Skull
and Bones
Skull and Bones 2
From: holderlin66
Date: Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:08 pm
Subject: Re: Skull and Bones
Dear friends;
The following article in the public eye is
all about Kerry and Bush and "The Code of the Bones".
But please note. Here is someone who would have sensed the Michael
School and has unconsious perceptions into the research of the
Michael School. Instead of his use of Luciferian we would need
to replace his concepts of Luciferian with Ahrimanic. But you
see, here is another example of how culture would like to approach
what is buried in the soul life from experiences they had before
birth, but cannot find Michael Language to express these buried
concepts.
Here is where the failures of the Michael
School to be coherent and carry some of the burden and share
reality with them meet failed and stunted educational interpretation.
Research that Spiritual Science has presented, bringing Ahrimanic
history on-line and dividing the perception in the soul life
into a trinity, not a duality has been 'Lost in Translation'.
It is our job to spot such things and assist in the translation.
Spiritual Science has laid great emphasis on Milton's duality/Goethe's
failures on the issue of duality and every walking fundie or
Islamic or christian are living in a blanket failure of soul
perception.
On other lists we had a running perception
of how Michael thoughts, even those on many Anthro lists, were
listening in the ethers and by overnight sleep rhythms were able
to hear the mighty wings of the Archai and Time Spirit Michael,
whispering in their hearts. These are ZeitGeist wars between
Ahrimanic and Michaelic pivots based on the treasure of Michael
wisdom falling like rain into the hearts of humanity. But it
is our ability to meet the tangled impressions that people attempt
to formulate with clearer and updated Michael thoughts and Steiner's
Michael Letters that reveal stunning facts. Just unravel for
yourselves some of the insights that the author is trying to
formulate.
The Skull and Bones is obviously associated
with active Brotherhoods playing out behind the scenes of Political
Spin Doctors of Nominalism. Kerry vs the strong Dean and how
Kerry and Bush are tied to Skull and Bones, has never even been
examined by the press, but note here how the author tries to
find a way to express this and, to our amazenment, Kerry is an
easier defeat and is fouled in the ropes because Ahrimanic not
Luciferic brotherhoods working in the system behind the scenes.
But we fiddle and diddle with these things and fail as the Michael
School to see their hidden relationships. The press hasn't paid
any real attention to the flaming issue of the tie in to the
Skull and Bones, but follow this article carefully and you can
see the threads.
Note with Interest:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/white/white50.html
"I long ago adopted the
scheme of the Russian writer Dmitri Merejkowski (1865–1941)
dividing all religions into two basic ones. I may have mentioned
it on LRC before and well may again. M. (Merejkowski) extracts
from the apparently irreconcilable diversity of ancient religions
a central theme, a single tendency. In all the "shadows"
that ultimately turn real in the primary figure of Western religion
and history, the Lord Jesus Christ, carpenter of Galilee, he
discerns the original "Atlantean" and now "Western"
religion, the religion of the suffering God, God self-sacrificed
for man.
There is, in the eleven or
twelve thousand years of history of what he calls the "second
(post-Atlantean) humanity," widespread evidence of another
religion, the obverse or diabolical double of the true universal
religion. As to that true and universal religion, M. cites approvingly
Augustine's well-known mention of "Christianity before Christ."
The religion in opposition
to it, the "second religion" (recall that the devil's
number in the Pythagorean system is two), is the religion of
man sacrificed to the "gods." And we know from the
Bible that the gods men make for themselves are evil, of the
devil. The one religion is addressed to God (Tolkien's term for
God in the Trilogy was "The One.") The second religion
addresses Lucifer [Bradford adds -
AHRIMAN in place of Lucifer] or one of his stand-ins; and the requirement laid
on the worshippers is human sacrifice.
Think of the Moloch of Carthage
and the immolation of infants the god required, so vividly presented
by Flaubert in his Salammbo. Our Molochian thing is abortion.
As well as war. A Luciferian [AHRIMANIC] beatitude: "Blessed are the
warmakers for they shall inherit the earth." (Can it possibly
be that another one is: "Blessed are the warmakers for they
shall be raptured"?)
Atlantis went down, M. indicates,
because it abandoned its true religion ("Christianity before
Christ") and adopted the murderous "second religion."
Noah's ark was the bridge from the first to the second humanity.
That is, the Bible story is the condensed record of the salvation
of a remnant of first humanity. You may consider this, as to
history, truth or fiction; M. is by no means furnishing a detailed
factual account of anything; but in my view it is precise psychological
and spiritual truth. And we are still dealing with the same two
fundamental religions. [TRINITY OF
FORCES, CHRIST-LUCIFER-AHRIMAN]
I take religion to mean the
understanding of man and the cosmos and the purpose of life one
holds at the root of one's being, no kidding. It is not a matter
of labels and shouting, of loud claims of having been born again.
It is not merely crying Christ ("Lord, Lord!") and
then ignoring his mandates. It is very much connected with what
one wants out of life and what one thinks it is appropriate to
do to get it."
SKULL AND BONES ISSUES: Title: CODE OF THE BONES
"I am of course making
the point that our two Bonesmen are Hasnamuss men. You may well
say that it takes more than a colon to make the one condition
the equivalent of the other as I did when I wrote "The Code
of the Bones: The Ethos of the Hasnamuss." Let me argue
this a little further. My "Code of the Bones," on examination,
is little different than the de facto stance of a run-of-the
mill egotist, a stance that can in some minority of cases evolve
into what people nowadays called psychopathology or sociopathology.
That condition has been superbly defined in Cleckly's The Mask
of Sanity.
