalin, Krushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov.
* Robert Lovett, partner in Brown Brothers Harriman, Assistant Secretary
of War for Air (1941-1945), Deputy Secretary of Defense, Secretary of
Defense (1950), leading member of the New York Council on Foreign
Relations.
* Harold Stanley, investment banker, founder of Morgan Stanley.
* Robert A. Taft, United States Senator (1938-1950).
* Prescott Bush, investment banker and partner in Brown Brothers
Harriman, United States Senator from Connecticut, father of George
Herbert Walker Bush
* George Herbert Walker Bush, United States Congressman (1964-1970),
Chairman of the Republican National Committee, United States Ambassador
to the United Nations, first American Diplomatic Liaison to the Peoples
Republic of China, Director of the Central Intelligence Ageney (1975-
1977). Vice President of the United States (1980-1988), President of the
United States (1988- ).
* John Thomas Daniels, agro-industrialist, founder of Archer Daniels
Midland.
* Hugh Wilson, foreign service officer, Counselor to Japan (1911- 1921),
U.S. Minister to Switzerland (1924-1927), Assistant Secretary of State
(1937-1938). Ambassador to Germany 1938), Special Assistant to the
Secretary of State (1939-1941), Office of Strategic Services (1941-1945)
The members of the Order of Skull & Bones, true to their firm belief in
"constructive confusion," have intentionally allowed a series of
conflicting mythologies to spring up about the origins and history of
their secret fraternity. According to one version of the Order's
founding, it was an outgrowth of an earlier British or Scottish
freemasonic grouping first established at All Soul's College at Oxford
University in the late 17th century. Another version of the history of
Skull & Bones is that it grew out of the German "nationalistic" secret
.societies of the early 19th century. Still a third explanation is that
Skull & Bones is an uniquely American institution which adopted some of
the rituals of European freemasonry, but molded these rituals and beliefs
into a new form.
Regardless of these conflicting accounts, it can be stated with certainty
that the Order was first established on the Yale campus in 1832 It was
officially incorporated only in 1856 under the name Russell Trust
Association. According to virtually all the available biographical data
on its early members, the money required to sustain the secret order's
campus affairs and its broader role in placing its members into key
positions of influence upon their graduation from Yale, derived from the
opium trade in the Far East. That trade was set up by the British East
India Company and was flourishing by the time the Treaty of Paris was
signed in 1783 ending the American War for Independence. The East India
Company during this period was controlled by the Baring Brothers Bank
(Toward the closing decades of the 17th century, the British House of
Rothschild would supplant the Baring Brothers as the controlling
financial interests in the China opium trade.
Through the sponsorship of the Barings and also the Rothschilds, a number
of leading New England families, some of whom had sided with Great
Britain during the American Revolution, were brought into the opium trade
as junior partners. These merchant families ran fleets of clipper ships
and became in many cases fabulously wealthy as the result of their
association with the British East India Company. Among these key New
England merchant families were: Cabot, Coolidge, Forbes, Higginson,
Sturgis, Lodge, Lowell, Perkins and Russell.
These New England merchant families founded the United Fruit Company and
the Bank of Boston. The founding families of Skull & Bones included the
Russell and Perkins families, Over several generations, however, all
these families heavily intermarried and became, in effect, one extended
power grouping.
William Huntington Russell incorporated Skull & Bones as the Russell
Trust Association. Throughout the 20th century, the Russell Trust
Association listed the New York City headquarters of Brown Brothers
Harriman as its address.
Russell was valedictorian of his class at Yale in 1833. He and his Skull
& Bones comrades considered themselves to be a special elite among the
merchant banking and Puritan pilgrim elite of Yale. They took the Puritan
beliefs of the early New England settlers, that they were "elected by
God," and pre-ordained to rule North America.
The founding of Yale College in 1701 pre-dates the American Revolution by
several generations. Many of the founders of Yale were righteous men of
the Puritan heritage who devoutly believed in God and country. Some of
these patriotic souls later made up the core of Benjamin Franklin's
political coalition which ultimately broke with the mother country, Great
Britain. Many graduates of Yale were active in the American Revolution
and the founding of the United States.
Two critics of the Order, historian Antony Sutton and investigative
journalist Ron Rosenbaum (himself a Yale graduate), both concluded that
Skull & Bones has degenerated since its founding and has taken on more of
the occult and ritualistic trappings of the majority of European
freemasonic and Illuminati secret societies. Sutton charges that the
Order is secretly known among its initiates as the "Brotherhood of
Death" and has become an evil instrument in the hands of America's secret
power elite. Rosenbaum claims that the society's Germanic origins are
inherently wicked and pre-Nazi.
In a long 1977 article in Esquire magazine, Rosenbaum charged that the
Skull & Bones building on the Yale campus houses remnants from Hitler's
private collection of silver. While these stories cannot be dismissed out
of hand, it must be noted that authors Rosenbaum and Sutton may be
biased. As a young Jewish student at Yale, Rosenbaum was almost
automatically excluded on religious grounds from the inner sanctum of the
campus's secret societies. Sutton, a British-born eccentric historian,
proudly admits his strong British biases, frequently citing philosopher
John Stuart Mill as the spiritual mentor in his book on the Order.
Despite the possible personal biases in these two accounts of the history
of the Order of Skull & Bones, it must be acknowledged that the
membership of the society has tended over generations to converge upon a
small group of New England families who have intermarried and then
sponsored their sons and nephews into the Order. This kind of inbreeding
always tends to produce narrow-mindedness and prejudice against
outsiders, which can be a serious shortcoming, particularly among
individuals responsible for charting the course of a nation as powerful
as the United States.
It can be documented by comparing the family charts of the early Bonesmen
that there is today a core group of no more than 20 to 30 families who
form the nucleus of the Order. The majority are old-line Puritan families
who came to North America in the very first wave of settlers in the 17th
century. Among these prominent families are: Whitney, Lord, Phelps.
Wadsworth, Allen, Bundy, Adams, Stimson, Taft, Gilman and Perkins. A
second group of families in the Skull & Bones core earned fabulous
fortunes during the 18th and 19th centuries and thus won a rite of
passage into the New England elite, even though they were not among the
earliest settlers. The leading Skull & Bones families in this second
category are: Harriman, Rockefeller, Payne, Davison, Pillsbury and
Weyerhauser.
A few of the Jewish banking families who made their way from Germany to
the United States during the 18th and l9th centuries were eventually
granted limited access to the WASP inner sanctums. Some families, like
the Schiff, Warburg, Guggenheim and Meyer families, were unofficially
designated as intermediaries between the New England WASPs and their
cousins in London. This was especially true after the Rothschild
interests supplanted the Anglican Baring group as the most powerful
financial cabal in the City of London. Some of these German Jewish
families became so absorbed into the WASP or Anglican society that they
eventually converted from Judaism to Protestantism and were gradually
ostracized from the Jewish aristocracy.
The WASP families, however, never saw the prominent Jewish investment
banking families of America as equals. The Jews were considered
politically and culturally different by the WASPs, and have never been
accepted into the latter's inner circle. For the most part, these Jewish
merchant bankers are viewed with suspicion and distrust by the members of
the Order. Moreover, the Jewish fraternal societies, such as B'nai
B'rith, were formed out of the British-based Scottish Rite Freemasonry.
Their sponsors in America, the Rothschilds and the Cecil Rhodes Trust
(also known as the British Round Table Group), are connected with the
British Foreign Office and its secret intelligence apparatus.
INITIATION AND RITUAL
To be initiated into the Order of Skull & Bones, one must endure a ritual
of selection called "tapping". It is conducted by 15 senior classmen of
Yale University who make up the current membership of the secret society.
They select 15 members of the junior class to be the Bonesmen the
following year. Historically, Skull & Bones kept blacks, Jews and all
other non-WASPs from its ranks. Within the last 30 years, however, token
members from these groups have been occasionally selected to join. Thus,
in the most recent list of initiates to the Order, there is one Yalie
with a Jewish surname and even one with a Chinese name. According to
author Rosenbaum, in recent years, the Order has inducted members of
homosexual rights groups on the campus into its ranks.
Among the criterion for selection -- apart from family ties to the order,
which has always been an important factor -- is what is referred to by
historians and members as the "Three Ordeals." These ordeals are intended
to measure the prospective Bonesman's ability to "make it" in the world
beyond the university campus.
The first ordeal is boarding school. The overwhelming majority of
Bonesmen, given their wealthy blueblood family pedigrees, attend one of
the prestigious New England preparatory schools, i.e, private high
schools. (Whereas a large number of the most elite of the Harvard
University students attend Groton, a school with close ties to the
Anglican-Episcopal Church, where they receive a thoroughly Anglophilic
education, the preferred prep schools for the future Bonesmen are the two
Puritan Calvinist-sponsored Phillips Academies.)
The second of the ordeals is that of nature. The prospective Bonesmen are
judged on their skills as outdoorsmen. Hunting in the New England
countryside or, better yet, traveling to distant locations like Africa,
the jungles of South America or even the American badlands of the Plains
states, is a prerequisite for admission to the Spartan elite ranks of the
Order.
The third of the ordeals is war. The experience of combat during wartime
is considered to be of special significance for the Bonesmen, who see
themselves as the elite of the New England WASP warrior caste. Many Yale
Bonesmen of President George Bush's generation, as the result of the
outbreak of World War II, went directly from prep school into the
military service prior to their entering Yale. For a majority of
Bonesmen, the preferred military service has historically been with the
U.S. Navy. During World II the Naval air corp was a particularly
important track for future Bones initiates. In peacetime, participation
at Yale in military officer's training is desirable but not essential.
The commitment to enter some branch of the military upon graduation is
viewed with favor.
After the formal selection of the next group of prospective Bonesmen,
there is an invitation followed by a formal initiation ceremony. First
the 15 senior class members who are the members of the Order select a
group of junior class members who are to be "tapped" for Skull & Bones. A
group of Bonesmen proceed to the dormitory room of the "tappee." Upon
reaching the door, they pound loudly. When the prospective member opens
the door, a Bonesman will tap him on the shoulder and yell, "Skull and
Bones: Do you accept?" If the candidate accepts, a message wrapped with a
black ribbon sealed by black wax with the skull and crossbones emblem and
the mystical Bones number 322 is handed to the "tappee." The message
appoints a time and a place for the candidate to appear on initiation
night. Candidates are instructed to wear no metal objects or clothing.
