-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a364baad55b34.htm ----- Topic: CONSPIRACY DEMOLISHING CONSPIRACY BROMIDES JBS R.W. LEE This article originally appeared in the January 1997 JBS Bulletin Demolishing Conspiracy Bromides by Robert W. Lee In spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, many intelligent people continue to insist that the downward spiral of America and Western society into anarchy and the concomitant growing threat of statist world government are the natural results of the normal cycles of history. They argue, against a steady accretion of facts of already mountainous proportions, that the forces propelling us into chaos and tyranny are not at all attributable to “deliberate direction” by any malevolent conspiracy. Here are some examples of the most common, and increasingly implausible, objections to what should properly be termed the conspiratorial fact of history: The conspiracy premise is too simplistic. The issue is neither simplicity nor complexity, but accuracy. But, for the sake of addressing this common and simplistic dismissal, let’s examine the issue of simplicity. Occam’s razor is a well-established test for reaching a conclusion based on limited information. It is named for the prominent 14th century philosopher William of Occam. Formally termed the “principle of parsimony,” it suggests that the least complicated explanation for a phenomenon that fits the known facts is most likely to be the correct one. Responsible advocates of the conspiracy scenario contend that the least complicated and most believable explanation for many of the destructive trends in politics, economics, morality, and other key areas over the past two centuries is that a secretive, incredibly amoral, well-organized movement has been striving relentlessly to make it happen. It is important to note, however, that this Master Conspiracy has not been responsible for all of our woes. The inherent faults of even the best of men and women are sufficient to assure an abundance of problems had the Master Conspiracy never existed. But the Insiders of the Conspiracy have indeed become masters at taking advantage of such human fallibility to make conditions far worse than could ever have been the case without their diabolic efforts. A Master Conspiracy could never survive from one generation to the next without coming apart or being fully exposed. Au contraire. The cult of the Thugs was an immense criminal conspiracy plaguing the whole of India for centuries, with its murderous adepts secretly placed in the highest echelons of politics, the military, banking, commerce, and religion. The British were involved there for over 200 years without even being aware of the existence of this satanic sect. When a brilliant young army officer, William Sleeman, discovered the horrible truth and tried to expose the ruthless cabal, he was met with disbelief and ridicule. Undeterred, he continued to gather evidence until, eventually, the proof of his assertions was so overwhelming that his superiors were forced to believe. Captain Sleeman was given the resources needed to systematically investigate, expose, and prosecute the Thugs, which he did with unswerving determination. Thousands of Thugs, including their acknowledged leaders, were tracked down, tried, convicted, and imp risoned or executed. Thus was India finally freed from one of the most diabolical and persistent conspiracies ever to afflict the human race. Unfortunately, there are all too many other examples of large-scale, long-lasting transgenerational conspiracies. The Mafia, for instance, managed to evade public exposure for generations. And even since becoming publicly known, and in spite of concerted efforts to infiltrate and prosecute it, it has resisted eradication. If, as claimed, the Master Conspiracy is comprised of only a minuscule fraction of the world’s population, how could it be so all-encompassing and influential? An examination of successful, large-scale conspiracies throughout history clearly reveals that a relatively tiny fraction of the populace acting in concert can indeed attain incredible power and influence. Far more important than the number of individuals involved in any conspiracy is the strategic placement of those conspirators. To the Mafia or the Cali drug cartel, for instance, the control of a single judge, prosecutor, customs agent, police captain, or newspaper editor — whether through bribery, extortion, blackmail, or actual infiltration of one of its own members into the position — is far more important than a hundred drug traffickers or other low-level operatives. Likewise, the Communist Conspiracy over the past 150 years has demonstrated time after time the ability to exercise enormous influence through the leveraged power of its strategically placed members. As an underground revolutionary movement in the last century, it was able to coordinate nearly simultaneous revolutions throughout the European continent. In this century it has grown into a de facto global, geopolitical power exercising ruthless, dictatorial force over much of the planet with its fifth columnists effectively penetrating and subverting all of those societies it does not rule outright. One of history’s clearest lessons is that events are determined by the dedicated few who know what they want, formulate a plan to obtain it, are willing to make and take the necessary sacrifices and risks — then organize. Lenin, for instance, was convinced that it would be virtually