But a Hasnamuss is evidently
something beyond even that. Ouspensky also said, ". . .
you have nothing to do with such people; but you meet with the
results of their existence." What did he mean? I have my
own answer. The Hasnamuss has been thrown by fate or by accident,
which is a species of fate, to the top of the heap, where the
ordinarily limited ability of an egotist to do much harm is greatly
enhanced. Think of an officious minor military or police person.
Then think of Napoleon (a Hasnamuss if there ever was one). Bush
– the most ordinary of save-your-own-skin fellows –
is suddenly catapulted by family connections and by the sort
of Nominating Committee I will discuss shortly into Ruler of
the Free World, Supreme Commander of the Forces of Freedom, President
of the United States, etc. Petty officer changed into Napoleon,
and doing a pretty good job in the role at that. Lots of mayhem.
Now look at this election
scene. It would almost seem that Kerry was fingered (as was Bush
before him) by some invisible World Rule Nominating Committee,
which has a list of politically prominent people "who might
do." It would surely have been against Kerry that he, too,
was a Bonesman (Hey, let's not be too obvious!), but that objection
had to be overruled finally as things shaped up in the Democratic
primary campaign. One sometimes has to make do with less than
the ideal, and Kerry was obviously sufficiently brainwashed,
compromised, and manageable (as Dean was not) to be otherwise
in all ways acceptable to my (admittedly somewhat occult) Nominating
Committee members, whoever they are.
The trouble with Kerry is
that he smells like a loser. At least that is my impression,
although I am surely not willing to place any money on the contest
at this point. Bush is clearly the more upstanding Hasnamuss
of the two, but Kerry would probably grow in office, as the saying
is.
Bush seems at present to be
positively thriving on his situation. He is the better looking
of the two, the more confidently assured, the more physically
vigorous. He out and away wins on natty shirts and ties, and
as Norman Mailer noted, he is almost absurdly photogenic. Pictures
of him striding across the WH lawn to his helicopter or doing
the furrowed-brow thing in the Oval office, routinely wow the
camp followers. Long-faced and bushy-haired Kerry is a distant
second in all this. But you never know.
It is a measure of the frivolity
inherent in our selection process that the Wall Street Journal
Online suggested the other day that Kerry's VP search committee
needs to find someone with less hair.
Maybe it will come down to
religion in the end. Of course I don't mean real religion, rather,
the curious alignment of so-called religious voting blocks. Maybe
Bush's fundy-Zionist Christians (latest label heard on a C-Span
panel discussion: "Christian fascists"), and his assorted
knee-jerk Republicans can overpower Kerry's yellow-dog Democrats
and Catholics. As to Catholics, Kerry seems to be doing his best
to convince them that no Catholic is he. But creedal orthodoxy
seems to matter less and less to anyone.
The Democrat party is where,
since FDR's time, an awful lot of Catholics have shoaled up for
want of a home elsewhere (unless, like me, they have given up
on the whole lot of pols, all so greedy for the spoils of office).
But Catholics are no longer, en masse, a sure thing for anyone;
they have been splintered by abortion, the sex revolution, the
"modernization" of the Church, and by the failure and
disappearance of the tremendously influential religious orders
that used to staff Catholic schools and hospitals. As one Catholic
writer has said, imagine Cardinal Spellman, back in the 40s,
calling FDR. He was put through right away. Imagine (if you can)
New York's late Cardinal O'Connor calling Clinton some years
ago. Not likely to be available in any big hurry. The whole story
of the decline of Catholic political clout is in the difference.
But leave aside this dreary
talk of "religious voting blocks." The thing is more
or less contemptible. Rather let us ask what is the real religion
of a Bonesman and by extension of a Hasnamuss, if I am right
that the code of both is essentially the same."
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From: holderlin66
Date: Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:00 pm
Subject: Re: Skull and Bones/Merejkowski
"Russian writer Dmitri Merejkowski (1865–1941)"
When we discover clues that
we had missed in our understanding of the struggle and output
of writers to define the New Age that the Michael School and
Fifth Gospel represented, we encounter both mistakes and truths.
In brief some indications:
http://www.riseofthewest.net/dcmiscell/dm04.htm
"Between 1896 and 1905,
DSM published a trilogy of historical novels entitled Christ
and Antichrist, which became European best-sellers. It was composed
of Julian the Apostate (1896, translated 1899), Leonardo da Vinci
(1902, translated 1902), and Peter and Alexis (1905, translated
1905). With this trilogy Merezhkovsky revived the historical
novel in Russia. Its three parts, set in widely separated epochs
and geographical areas, reveal historical erudition and serve
as vehicles for the author's historical and theological ideas."
"From his exile in Paris,
DSM lambasted Bolshevism in The Kingdom of Antichrist (1922,
translated 1922) and other works. He published two more historical
novels under the general title Rozhdenie bogov (1924-25; Birth
of the Gods) the first Tuthankamon in Crete and the second The
Messiah. The novels centered around Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton,
the founder of one of the first known, and short-lived, monotheistic
religion. They depicted Akhenaton as a messiah, in the Christian
sense, that is, as an ancient manifestation of the Christ. Both
novels share the central idea of continuity and integrity of
pre-Christian and Christian world.
The turning point of 1919-20
proved critical for DSM and his wife, since their exile out of
Russia turned out to be definitive this time. From then on, Gippius
produced very bitter, angry works against the Bolsheviks. Her
later works were so subjective and capricious that they were
noted more for their form than for their content. Similarly,
DSM became very pessimistic. Exit the happy coming of a Third
Age of freedom and Holy Spirit of his dandy life in St. Petersburg.
