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THE "SPIRIT" OF "DR." JOSEPH MENGELE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN
ISRAEL
Friday, October 21, 2005
The "Spirit" of "Dr." Josef Mengele Alive and Well in Israel
The Spirit of "Dr." Josef Mengele Alive and Well in Israel
From: "The Other Side of Deception" by Victor Ostrovsky (former Mossad), Harper
Collins, N.Y. 1994
" That was where I would come in as a military police officer; my job was to take the
prisoners to a holding facility in Nes Ziyyona, a small town south of Tel Aviv. I'd always
assumed that it was an interrogation facility for the Shaback. We all knew that a prisoner
brought there would probably never get out alive, but the brainwashing we'd gone
through in our short lifetimes had convinced us that it was them or us; there was no gray
area.
It was Uri who enlightened me regarding the Nes Ziyyona facility. It was, he said, an
ABC warfare laboratoryABC standing for atomic, bacteriological, and chemical. It was
where our top epidemiological scientists were developing various doomsday machines.
Because we were so vulnerable and would not have a second chance should there be
an allout war in which this type of weapon would be needed, there was no room for
error. The Palestinian infiltrators came in handy in this regard. As human guinea pigs,
they could make sure the weapons the scientists were developing worked properly and
could verify how fast they worked and make them even more efficient. What scares me
today, looking back at that revelation, is not the fact that it was taking place but rather
the calmness and understanding with which I accepted it.
Years later, I met Uri again. This time he was in the Mossad, a veteran 'katsa' in the Al
department, and I was a rookie. He had come back from an assignment in South Africa.
I was then a temporary desk man in the Dardasim department in liaison helping him
prepare for a large shipment of medication to South Africa to accompany several Israeli
doctors who were headed for some humanitarian work in Soweto, a black township
outside Johannesburg. The doctors were to assist in treating patients at an outpatient
clinic for the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, a few blocks away from the houses of
Winnie Mandela and bishop Desmond Tutu. The hospital and clinic were supported by a
hospital in Baltimore, which served as a cutout for the Mossad. Uri was on a coolingoff
period from the United States.
'What is the Mossad doing giving humanitarian assistance to blacks in Soweto?' I
remember asking him. There was no logic to it; no shortterm political gain (which was
the way the Mossad operated) or any visible monetary advantage.
'Do you remember Nes Ziyyona?' His question sent shivers up my spine. I nodded.
' This is very much the same. We're testing both new infectious diseases and new
medication that can't be tested on humans in Israel, for several of the Israeli medicine
manufacturers. This will tell them whether they're on the right track, saving them millions
in research.'
' What do you think about all of this?' I had to ask.
' It's not my job to think about it.'
(pp. 18889)
The Ringworm Children: How the Israeli Government Irradiated 100,000 Israeli Kids
Israel Insider
October 28 2005
By Barry Chamish
On August 14, at 9 PM, Israel's Channel Ten television screened a documentary film
which exposes the ugliest secret of Israel's Labor party founders: the deliberate mass
radiation poisoning of nearly all Sephardi youths of a generation.
"The Ringworm Children" (translated in Hebrew as "100,000 Rays"), directed by David
Belhassen and Asher Hemias, recently won the prize for "best documentary" at the
Haifa International film festival, and in the past year has made the rounds of Jewish and
Israeli film festivals around the world. But it had yet to come to Israeli television screens.
The subject is the mass irradiation of hundreds of thousands of young Israeli immigrants
from Middle Eastern countries Sephardim, as they are called today. The story goes
like this:
In 1951, the director general of the Israeli Health Ministry, Dr. Chaim Sheba, flew to
America and returned with seven xray machines, supplied to him by the American
army.
They were to be used in a mass atomic experiment with an entire generation of
Sephardi youths to be used as guinea pigs. Every Sephardi child was to be given
35,000 times the maximum dose of xrays through his head. For doing so, the American
government paid the Israeli government 300 million Israeli liras a year. The entire Health
budget was 60 million liras. The money paid by the Americans is equivalent to billions of
dollars today.
To fool the parents of the victims, the children were taken away on "school trips" and
their parents were later told the xrays were a treatment for the scourge of scalpal
ringworm. 6,000 of the children died shortly after their doses were given, while many of
the rest developed cancers that killed thousands over time and are still killing them now.
While living, the victims suffered from disorders such as epilepsy, amnesia, Alzheimer's
disease, chronic headaches and psychosis.
That is the subject of the documentary in cold terms. It is another matter to see the
victims on the screen.