According to a 1940 Skull & Bones document, the initiation ceremony
involves the following kinds of things: "New man placed in coffin --
carried into central part of building. New man chanted over and reborn
into society. Removed from coffin and given robes with symbols on it. A
bone with his name on it is tossed into the bone heap at the start of
every meeting."
Within the Skull & Bones Crypt, also known as "the Tomb," there is what
is referred to as a "sacred room" with the number 322, On the arched wall
about the vault entrance is inscribed in German: "Who was the fool, who
was the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in
death."
This quotation from a German Freemasonic ritual remains a source of
controversy surrounding the origins of Skull & Bones. It is one of the
bits of "evidence" cited by some of the Order's most ardent critics that
the group is "Nazi like" and singularly "Germanic". In fact, the rituals
of the Order are very much like the rituals employed by Scottish and
English freemasonic lodges.
Some of the mystery and confusion surrounding these occult symbols and
rituals is intentionally fostered by the Order itself. Among the
principles taught to the members of the Yale secret society are the value
of ambiguity and secrecy. These values are not taught as part of a purely
mystical or occult quasi-religion. They are taught as valuable tools to
be applied by the Bonesmen when they leave the insulated environment of
the Yale campus and become officials of government, the intelligence
community, the military or the private sector.
A careful study of the often confusing and self-contradictory behavior
and public statements of President Bush and his closest advisers
throughout the months of the Persian Gulf crisis of last year and war
that followed offers a valuable example of how ambiguity and secrecy are
applied by Bonesmen.
For the initiates of the Order, the question of whether secrecy and
ambiguity are used for the purpose of accomplishing "good" or "evil" is
of secondary importance. Secrecy and ambiguity are essential instruments
for wielding power. The effective wielding of power is one of the
overarching goals of all Bonesmen. The secret ties built up during the
Bonesmen's senior year of active membership in the Order are maintained
for life. Those ties link each Bonesman to every other initiate,
especially to those initiates who were members of the Order in the same
year.
Thus, every member of Skull & Bones is, in real and practical terms, part
of a small elite group of young Yale graduates -- most from wealthy and
powerful WASP families -- who enter the world of politics, business,
finance, intelligence or education and who proceed to make their mark on
the world.
According to several sources, President George Bush to this day
frequently consults with several of his fellow Yale Bonesmen, and has, on
occasion, called upon Skull & Bones members to carry out secret
diplomatic missions for the White House.
THE SPARTAN MODEL
These rites of passage into the upper ranks of the WASP Establishment are
capped by the experience the Bonesmen go through in their final year at
Yale -- the year in which they actively participate in the Order. For the
vast majority of the initiates, the process of inculcation with the ideas
of WASP supremacy, an American Calvinist version of what British
imperialist writer Rudyard Kipling called the "White Man's Burden," began
at prep school.
According to the biographical accounts of a number of the leading
Bonesmen, the prep school experience is paramount. At prep school,
intellectual pursuits are encouraged, but special emphasis is also placed
on athletic performance. Future Yale Bonesmen are expected to excel in
some team sport, such as baseball and football, both American inventions.
(Members of Skull & Bones were involved in the development of both
games.) Team sports supposedly prepare the future Bonesman to accept
leadership responsibility, and more importantly, teach him to "respect
the rules of the game."
According to one biographer, when George Bush was a Yale undergraduate he
was a member of the university baseball team. Although he was apparently
not a very good baseball player, he eventually became captain of the Yale
team. One day during the Yale baseball season, he excitedly visited his
mother to proudly proclaim that he had hit his first home run. She
reportedly looked back at him with patrician coolness, and asked, "Yes,
George, but did your team win the game?"
The particular emphasis on team sports during the prep school and Yale
years is, according to several historians, part of the Spartan training
that is so essential to the Skull & Bones philosophy. In the world of
Skull & Bones, one of the greatest virtues is the ability to steer the
nation into war and to successfully prosecute the war.
To the Bonesmen, the use of military power is a natural and essential
corollary to political power. The Bonesmen are taught that, although
ideas have their place, to truly transform history, military force is
almost always required. Critics of the Order have pointed out that this
philosophy of power and the imperial use of military force comes straight
from the chronicles of the Roman Empire -- especially the Roman Empire
during its phase of decline and collapse.
The criticism may prove to be most prophetically true of the current
generation of Bonesmen who are leading the United States under the
presidency of George Bush. During the final phase of the Roman Empire,
legions were deployed out around the world to conquer and subjugate vast
territories, while back in Rome, there was a breakdown, a crisis in which
the entire social and cultural fabric of the early Roman republic was
eroding and giving way to something akin to the drug, rock-sex
counterculture of today. The Roman imperial policy of attempting to gloss
over the decadence at home by engaging in constant wars of expansion led
ultimately to the total collapse of Rome.
In this regard, the Spartan-Roman imperial outlook of the American WASP
warrior caste, exemplified by Skull & Bones, cannot be precisely compared
to the Japanese samurai code of Bushido. The Japanese Bushido code
emphasized honor among the warriors and presumed a fundamentally moral or
ethical vision of the world.
No such emphasis on morality and honor exists in the code of Skull &
Bones. On the contrary, the Skull & Bones philosophy, according to
several of its most astute critics and historians, emphasizes the
"double-cross system." The "double-cross" is symbolically represented by
the crossbones on the emblem of the Order. According to this philosophy,
anyone who is not an initiate is inferior, and can be lied to and
manipulated to further the power of the WASP Establishment. To the extent
that Japanese leaders view their American WASP counterparts as men of
honor whose word is sacred and whose intentions are presumed to be
virtuous, they will miss the fundamental character of the American
imperium. This is of special importance today, with a leading member of
the Skull & Bones system occupying the White House.
Skull & Bones philosophy first manifested itself at the American national
political level in the late l9th century. At that time, the men of the
Order adopted all the critical features of the British imperial system,
especially the belief in the Anglo Saxon God-given right to rule over all
the other races. Even countries like Japan, which were never colonial
possessions of the Anglo-American combination, were viewed as inferior
nations to be treated no differently from the colonies in Africa, India
or Latin America.
In 1898, President William McKinley, one of the last of the American
presidents to manifest any of the early republican (anti-British
imperialism) traditions of the Founding Fathers, was under enormous
pressure from the Skull & Bones-led American imperialists. Eventually, he
went to war against Spain to "free" Cuba and seize the Philippines. This
was the first time that the United States entered a war through devious
manipulation and purely in order to expand its territories. It marked the
beginning of a new epoch in American history which would forever alter
the vision of the United States. It was the first evidence that the men
of the Order were at the helm of the ship of state.
President McKinley's capitulation to the WASP warriors would prove to be
fatal to himself and, some would say, for his country, too. The Spanish-
American War of 1898 catapulted the Skull & Bones crowd into a position
of dominance within the Republican Party. At the 1900 party presidential
nominating convention, McKinley was forced to accept Teddy Roosevelt as
his vice presidential running mate. The McKinley-Roosevelt slate was
swept into office, in part as the result of the jingoist climate built up
by the just-concluded Spanish-American War. Those circumstances were not
all that different from the mood that prevails in America in the
aftermath of the Gulf War of 1991.
Within months of his inauguration of 1901, President McKinley was
assassinated by an anarchist while traveling through Buffalo, New York.
Thus, Teddy Roosevelt became president, and the Order of Skull & Bones
for the first time moved into the White House. Roosevelt surrounded
himself with Bonesmen. His successor in 1908, William Howard Taft, was
himself a second generation member of Skull & Bones.
HENRY STIMSON: MASTER BONESMAN
According to a January 1991 article by the Washington syndicated
columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, when President George Bush was
making his final decision to use military force to crush Saddam Hussein
and decimate Iraq, he spent most of the Christmas holidays closeted at
Camp David reading a newly published biography of one of his true heroes,
fellow Skull & Bones initiate Henry Stimson. While most White House
advisers thought that the gulf crisis would be ultimately resolved
through diplomacy, unbeknownst to them, President Bush had already
decided on the use of devastating military force -- regardless of what
measures the world community or the Iraqi leaders took to avert war.
Intimate Bush advisers described the president as being in a
"mesmerized" state of mind as he walked around the presidential retreat
in the Maryland mountains with his Stimson biography, "The Colonel: The
Life and Wars of Henry Stimson," under his arm at all times.
Indeed, for most contemporary Bonesmen, Henry Lewis Stimson, the
quintessential WASP warrior, was the very personification of the Order's
full ascent to power during the period of World War II.
A member of the Order's class of 1888, Stimson served seven U.S.
presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft (a fellow Bonesman),
Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt and Harry S Truman. As the Secretary of War under FDR and
Truman, Stimson oversaw the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic
bomb. Stimson personally decided on the use of that devastating weapon
against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Years earlier, as
the chairman of the American delegation at the London Naval Conference
and as Secretary of State under President Hoover (1929-1933), Stimson had
played a pivotal role in restricting the size of the Japanese Imperial
Navy. He would be an architect of the FDR 's administration's economic
provocations against Japan which ultimately helped induce Japan into the
attack at Pearl Harbor, thus bringing the United States formally into
World War II. And Stimson was also ultimately responsible for the FDR
administration's decision to intern the Nisei (Japanese-Americans) after
Pearl Harbor.
Yet, it was also Stimson who ordered American bombers to refrain from
attacking the old Japanese imperial capital of Kyoto, a city rich in
religious and historical tradition and artifacts. And, according to at
least one of Stimson's biographers, it was also "the Colonel" who decided
at the close of the war that the Japanese emperor should not be deposed.
His sensitivity to Japanese culture and the importance of allowing Japan
to retain honor even in defeat is widely to his close adviser, Joseph
Grew, a longtime U.S. ambassador to Japan and an accomplished historian.
Whether this report of Stimson's involvement in the decision to maintain
the emperor is accurate or whether it underplays the role of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur, the fact remains certain that Stimson was the key policymaker
overseeing the postwar occupations of both Japan and Germany.
To fully understand President George Bush's attitudes and policies toward
Japan, one must first appreciate the overarching influence that Stimson
had on the current occupant of the White House.
According to his British biographer Geofrey Hodgson, Stimson's membership
in Skull & Bones was "the most important educational experience in his
life." Unlike most of his fellow Bonesmen, Stimson earned his membership
solely on the basis of his achievements at Yale -- not through family
money. His parents were not wealthy, although his forefathers did come to
America as early Puritan colonists. But Stimson made up for his lack of
financial credentials by his fierce competitive spirit. As he himself put
it, the "idea of a struggle for prizes, so to speak, has always been one
of the fundamental elements of my mind, and I can hardly conceive of what
my feelings would be if I ever was put in a position or situation in life
where there are no prizes to struggle for."