Instead he became a prophet of doom, foreseeing the imminent
end of the world in Atlantis-Europe, The Secret Of The West (1930,
translated 1931).
DSM wrote biographical studies
of Napoleon, Jesus Christ, St. Augustine, St. Paul, St. Francis
of Assisi, Joan of Arc, Dante, and many others; most of these
have been translated into English.
In later life, Merezhkovsky
regarded Mussolini and Hitler as leaders capable of eradicating
communism. D.S.M. was in 1933 on behalf for his Trilogy Christ
and Antichrist (1901-1904) nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature."
Bradford comments;
Look ye and learn: 1933 the rise of Hitler
and Merezhkovsy mistake this event for the true Rise of the Etheric
Christ in 1933 and the intuited advent of the Michael School.
Events like these in the currents of Time reveal how great souls
can be mistaken, however Steiner's Spiritual Science held a true
and steady course. (Note my Ahrimanic Cliff Notes.) Here was
someone who understood Atlantis and outshone the likes of a P.S.
as a flashlight outshines a firefly, yet still made mistakes
in in the 1933 period by understanding a world change but not
able to fully grasp it.
Even when Soloviev was deeply grasped by Steiner,
Merezhkovsy was so close and also would have fully understood
Spiritual Science and obviously had encountered it. Here we can
encounter the early Gordienko and Prokofiev esoteric unfoldings
and the complications of Europe.
And Further:
"Merezhkovsky and Gippius
divided the history of humanity and its future in three phases.
The realm of God the Father, i.e. the realm of the Old Testament;
the realm of Jesus Christ, i.e. the realm of the New Testament,
the present phase which was now closing, and the realm of the
Holy Spirit, i.e. the era of the Third Testament, which was now
dawning, gradually disclosing its message to humanity. In this
revealing, the 1905 events were a mailstone of the transformation.
The kingdom of the Old Testament had divine authority as supreme;
the kingdom of the New Testament had love as supreme; and the
kingdom of the Third Testament would reveal inner freedom as
supreme... One could argue that this blissful worldview mirrored
Merezhkovsky's happiness in life: he was a handsome young man,
author of bestsellers, famous all over Europe, and wealthy enough
to freely dispose of his life.
Just as the previous kingdoms
symbolised a change in human consciousness, so the final Kingdom
of the Third Testament was to usher in a new religious consciousness,
the genesis of a New Humanity. The Third Testament would resolve
all present antitheses – sex and asceticism, individualism
and society, slavery and freedom, atheism and religiosity, hatred
and love. The enigma of Earth and Heaven, the flesh and the spirit,
would be solved in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit would redeem
the world, giving humanity a new life in peace, harmony, and
love. The Three in One would be realised, and Spiritual Christianity
– long ago driven underground – would be brought into
the open.
In propagating their 'Cause
of the Three in One' Gippius and Merezhkovsky hoped for a religious
revolution, a spiritual metamorphosis of man to prepare him for
the Third Kingdom. According to Gippius the aim of all universal-historical
development is the end of humanity and the world in their present
forms through the Apocalypse. Only the coming of Christ would
unite humanity in brotherly love and harmony as one living family.
At this point in the spiritual evolution of mankind the apocalyptical
Church would be established, not as a temple, but as a new experience
of God in human consciousness and in the human soul."
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From: holderlin66
Date: Wed May 5, 2004 9:41 pm
Subject: Skull and Bones/Wm R. Pitt
CALLER: It was like a college
fraternity prank that stacked up naked men --
LIMBAUGH: Exactly. Exactly
my point! This is no different than what happens at the Skull
and Bones initiation and we're going to ruin people's lives over
it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we
are going to really hammer them because they had a good time.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200405050003
Limbaugh on torture of
Iraqis: U.S. guards were "having a good time," "blow[ing]
some steam off"
"Hours before President
George W. Bush announced plans to address the Arab world to condemn
the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military personnel at the
Abu Ghraib prison, Rush Limbaugh justified the U.S. guards' mistreatment
of the Iraqis, stating that they were just "having a good
time," and that their actions served as an "emotional
release."
As reported by Wonkette.com,
Limbaugh's comments can be found on his website. From the May
4 Rush Limbaugh Show, titled "It's Not About Us; This Is
War!":
CALLER: It was like a college
fraternity prank that stacked up naked men --
LIMBAUGH: Exactly. Exactly
my point! This is no different than what happens at the Skull
and Bones initiation and we're going to ruin people's lives over
it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we
are going to really hammer them because they had a good time.
You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking
about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard
of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam
off?
The day before, on his May
3 show, Limbaugh observed that the American troops who mistreated
Iraqi prisoners of war were "babes" and that the pictures
of the alleged abuse were no worse than "anything you'd
see Madonna, or Britney Spears do on stage."
LIMBAUGH: And these American
prisoners of war -- have you people noticed who the torturers
are? Women! The babes! The babes are meting out the torture.
LIMBAUGH: You know, if you
look at -- if you, really, if you look at these pictures, I mean,
I don't know if it's just me, but it looks just like anything
you'd see Madonna, or Britney Spears do on stage. Maybe I'm --
yeah. And get an NEA grant for something like this. I mean, this
is something that you can see on stage at Lincoln Center from
an NEA grant, maybe on Sex in the City -- the movie. I mean,
I don't -- it's just me."
Bradford comments;
This smirking monkey called George Bush and
his lackey Rush and all the ditto heads out there supporting
the illegal, immoral, lie infested, greed motivated, self serving
invasion of Iraq and the Orwellian monster they want to maintain;
That is Terror, Evil and an Eternal War on Terror funded by our
gas guzzling price fixes with the Saudi's and the blood and money
of Americans are an infested blight on the soul life of humanity.
