-----Original Message----- From: Linda Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.assassination.jfk,alt.conspiracy.cabal,soc.culture.ar abic Date: Friday, April 09, 1999 8:43 PM Subject: Re: DdRe: Bronfman's Dallas Link! >So don't believe him; read the source quoted. All the work is extremely >well documented. I've spent the last 5 years of my life checking it out. >Lazy people just ignore it and quote Dennis King, who was a tool of the ADL. >By the way, LaRouche is as far from Ku Klux Klan as anyone I've ever read. >Check the website, and search for the research they've done on Albert Pike. >http://www.larouchepub.com/kkk_in_doj.html > >For example: >Pike was the KKK's "chief judicial officer," Fleming wrote; Pike thus ruled >officially over the Klan's internal disciplinary or counterintelligence >department. In the KKK birth-state of Tennessee, Pike was the president of >the Bar Association and publisher of the main racist newspaper. > >But it was as "Sovereign Grand Commander" of the Scottish Rite, the >recognized boss of the southern white freemasonic order, that Pike exercised >the great clandestine power that welded the KKK together. Fleming cites >Pike's masonic colleagues and Klan co-founders as the main sources for his >KKK history. Pike's successor as Scottish Rite masonic Grand Commander, >Congressman James Richardson, introduced the 1898 House resolution >authorizing the Pike statue; Richardson had been Speaker of the Tennessee >House of Representatives in the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan power in that >state. > >In defense of the Klan insurrection, Fleming writes that "the >ex-Confederates . . . naturally [formed] secret associations . . . for >self-defense." Fleming then furnishes European precedents for Pike's KKK: >"the Carbonari of Italy, the Tugendbund and the Vehmgericht of Germany, the >Klephts of Greece, Young Italy, the Nihilists of Russia, the Masonic order >in most Catholic countries during the first half of the Nineteenth Century, >Beati Paoli of Sicily, the Illuminati, etc." Such groups are "textbook >cases" of the British colonial and secret service tradition of manipulating >"indigenous" people. > >A Massachusetts tory, Pike went south to incite whites against the Union; he >helped lead the Knights of the Golden Circle, which made armed, filibuster >attacks against Mexico and Cuba, and organized the Southern secession. As a >Confederate general during the Civil War, Pike was in charge of enticing >American Indians to war on the United States; his atrocities and war crimes >led to his arrest by the embarrassed Confederates, and an 1865 indictment by >the United States for treason. Pike fled to Canada, remaining there under >the protection of his British Empire sponsors until the heat was off.[6] > >When Pike returned to the South, the old Knights of the Golden Circle logo >was transmuted into the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan--the title taken from >the Greek kuklos, or circle. Pike's Arkansas indictment for war crimes >against American soldiers was swept aside by the power of Pike's own >clandestine terrorist movement over the Southern justice system. Well known >in European occult circles for his satanic writings, a sybarite of massive >girth, Pike died in 1891. > > >Linda Minor > >Martin Shackelford wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >>Dope, Inc., in case you weren't aware, is one of the many publications >>from looney-tunes occasional presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, who >>began as an authoritarian SDS member, then joined the more authoritarian >>Progressive Labor (which attacked SDS), then became involved with the Ku >>Klux Klan, and then the anti-environmental movement, promoting nuclear >>power at a time when facts had driven it into decline. LaRouche is not a >>reliable source on much of anything. >> >>Martin >> >>Linda Minor wrote: >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message >>> <7ejbs6$65p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >>> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>> > Tony Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >> Michael Collins Piper wrote: >>> >> >>> >> > Congratulations to Linda. It should also be pointed out that Texas >>> >> > figure >>> >> > Jack Crichton, who was responsible for arranging for a Russian >>> >> > translator >>> >> > for Marina Oswald after the JFK assassination, was a vice-president >of >>> >> > the >>> >> > Empire trust Company until 1962, thereby tying him in with the >>> >> > Bronfman >>> >> > crowd. So we had a Bronfman fellow tied in right to the events--some >>> >> > would >>> >> > say "cover-up"--in Dallas. I mentioned this point in FINAL JUDGMENT. >>> >> >>> >> Right, and if as she says, Empire Trust put all this in place a decade >>> >> before then it can hardly have had much to do with forknowledge of the >>> >> assassination. And I dont think Joe Kennedy was working for the >Scottish >>> >> distilleries so much as being one of their biggest customers and >possibly >>> >> shareholders as things