Although Stimson did not come from classic blueblood background, he
married into wealth and power. His wife, Mabel White, came from a
prominent Establishment family with longstanding ties to the Order. Thus,
upon graduation from law school, Stimson became a partner in the law firm
of Eliahu Root, President Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of War.
Although Stimson and Roosevelt would have a falling out in later years,
early on Roosevelt and Root provided "the Colonel" with the critical
sponsorship and training required to succeed in the world of
Establishment politics. According to Stimson's biographers, Roosevelt
would frequently taunt the young Bonesman about the fact that he, unlike
the president, had never been in the military or fought in any wars.
(Roosevelt had resigned as Under Secretary of the Navy to go off and
fight in the Spanish-American War.) Thus, at the ripe old age of 44,
Stimson joined the Army during World War I and served in the American
Expeditionary Force in Europe.
Among the other lasting interests that Roosevelt would pass on to Stimson
was his deep passion for the Pacific. Roosevelt was convinced that
America's imperial destiny was dependent upon its domination of the
Pacific Ocean and the Far East. The Spanish-American War, which marked
the beginning of America's imperial phase -- and the virtual abandonment
of the republican principles upon which the nation had been founded --
began the U.S. colonial occupation of the Philippines, which would
continue through half of the next century. Ultimately, Stimson would
himself serve as the American Governor General of the islands.
In 1900, Roosevelt wrote to Stimson: "Our people are neither craven nor
weaklings, as we face the future high of heart and confident of soul,
eager to do the great work of a great power... wish to see the United
States the dominant power on the Pacific Ocean."
STIMSON'S KINDERGARTEN AND THE COLD WAR
Henry Stimson's towering influence on George Bush and many other current
members and like-thinking allies of the Order was based not only on "the
Colonel's" lifetime of achievements. It was also rooted in the fact that
Stimson used the World War II period to groom a successor generation of
young WASP warriors who would dominate American policymaking during the
Cold War and beyond. Although not every member of what came to be known
as the "Stimson's Kindergarten" was a member of Skull & Bones, or even a
Yale graduate, many were. All were inculcated with the Skull & Bones
philosophy and methodology of wielding power. It is through this alliance
and patronage system that the influence of the Order has been extended
far beyond its small membership roster.
Among the leading members of the "Stimson Kindergarten" were:
* John J. McCloy, who was Assistant Secretary of War and later served as
the High Commissioner for Germany during the postwar occupation.
* Robert Lovett, a member of Skull & Bones and a partner in the Order's
preeminent Wall Street investment house Brown Brothers Harriman. He
became Stimson's Assistant Secretary of War (Air Section). Lovett
remained an influential policymaker through the presidency of John F.
Kennedy.
* Harvey Bundy, another Bonesman, who became Stimson's special assistant
at the War Department. Harvey Bundy's two sons, McGeorge and William,
fresh out of Yale University and Skull & Bones, joined their father on
Stimson's personal staff. McGeorge Bundy would co-author Stimson's
memoirs In Active Service in Peace and War.
* Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State, Yale graduate (he was not a
member of the Order, but, rather, of one of the other Yale secret
societies, Scroll Key) and senior policy adviser to FDR and Truman, who
ultimately made him Secretary of State.
* Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the armed forces during
World War II and later Truman's Secretary of State.
This group of high-powered policymakers of World War II and immediate
post war period were known as the "Stimson-Marshall-Acheson Circle." They
shaped America's Cold War containment policy against the Soviet Union and
Communist China, including the involvement of the United States in the
Korean War. It was also this group which, for better or worse, directed
the postwar reconstruction programs in Germany and Japan.
Another influential member of Skull & Bones, Averell Harriman, was
personally responsible for the sacking of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. It was
Harriman, a banker, intriguer and former American Ambassador to Moscow,
who convinced President Truman to fire MacArthur.
The predominant role that Averell Harriman would play over the course of
40 years of postwar American policymaking underscores the fact that not
all leading members of Skull & Bones share the identical policy outlook.
While some members of the Stimson inner circle were critical of Harriman,
whom they considered to be too personally ambitious (he was also a
liberal imperial Democrat in a secret fraternity dominated historically
by moderate Republicans), Harriman nevertheless stands out as one of the
Order's most active figures. The fact that he was a business partner and
social intimate throughout his adult life of fellow Bonesman and
Republican Sen. Prescott Bush Sr., the father of the current president
underscores that point.
Henry Stimson died in 1950, leaving behind a core group of political
offspring led by members of his old secret society, Skull & Bones. In the
final years of his life he was involved in helping to shape a number of
postwar government agencies which would become bastions of power and
influence for the Order for years to come. Through this active role in
shaping the key institutions of the Cold War era, Stimson was able to
establish a continuity of power that would more than compensate for the
fact that no single figure among his "kindergarten" emerged as a clear
successor, and that several, like McGeorge Bundy, would prove ultimately
to be rather disappointing students.
The National Security Act of 1947 transformed Stimson's old War
Department into the Department of Defense, a sprawling civilian
bureaucracy which would in future years house many of the most important
members of the Order. Robert Lovett, for example, would become the
Secretary of Defense in 1950. The 1947 act also established the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) as the permanent successor to the wartime
Office of Strategic Services (OSS). In the early 1950s, the State
Department's Office of Policy Coordination was merged into the CIA,
giving the secret agency total control of America's clandestine
operations. The National Security Agency (NSA) also was established,
under the direction of the Department of Defense, vastly expanding
America's signal intelligence capability.
Of all these agencies of the Cold War era, the CIA would stand out as a
singular power center for Yale University alumni in general and Skull &
Bones initiates in particular. The term "spooks," the well-known CIA term
for a clandestine operator, was originally Yale campus argot for a secret
society member. According to a recently published article in the Covert
Action Information Bulletin, there is reportedly a "Bones club" within
the CIA which helps promote the intelligence careers of members of the
Yale secret society.
It should be pointed out that bureaucratic standing is not a real measure
of power within the CIA. Very often, individuals in relatively
insignificant positions within the organizational chart wield tremendous
clout and maintain access to the most sensitive information and policy.
Thus, for example, the present U.S. Ambassador to Beijing, James Lilley,
a member of Skull & Bones and a career CIA man, is being suggested to
replace William Webster as Director of Central Intelligence. For Lilley
to step in as director of CIA would at this moment represent a demotion
for the senior field operator. It is, however, a demotion he might accept
as a personal favor to fellow Bonesman and longtime intimate pal George
Bush.
The predominance of Yale graduates inside the CIA is also a part of the
Stimson legacy. During World War II, many Yale students and even several
leading faculty members entered the OSS. The X-2 Branch of OSS, the
counterintelligence unit, was dominated by Yale students, as well as Yale
English Literature professor Norman Holmes Pearson. One of the Yale men
in X-2, James Jesus Angleton, went on to a legendary career as director
of the CIA's counterintelligence staff.
Yale Skull & Bonesman and Stimson "Kindergartener" William Bundy assumed
a senior post at CIA during the 1950s, as did Yale graduates Richard
Bissell and Cord Meyer and Yale professor Sherman Kent.
VIETNAM: THE BONESMEN'S DEBACLE
According to author David Halberstam's best-selling critique of the
Kennedy years, "The Best and the Brightest," the JFK presidency marked
the high point of Skull & Bones postwar power. But it also marked the
beginning of the secret fraternity's fall from the position of
unchallenged power, and the beginning of America's precipitous decline as
a world power. All these factors are summed up in one word: Vietnam.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Cabinet was largely handpicked by Skull & Bones
elder statesman Robert Lovett, who was personally approached by Joseph
Kennedy, the president's father, and asked to shape the direction of the
new administration. Lovett had been one of the architects of the World
War II industrial mobilization under President Franklin Roosevelt, which
helped bring the United States out of the Great Depression. He had been a
factional opponent of Averell Harriman within the Skull & Bones circles,
initially opposing the Cold War containment doctrine and pushing the idea
of Atoms for Peace during the early years of the Eisenhower presidency
(l952-1960).
Kennedy had personally asked Lovett to join his Cabinet, but Lovett, a
partner in Brown Brothers Harriman, preferred to shun formal government
service. Instead, he placed a number of younger Bonesmen into the
critical posts. McGeorge Bundy was appointed Kennedy's National Security
Adviser. Averell Harriman was made Under Secretary of State for Asian
Affairs, a position that placed him in charge of many of the most
critical decisions along the way to disaster in Vietnam. William Bundy
remained in a senior post at CIA.
The decision to escalate the American military involvement in Vietnam --
a rejection of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's prophetic warning that the United
States should never engage in a ground war in Asia -- was made by members
of the Order. According to some accounts, President Kennedy began to have
serious second thoughts about escalating the war, particularly after
several private Oval Office discussions with MacArthur.
With Kennedy's assassination, American soldiers began pouring into
Southeast Asia. Harriman remained a fixture of Vietnam policy under
President Lyndon Baines Johnson. McGeorge Bundy remained on as LBJ's
National Security Adviser untill , when he left government service to
assume the presidency of the Ford Foundation, the largest tax-exempt
philanthropic agency in the United States. The Ford Foundation annually
dispenses of nearly $3 billion in grants.
In his capacity as president of the Ford Foundation, Bundy helped finance
the anti-Vietnam War movement. The National Student Mobilization
Committee, the umbrella group for the entire New Left of the late 1960s
and early 1970s, was led by David Dellinger, a Yale graduate. Episcopal
Church activist William Sloan Coffin, a Bonesman, a second leading figure
in the anti-war protest movement, had previously served as a CIA officer.
Thus, the Order had its hands in two critical elements of the policy
debacle of the second half of the 1960s. Some leading Bonesmen helped
shape the disastrous limited war strategy in Vietnam, while other members
of the Order, at least tacitly, contributed to the growth of the drug-
rock-sex counterculture by nourishing the New Left soil from which it
sprang.
As a result of the Vietnam debacle, the "Stimson Kindergarten" literally
drove itself out of the corridors of power which it had occupied without
challenge for the previous 20 years. With the election of Richard Nixon
as president of the United States in November 1968, a different team came
into prominence. The politics of that team were personified by Henry A.
Kissinger, Nixon's National Security Adviser and Secretary of State.