To watch the Moroccan lady describe what getting 35,000 times the dose of allowable x
rays in her head feels like. "I screamed make the headache go away. Make the
headache go away. Make the headache go away. But it never went away."
To watch the bearded man walk hunched down the street. "I'm in my fifties and
everyone thinks I'm in my seventies. I have to stoop when I walk so I won't fall over.
They took my youth away with those xrays."
To watch the old lady who administered the doses to thousands of children: "They
brought them in lines. First their heads were shaved and smeared in burning gel. Then a
ball was put between their legs and the children were ordered not to drop it, so they
wouldn't move. The children weren't protected over the rest of their bodies. There were
no lead vests for them. I was told I was doing good by helping to remove ringworm. If I
knew what dangers the children were facing, I would never have cooperated. Never!"
Because the whole body was exposed to the rays, the genetic makeup of the children
was often altered, affecting the next generation. We watch the woman with the distorted
face explain, "All three of my children have the same cancers my family suffered. Are
you going to tell me that's a coincidence?"
The majority of the victims were Moroccan because they were the most numerous of the
Sephardi immigrants. The generation that was poisoned became the country's perpetual
poor and criminal class. It didn't make sense. The Moroccans who fled to France
became prosperous and highly educated. The common explanation was that France got
the rich, thus smart ones. The real explanation is that every French Moroccan child
didn't have his brain cells fried with gamma rays.
The film made it perfectly plain that this operation was no accident. The dangers of x
rays had been known for over forty years. We read the official guidelines for xray
treatment in 1952. The maximum dose to be given a child in Israel was .5 rad. There
was no mistake made. The children were deliberately poisoned.
David Deri makes the point that only Sephardi children received the xrays: "I was in
class and the men came to take us on a tour. They asked our names. The Ashkenazi
children were told to return to their seats. The dark children were put on the bus."
The film presents a historian who first gives a potted history of the eugenics movement.
In a later sound bite, he declares that the ringworm operation was a eugenics program
aimed at weeding out the perceived weak strains of society. The Moroccan lady is back
on the screen. "It was a Holocaust, a Sephardi Holocaust. And what I want to know is
why no one stood up to stop it."
David Deri, on film and then as a panel member, relates the frustration he encountered
when trying to find his childhood medical records. "All I wanted to know was what they
did to me. I wanted to know who authorized it. I wanted to trace the chain of command.
But the Health Ministry told me my records were missing." Boaz Lev, the Health
Ministry's spokesman chimes in: "Almost all the records were burned in a fire."
We are told that a US law in the late '40s put a stop to the human radiation experiments
conducted on prisoners, the mentally feeble and the like. The American atomic program
needed a new source of human lab rats and the Israeli government supplied it. Here
was the government cabinet at the time of the ringworm atrocities:
Prime Minister David Ben Gurion; Finance Minister Eliezer Kaplan; Settlement
Minister Levi Eshkol; Foreign Minister Moshe Sharrett; Health Minister Yosef Burg;
Labor Minister Golda Meir; Police Minister Amos Ben Gurion.
The highest ranking noncabinet post belonged to the Director General of the Defence
Ministry, Shimon Peres.
That a program involving the equivalent of billions of dollars of American government
funds should be unknown to the Prime Minister of cashstrapped Israel is ridiculous.
Ben Gurion had to have been in on the horrors and undoubtedly chose his son to be
Police Minister in case anyone interfered with them.
Finance Minister Eliezer Kaplan was rewarded for eternity with a hospital named after
him near Rehovot. But he's not alone in this honor. Chaim Sheba, who ran Ringworm
Incorporated, had a whole medical complex named after him. Needless to say, if there is
an ounce of decency in the local medical profession, those hospital names will have to
change.
After the film ended, there was a panel discussion which included a Moroccan singer,
David Edri, head of the Compensation Committee for Ringworm XRay Victims, and
Boaz Lev, a spokesman for the Ministry Of Health.
TV host Dan Margalit tried to put a better face on what he'd witnessed. He explained
meekly that "the state was poor. It was a matter of day to day survival." Then he
stopped. He knew there was no excusing the atrocities which the Sephardi children
endured.
But it was the Moroccan singer who summed up the experience best. "It's going to hurt,
but the truth has to be told. If not, the wounds will never heal."
There is one person alive who knows the truth: Shimon Peres. The only way to get to
the truth and start the healing is to investigate him for his role in the mass poisoning of
over 100,000 Sephardi children and youth.