Look ye into the Eye of the Ahrimanic Decption grown again to
beast in America by 2004.
In other countries you don't have to have
the audacity and idiocy of this loud mouth Rush Limbaugh to listen
to. You are lucky. These Men of Sin are guilty of War Crimes
and atrocities and failing their own and our own higher selves.
Now Michael Moore with his "Farenheit
911" is going to get the same publicity boost that was given
to Mel Gibson, via adverse publicity. Just because pockets of
total luciferic/Ahrimanic liars have grabbed at this Western
world, infected with ChristLess Militarism and Arabistic Christless
Science and Education.. we naturally, normally and need Torture
and defy all laws, because the Ends Justifies Means. The utter
stupidity and criminal behavior of the vast military complex,
Rush Limbaugh, Rumsfeld and that unique smirking, arrogant pimp
called George Bush revealed in his Arab, non apology, the glint
in the eye and the recognizable smirk of Ahriman's darkened pawns.
Remember the dead have been through all this
before with Nazi Germany and Stalin. They died, many fouled in
their failed understanding of Spiritual Reality and tangled in
Nationalism and military group soul activity. Those who now are
finally waking up, have carried with them the seeds of a higher
transformation. They learned from Angels and the Etheric Christ
upon their deaths and they bring with them the faintest sense
that they are being led to the King of Liars once again. But
also the rejected and corrupted dense souls who Ahriman owns,
have brought down into incarnation the propensity for full mental
deception and piggishly and wantonly clinging to the food of
lies, spin and deception that Ahriman sustains them with.
Every one of these Military midgets who fain
ignorance of the techique of interrogation and torturein our
U.S. Good Guy image is an out and out liar. Plus hired mercenaries,
outside the law, and outside military courts or Justice have
been hired and trained with Israel's worst torture methods that
go all the way down to Cartels in Central and South America and
Gitmo in Cuba, and up to the current plague in the White House
and the Imperial West.
Anyone, anyone who dares give this President
and this Neocon gambit a vote or lends spiritual support to the
works of their inhumanity to the very name of humanity is under
Ahriman's deluded sway. That is at least currently nearly 1/2
of the voting American population. When we are ready to take
our new soul into incarnation, what do we carry with us and when
does the courage of our deepest humanity awaken? If anytime and
place, it should, for us, awaken now.
http://truthout.org/docs_04/050504A.shtml
Tin Soldiers and We are
Coming
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Tuesday 4 May 2004
This is sacred ground. It
was in this place, one of many, that ordinary Americans stepped
forward to say no to a government that was sprinting towards
disaster. That action was met in this place with deadly force,
force that took the lives of those who marched, along with the
lives of those who happened to be passing innocently by when
the bullets began to fly.
Last night, in the candlelight
procession which crossed the campus and ended where those four
students died, I was honored to carry the light of Sandy Scheuer,
who was killed 34 years ago today. I have a promise for those
of you who are here today in her name. I will keep that light
I was privileged to hold last night with me for the rest of my
days.
I've spent the last several
weeks trying to decide what, exactly, to speak about today. For
much of that time, I've been stuck. It wasn't that I didn't have
anything to talk about. Quite the opposite. There is too much,
much too much, that we need to discuss here today. I was stuck.
Should I limit my remarks to the events which took place here
on this day?
Would I offend those who were
there when it happened, those who lost loved ones, if I chose
to speak of other things as well? I hope you will forgive me,
but I decided that I must do more than mark this time, this place,
and the blood shed on this day. I mean no offense. The wheel
has come around again, you see. A day when ordinary Americans
must stand forth and say no to a government sprinting towards
disaster has come again.
I feel, oddly enough, a little
like Abraham Lincoln, after Lincoln was given the name of a Mrs.
Bixby, who lost five sons on Civil War battlefields. How does
one properly react to such news? "I feel how weak and fruitless,"
Lincoln wrote to Mrs. Bixby, "must be any word of mine which
should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming."
That is how I feel standing here today.
I am overwhelmed with grief,
not just for those who were killed and wounded on this ground
34 years ago, but for this whole nation, which has so clearly
and catastrophically lost its way, again. The essence of that
catastrophe? We. Never. Learn.
As managing editor of truthout,
I get a lot of email and letters. In the last several months,
dozens of these letters have come from the mothers, fathers,
wives, husbands, brothers, sisters, children and friends of soldiers
who have been killed in Iraq. One such letter reads as follows:
"Dear Mr. Pitt, I must
share with you the obituary I wrote for my son, Sgt. Evan Ashcraft,
who was killed July 24 near Mosul. I often think of the contributions
my intelligent, sensitive wonderful son could have made. He had
so much potential. He told us that when he came back from Iraq
he wanted to help people. He said he had seen so much hatred
and death that the only way to live his life was through aid
to others. Look at what we've lost. The loss is not just mine,
it's the world's loss. Evan will always be alive in my heart.
He and all the other victims of this heinous action in Iraq must
be more than mere numbers emerging from the Pentagon's daily
tally. His death is a crime against humanity" - this is
a mother speaking, remember - "and the fault lies with the
war criminals who inhabit our White House. Please share his story
so that he may come alive to your readers."
Here, again, is that grief
from a loss so overwhelming. I have shared the story of Evan
Ashcraft with people from one side of this country to the other,
because the story of Evan Ashcraft is also our story. In telling
this story, I have felt time and again the grief his mother has
endured, have felt time and again the grief endured by more than
750 families which have lost loved ones in this invasion, have
felt the grief endured by the 20,000 other families who have
had loved ones returned to them from this invasion missing an
arm, a leg, a face, a future. I cannot speak for these families,
or for any of you here, but only for myself when I say that my
grief, my sorrow, my horror at all of this has turned to the
deepest, darkest rage.