In a May 1982 speech in London at the Chatham House headquarters of the
Royal Institute for International Affairs, Kissinger boasted that he was
an enthusiastic follower of the late British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, and that throughout his years in senior government posts under
Presidents Nixon and Gerald Ford (1974-1976), he had always consulted
more frequently with his counterparts in the British Foreign Office than
he had with officials of his own government.
Although Kissinger had enjoyed early patronage from McGeorge Bundy, when
the Bonesman was Dean of Harvard University and Kennedy's NSC adviser,
the Kissinger era marked a low point in Skull & Bones' government power.
The Central Intelligence Agency, a hub of the Order's clout, was
decimated by scandals that only compounded the damage done to the Agency
as the result of its role in the Vietnam disaster.
According to some respected writers, for example, Jim Hougan, author of
"Secret Agenda," the CIA attempted to reverse the route by helping to
bring down Richard Nixon in Watergate. There is significant evidence to
bolster some of these accounts.
When Gerald Ford became president in August 1974 following Nixon's
resignation, Skull & Bones made a brief comeback. In what came to be
known as the "Saturday Night Massacre," Ford, in the autumn of 1975,
removed Henry Kissinger from his post as NSC Adviser, replacing him with
Gen. Brent Scowcroft. Kissinger ally James Schlesinger was fired as
Secretary of Defense and replaced by Donald Rumsfeld. And CIA Director
William Colby, who had dueled with Angleton, was fired and replaced by
Skull & Bones member George Bush.
If these maneuvers were intended to be the first step in a more ambitious
comeback by the WASP warrior faction, the plan was short-circuited with
the election in November 1976 of Jimmy Carter as president. It would
really not be until the inauguration of George Bush as president in
January 1989 -- a dozen years later -- that Skull & Bones would resurface
with the same degree of governmental power that it had enjoyed during the
Stimson years. George Bush's selection as Ronald Reagan's vice
presidential running mate in the 1980 and 1984 elections was the
transition back to that power.
Many things had gone wrong in the years since Vietnam to drive the
Bonesmen off the center stage. With more than a little input from
Bonesmen like McGeorge Bundy and Averell Harriman, the United States had
gone into a period of scientific, technological and industrial retreat.
The Nixon decision on August 15, 1971 to remove the dollar from a fixed,
gold-backed exchange rate system, had triggered a move toward double-
digit inflation, urban decay, rising unemployment and soaring interest
rates. The Kissinger-orchestrated Iranian-Middle East oil crisis in the
early 1970s had contributed to a rate of deindustrialization that
ultimately transformed the United State from the biggest creditor nation
in the world to the world's biggest debtor nation. According to estimates
compiled around the time of George Bush's inauguration as president, the
total U.S. internal indebtedness had skyrocketed to more than $12
trillion.
Moreover, the period of the 1970s and 1980s had given rise to a new and
powerful political-financial combination demanding a share of government
clout. This new grouping, with its principle power bases in the U.S.
Congress, in Hollywood and on Wall Street, was known as the Zionist
lobby.
Although Jewish names had been prominent in the legal profession and on
Wall Street since the founding of the American republic, in the aftermath
of the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and her Arab neighbors, Zionist
power took on a whole different proportion. Again, Henry Kissinger's
position in the Nixon administration symbolized the fact that the pro-
Israel lobby had moved in with a vengeance to the corridors of power in
the nation's capital. Even on Wall Street the 1970s and 1980s had seen a
new generation of Jewish financiers come into power, replacing their more
cultured and Anglicized predecessors. The WASP Establishment had
developed a tolerance of and working relationship with the largely German
Jewish bankers known among themselves as "Our Crowd." The new upstart
Wall Street Zionists, however, were viewed by the WASPs as a collection
of gangsters.
If the Skull & Bonesmen needed a legitimate justification for reviving
their ever-present dislike of the East European Ashkenazic Jews, the Wall
Street Zionists who became known as the so-called "New Crowd" provided
them with all the excuses necessary. When Jonathan Jay Pollard, a Naval
intelligence analyst, was arrested in November 1985 and charged with
spying for Israel against the United States, there was a resurgence of
more unabashed antisemitism among the Bonesmen and their blueblood
upperclass mates. It has since become a hallmark of the Bush White House.
Even when practical political affairs have demanded that the Bush
administration deal with the American Zionist lobby or the right-wing
Shamir government of Israel, there has been a distinctive undertone of
distrust bordering on overt hostility.
BUSH IN PROFILE
Unlike Averell Harriman, who reportedly coveted personal political power
and drew sharp criticism from some of his fellow Bonesmen, George Bush
has been a long-term "project" of Skull & Bones. The Bush presidency in
real and symbolic terms represents the effort by the Order to restore the
lost spirit of the WASP warrior Henry Stimson. With the passage of time
and the decay of the WASP elite, the Bush presidency may yet prove to be
a tragic replay of past American dreams.
George Bush's career was sponsored every step of the way by Skull & Bones
members, mostly of his father's generation. Prescott Bush (Skull & Bones
Class of 1917), a Brown Brothers Harriman partner who would serve one
term in Congress as senator from Connecticut, sent George to the
traditional private preparatory school, Phillips Academy in Andover, New
Hampshire, which grooms young New England squires for later studies at
Yale.
It was while finishing his prep school training at Andover that Bush was
first exposed to Henry Stimson. Reportedly, Stimson delivered a stirring
patriotic speech to the Phillips student body in l940 arguing forcefully
for American intervention in the war in Europe. Ironically, at that very
moment on the Yale campus, the majority of Skull & Bonesmen were leading
the America First movement, which opposed any such U.S. entanglement in
Europe.
When war with Japan broke out a year later, George Bush enlisted in the
Navy and was trained as a pilot. He flew more than 50 missions before
being shot down in the Pacific. At Yale after the war, Bush captained the
baseball team and followed his father's footsteps into the Order.
Political legends have it that George Bush shunned his family's patronage
and went off on his own to launch a business career as an oil wildcatter,
or speculator, in Texas. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Bush
moved to Texas to work for Dresser Industries selling oil drilling
equipment. The job was arranged for him by his father with Dresser
president Neil Mallon, who was a fellow member of Skull & Bones. Desser,
according to several sources, had close ties with the CIA.
After a few years with Dresser, George Bush set up his own company,
Zapata Oil, to explore new oil fields in Texas and Mexico. Again, Bush
was heavily backed by member of his family. Uncle George Herbert Walker,
also a Skull & Bonesman, put up a large amount of capital, as did Brown
Brothers Harriman. Lazard Brothers, a Jewish brokerage house with
longstanding friendly ties to the New England WASPs, put up some money as
well, at the urging of Andre Meyer, the owner of the Washington Post
Corporation and the father of the current Post publisher Kathanne Graham.
Zapata Oil sunk the first offshore well for the Kuwaiti government.
Even with that kind of backing, George Bush was less than a success as a
businessman. In 1964, a longtime Bush friend, William Farrish III of
Scotland, bought the majority of shares in Zapata for $3.2 million to
keep the business afloat, while George, in a major career shift, ran for
U.S. Congress from a wealthy district in Houston, Texas. He won.
During his three terms in Congress (Bush lost the 1970 Senate race to
Lloyd Bentsen), George Bush distinguished himself as an advocate of zero
population growth and a defender of the eugenics movement. Both of these
positions, radical for their day, were probably the result of Bush's
close friendship with William Draper Jr. -- a fellow Bonesman and a
longtime advocate of population reduction schemes in the Third World.
The 1970s were for George Bush years of grooming in high-level politics
and foreign policy. During the Nixon re-election campaign of 1972, George
Bush was the chairman of the Republican National Committee. He later
joined the chorus calling for Nixon's resignation. After a tour as the
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Bush was sent off to Communist
China as the Chief Liaison Officer prior to the formalization of
diplomatic relations. Bush shared the Beijing experience with Winston
Lord, a fellow Skull & Bones member who was the CIA station chief. Lord
went on to become president of the New York Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR) in 1983. (The Lord family founded the city of Hartford,
Connecticut, has a large number of Skull & Bones members on its family
tree, and set up one of the most powerful old-line Wall Street law firms,
Lord Day Lord.) In 1975, George Bush completed his "grooming" with a
brief stint as Gerald Ford's CIA director.
In 1980, Bush ran a short-lived campaign against Ronald Reagan for the
Republican Party's presidential nomination. Future running mate Reagan
cut short Bush's 1980 presidential hopes by defeating him soundly in the
primary election in New Hampshire, in the heart of New England. Reagan
blasted Bush for his membership in the internationalist Trilateral
Commission, which had attained notoriety because 20 members of the
unpopular Carter administration had served on the commission. Bush's
campaign was otherwise noteworthy because a significant number of his
campaign volunteers were CIA officials; his campaign organization was
directed by six top Agency and Pentagon retirees.
THE ORDER'S NETWORK
With Bush in the White House, the WASP Establishment is seeking to re-
conquer lost territory, not only within the domain of national politics,
but within the financial community, the legal profession and big
business. A struggle between some elements of the WASP crowd and the
Jewish "New Crowd" on Wall Street has been playing out in the newspapers
and federal courts for the past six years, beginning with the criminal
indictments of junk bond dealers Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken and the
bankrupting and criminal prosecuting of the powerful Zionist-run
brokerage house Drexel Rurnham Lambert.
To some extent these wars reflect the kind of scramble that always takes
place during a financial crisis and shakeout, when certain formerly
powerful financial institutions are wiped out and others profit from
their rivals' adversity. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the
House of Morgan came out on top. Not coincidentally, Morgan Guaranty
Trust and Morgan Stanley have been cornerstones of the Skull & Bones
grouping on Wall Street since their founding during the last century.
Founding partner Harold Stanley was a Bonesman.
One hub of the Order's postwar economic power, the major multinational
oil corporations, have clearly benefited greatly from President Bush's
"charming little colonial war" in the Persian Gulf. The leading oil
companies which are linked to the Order are: Standard Oil Trust
Corporation, Shell Oil of America, Creole Petroleum Corporation and
Pennzoil Corporation. The founder and present chairman of the board of
Pennzoil started out in the oil business in partnership with George Bush
in Zapata Oil. It is interesting to note in the context of the Bonesmen's
deep involvement in the world petroleum business that George Bush, during
his early days as a Texas oilman, had worked closely with the Kuwaitis.