impossible to maintain discipline over a large number of revolutionaries. He preferred instead “a small tight kernel consisting of reliable, experienced, and steeled workers” who were “connected by all the rules of strict conspiracy.” In the Soviet Union, membership in the Communist Party seldom exceeded 5 percent of the population, and is about that today in Red China. The membership of the world-government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), one of the most visible front groups for the Master Conspiracy, wields enormous influence over our country’s domestic and international affairs, yet its membership is a minuscule .001 percent of the U.S. population. A single brain could never control a conspiracy on so vast a scale. It is indeed unlikely that a “single brain,” if by that is meant a single individual, sits alone at the Con-spiracy’s pinnacle. Far more likely is a governing directorate comprised of a relatively small number of persons capable of establishing policy and deciding who is to receive carrots and who is to receive sticks to assure that the agenda is carried out according to plan and with minimal opposition. While disciplined agents of the Conspiracy do carry out orders like puppets obeying the puppeteer (as is demanded of Communist Party members, for instance), a far larger number of “dupes,” “useful idiots,” and “self promoters” advance the same objectives without fully recognizing the role they are playing. Because of their strategic positioning, the Insiders are able to let down ladders which the selfish, avaricious, and unscrupulous scramble to climb. If this conspiracy really exists, then who are the top Insiders of its ruling directorate? Robert Welch once observed that the “enormous political and economic problems” generated by the Conspiracy were “exacerbated by the fact that we can barely begin to identify the individual Conspirators. We deduce their existence, as we generally do that of salamanders and moles, from their effect on the earth.” In other words, simply because all of the top Insiders cannot be named does not mean that the abundance of evidence pointing to their existence should be ignored, or that steps should not be taken to stop them. Suppose, for example, that you are mugged in a dark alley, badly beaten, and robbed. But when you report the assault to the police, pointing to the obvious signs that a crime has occurred (torn clothing, wounds and bruises, lack of wallet or purse ), you are told to name your assailant or forget it. Such an irresponsible law enforcement policy would be intolerable. And it is similarly irresponsible to pooh-pooh the reams of solid evidence pointing to the existence and operation of a Master Conspiracy simply because so many of its top Insiders remain, for now, camouflaged. Once again, let us remind the reader that the Mafia and the Communist Conspiracy are factual entities. Yet the real hierarchical pecking orders and operational structures of their top leadership circles remain shrouded in mystery. >From 1814 through 1848, the global leadership of the secret societies under the Illuminati passed to the Alta Vendita, or High Lodge, of the Italian Carbonari. Mazzini, as chief of the militant Carbonari, chafed at being excluded from the occult higher circle above him — the “invisible 40” — and is believed to have poisoned Nubius to gain the latter’s mantle of leadership in the secret hierarchy. At about the same time, Malegari wrote to a fellow high-level Carbonarist about a power “that is unseen, that can hardly be felt, yet that weighs on us. Whence comes it? Where is it? No one knows, or at least no one tells. The association is secret, even for us, the veterans of secret societies.” That is the way sophisticated conspiracies operate, in ascending circles of secrecy and power. And if it is difficult even for those inside the conspiracy to identify the top leadership, it is immeasurably more difficult for those of us on the outside to do so. In 1971, a U.S. Senate committee probing organized crime issued a report which, among other things, called Aniello Dellacroce “the most powerful boss in New York.” That, of course, was not true; Dellacroce, we now know, was an underboss for Carlo Gambino, who had succeeded Albert Anastasia as the top Mafiosi in Gotham. But Gambino, like many criminal kingpins, preferred to stay quietly in the shadows, far from the public eye, and allow Dellacroce —who was by nature loud, brash, and violent — to serve as his front man. This same report and others like it have made many other mistakes in assessing the Mafia and other criminal conspiracies. Likewise, authorities have learned over the years that much of the information they had earlier thought to be reliable concer ning the makeup, leadership, and modus operandi of the global terrorist networks and drug cartels was not only woefully inadequate but terribly faulty. Moreover, investigators who have spent many years attempting to penetrate the dark recesses of these sinister underworlds are frequently forced to admit that they cannot prove in court what they and virtually everyone else know to be fact concerning the murderous activities of these malefactors. So, are we to conclude from these mistakes and failures of intelligence gathering that criminal syndicates and conspiracies do not exist? Or that attempts to penetrate, investigate, and prosecute them are useless? That would be worse than foolish; it would lay all of society open to the predations of organized