There is a page on the White
House's website - right now, at this moment, in May of 2004 -
entitled 'Disarm Saddam Hussein.' This page correlates exactly
with the information disgorged by George W. Bush in his 2003
State of the Union address. To wit: Iraq is in possession of
26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500
tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agents (for those here without
calculators, 500 tons = one million pounds...hide that), 30,000
munitions capable of delivering chemical agents, several mobile
biological weapons labs, and operational connections between
Iraq and al Qaeda. This page also states quite clearly - right
now, today, at this moment - that Iraq was seeking uranium from
Niger for use in a nuclear weapons program.
The vast quantities of anthrax,
botulinum toxin, sarin, mustard gas and VX, along with the munitions
to deliver them, as well as any connections between Iraq and
al Qaeda terrorism, have completely failed to show up in the
16 months since they were first described in tones of fearful
doom to the American people. The 'mobile weapons labs' - termed
"Winnebagoes of Death" by Colin Powell - have been
shown to be weather balloon launching platforms sold to Iraq
by the British in the 1980s.
The claims about Iraq seeking
uranium from Niger have been exposed as lies so deep and profound
that America stands humiliated before the world. Those lies have
also led to a federal investigation into this White House for,
basically, treason: Because Ambassador Joseph Wilson - who investigated
and discounted the uranium claims in the first place - Because
Ambassador Joseph Wilson dared reveal these lies to the public,
his wife, Valerie Plame, was exposed as a CIA agent in an act
of revenge perpetrated by officials within the Bush administration.
Note well. Wilson blew George
W. Bush and his people right out of the water by exposing their
Iraq uranium claims as fiction. In response, some members of
the administration let it be known that his wife was a CIA agent.
There are two vital points to understand in this. One: Valerie
Plame was not an analyst, a secretary, or a low-level staffer.
Valerie Plame was a NOC, which stands for "non-official
cover." It designates an agent operating under such deep
cover that they cannot be publicly tied to the American intelligence
community in any way, shape or form.
Valerie Plame was a NOC running
a network dedicated to tracking any person, nation or group that
might put weapons of mass destruction into the hands of terrorists.
Let me say that again. Valerie Plame was a NOC running a network
dedicated to tracking any person nation or group that might put
weapons of mass destruction into the hands of terrorists. The
Bush administration trashed her out after screaming for a year
about the dangers of letting weapons of mass destruction fall
into the hands of terrorists. I heard somewhere that weapons
of mass destruction in the hands of terrorists was a matter of
concern. Like I said: Treason.
The second vital point to
understand is this: The Bush administration outed Valerie Plame,
deliberately and with intent, as a warning to Joseph Wilson,
and to threaten any other insiders who might desire to speak
the truth about what this administration has been doing. They
did it to shut people up who were saying things they didn't like.
As we stand here today, in this place where violence was brought
down upon people who were saying things the government didn't
like, the parallel is chilling. Our government is once again
in the business of silencing its critics by any means necessary.
The wheel has come round again.
Make no mistake, and do not
be fooled by refashioned rhetoric. We did not go to war to 'liberate'
the Iraqi people, as the new rhetoric would claim. We did not
go to war to bring democracy to Iraq, as the new rhetoric would
claim. That State of the Union speech in January 2003, scant
weeks before the invasion, made it very clear why we were going
to war. Iraq was an imminent threat to the safety and security
of the United States, we were told.
The usage of the words 'imminent
threat' has led to some uncomfortable moments for the Bush administration
once it became clear that all of their dire warnings were utter
balderdash. They have many times denied ever describing Iraq
as an imminent threat. The words 'imminent threat' and the administration's
denials led to some of the best television I have ever seen.
A recent edition of the news program Face the Nation had Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defending the invasion. This is a portion
of that interview, and please note that I am reading here from
the transcript as best I can:
BOB SCHIEFFER (the host):
Well, let me just ask you this. If they did not have these weapons
of mass destruction, why then did they pose an immediate threat
to us, to this country?
RUMSFELD: Well, you're the
-- you and a few other critics are the only people I've heard
use the phrase `immediate threat.' I didn't. The president didn't.
And it's become kind of folklore that that's -- that's what's
happened. The president went...
SCHIEFFER: You're saying that
nobody in the administration said that.
RUMSFELD: Not -- if -- if
you have any citations, I'd like to see 'em.
Mr. FRIEDMAN: We have one
here. It says `some have argued that the nu' -- this is you speaking
--`that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent, that Saddam
is at least five to seven years away from having nuclear weapons.
I would not be so certain.'
RUMSFELD: And -- and...
Mr. FRIEDMAN: It was close
to imminent.
RUMSFELD: Well, I've -- I've
tried to be precise, and I've tried to be accurate. I'm s--suppose
I've...
Mr. FRIEDMAN (quoting Rumsfeld
again): `No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate
threat to the security of our people and the stability of the
world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.'
RUMSFELD: Mm-hmm. It -- my
view of -- of the situation was that he -- he had -- we -- we
believe, the best intelligence that we had and other countries
had and that--that we believed and we still do not know-- we
will know.
Hovering over all of all of
these dire warnings in the months before the invasion was one
unifying theme, an image hammered home to the American people
day after day after day. Burning towers, innocent people leaping
to their deaths. In every way possible, the Bush administration
connected the immediate need to attack Iraq with the horror of
September 11. We have to get them, they said, because Iraq is
connected with al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, because Iraq has
WMDs which they could give to bin Laden and bring forth a day
which makes September 11 look like a picnic by comparison.