Eight major Wall Street and Washington, D.C. law firms stand out as
practically wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Order of Skull & Bones. Each
of these firms was founded by members of the Order, and each of these
firms continues to provide up-and-coming Order initiates in the legal
community with training, credentials and connections. A review of the
major corporate clients of these firms would reveal many of the most
powerful companies among the Fortune 500.
The Skull & Bones law firms are:
* Lord Day Lord
* Davis Polk Wardwell
* Simpson Thacher Bartlett
* Debevoise Plimpton Lyons & Gates
* Cravath Swaine & Moore
* Covington & Burling
* Dewey Ballantine Palmer & Woods
* Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.
In addition to their corporate clientele and their direct involvement in
government through the frequent appointment of partners to Cabinet posts,
these firms also specialize in handling the personal financial affairs
and investment portfolios of the leading WASP families. In this respect,
the Skull & Bones-centered WASP Establishment imitates the Venetian
model. During the height of power of Venice, which was the trading
capital of the Byzantine Empire, the leading families used their personal
wealth to establish insurance companies, family funds and cultural
programs through which they extended their political power.
Today, the prominent law firms listed above play a special role in
directing the affairs of the leading tax-exempt foundations which shape
the culture and public opinion of the United States and many foreign
countries. We have already seen that McGeorge Bundy, a leading Bonesman,
left his position as National Security Adviser to President Lyndon
Johnson in 1966 to assume the presidency of the Ford Foundation. During
the nearly two decades that Bundy spent directing the $3 billion tax-
exempt fund, he arguably wielded more power than he did during his six
years as the National Security Adviser to two presidents. Under the Bundy
reign the Ford Foundation spent hundreds of millions of dollars to launch
the environmentalist movement and funded scores of projects devoted to
population reduction in the Third World.
From its early decades, the Order has concentrated much of its efforts at
establishing, controlling and, in some instances, capturing the major
tax-exempt philanthropic foundations of America. The Russell Sage
Foundation, which specializes in "social control" programs, was founded
by Bonesmen. Among the leading functions of the Russell Sage Foundation
today is the maintaining of a centralized tracking of the finances of all
the large tax-exempt foundations in the United Sta
es. The Peabody Foundation, the Slater Foundation and several of the
Rockefeller foundations were all either started by members of the Order
or have been dominated by Bonesmen from their inception. Other major
family funds, like the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment, were
wrestled from family control by the Skull & Bones apparatus. During the
tenure of McGeorge Bundy, two members of the Ford family resigned from
the Ford Foundation in disgust over the direction in which Bundy had
taken the philanthropic agency.
THE NEW WORLD ORDER
Between 1983-1986, the British-born conspiracy theorist Antony Sutton
wrote a series of pamphlets about the Order of Skull & Bones. According
to informed sources, Sutton was one of several historians who were
provided with a large file of the Order's internal documents, including
minutes of some meetings, descriptions of rituals, and what would appear
to be a rather complete list of its members from its founding through to
the early 1980s. The short pamphlets were compiled into one volume and
published as a book in 1986.
For someone closely following the just-concluded Persian Gulf War and
attempting to gain some insight into George Bush's performance during
that largely orchestrated affair, one recurring theme in the Sutton
volume stands out like a sore thumb: the New World Order.
According to the Skull & Bones documents used by Sutton in his somewhat
flawed profile of the Order, the creation of a New World Order is a
primary goal of the Bonesmen and has been for decades. For the initiates
into the Order, the term New World Order has a very specific meaning.
It is a world dominated by American military power and American control
over all strategic raw materials. Just as the Greek city-state of Sparta
provided the Skull & Bones with the image of a WASP warrior caste, the
Persian Empire, with its system of coalitions of satrap armies, provides
the model for the Bonesmen's New World Order. The image of Secretary of
State James A. Baker III traveling from foreign capital to foreign
capital demanding military legions or chests of gold to finance the war
for a New World Order is an image straight out of the chronicles of the
Persian Empire.
According to the recent biography of Henry Stimson, the man who inspired
President Bush was firmly convinced that it was essential for America to
go to war once every generation or so. It was, for Stimson, a spiritually
cleansing process which enables the nation to rally behind a cause and
overcome its weaknesses and shortcomings in one grand burst of military
fervor. The romantic mystique of the purgative powers of combat is key to
understanding the political philosophy of Skull & Bones.
Although America's Vietnam debacle remains a bitter memory of the
Bonesmen's failure in war, the recent Persian Gulf conflict, with its
massive overkill and the use of highly advanced weapons and technologies,
is now the new glorious symbol of the WASP warrior caste's reincarnation.
When President Bush vowed that the Gulf War would not be another Vietnam,
he was speaking first and foremost to his fellow Bonesmen -- not to the
American people. If such thinking smacks of dangerous fantasy on the part
of a major world power in the modern era, it is indeed.
On a more practical political level, the Gulf War was a gambit to save
the Bush presidency from a mounting pile of domestic financial woes, not
the least of which was the savings and loan (S&L) crisis and a pending
series of failures of major commercial banks. In the months preceding the
Gulf showdown, the president's own son, Neil Bush, came under intense
media scrutiny for his role in the failure of a large S&L in Colorado.
Neil's photograph, testifying under oath before a congressional committee
probing fraud among top S & L managers, became a familiar front-page
feature in every major newspaper in America, threatening dangerous
popular disillusion with the Yale Bonesman in the White House. With a
U.S. federal government deficit projected at nearly a half a trillion
dollars for Fiscal Year 1991, in large part because of the S&L crisis and
a shrinking business tax base, the Democratic Party majority in the U.S.
Congress was pressing for deep cutbacks in defense spending now that the
Cold War had ended.
On the international stage, the reunification of Germany, clearly the
most dramatic event of 1990, posed new challenges to the Bush team.
Germany was about to emerge as the dominant power in continental Europe
by virtue of its advanced industrial infrastructure and its long
tradition of independent political dealings with Moscow. Just months
before the outbreak of the Gulf crisis, Germany's Chancellor Helmut Kohl
had met with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and signed a long term
economic assistance pact. As a result, Gorbachev dropped all remaining
objections to the immediate reunification of Germany.
At that point, the Bush administration changed its tactics. Previously,
in sharp contrast to the Thatcher government in Great Britain, it had
been nominally in favor of German reunification. But at the Houston
economic summit of the Group of Seven Industrialized Countries in the
summer of 1990, the United States blocked (with Britain) Germany's plan
of unconditional economic aid to the Soviet Union. President Bush took
the position that the Soviet Union must submit to International Monetary
Fund requisites as a precondition for any substantive economic
assistance.
In the Far East, Japan's continuing growth in manufacturing also posed a
threat to Washington's desire to retain superpower status. If President
Bush and his Bonesmen coterie were unaware of a stunning historical
analogy, their British "cousins" were quick to pick up on the parallels
between the global strategic situation in July 1990 and the identical
international situation that existed 100 years earlier.
In the 1890s, France, under the brilliant political leadership of Foreign
Minister Gabriel Hanataux, was attempting to forge a Eurasian alliance
with Germany, Russia and Meiji Japan. The idea was to link continental
Europe with Japan and China through a series of large overland
infrastructure projects, beginning with the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
Through treaties covering key areas of economic and security matters,
Hanataux hoped to create a zone of prosperity, built on a foundation of
rapid economic growth and extensive trade.
Such a political-economic common interest alliance threatened the
imperial hegemony of Great Britain. At the turn of the 20th century,
Britain looked to the United States (as its English-speaking ally) to
join in sabotaging the Hanataux plan. Through the Spanish-American War of
1898 and the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, Britain and her American junior
partner (by then led by Henry Stimson's old mentor Teddy Roosevelt)
managed to disrupt the French-German-Russian-Japanese economic axis. Two
world wars and the Great Depression were the consequences of that
interference.
THE PERSIAN GULF WAR
It was against this historical backdrop that President Bush, invoking the
World War II imagery of his Skull & Bones idol Henry Stimson, went to war
against Iraq. There is even speculation that President Bush was
personally instrumental in luring Saddam Hussein into invading Kuwait,
thereby provoking the American-led military response. Many news accounts
have emphasized that a two-hour private meeting between the president and
Margaret Thatcher in the Aspen, Colorado vacation chalet of U.S.
Ambassador Henry Catto on August 2, 1990 helped finalize Bush's decision
to immediately deploy military force.
Recently, an astute Japanese analyst drew a disturbing parallel between
Bush and FDR, who was greatly influenced by Stimson. According to the
writer, FDR lured Japan into World War II through an intricate series of
economic warfare maneuvers which left Japan with little choice but to
strike-back. In much the same way, said the analyst, Bush had lured
Saddam Hussein into Kuwait in order to launch a new Gulf War that would
have consequences reaching far beyond Iraq and the Middle East.
As a result of the military victory over Iraq, the United States is in
the process of establishing a string of permanent military bases
throughout the Persian Gulf and Near East. The oil sheikdoms of the
region, led by Saudi Arabia, are now thoroughly dependent on the American
military presence to ensure the survival of their regimes. The
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is effectively
captured by Washington. American bankers aided by U.S. gunboats now are
setting world oil prices. Thus, one consequence of the Persian Gulf War
is that the United States now has an oil weapon -- pointed principally at
Germany and Japan. Ironically, America's two chief economic rivals have
paid out a total of $27 billion to date to help finance a Bush
administration military adventure which put the oil weapon in
Washington's hand.
Another telling example of how the Order's man in the Oval Office intends
to administer a crumbling U.S. domestic economy while imposing the New
World Order on the rest of the world is to be found in the recent buyout
of the majority of stock in Citicorp, the largest U.S. commercial bank,
by Saudi Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz. Citicorp is one of the major
American commercial banks on the verge of collapse, but which is
considered by the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve System to
be "too big to fall." The stock purchase amounted to a Saudi Royal Family
bail-out of Citicorp, using the increased profits being enjoyed by the
House of Saud as a result of the massive jump in Saudi oil production
since the beginning of the Gulf crisis in August 1990.
There points up a striking difference between the role of the United
States in World War II and the Bush administration's handling to date of
the Middle East crisis. During World War II, the United States went
through a genuine economic revival. Skull & Bones historian Samuel
Huntington described it as a "neo Hamiltonian" policy, a reference to the
first United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
Beginning in 1939, America became a major supplier of military and
industrial goods under the Lend-Lease program to the European states
fighting Hitler. At the same time, the federal government began issuing
low-interest credits to revive the nation's manufacturing base which had
been gutted by a decade of economic depression. The industrial buildup
accelerated once the United States formally entered .World War II,
leading to the establishing of entirely new industrial sectors, such as
aerospace and petrochemicals.