criminality. Rather, we should be resolved to insist that the proper authorities redouble their investigatory and prosecutorial efforts to root out these criminal combinations and bring the shadowy miscreant leaders to justice. If the evidence is as strong as you say, why have those involved not been prosecuted already? It is worth noting that most convictions in criminal conspiracy cases — as in murder cases and other serious crimes — are obtained with circumstantial evidence. Rarely are murderers caught in flagrante delicto by police or eyewitnesses while plunging the blade into the victim’s body. Rarely do the full records and plans of conspiracies fall into authorities’ hands, and rarely do members of cabals break their codes of silence and risk death to confess all. In this imperfect world, requiring perfect evidence of deeds done in darkness would be tantamount to granting evildoers impunity. Thus, our system of justice provides for the finding of guilt — and juries do regularly find it — with a burden of proof which is less than perfect. In our case, we have been blessed with an abundance of the rare evidence mentioned above — and more. We have the testimony of official investigators and eyewitnesses; confessions from high-level defectors of the Conspiracy, backed up by documents; high-level conspirators and/or their agents caught red-handed; self-indicting public and private communications of the Insiders of the Master Conspiracy; and blatant examples of sabotage, cover-up, and damage control by the Conspiracy to prevent the truth of their malignant deeds from coming to light. We have presented a significant portion of that evidence in the “Conspiracy” issue of The New American. However, because of space limitations, most of the presentations therein had to be severely abbreviated. Which is wh y the articles reference numerous source materials, and the issue contains a detailed bibliography, for those inclined to investigate further. However, not even the best of evidence is self-executing; without the proper authorities taking action, conspiracies flourish unabated. And if the forces of evil are powerfully organized, it requires a very determined, organized, and vocal citizenry to force the authorities to carry out their duties, to bring the powers of the state — to subpoena, convene grand juries, investigate, arrest, prosecute, punish — to bear against those who have combined against society. In the past, the efforts at investigation or prosecution — by the Cox and Reece committees, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and other officials and agencies at the local, state, and federal levels — have been sabotaged through the orchestrated efforts of the Insiders. If this Master Conspiracy actually exists, wouldn’t at least a few prominent Americans who have stumbled across it have been willing to risk their careers and reputations, if need be, to come forward and tell what they know? Yes, and many have done so. Indeed, it is one indication of both the existence and influence of the Conspiracy that their efforts have been so widely ignored or suppressed. Among the numerous heroes who have sacrificed their careers and even risked their lives to expose the communist arm of the Conspiracy are: • Dr. William Wirt, Superintendent of Schools in Gary, Indiana. In 1935, Dr. Wirt went to Washington, DC at the invitation of the Roosevelt Administration. Mixing with many of the top New Dealers in FDR’s “Brain Trust,” Wirt was horrified at the open subversion and betrayal he encountered. He testified that at one high-level dinner party he attended the attendees openly boasted of soon having FDR completely under communist control. Of course, that is exactly what was happening, as good old “Uncle Joe” Stalin’s agents piled on board. However, before Dr. Wirt could fully alert the American people to the treason that was underway, the New York Times, Time magazine, and other organs of the Establishment media cartel carried out a campaign of ridicule and character assassination that left Wirt a broken man. • Major George Racey Jordan, whose job during World War II included expediting Lend-Lease supplies at military bases, where he watched large quantities of Lend-Lease items being channelled to Russia (including U.S. Treasury plates for the printing of occupation currency), and Soviet agents being smuggled into the United States on return trips. He kept notes and recorded his experiences in From Major Jordan’s Diaries. Among other things, he revealed how the Soviets were able to explode their atom bomb earlier than our “experts” thought possible: Our officials had sent the Soviets uranium, thorium, cobalt, cadmium, and atom bomb data from our own top-secret Manhattan Project. • Bryton Barron, a 25-year career man in our State Department before being forced into retirement in 1955 due to his refusal to distort historical records about U.S. foreign policy during the previous two decades. The details are related in his book Inside The State Department. • Arthur Bliss Lane, who was our Ambassador to Poland when he resigned from the foreign service to write I Saw Poland Betrayed, which chronicled, from his firsthand experience, the names, dates, places, and events of the deliberate betrayal of Poland by our government into Soviet hands. His book should have shocked the nation, but it hardly made a ripple, and after selling only a few thousand copies was allowed to go out of print by the publisher. • Dr. Medford Evans, who was Chief of