But here is why that won't happen. The film was aired at the same time as the highest
rated TV show of the year, the finale of Israel's talenthunt show: "A Star Is Born." The
next day, the newlyborn star's photo took up half the front pages. There was not a word
about "The Ringworm Children" in any paper, nor on the Internet. Until now.
Zionism and AntiSemitism
From Tom Segev, "The Seventh Million: Israelis and the Holocaust" Hill and Wang, NY,
1993
" On January 31, 1933, the day after Hitler became chancellor, the independent liberal
daily 'Haaretz' decried this 'hugely negative historical event'. Ten days later it ran a
headline that read, 'BLACK DAYS IN GERMANY.' The paper followed the ongoing 'anti
Semitic horror', but during those first weeks it, like the British press, generally aimed at
reassuring its readers: 'One must suppose that Hitlerism will now renounce terrorist
methods: government brings responsibility.' the rightwing 'Doar Hayom' agreed: 'There
can be no doubt that Hitler the chancellor will be different from the Hitler of the public
rallies.' But from the start, 'Davar'the leftwing daily published by the Histadrut (Labor
Federation)was more pessimistic: 'It was a bitter and illfated day when the New
Vandal came to power', the newspaper wrote the day after the change of government in
Germany. It described Hitler as a man of hate and demagoguery who would 'tear Jews
out by their roots.' " (p 17)
"More than anything else, though, the rise of the Nazis was seen as confirming the
historical prognosis of Zionist ideology. 'Hapoel Hatsair' described the nazi persecution
of the Jews as 'punishment for their having tried to integrate into German society instead
of leaving for Palestine while it was still possible to do so.' Now they would have to run in
a panic 'like mice in flight', the paper said. 'The Jews of Germany are being persecuted
now not despite their efforts to be part of their country but because of those efforts.' The
holocaust would later be the primary argument fro the establishment of the State of
Israel and for its wars of survival." (p. 18)
"BenGurion hoped that the Nazis victory would become 'a fertile force' for Zionism." (p.
18)
"The 'haavara' ('transfer') agreementthe Hebrew term was used in the Nazi documents
as wellwas based on the complementary interests of the German government and the
Zionist movement: the Nazis wanted the Jews out of Germany; the Zionists wanted them
to come to Palestine. But there was no such mutuality of interests between the Zionists
and German Jewry. Most German Jews would have preferred to stay in their country.
The tension between the interests of the 'yishuv' [Jewish community in Palestine] (and,
in time, the State of Israel) and those of world Jewry was to become a central motif in
the story of the Israelis' attitude to the Holocaust." (p.20)
"The revisionist right, by contrast, had long been sympathetic to Benito Mussolini's
Fascism and now and then even to Adolf Hitler's Naziismexcept, of course, his anti
Semitism. Betar, Jabotinsky's youth movement, fostered classic Fascist ideas and
forms. In 1928, Abba Ahimeir, a wellknown Revisionist journalist, had a regular column,
'From the Notebook of a Fascist', in the newspaper 'Doar Hayom'. In anticipation of
Jabotinsky's arrival in Palestine, he wrote an article titled 'On the Arrival of Our Duce'
" (p. 23)
"Four years later, in early 1932, Ahimeir was among those brought to trial for disrupting
a public lecvture at Hebrew University. The incident and the resulting trial are worthy of
note only because of a declaration by defense attorney Zvi Eliahu Cohen in response to
a speech by the prosecutor comparing the disruption of the lecture with the Nazi
disturbances in Germany. 'The comment on the Nazis', Cohen said, 'went too far. Were
it not for Hitler's antiSemitism, we would not oppose his ideology. Hitler saved
Germany.' This was not an unconsidered outburst; the REvisionist paper 'Hazit Haam'
praised Cohen's 'brilliant speech.' " (p. 23)
"...[from Hazit Haam] 'Social Democrats of all stripes believe that Hitler's movement is
an empty shell.', the newspaper explained, but 'we believe that there is both a shell and
a kernel. The antiSemitic shell is to be discarded, but not the antiMarxist kernel. The
Revisionists, the newspaper wrote, would fight the Nazis only to the extent that they
were antiSemites." (p. 23)
"The haavara agreement was a central issue in the elections in the summer of 1933 for
representatives to the Eighteenth Zionist Congress. The Revisionists rejected [in a
turnabout] any contact with Nazi Germany. It was inconsistent with the honor of the
Jewish people, they said; Jabotinsky declared it 'ignoble, disgraceful and contemptible'.