This time around -- at least to date -- there has been no such marshaling
of the U.S. domestic industrial base. Despite moderate increases in the
production of certain high-tech weapons systems, the U.S. economy
continues its gradual slide into what could be a new depression.
Unemployment is greater than at any point in the last decade. Some
sociologists fear that the complete disintegration of America's urban
centers could produce new race-riots as early as the summer of 1991.
The single greatest challenge to George Bush and the Order is: Can they
capitalize on the current revival of the American spirit to reverse the
disastrous post-industrial society dogmas, and launch their own version
of the World War II neo-Hamiltonian industrial recovery? So far, some
doomsayers claim, it appears that Bush and his administration plan
instead to direct their efforts at looting and blackmailing the rest of
the world -- especially the gulf oil sheikdoms, Japan and Germany -- into
bailing out the bankrupt U.S. financial houses and federal government and
financing the posting of American-led foreign legions at every corner of
the globe where there are large deposits of strategic raw materials. If
this policy is not altered, George Bush may soon find himself presiding
over a new disaster that will make the Vietnam debacle appear
insignificant in comparison.
The politics of the New World Order appear to be borrowed largely from
the pages of the decline and fall of the British Empire. Political
columnist Patrick Buchanan, an early vocal opponent of the Bush Persian
Gulf strategy, warned as early as August 1990 that the White House was
falling into the trap of British "balance of power" politics, the very
politics that left Great Britain on the scrap heap of world powers at the
close of World War II, and put Winston Churchill, the architect of World
War II and the Cold War, out of a job.
Since the crushing military defeat of Iraq by a technologically far
superior American-led coalition, the Bush administration has vacillated
on a postwar policy for the region. It has pursued a pragmatic power
balancing game which is rife with potential problems. The two key
elements of the American balance-of-power politics in the region are the
preservation of a weakened but territorially whole Iraq to offset the
other would-be regional-powers Iran and Syria. At the same time, it is
tilting toward a nominally more "pro-Arab" position with regard to the
Arab-Israeli conflict.
While the harsh reparations terms being imposed upon a war-devastated
Iraq are probably, in the mind of Bush, aimed at dissuading any future
regional military power from launching-cross-border aggressions, they
amount to the slow, excruciating extermination of the population of that
country. As one seasoned observer noted recently, earlier air wars had
caused greater immediate losses of life, due to the inaccuracy of bombs
and rockets, but had generally left basic infrastructures intact. The
precision bombing of Iraq's entire infrastructure has caused what a
United Nations team has called an "apocalypse." The greater loss of life
will occur in the aftermath of the combat as a country with 16 million
inhabitants is suddenly thrown into a "pre-industrial" state with no
electricity, no water or other necessities. American humanitarian aid,
administered by occupying troops, will not offset this apocalypse --
especially if harsh war reparations and asset seizures deprive Iraq of
the financial resources needed to begin a rebuilding process.
Regardless of the fact that the United States has not thrown the full
weight of its military presence behind the overthrow of the Saddam
Hussein regime, the shortsightedness of the present Bush policy may very
well lead to a Lebanon-type protracted civil war in Iraq. Such a war
could potentially spread throughout the region.
IMPLICATIONS FOR JAPAN
Throughout this short study of the Order of Skull & Bones, emphasis has
been placed on the philosophy, the rituals and the modus operandi of the
Bonesmen who have devoted their post-Yale careers to world politics. This
particular emphasis was chosen in order to provide the Japanese reader
with an insight into how the Bush presidency views the rest of the world,
so that it will be possible for Japan to better understand what it faces
in the post-Persian Gulf War strategic environment.
The implications of Skull & Bones domination over American policymaking
under the Bush presidency are enormous. Japan must be prepared to meet
what amounts to a fundamentally new challenge. Few of the postwar
experiences in U.S. Japanese relations will have prepared the Japanese
government and the leaders of Japanese industry and finance for-what they
now face.
In the recent past, the policy of Washington toward Japan has been simply
to use political leverage, mostly related to Japan's regional security
concerns, to exact compromises and concessions in the economic and
financial sphere. But the United States, under its policy of free trade,
privatization of the monetary and credit mechanisms, and the transition
to post-industrial service-oriented forms of economic activity at home,
has suffered a gradual but steady decline over the past 20 to 30 years.
Japan, meanwhile, has prospered under a more protectionist and industry
oriented policy.
In the past decade, Japan has been increasingly thrust into the role of
scapegoat for the decline of American prosperity, while at the same time
coming under mounting pressure to help finance the United States out of
its economic mess. The pressures upon Japan to bail out its postwar big
brother have caused tensions between Washington and Tokyo, but the Cold
War had provided a common security interest that generally offset the
occasional rough language.
Under the George Bush Skull & Bones regime at the White House all that
has changed. True to the Bonesmen's credo of constructive chaos and
global political domination by the WASP Establishment, the United States
is now out to dominate U.S.-Japanese relations with a degree of brutal
frankness that will fly in the face of all previous American
sensitivities to Japan's honor. Gone are the days of former U.S.
Ambassador Michael Mansfield, who always sought to maintain a public
climate of friendship and cooperation between the two nations even when
behind the scenes he was taking the toughest of stands on the most
divisive issues.
Under the American-led New World Order, Japan can expect to be treated
with far less respect publicly. It can expect that the Bush
administration, including his coterie of former top CIA men now working
directly out of the Oval Office, will be constantly interfering, covertly
in the internal affairs of Nippon.
This shift in style has held sway since the Bush inauguration and the
subsequent appointment of Michael Armacost as U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo.
Armacost has assumed the posture of a Roman pro-consul, dictating policy
to a weak satrap, rather than to engage, in diplomatic dialogue.
Armacost's performance even before the recent events in the Persian Gulf
reestablished American military might as the defining factor in world
affairs -- should have provided the Japanese leadership with a clue as to
the shift under way in Washington's new policy approach.
The Bush policy can best be described as a sophisticated containment
policy. The new approach to Pacific affairs was telegraphed in the early
days of the Bush administration when the president deployed three of his
most trusted senior spooks to three critical Asian diplomatic posts:
Armacost was sent to Tokyo; Bush's vice presidential national security
aide and former career CIA operator Donald Gregg was sent to Seoul; and
John Lilly, another career CIA man and a fellow Yale Skull & Bones
member, was sent to Beijing. The fact that three of the CIA's most
experienced clandestine field operators were assigned the senior
diplomatic posts says a great deal about the Bush administration's
intentions to conduct sophisticated political-warfare and sow confusion
among the three major nations of the Far East. Bush clearly intends to
pursue the historic Skull & Bones mission of extending America's dominion
over the entire Pacific region. The idea of even paying lip service to
equal partnership between Washington and Tokyo is over, at least for the
time being.
The process of internally weakening Japan's resistance to this
overarching domination by Washington's New World Order began with the
Recruit scandal, when the Takeshita government was brought down through a
U.S.-inspired secret intelligence operation. One of the primary targets
of that operation was Yashuhiro Nakasone, the former prime minister and
the architect of Japan's post-1973 effort to develop independent ties to
the oil-producing Arab states of the Persian Gulf.
It is important to understand that Bush's WASP warriors, while adopting a
similar approach of non-compromise and domination over Israel and the
Zionist lobby inside the United States, will not hesitate to use the
Jewish lobby as an instrument for bashing Japan into line. Thus, Commerce
Secretary Robert Mosbacher went out of his way to encourage the Anti-
Defamation League's leadership convention, which he addressed last year,
to join with the Bush administration in pressuring Japan to submit to
American free trade demands.
The Bush administration will at times encourage the Zionist lobby and
Israel to mercilessly attack Japan and will at other times severely
criticize Zionist "insensitivity" to Tokyo. This will all be part of the
Bush strategy to dominate the Pacific Rim by playing one country or
faction off against another, using hard cop-soft cop and other classic
techniques of the intelligence trade.
Japan will be offered a limited junior partner status in the New World
Order, while coming under mounting pressure to continue providing tribute
to finance the American imperium. Above all else, Japan will be forbidden
from developing any independent foreign policy toward its neighbors, the
Soviet Union, the Arab world or anyone else. Such programs as the Global
Infrastructure Fund, to the extent that they pose an alternative to the
U.S.-dominated international regime, will be vetoed.
As a subservient junior partner in the New World Order arrangement,
Japan's financial and economic muscle will be used as the piggy-bank for
U.S. imperial objectives. The $14 billion "contribution" to the U.S.-led
Gulf-War coalition was another benchmark in the transition in U.S.-
Japanese relations, as was President Bush's abrupt cancellation of his
long-sheduled state visit to Tokyo. When the chairman of the Liberal
Democratic Party (LDP) attempted to visit Kuwait immediately after the
gulf cease-fire in March l991, the U.S. State Department refused to grant
him permission to go into the American-occupied territory. These
intentional diplomatic affronts should be understood as telling signs of
the new American-Japanese relationship.
On the other-hand, President Bush also suddenly scheduled a brief summit
with Japanese Prime Minister Kaifu in Newport Beach, California for April
4, 1991. One purpose of the sudden meeting was to lay out clear
parameters of acceptable behavior on the part of the Japanese government
when the prime minister meets later in April with Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev. Japanese Soviet relations, like all other crucial
Japanese foreign relations, will be expected to conform with those of the
U.S.
An essential blackmail "stick" that the Bush administration intends to
hold over Tokyo is-Japanese dependency on Persian Gulf oil. As-the result
of the Gulf War and the post war American military occupation of Kuwait,
Saudi Arabia and other-key oil-producing sheikdoms, the Bush
administration will exert unabashed control over world oil supplies --
and prices. In the New World Order, Japan's oil supply will be
increasingly linked to concessions on a range of monetary and economic
issues, including the Global Agreements on Trade and Tariffs (GATT)
talks, which broke up last year as the result of largely Japanese and
continental European resistance to the pure free-trade system sought by
Bush and Thatcher. Assistant Treasury Secretary David Mulford, a former
senior official at White Weld Securities, Inc., which restructured Saudi
Arabia's entire financial apparatus, has recently announced that he will
seek to prosecute Japan for its violations of the GATT regulations that
call upon Tokyo to surrender government control over interest rate
policies to the international banking community.