Security Training for the Atomic Energy Commission and all of its plants. In The Secret War for The A-Bomb (1953) he revealed that despite the atomic bombs which the Soviets had detonated, they had yet to actually construct one themselves. Instead, their agents had walked off from our plants with the necessary components and sent them to Russia for assembly. Again, here was an expose that should have rocked the nation, since it had to do with the security of every American, but it received the silent treatment and sold less than 3,000 copies. • Otto Otepka, chief of the State Department’s personnel security during the Kennedy Administration. Otepka tried in vain to stop the flood of security risks being appointed by Dean Rusk, Harlan Cleveland, and other pro-communist CFR members. He was especially shocked when Cleveland tried to get infamous Soviet spy Alger Hiss back into the State Department. • Senator Joseph McCarthy, the most famous of those who tried to expose the massive betrayal at work in our own government. Although history has proven the validity of his charges, he was so thoroughly smeared by the controlled media and the Conspiracy’s court historians that most Americans have been led to believe that McCarthy — not the communists — was the real menace to our country during the ’50s. But how about members of the Conspiracy itself? Wouldn’t some have defected and helped expose the alleged plot? Many have done exactly that. Indeed, it is truly amazing that such a large number of defectors bringing such a vast quantity of high-quality evidence over such a long period of time have been so effectively censored from the history books. We see this beginning with Weishaupt’s Illuminati, which many establishment historians still insist was apocryphal, or certainly of no significant influence. The facts show quite the opposite. In 1784-85 four professors of the Marianen Academy who had been inducted into the Illuminati — Gruenberger, Renner, Utzschneider, and Cossandey — all came forward to give sworn testimony to the Bavarian government concerning the criminal activities and plans of the Order. In 1786, the archives of the Illuminati were seized, providing volumes of incriminating evidence. In 1789, before the French Revolution got too far underway, the Marquis de Luchet broke with his revolutionary confreres and published a desperate plea to the people of France, warning them that “there exists a conspiracy in favor of despotism against liberty.... This society aims at governing the world.... Its object is universal domination.... [N]o such calamity has ever yet afflicted the world.” De Luchet precisely foretold the terrible events that were to unfold in the next four years. Also in 1789, Count Mirabeau’s papers, including his Project of Revolution, were seized, providing a comprehensive outline of the Order’s hellish plans. As a leading revolutionary figure and an Illuminatus, this, together with de Luchet’s account, provides important primary corroboration of the Illuminati’s role in the conflagration. But there are also the defections of the Duke of Brunswick and Baron Von Knigge, two top associates of Weishaupt. In 1795, L.A. Hoffman and other Freemasons published evidence that the Illuminati had penetrated and taken over their lodges in Austria for its diabolical purposes. In 1822, at the Council of Verona, Count Haugwitz, Minister of the King of Prussia, gave penitent testimony concerning his long-running former leadership in the revolutionary services of Illuminized Freemasonry. During the revolutions of 1848, Insiders Caussidiere and Picolo Tigre provided written testaments of the Conspiracy’s continued existence. Later Nubius would provide even more damning evidence against the cabal in which he and Mazzini had played such leading roles. Closer to our own day, communists such as Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley were instrumental in exposing the existence of at least three communist cells within the U.S. government. Included on the list of espionage agents was high-ranking State Department official Alger Hiss (CFR). Hiss, who served as Secretary General of the United Nations organizing conference in San Francisco, was eventually convicted and imprisoned for lying under oath about his pro-communist activities Both Chambers and Bentley were, in accord with the standard communist smear tactic, attacked unmercifully. James Burnham recounted in The Web of Subversion: “The 1948 testimony of Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers set off against them a campaign of abuse almost unprecedented in this country. Communist, fellow travelling, and some liberal and government circles denounced and dismissed their testimony as ridiculous, laughable, fantastic, maudlin. By rumor and gossip, by cartoon and editorial, they were ‘exposed’ as thieves, degenerates, psychotics, perverts.... In whispered conversations at cocktail parties, washrooms and bars, no phrase was thought too vile if it was applied to Elizabeth Bentley or Whittaker Chambers.” Considering the terrible abuse inflicted upon these and other patriots, it is amazing that anyone would still dare to come forth and expose the conspiracy in our midst. But brave souls did. Concerning the Insider cabal behind communism, we have seen Admiral Chester Ward, a former Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy, unmask the American Establishment’s premier front organization — the Council on Foreign Relations — from the inside. After 16 