Scary stuff, that. But when
it became clear that the WMD threats had been grossly overblown,
and when no connections could be made between Hussein and al
Qaeda, the Bush administration backed away from the 9/11 connection
claims as quickly as they had backed away from the 'imminent
threat' claims. We never said Iraq and al Qaeda were connected,
they complained. Why would anyone ever say we did such a thing?
September 2002: Rumsfeld said
he had five or six sentences of "bulletproof" evidence
that "demonstrate that there are in fact Al Qaeda in Iraq."
Asked "Is there any intelligence that Saddam Hussein has
any ties to Sept. 11?, Rumsfeld replied, "You have to recognize
that the evidence piles up." Asked to name senior Al Qaeda
members who were in Baghdad, Rumsfeld said, "I could, but
I won't."
In his February speech to
the United Nations, the one in which he revealed the existence
of the "Winnebagoes of Death," Secretary of State Powell
warned of the "sinister nexus between Iraq and the Al Qaeda
terrorist network."
In arguing for the Iraq invasion,
Bush on March 18 delivered a letter to the House and Senate that
said, in paragraph two: "The use of armed force against
Iraq is consistent with the United States and other countries
continuing to take the necessary actions against international
terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations,
organizations or persons who planned, authorized, committed,
or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11,
2001."
And then there was May 1st,
a little more than one year ago today, when Bush announced the
end of "combat operations" underneath the soaring banner
which read MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. On that day, Bush proclaimed:
"The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that
began on Sept. 11, 2001. The liberation of Iraq is a crucial
advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally
of Al Qaeda. "
There are two crucial points
to consider here. First, the reality is that, though Saddam Hussein
was certainly a bloody wretch, he was also a secular leader who
spent thirty years killing every Islamic fundamentalist he could
get his hands on. He was particularly fond of killing practitioners
of Wahabbism, the sect of Islam practiced by Osama bin Laden
and his al Qaeda fighters. Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden
have been blood enemies for years; bin Laden has called for Hussein's
death on many occasions.
The idea that Hussein would
arm bin Laden with a pea shooter, much less weapons of mass destruction,
is laughable. Saddam Hussein did not last in that neighborhood
by being suicidal. Arming Osama bin Laden would have been suicide,
because bin Laden would have used those weapons on Hussein. Period.
End of story... and never mind the fact that there were no WMDs
in Iraq to arm bin Laden with even if he wanted to.
Beyond that is the simple
fact that Saddam Hussein, for the last several years, was little
more than the Mayor of Baghdad. Vast areas in the north and south
in Iraq were totally beyond his control because of the no-fly
zones. These, by the way, are the areas where al Qaeda fighters
had reportedly been sighted. Those fighters had nothing to do
with, and had no allegiance to, Saddam Hussein. A lot of them,
in fact, wanted to kill him. To say that Hussein had al Qaeda
connections because those guys were in his country at one time
is to say that George W. Bush has al Qaeda connections, because
they were in America before the September 11 attacks.
The second, and most important
thing to consider, is simply this: They used September 11 against
you. To this very day, they are using September 11 against you.
Deliberately and with intent, they used September 11 to inspire
fear and loathing within the populace, in order to gin up support
for a war that should not have happened. How many of you know
someone who has plastic sheeting and duct tape tucked away somewhere
in their home? Those are souvenirs of that fear, delivered to
you by the same government that should have stopped the September
11 attacks in the first place. But it happened, one way or another
depending on what you believe, and here we are. They used September
11 against you.
I can think of few greater
crimes than that which has been committed against us all, and
against the world entire, by this administration. Make no mistake,
it is a crime. It is a crime, and by God in heaven, there will
be a reckoning for it.
And what of the people of
Iraq? More than 10,000 of them have been killed in the invasion
and occupation. What of the people of Iraq, who did no harm to
us and were never, ever a threat to us? Do they pine in the darkness
of their nights for the democracy and freedom we promised them?
If they do, then woe unto them, because there will be no freedom,
no democracy for them. The Hussein bootheel which stood so long
on their necks - a bootheel, by the way, marked 'Made in the
USA' - has been replaced by another American bootheel worn by
Hussein thugs.
Not so long ago, we were told
by the Bush administration that it was Hussein loyalists and
Ba'athist Party holdouts that were organizing and implementing
the attacks against our forces. Now, we are reconstituting Hussein's
army to do the fighting for us. Now, we are opening doors of
opportunity to Ba'athist holdouts. Now, we are putting a former
Hussein general in charge of the besieged city of Fallujah. He
returned days ago in triumph to that city, wearing his old Republican
Guard uniform. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Here is what the people of
Iraq know. There will be no democracy for them, because it has
been made clear that this farcical June 30th handover date, which
will purportedly mark a new dawn of Iraqi sovereignty, is a crude
whitewashing of an ugly truth. Whatever this new Iraqi government
will look like, it will have no power to make laws of any kind.
It will have no command over the security of Iraq. It will have
no power over the foreign troops occupying Iraqi soil.
Here is what the people of
Iraq know. They have seen the gruesome pictures of fellow Iraqis
tortured and humiliated at the hands of their American captors
in the Abu Ghraib prison, which was for so long a home to torture
by the hand of Saddam Hussein. They have seen the pictures of
men forced to masturbate in front of each other, forced to simulate
sexual acts upon each other, forced to stand naked with electrodes
attached to them, forced to endure attacks by dogs. The American
media has made much of these photos, but there is a darker aspect
to them which has not been examined properly, an added layer
of humiliation which must be understood.