The Bush presidency, with its ambitious drive for domination over former
friends and foes alike, poses an unprecedented challenge to Japan. While
this is neither the time nor the place to offer a solution to the growing
dilemma, the profile of the men of Skull & Bones in this white paper
should provide the Japanese reader with helpful insights into the nature
of the American WASP warrior class and the secret society which spawned
it.
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Winter, 1990.
Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. Random House, New York,
1969.
Hodgson, Godfrey. The Colonel: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson. Alfred
Knopf, New York, 1990.
Isaacson, Walter and Evan Thomas. The Wisemen: Six Friends and the World
They Made. Simon and Schuster, New York, l986.
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Russell Trust Association, New Haven, Conn., 1949.
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Magazine, September, 1977.
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January 30, 1980.
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Octagon Press, New York, 1949
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Order of Skull and Bones. Liberty Press, Billings, Mont., 1986.
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New York, 1987.
Some Prominent Members of Skull & Bones:
William F. Buckley, Jr. (Bones Class of 1950):
Founder of National Review, the leading conservative magazine in the
United States. Brother James (Skull & Bones l944) is now a member of the
U.S. Court of Appeals. William F. Buckley, Jr., former CIA officer in
Mexico, also built the political grassroots conservative movement in the
U.S. in the 1960s. President Bush and Buckley have recently split over
Buckley's strong pro-lsraelism.
McGeorge Bundy (Skull & Bones initiate of 1940):
Scion of the Skull & Bones Bundy family. Father Harvey H. Bundy was Skull
& Bones, as was brother William P. Bundy. McGeorge served in the War
Department during World War II as Henry Stimson's assistant and later
became the National Security Adviser to President Kennedy. William Bundy
became a CIA official and later served in key positions at the
Departments of State and Defense. McGeorge headed the Ford Foundation
(1968-1980) and William chaired the Council on Foreign Relations (1972-
1983).
George Bush (initiated in 1948):
President of the United States. Comes from a complete Bones family.
Father Prescott, a Bones initiate of the class of 1917. Uncle George
Herbert Walker, Bones Class of 1927. U S Federal District Court Judge
John Walker is also a relative and a Bonesman.
Alfred Cowles (Class of 1913):
Built the Cowles Communication empire based on the Des Moines (lowa)
Register and the Minneapolis (Minnesota) Star and Tribune. These two
newspapers play a significant role in shaping the early presidential
primaries, especially in Iowa.
Hugh Cunningham (Bones 1934):
CIA man from 1947 to 1973. He served in top positions in the Clandestine
Services, the Board of National Estimates and later as Director of
Training.
Thomas Daniels (initiated in 1914):
Founder of the largest agro-business and grain cartel company in
Minnesota -- Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM). Served in the Foreign Service
and later during World War II as head of the Fats and Oils Section of the
War Production Board. ADM Corporation's new head Dwayne Andreas is one of
the most powerful figures in U.S.-Soviet trade relations. Daniels's only
son, John (Bones 1943), also works in ADM. The bank which underwrites ADM
stock issues is the Morgan Stanley investment bank
Richard Ely Danielson (Skull & Bones 1907):
Past publisher of the Atlantic Monthly magazine, one of the leading
magazines for seeing which policy line on a variety of issues is coming
out of the Eastern Establishment.
Russell Wheeler Davenport (initiated in 1923):
Fortune magazine writer and editor, made this magazine the leading
authority on financial matters in the United States. Davenport created
the Fortune 500 companies list.
Henry P. Davison (Bones Class of l920):
Key senior partner in the Morgan banking and financial trust networks.
His fellow Bonesman Harold Stanley (1908) founded the investment bank
Morgan Stanley. Davison and his family helped set up the Guaranty Trust
Corporation which became Morgan Guaranty Thomas Cochran (1904 Bonesman)
was one of the most powerful partners in the Morgan bank. The influence
of the Morgan banking system can be seen in its relationship with the
hierarchy of U.S. intelligence. The head of the Office of Strategic
Services, Gen. William Donovan, worked as a Morgan intelligence operative
in the 1920s and prepared the intelligence reports for the Morgan banking
concerns on developments in Europe. F. Trubee Davison became CIA Director
of Personnel in 1951 and placed key Bonesmen in the right positions
inside the CIA.
Averell Harriman (1913 initiate):
Scion of the Harriman railroad family. His brother Roland (Skull & Bones
1917) ran the investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman. Averell was one of
the most powerful members of the Skull & Bones fraternity, His government
posts ranged from Ambassador to Russia during World War II and various
State Department positions to chief negotiator on the Vietnam Talks.
Confidential adviser to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson
and later Nixon and Carter. His investment banking firm is virtually a
Skull & Bones bank&Mac220;nine senior partners are from Skull & Bones.
President Bush's father worked in Brown Brothers Harriman after helping
to merge several companies in the United Rubber Corporation of America.
Winston Lord (Bones Class of 1959):
Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations (1983-l988). Former State
Department official and CIA officer in Asia. China expert. Six members of
the Lord family were Skull & Bones, including Charles Edwin Lord, former
Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury. Oswald Bates
Lord (Skull & Bones l926) married Mary Pillsbury of the Minnesota based
Pillsbury Flour Corporation. Winston Lord is their son.
Robert A. Lovett (1918 initiate):
Put together the Brown Brothers Harriman merger and later organized the
aviation industry mobilization for World War II. Became part of the most
exclusive power group in World War II under Henry Stimson. Lovett was one
of the five or six most powerful men in the United States for nearly 40
years until his death in 1986.
Henry Luce (initiated in 1920):
Built the Time-Life publishing empire. Became the leading publicist of
the "American century" doctrine.
Dino Pionzio (Bones Class of 1950):
CIA deputy chief of station in Chile during the overthrow of Chilean
President Salvador Allende. Now works at the investment firm Dillion
Read.
Alphonso Taft (initiated in 1833):
Secretary of War (1876), Attorney General (1876-1877) and later Minister
to Austria and Russia. Co-founder of Skull & Bones.
Robert A. Taft (1910 initiate):
Speaker of the House of Representatives (1921-1926) and Senator (R-Ohio).
Leader of the Isolationist movement in the 1930s. His son Robert A. Taft,
Jr., also senator from Ohio, led the right-wing of the Republican Party
in the 1950s and 1960s. Robert A. Taft, Jr., however, was the only member
of the Taft family who was not Skull & Bones.
William H. Taft (Skull & Bones 1878):
President of the United States (1908-1912) and appointed Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court (1921-1930). Secretary of War (1904-1908). Trustee,
Carnegie Institution. Part of the long line of Tafts who served in the
U.S. government.
William Collins Whitney (initiated 1863):
Secretary of the Navy (1885-1889). Promoter of the Naval Shipyards and
financier. Part of the Whitney family which sent eight of its members to
Yale to become Skull & Bonesmen. Family intermarried with the Payne,
Harriman and Vanderbilt clans. The Whitneys became some of Wall Street's
most powerful financiers through the Guaranty and Knickerbocker Trust
Companies.
Current U.S. senators who are Skull & Bones members:
Sen. Jonathan Bingham (D-N.M.).
Sen. David Boren (D-Okla.) is chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee.
Sen. John Chafee (R-R.I.); Former Navy Secretary and on the Senate
Intelligence Committee.
Sen. John Heinz (R-Pa.): Recently killed in an airplane crash. was a
Bonesman as was his father. The Heinz family has one of the largest food-
producing companies in the world.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.): Formerly on the Senate Intelligence Committee,
Kerry is now on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Selected Quotations:
-- During the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962, two Skull & Bones
advisers to President Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy and Robert Lovett, met in
the west wing of the White House to discuss strategy. According to author
Godfrey Hodgson, there was a photograph of master Bonesman Henry L.
Stimson, their mentor, on Lundy's desk. "All during the conversation the
old Colonel seemed to be staring me straight in the face," recalled
Lovett. Finally, he said to Bundy, "Mac, I think the best service we can
perform for the president is to try to approach this as Colonel Stimson
would."
-- At the Potsdam summit in 1946 when President Truman first met Soviet
dictator Josef Stalin, Stimson told the president: "The chief lesson I
have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man
trustworthy is to trust him."
-- Commenting on the plan of Robert Morgenthau, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt's Treasury Secretary, to deindustrialize Germany after World
War II, Stimson wrote: ". . . just such a crime as the Germans themselves
hoped to perpetrate on their victims . . . a crime against civilization
itself?" He added rather ironically that the plan was like "a beautiful
Nazi program! This is to laugh!"
-- "They possessed a common background, common experience, and a common
liking for old wines, proper English and Savile Row clothing," wrote the
biographer of former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew. A top level
diplomat and State Department powerhouse during the first half of the
20th century, Bonesman Hugh Wilson adds, "The Foreign Service [is] a
pretty good club."
-- "These men helped establish a distinguished network connecting Wall
Street, Washington, worthy foundations and proper clubs," wrote historian
and former JFK aide Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "The New York financial and
legal community was the heart of the American Establishment. Its
household deities were Henry L. Stimson and Elihu Root; its present
leaders, Robert A. Lovett and John J. McCloy; its front organizations,
the Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie foundations and the Council on Foreign
Relations."
-- British author Godfrey Hodgson stated in an essay on the American
Establishment that it was "characteristic of these men to take on the
burdens of world power with a certain avidity... It reflected a grim but
grand duty that was a legacy from half-buried layer of New England
Puritanism."
-- Averell Harriman's father, owner of the largest railroad company in
the United States at the turn of the century, told his son: "Great wealth
is an obligation and responsibility. Money must work for the country."
-- "I scoffed at Harvard's Porcellian club. It was too smug. But to get
into Bones, you had to do something for Yale, wrote Averell Harriman. He
would frequently return to the "Tomb on High Street." During the Paris
Peace Conference on the Vietnam War, Harriman was quite upset about not
being able to attend a "Bones Reunion." In the book The Wise Men,
Harriman is described as willing to talk openly about national security
affairs, but "he refused, however, to tell [even] his family anything
about Bones... so complete was his trust in Bones's code of secrecy..."
-- Stimson during the liberation of France in 1944 wrote about the need
for France's reconstruction following the Nazi occupation of France:
"America cannot supervise the elections of a great country like France.
Consequently, we must eventually leave the execution of the State
Department formula to the French themselves... where we ourselves will
assume responsibility in part or more for its execution according to
Anglo-Saxon ideals."