The Revisionist press now castigated the Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency
as 'Hitler's allies', people 'who have trampled roughshod on Jewish honor, on Jewish
conscience, and on Jewish ethics...dark characters who have come to trade on the
troubles of the Jews and on the land of Israel...low types who have accepted the role of
Hitler's agents in Palestine and in the entire Near East...traitors...deceivers who lust
after Hitler's government.' " (p. 24)
"After reading the Nazi Party newspaper, BenGurion wrote, it seemed to him that he
was reading the words of Zeev Jabotinsky in Doar Hayom: 'the same thing, the same
style, and the same spirit.' " (p. 24)
"In his impassioned speech, BenGurion called for the rescue of German Jewry, 'a tribe
of Israel', and their transfer to Palestine, rather than action against Hitler. ' I do not
believe that we can oust him and I am not interested in anything other than saving these
500,000 Jews,' he said. BenGurion saw the debate between rescue and boycott as a
debate between Zionism and assimilation, between the nationalist interests of Jewish
settlement in Palestine and the international war against antiSemitism. The assumption
imnplicit in his words was that the war against antiSemitism was not a part of the
Zionist mission." (pp. 2425)
"To make his point, BenGurion used harsh language that would in time be employed by
antiZionists: 'If I knew that it was possible to save all the children in Germany by
transporting them to England, but only half of them by transporting them to Palestine, I
would choose the secondbecause we face not only the reckoning of those children,
but the historical reckoning of the Jewish people.' In the wake of the Kristallnacht
pogroms, BenGurion commented that the 'human conscience' might bring various
countries to open their doors to Jewish refugees from Germany. He saw this as a threat
and warned: 'Zionism is in danger.' " (p 28)
"Nevertheless, the pragmatists were convinced that the boycott of Germany could not
advance the interests of Palestine, that their ends could best be accomplished through
contact with the Nazis. Thus the leaders sought to keep relations with Nazi Germany as
normal as possible: Two months after Hitler came to power the Jewish Agency executive
in Jerusalem had sent a telegram straight to the Fuhrer in Berlin, assuring him that the
yishuv had not declared a boycott against his country; the telegram was sent at the
request of German Jewry in the hope of halting their persecution, but it reflected the
Jewish Agency's inclination to maintain correct relations with the Nazi Government.
Many years later, Menachem Begin revealed that the Zionist Organization had sent
hitler a cable of condolence on the death of President Hindenburg." (p. 29)
"Traveling on to Cairo, he [Eichmann] summoned a Jew from Jerusalem, one Fiebl
Folkes. A report from Eichmann wrote of his trip and the record of his interrogation by
the Israeli police decades later indicate[s] that Folkes was a member of the Haganah
the clandestine Jewish defense forceand a Nazi agent. On one occasion he even met
with Eichmann in Berlin. The Nazis paid him for his information, mostly rather general
political and economic evaluations. Among other things, Eichmann quoted Folkes to the
effect that Zionist leaders were pleased by the persecution of German Jewry, since it
would encourage immigration to Palestine." (p. 30)
"Ironically the Revisionists also had fairly wideranging links with the Nazis. The Betar
youth movement was active in Berlin and several other German cities. About half a year
before the Nazis came to power, the movement's leadership distributed a memorandum
to its members that was both commonsensical and cautious. The Nazis should be
treated politely and with reserve, the memorandum instructed. Whenever Betar
members were in public, they should remain quiet and refrain from vocal debates and
critical comments. Under no circumstances should anyone say anything that could be
interpreted as an insult to the German people, to its institutions, or to its prevailing
ideology.
The Nazis allowed Betar to continue its activitiesmeetings, conventions, summer
camps hikes, sports, sailing, and agricultural training. Members were allowed to wear
their uniforms, which included brown shirts, and they were allowed to publish
mimeographed pamphlets, including Zionist articles in a nationalistic, paraFascist tone,
in the spirit of the times. The German Betar pamphlets focused on events in Palestine,
and their exuberant nationalism targeted the British, the Arabs, and the Zionist left. The
contained no references to the political situation in Germany. With this exception, they
were similar to the nationalist German youth publications, including those published by
the Nazis. Jabotinsky decried the influence Hitlerism was having on the members of
Betar." (pp. 32)
In the second half of 1940, a few members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military
Organization)the antiBritish terrorist group sponsored by the Revisionists and known
by its acronym Etzel, and to the British simply as the Irgunmade contact with
representatives of Fascist Italy, offering to cooperate against the British. Soon the Etzel
split, and the group headed by Avraham "Yair" Stern formed itself into the Lehi (from the
initials of its Hebrew name, Lohamei Herut YisraelFighters for the Freedom of Israel),
also known as the Stern Gang. A representative of this group met with a German foreign
ministry official and offered to help Nazi Germany in its war against the British. The
Germans understood that the group aimed to establish an independent state based on
the totalitarian principles of the Fascist and Nazi regimes. Many years after he tried to
forge this lik with Nazis, a former Lehi leader explained what had guided his men at the
time: 'Our obligation was to fight the enemy. We were justified in taking aid from the Nazi
oppressor, who was in this case the enemy of our enemythe British.' " (p. 33)
"The question was what to do with those refugees who were neither Zionist nor fit to
help build the new society in Palestine. 'Only God knows how the poor little land of
Israel can take in this stream of people and emerge with a healthy social structure',
Chaim Weizmann wrote. The German Immigrants Association complained that the
Jewish Agency's representatives in Berlin were giving immigration certificates to
invalids. ' The human material [direct quote and their words] coming from Germany is
getting worse and worse', the association charged after almost a year of Nazi rule. 'They
are not able and not willing to work, and they need social assistance.' A year later the
association sent to Berlin a list of names of people who should not have been sent.