The Iraqis who were tortured
were Muslims, and the humiliations they endured were specifically
intended to strike to the heart of their faith. This was not
just physical torture, but spiritual torture as well. The Muslim
prophet Mohammed outlawed homosexuality, and so these men were
forced to pantomime homosexual sex upon each other. According
to Islam, the saliva of a dog is Najis, or impure, and any place
on the human body or clothing touched by this impurity must be
cleansed immediately, and so a dog was sicced upon these men.
Here is what the people of
Iraq know: These grave humiliations were not accidents. The investigation
into the Abu Ghraib torture is also looking into thirty - thirty
- similar cases as bad or worse which have taken place over the
last year. Not only were the bodies of Iraqi people tortured,
but their very souls were tortured as well. Their God, and their
religion, with deliberation and intent, was spit upon. Combine
this with the siege of Najaf, holiest of cities for Shi'ites
around the world, and you have before you an openly deliberate
attempt not only to take possession of the nation of Iraq, but
to undermine and offend the most fundamental religious underpinnings
which define the very lives of the people there.
This is what the Iraqi people
know, and so they fight. If your home, your country, your religious
faith were under deliberate assault, would you do any less? I'll
tell you this much. If Canada were to lose its mind and invade
Maine to 'liberate' its people, and to grab Maine's timber resources
as a nifty little side bonus, you can bet your bottom dollar
that I'd be on a train to Portland with a rifle in my hand. You
can bet on one other thing as well: The Canadian press would
call me an 'insurgent.' They might even call me a 'terrorist.'
But in truth, I'd be a patriot, willing and ready to lay down
my life to hurl back across that border any invader who would
dare attempt to take my country away from me.
How dare I say such a thing
in the light of day. How dare I use the word 'patriot' in the
same sentence in which I describe the people who have killed
more than 750 American soldiers. I will dare much in the name
of truth, because I have read the letters from the family members
of those American dead, I know the name of Evan Ashcraft and
too many others, and in singing his song I must speak of these
things. My grief for this loss is overwhelming, but I cannot
in my grief sidestep the facts. The Bush administration has taken
to labeling anyone on earth who would raise arms against this
insane global aggression as 'terrorists.' If you're not an American,
you're a terrorist... and according to certain portions of the
Patriot Act, a good many Americans are also terrorists. Some
of you here are terrorists. Welcome to the club.
The truth is that it is all
too convenient to use tricks of language to blame Iraqi 'terrorist
insurgents' for the deaths of all those Americans. Trade places
with them, however, and face an invading army commanded by leaders
whose goals and motives are fully criminal, face an invading
army that would kill and torture and humiliate, and think about
what you would do. Language is a funny thing. It can be used
to reveal, and to disguise. Even today, 34 years later, you can
find a similar argument right here. Were the people shot down
here insurgents? Were they terrorists? Were they patriots?
There is language, and there
is truth. The truth, for me, is this: Those who fell here on
this day were patriots, and the wheel has come round. The truth,
for me, is this: I blame George W. Bush for our wretched estate
today. I lay the bodies of our dead, and all the Iraqi dead,
at the doorstep of this White House. This war, conceived in darkness
and doomed to fail from the beginning, has been lost. All we
are doing now is stirring the ashes. We. Never. Learn.
The truth, for me, is this:
We have gathered here today to mourn the loss and celebrate the
lives of those who fell here 34 years ago. This is sacred ground.
34 years ago, some very ordinary Americans rose up to strike
a blow against a disastrous war, and the price paid for this
decision to speak up and speak out was fearful and mortal. The
wheel has rolled, and has come around once more.
We must rise again on this
sacred ground, we must enter again into the valley of the shadow
of death, and we must fear no evil, because this must be stopped,
and we must be the ones to stop it. Patriots once marched here,
and must march here again. We. Must. Learn.
This is your wake up call,
Mr. Bush. Your 15 minutes are just about over. Tin soldiers and
we are coming.
Thank you.
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From: Gisele
Date: Sat May 8, 2004 3:27 am
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Skull and Bones/Wm R. Pitt
holderlin66 wrote:
CALLER: It was like a college
fraternity prank that stacked up naked men --
~He means: "it was like
a Brotherhood satanist ritual where in order to pass we must
play the sodomy game, and enjoy it"
LIMBAUGH: Exactly. Exactly
my point! This is no different than what happens at the Skull
and Bones initiation
~he left out: "of the
4th degree, where human sacrifices are used"
and we're going to ruin people's
lives over it
~meaning: "we'll have
to ruin some perfect mind-control specimens"
and we're going to hamper
our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them
because they had a good time.
You know, these people are
being fired at every day.
~...with stunguns by their
handlers
I'm talking about people having
a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release?
You of heard of need to blow some steam off?
~He obviously know what he's
talking about! Did he also practice the same 'pranks' on American
children to release his emotions?
LIMBAUGH: And these American
prisoners of war -- have you people noticed who the torturers
are? Women! The babes! The babes are meting out the torture.
~notice this satanist pig's
excitement
LIMBAUGH: You know, if you
look at -- if you, really, if you look at these pictures, I mean,
I don't know if it's just me, but it looks just like anything
you'd see Madonna, or Britney Spears do on stage. Maybe I'm --
yeah. And get an NEA grant for something like this. I mean, this
is something that you can see on stage at Lincoln Center from
an NEA grant, maybe on Sex in the City -- the movie. I mean,
I don't -- it's just me. "
~Yeah, completely overtaken
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From: Gisele
Date: Sat May 8, 2004 3:46 am
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Skull and Bones/Wm R. Pitt
~~~~Dear Bradford, please allow me to pick
these excerpts from your excellent post, because they deserve
repeating.