-- Stimson on Austria and Germany following World War II: "They [the
British] haven't any grasp apparently of the underlying need of proper
economic arrangements to make peace stick... If they restore Austria to
her position in which she was left by the Versailles arrangement 25 years
ago, why they would reduce her to a non-self-sustaining state [is beyond
me]... Central Europe after the war has got to eat. She has got to be
free of tariffs in order to eat."
-- Stimson was "opposed to a Carthaginian Peace" in which Germany was
reduced to a non functioning society. He wrote, "The Ruhr and Saarland...
[must not] be turned into a second rate industrial land . . . regardless
of what it means to Germany... [rather] to the welfare of the entire
continent "
-- In 1948, the debate within the U.S. government over the creation of
the state of Israel was reaching critical intensity. President Truman was
the "dark horse" candidate to defeat the Republican nominee, Thomas
Dewey. Truman thought he needed the Jewish groups to mobilize in his
support in order to get elected. He also believed that after so many
years of suffering and persecution, the Jews deserved a homeland of their
own. However, his most trusted foreign policy advisers, George Marshall,
Dean Acheson and Robert Lovett, were, according to the book The Wise Men,
"all dead set against the birth of Israel... However humanitarian a
Jewish homeland might seem... it posed a real risk to U.N. national
security. It was absolutely vital that the U.S. maintain its pipeline to
Mideast oil. Supporting the Zionist cause would only antagonize the
Arabs." Lovett said, "Israel was one ally too many "
-- On Japan, Stimson and McGeorge Bundy wrote their book On Active
Service in Peace and War: "Since 1937, when the Japanese attacked China,
Stimson had been urging, as a private citizen, an embargo on all American
trade with Japan, and this attitude he carried with him into the Cabinet
[when he became Secretary of War]." Stimson prepared a memorandum in 1940
pointing out how Japan had yielded before American firmness, in her
withdrawal from Shantung and Siberia in 1919 and her acceptance of naval
inferiority in 1921. "Japan," Stimson wrote, "has historically shown that
she can misinterpret a pacifistic policy of the United States for
weakness. She has also historically shown that when the United States
indicates by clear language and bold actions that she intends to carry
out a clear and affirmative policy in the Far East, Japan will yield to
that policy even though it conflicts with her own Asiatic policy and
conceived interests. For the United States now to indicate either by soft
words or inconsistent actions that she has no such clear and definite
policy towards the Far East will only encourage Japan to bolder action."
-- On December 7, 1941, Stimson wrote in his diary: "When the news first
came that Japan had attacked us, my first feeling was of relief that the
indecision was over and that crisis had come in a way which would unite
all our people. This continued to be my dominant feeling in spite of the
news of catastrophes which quickly developed. For I feel that this
country united has practically nothing to fear, while the apathy and
division stirred by unpatriotic men have been hitherto very
discouraging."
-- On the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Stimson wrote in
an article for Harper's Weekly in 1947: "My chief purpose was to end the
war in victory with the least possible cost in the lives of men in the
armies which I had helped to raise. In the light that no man, in our
position and subject to our responsibilities, holding in his hands a
weapon of such possibilities for accomplishing this purpose and saving
those lives, could have failed to use it and afterwards looked his
countrymen in the face."
-- At the Truman White House in the presence of Secretary of State James
Byrnes, Adm. Leahy and Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, according
to his biographer: "Stimson had argued consistently for a commitment to
allow the Japanese to keep their Emperor, not because- with the memory of
Manchuria in his mind he had any special sympathy for him, but because
only the Emperor could persuade the Japanese to surrender and therefore
save American lives."
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Skull and bones links
Tim Russert asks the President Sunday (2/08/2004) about Skull and Bones
and the President confirms he is a member by saying he can't talk about.
Part of the transcript below.
http://www.infowars.com/print/Secret_societies/kerry_bush_sb.htm
President Bush: Politics. I mean, this is—you know, if you close your
eyes and listen carefully to what you just said, it sounds like the year
2000 all over again.
Russert: You were both in Skull and Bones, the secret society.
President Bush: It's so secret we can't talk about it.
And those who argue that Skull and Bones is just a harmless fraternity or
boy scout's club, may ask themselves whether it is okay for leaders of
open and democratic societies, to be members of secret organizations
whose agendas are not to be disclosed to the public.
http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/bush.htm
"My senior year, I joined Skull & Bones, a secret society, so secret, I
can't say anything more."
George W. Bush, President of the United States
Some more of many links on Bush connections to the JFK assassination:
http://www.ciajfk.com/home4.html
http://www.davidicke.net/tellthetruth/coverups/bronfmanbush.html
http://www.angelfire.com/ky/ohwhy/Bush.html
http://www.hereinreality.com/familyvalues.html
http://www.lizmichael.com/bushykno.htm
http://forums.alternet.org/guest/motet?show+-ugYR2t+-chjz+Currents+908+1
http://www.jrryan.cc/poetry/what_know.htm
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/kennedy.html
"How could it -- the Holocaust -- have happened in a modern,
industrialized, educated nation?
http://www.russellmangum.com/bushworks/skulls.htm
The discrepancy between the kind of society many Germans thought they
were building and the reality of the horror of the Third Reich presents
one of the most intriguing questions of our age. "How could it -- the
Holocaust -- have happened in a modern, industrialized, educated nation?
Fly Skull and Bones over White House
http://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/Speaking%20Out/Fly%20Skull%20and%
20Bones%20over%20White%20House%202-23-04.htm
To the editor:
George Bush Jr. belongs to a secret society called Skull and Bones. This
conjures up the image of the flag used by pirates on the seas: A black
flag with a white skull and crossed bones.
The fact this club is extremely secret should alert people to the
possibility that devious plans for the world may be being plotted. Bush
was never elected, but appointed by the Supreme Court of which seven of
the nine judges are fellow republicans.
Now, Vice President Dick Cheney has gone duck hunting with Supreme Court
Judge Scalia, even though Cheney has a case coming up before the Supreme
Court. Clearly a conflict of interest.
If the Skulls and Bones' agenda is to reduce the citizens of other
countries to skull and bones, they are definitely succeeding. Maybe a
Skull and Bones flag would be more appropriate flying over the White
House than the American flag.
Terri Campbell,
Cañon City
Death's Head: Piracy, Plunder and Foreign Policy
http://www.rense.com/general48/deathead.htm
THE US FLIES THE JOLLY ROGER - WITH SKULL AND BONES LEADERS AT THE HELM -
By: Dorothy Anne Seese
http://www.etherzone.com/2003/sees062503.shtml
Since 1973, the SCP has been a frontline ministry confronting the occult
and explaining why they are making an impact on our society.
http://www.scp-inc.org/
New Book all about the Skulls http://www.secretsofthetomb.com/
Dmoz directory entry on the skulls
http://dmoz.org/Society/Organizations/Student/Fraternities_and_Sororities
/Local_Groups/Yale_University/Skull_and_Bones/Opposing_Views/
Comprehensive S&B info http://megspace.com/politics/important/
More proof of Bush family membership - The Washington Post: Feb 24th 2000
George W. Was 'Skulls and Bones' Member at Yale
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28930-2000Feb24.html
Background to Skull and Bones http://www.dcia.com/skull.html
New York Observer investigation http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?
ID=2511
The investigation continues http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=
2943
Rites of initiation
http://www.americanfreedomnews.com/afn_articles/bones.htm
Skull and Bones video
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/popoff/DailyNews/010423harris_video_po
poff/index.html
Esquire article http://www.freedomdomain.com/secretsocieties/skull02.html
The Tomb
http://dmoz.org/Society/Organizations/Student/Fraternities_and_Sororities
/Local_Groups/Yale_University/desc.html
Background To The Skull and Bones
http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/3/skullandbones.htm
Information on Antony Sutton http://trineday.com/sutton-memorial/
Buy Sutton's book on the Skull and Bones here
http://ctrl.org/sutton/index1.html
References:
'America's Secret Establishment, an introduction to the Order of Skull
and Bones' published by Liberty House
Press, Billings, Montana in 1986 is available priced £28.75 from
Bloomfield Books, 26 Meadow Lane, Sudbury,
Suffolk, England, CO10 2TD. Telephone 0044 (0)1787 376374.
The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones, Ron Rosenbaum, Esquire magazine,
September 1977.
New book on Skull & Bones out. (September 2002)
Alexandra Robbins, 'Secrets of the Tomb' 240 pages, Little Brown &
Company; ISBN: 0316720917; 1st edition (September 2002)
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Tony refused permission to be editor of open directory project page
critical of the skull and bones
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 21:05:53 -0800 (PST)
From: staf...@dmoz.org
To: to...@gaia.org
Subject: Open Directory application - gozza
Cc: ad...@dmoz.org (Open Directory Project)
Dear Tony Gosling,
Thank you for your interest in becoming an Open Directory Project editor.
After careful review, we have decided not to approve your application at
this time. The most common reasons a reviewer will deny a new application
include, but are not limited to,
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quality, or in a language inappropriate for the category. All non-English
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one appropriate for the applied category will be denied.
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the potential of being, listed in the category.
* Titles and descriptions of sample URLs (and other information provided)
were subjective and promotional rather than unbiased and objective. ODP
editors do not rank or write website reviews. ODP editors provide
objective and unbiased descriptions of websites and their content.
* Self-Promotion. Application which leads us to believe that the
candidate is interested primarily in promoting his/her own sites or those
with which the applicant is affiliated. The ODP is not a marketing tool,
and should not be used to circumvent the site submission process. If this
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be promptly removed.
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Comments" section below.
Your willingness to volunteer is greatly appreciated and perhaps we will
be able to utilize your talent in the future.
Regards,
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Reviewer Comments:
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LOL...I thought you said no one would read this stuff? Sorry br0, this
'stuff' happens to be true..I have to post it, because if I don't idiots
like yourself will try to spin the story until it confuses those who
should at least be able to examine the facts and make thier own
decisions..I will continue to post the 'facts' and I fully expect people
to read every damn article I post..I was not paid to do this study, I am
doing it on behalf of interested people who have every damn right to know
somthing is wrong with the world's most dangerous government..A man is on
a mission to bring on 'Armageddon' is in the oval office and you don't
have the brains to see that, but instead you continue to suck his dick by
defending him and his illegal and dangerous policies.
I've done the math, Jerry..very high post count reduction ratio since
this topic has started my friend..stay tuned..
Me
wrote:
>Me <no-address_...@no-address.com> wrote in
>news:j5mh90pvmeb60rnau...@4ax.com:
<sigh>
Accurate info huh...
The name is Terry.