went along. I would have thought that he would >have >>> >> been more inclined toward bringing in Irish whisky actually. This may >be >>> >> sacriledge but I say Irish is better whisky:-) What was the problem >there? >>> >> Could the Irish distillers not keep up with the demand? I dont think >it is >>> >> realistic to say that the Scottish distillers along with Kennedy and >>> >> Bronfman were responsible for creating prohibition in the U.S. tho'. >>> >> That's a bit paranoic. They may have wished they had that sort of >>> >> influence but it sounds ludicrous to me. >>> >> >>> >> Tony >>> > >>> >Actually I would think that the WCTU were the main public force in >>> >promoting Prohibition and Prohibition Candidates(?) Heck, in some towns >>> >the WCTU were still a force AFTER prohibition and kept many counties and >>> >cities dry after prohibition was repealed (several dry cities in my neck >>> >of the woods). I assume there's PLENTY of evidence on who wrote, voted >>> >for, and lobbied for prohibition and I think it's backwards logic to >think >>> >that the Scottish distillers would think they'd have more of a US market >>> >with the US in prohibition than with thousands of operating US bars. In >>> >fact I'm sure there's probably proof to the contrary by simply gauging >how >>> >much liquor they produced in a given year. If they produced more >>> >(allowing for regular market fluctuations) then that would be >interesting, >>> >if they produced the same, then I would argue for no influence. If I >>> >remember correctly it took months and years to build up a solid >>> >bootlegging system, and if this was foreknowledge you'd see this start >>> >immediately. >>> > >>> >It's no surprise that the conspiracy of bootleggers set down the power >>> >structure for the pre + post-war years, esp, re La Cosa Nostra, but I'd >be >>> >interested to see proof that a minor Black Hand forced prohibition just >so >>> >it could come to power as LCN. >>> > >>> >In fact, when LSD was criminalized around 1965/66 drug dealers had >already >>> >been selling it (taking over from the gurus and college crowd), I >believe >>> >this is mentioned in its arguments for criminalization. >>> > >>> >>> Prohibition began in Canada in 1915, when Sam and Abe Bronfman started >>> their true rise to wealth, before Prohibition in the U.S. In fact, >Canada >>> ended prohibition just before the U.S. passed it, and by then the >>> Bronfmans had established contacts with criminals and mobsters in the >U.S. >>> Their collaborators were men in the Hudson's Bay Company, a corporation >>> chartered in Britain to operate a monopoly trading business in Canada. >>> Controlling interest at the time was held by the Keswick and Matheson >>> families, who had made their fortunes in the Chinese opium trade. The >>> Bronfmans became partners with them in purchasing the Pure Drug Company >to >>> take advantage of a loophole in the new law that allowed the sale of >>> alcohol for medicinal purposes. >>> >>> Thus in 1919, the Bronfmans, who had been engaged in importation of >>> illegal spirits to Canada, became engaged in exportation. In 1936, they >>> paid $1.5 million to settle their account with the U.S. Treasury. >>> [Source: Peter C. Newman, Bronfman Dynasty, the Rothschilds of the New >>> World (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1978), pp. 66-73; cited in >>> DOPE, INC. by EIR.] >>> >>> The Bronfmans ran their bootlegging operations from Canada to Chicago and >>> Buffalo, NY.--using the railroads owned by "respectable gentlemen" in >>> London under the guise of the Canadian Pacific Railway. When a scandal >>> ensued in 1922, a brother-in-law of Sam's, Paul Matoff, was the victim of >>> a gangland murder, and public hearings were called. After a reprimand, >>> the Bronfmans relocated to Montreal. Also in that year, they relocated a >>> distillery from Kentucky to Montreal. Mysterious details are hinted at >in >>> Stephen Birmingham's book, THE REST OF US, with references to a >>> strangely-connected man named Kessler. >>> >>> The Bronfmans also imported whiskey from Britain, primarily from the >>> Distillery Company of London (DCL), which controlled more than half the >>> world market in Scotch whiskey. In 1926 a holding company was formed >with >>> Bronfman and Seagram's engaged in a 50-50 partnership with "the highest >>> echelons of the British nobility." >>> >>> But then the Bronfman's got in trouble with smuggling, and in 1928 >>> Canadian Customs prosecuted Harry Bronfman for bribery. Smuggling was >>> transferred to more private locations on the French islands off the >>> Newfoundland coast, and operated through Atlas Shipping Co., which also >>> had licenses in Bermuda, Belize, British Honduras and other Caribbean >>> havens, which soon became massive money launderers for drug profits. >>> >>> Linda Minor, plagiarizing from Dope, Inc. >> >>-- >>Martin Shackelford >> >>"You're going to find that many of the truths we >> cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." >> -Obi-Wan Kenobi >> >>"You must unlearn what you have learned." --Yoda >> >> > >