Let the Spiritual Powers all hear it. Let
them know, in the East and South and West and North - we are
awake.
Gix
Bradford comments;
This smirking monkey called George Bush
and his lackey Rush and all the ditto heads out there supporting
the illegal, immoral, lie infested, greed motivated, self serving
invasion of Iraq and the Orwellian monster they want to maintain;
That is Terror, Evil and an Eternal War on Terror funded by our
gas guzzling price fixes with the Saudi's and the blood and money
of Americans are an infested blight on the soul life of humanity.
Look ye into the Eye of the Ahrimanic Decption grown again to
beast in America by 2004.
The utter stupidity and criminal behavior
of the vast military complex, Rush Limbaugh, Rumsfeld and that
unique smirking, arrogant pimp called George Bush revealed in
his Arab, non apology, the glint in the eye and the recognizable
smirk of Ahriman's darkened pawns.
Those who now are finally waking up, have
carried with them the seeds of a higher transformation. They
learned from Angels and the Etheric Christ upon their deaths
and they bring with them the faintest sense that they are being
led to the King of Liars once again. But also the rejected and
corrupted dense souls who Ahriman owns, have brought down into
incarnation the propensity for full mental deception and piggishly
and wantonly clinging to the food of lies, spin and deception
that Ahriman sustains them with.
Every one of these Military midgets who
fain ignorance of the techique of interrogation and torturein
our U.S. Good Guy image is an out and out liar. Plus hired mercenaries,
outside the law, and outside military courts or Justice have
been hired and trained with Israel's worst torture methods that
go all the way down to Cartels in Central and South America and
Gitmo in Cuba, and up to the current plague in the White House
and the Imperial West.
Anyone, anyone who dares give this President
and this Neocon gambit a vote or lends spiritual support to the
works of their inhumanity to the very name of humanity is under
Ahriman's deluded sway.
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From: Deborah
Date: Sun May 9, 2004 5:00 pm
Subject: Re: Skull and Bones/Wm R. Pitt
Conspiracy theories:
An observation that I've gradually built up
is that once people surrender to becoming a conspiracy theory
"true believer" all careful, methodical, critical thinking
goes out the window. All phenomena become part of the "conspiracy."
I don't know what can be done about this problem, because I think
it quite likely that their are indeed brotherhoods and other
behind the scenes manipulators out there, but I feel the need
to tread very carefully in using this possible reality to explain
anything. It feels like a temptation and a cop-out.
Some of the problems:
Scapegoating-seeing bad guys everywhere and
judging people as fundamentally evil on scanty evidence. There
is a great big conspiracy hiding all the evidence, so you just
have to take it on faith, etc., etc.
Giving up hope-not bothering to vote, or be
politically active. It is all hopeless because everything is
run from behind the scenes by the evil conspiracy. A self-fulfilling
prophecy?
Lazy thinking-feeling that "conspiracy"
actually constitutes an explanation, when it is actually no such
thing.
I have to say, sadly, that I am no great shakes
at loving or thinking so I can't put myself forward as a winner
on either side of the current debate. I'm just sharing the above
fruits of experience in the hope of spreading the understanding
that conspiracy theory is a non-explanation. A fake answer. A
trick. And yes, I know Steiner spoke of the brotherhoods. I don't
think he would like the nonsensical way this stuff is spread
around, though. Just my wild supposition of the day.
Deborah
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From: Mike Helsher
Date: Sun May 9, 2004 6:20 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Re: Skull and Bones/Wm
R. Pitt
Hi Deb, you wrote:
Conspiracy theories:
An observation that I've gradually built
up is that once people surrender to becoming a conspiracy theory
"true believer" all careful, methodical, critical thinking
goes out the window. All phenomena become part of the "conspiracy."
I don't know what can be done about this problem, because I think
it quite likely that their are indeed brotherhoods and other
behind the scenes manipulators out there, but I feel the need
to tread very carefully in using this possible reality to explain
anything. It feels like a temptation and a cop-out.
Some of the problems:
Scapegoating-seeing bad guys everywhere
and judging people as fundamentally evil on scanty evidence.
There is a great big conspiracy hiding all the evidence, so you
just have to take it on faith, etc., etc.
<snip>
Mike:
I've been a member of a list that has a whole
lot of what you are describing going on all the time: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/12-step-free/
There are 775 members and the basic theory
that gets repeated is that twelve steps groups are evil "to
the core." Sound familiar? I'm finding many similarities
to some of the rants that I used to read on the WC list. It's
interesting also because there is a very dominate atheistic bias
doing it's usual anti-religion crusade under the guise of Kantian
morality or logical empiricism.
It's the same old "us and them"
thing. Dualistic thinking extraordinaire. Neurotically absolute
cynicism.
I like to play ball on one side of the coin
occasionally, but it's nice to swing back to center every now
and then.
Thanks
Mike
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From: Deborah
Date: Sun May 9, 2004 7:05 pm
Subject: Re: Skull and Bones/Wm R. Pitt
Mike,
Thanks. Yeah, that is the kind of thing I'm
talking about. To look at evil requires more rigorous and disciplined
thinking, healthy imagination, rich intuition. The temptation
to just declare things as evil and then feel like something great
has been accomplished... what a heffalump trap! And yes, that
is a big part of my frustration with PLANS: their tendency to
see anthroposophy and waldorf as this big conspiracy. They don't
have to actually prove anything...it is enough to just declare
a conspiracy...and there they are, all set. It is enough to make
me want to take up nice Ahrimanic, abstract, academic thinking!
Deborah
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