years’ membership, Ward resigned, charging that the CFR was “promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government.” Why would the super rich promote such a conspiracy when they have the most to lose should it succeed? Actually, they have the most to gain. The power and influence which their wealth entails virtually assures (they believe) that they will emerge as shepherds, not sheep, once their new world order is in place. It is essential to understand that communism/socialism is a control-the-wealth program, not a share-the-wealth program. It concentrates the control of all wealth into the hands of an oligarchical elite who claim to administer it for the benefit of “the people.” It is the ultimate monopoly. From the very beginning, the Insiders have labored to recruit into their ranks the sons and daughters of the powerful, famous — and rich. Colonel Edward Mandell House, a founder of the CFR, wrote in Phillip Dru: Administrator that “it will be the educated and the rich” who would bring about his plan of “Socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx.” The historical record of the bankrolling of the Bolshevik Revolution by Western capitalists confirms the accuracy of his assessment. Most of the so-called “conspirators” must have known that their goal of world domination would not be achieved in their lifetime, so why would they bother? The “glue” that has held the Conspiracy together over the past 200-plus years has been the extent to which the Insiders have been able to reward those who (knowingly or unknowingly) play along with it while punishing those who oppose it. This carrot-and-stick approach has led many individuals to join the Conspiracy, or at least promote its obvious interests, simply for their opportunistic self-interest in becoming successful, rich, famous, etc. As Robert Welch wrote, “For two centuries the primary motivation of the Insiders has been the advantages which the Conspiracy offered to their personal ambitions. If you wanted to be Prime Minister, or the president of a great university, or a famous novelist, or a celebrated actor, or an illustrious personage in any field, you usually had two strikes on your competition if you were one of the Insiders or made yourself unwaveringly of service to their plans.” Since the question of whether a Master Conspiracy actually exists does not much matter, why bring it up? The freedom fight should be waged on strictly ideological grounds. The Master Conspiracy is a combination of ideology and conspiracy. Its communist arm, for instance, is comprised of both Marxism (ideology) and Leninism (conspiratorial organization). Rather than have us keep both aspects in proper perspective, however, the Insiders have sought to hide their activities by promoting the myth that advocates of collectivism and freedom are engaged solely in an ideological struggle in which they battle on the academic and political playing fields to see which can achieve enough intellectual acceptance to bring victory. This “it’s only ideology” deception has been so basic to the strategy of the Insiders that they not only welcome, but occasionally subsidize, opposition to their collectivist program, provided that such opposition remains on an academic or political plane, with no mention of the conspiracy at work below. Robert Welch once wrote that “Under cover of the ideological confrontation the conspirators are using every conceivable form of diplomacy, deception, pressure, coercion, bribery, treason and terror to destroy the present social order and to seize more and more power at every turn.” He lamented that “many conservatives and well-intentioned Americans are like the man who accepts the invitation of a thug who says: Let’s you and me argue heatedly over our disagreements, while my partner is slipping up behind your back to cut your throat.” Conservatives regularly win the ideological arguments for the free market over socialism, for pro-life over abortion, for balanced budgets over deficits, for lower over higher taxes, for virtue over promiscuity, and in many other areas. Yet in the real world they are losing, and losing badly, in each instance. One reason is the failure to recognize, and realistically oppose, the conspiracy that is determined to achieve its agenda, by whatever foul means may be necessary, regardless of the outcome of ideological debates and discussions. The conspiracy scenario is too depressing and negative. To the contrary, the most negative and hopeless scenario one can imagine is that which would have us believe that the dilemma in which we find ourselves has resulted from chance or historical evolution. In that event, there is little we can do to reverse the situation, any more than we can push back a hurricane or contain an earthquake. On the other hand, if such problems are being purposely magnified and made far worse than would otherwise be the case by a conspiratorial apparatus, there is realistic hope that sufficient exposure of the Conspiracy can “turn things around.” * * * In 1831, the Supreme Court heard a case in which a dog that was peacefully enjoying its supper was struck on the rump by a youth, whom the dog then bit. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes observed in his decision that “even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.” Make no mistake about it. We’re being kicked, and it’s time to bite back. ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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