Henrietta Szold, who headed the Jewish Agency's socialwork division, also frequently
protested about the sick and needy among the immigrants. From time to time Szold
demanded that certain of such 'cases' be returned to Nazi Germany so that they would
not be a burden on the yishuv." (p. 43)
"In 1937 the Joint Distribution Committee, an American organization that assisted needy
Jews, negotiated with the German authorities for the release of 120 Jewish prisoners
from the Dachau concentration camp. 'I am not so sure that from a political point of view
it is desirable that all those released come to Palestine', a Jewish Agency official wrote
to one of his colleagues. Most were not Zionists; and there may even have been
Communists among them." (pp 4344)
"Senator [Werner Senator of the Jewish Agency] who was active in bringing German
Jews to Palestine, warned the Jewish Agency office in Berlin that if it did not improve the
quality of the 'human material' it was sending, the agency was liable to cut back the
number of certificates set aside for the German capital. The immigrants from Germany
enjoyed all sorts of special benefits, Senator wrote. They received immigration
certificates after only six months of agricultural training, while in other countries up to
two years was required. Requests for family reunification from Germans with relatives in
Palestine were also quickly approved. All this required special attention to the quality of
immigrants, who should be true pioneers. Senator was not referring to occasional errors
in judgment, he assured his colleagues; he was talking about a trend. More and more '
welfare cases' were arriving from Germany, as well as too many 'businessmen with
children' rather than single men and women. At one point it was decided that candidates
above the age of thirtyfive would receive immigration certificates 'only if there is no
reason to believe that they might become a burden here.' Accordingly they had to have
a profession. 'Anyone who was a merchant', the decision stated, or of similar
employment, will not receive a certificate under any circumstances, except in the case of
veteran Zionists.' This was in 1935. ' In days of plenty, it was possible to handle this
material [emphasis added]' , explained Yitzhak Gruenbaum. 'In days of shortages and
unemployment, this material [emphasis added] will cause us many problems...We must
be allowed to choose from among the refugees those worthy of immigration and not
accept them all.' " (p. 44) Footnote: "In 1939 the world press followed the drama of the
St Louis, a boat carrying several hundred Jewish refugees from Germany. No country
would give them asylum. The Joint Distribution Committee asked the Jewish Agency to
allot the passengers several hundred immigration certificates from the quota. The
Jewish Agency refused. In the end the refugees were allowed into Antwerp. [note where
many were exterminated after the takeover of Belgium by the Nazis.]. (p. 44)
" German Jews who were given immigration permits 'merely as refugees' were also
considered 'undesirable human material' by Eliahu Dobkin, a Mapai member of the
Jewish Agency executive. 'I understand very well the special situation in which the
overseas institutions dealing with German refugees find themselves, but I would like to
believe that you would agree with me that we must approach this question not from a
philanthropic point of view but from the point of view of the country's needs', Dobkin
wrote to one of his colleagues. 'My opinion is that from among the refugees we must
bring only those who meet this condition.' Leaders of the German immigrants agreed.
'As I see it, 90 percent of them are not indispensible here', one of them wrote to
another." (pp 4445)
"It was an incomparably cruel reality: every Jew who received an immigration certificate
during those years lived in Palestine knowing that some other Jew who had not received
that certificate had been murdered. This was the basis for the sense of guilt that would
later trouble so many Israelis who escaped the Holocaust." (p 45)
From Zionism in the Age of the Dictators by Lenni Brenner:
In June of 1895, the first entry into his new journal on Zionism, Theodor Hertzl wrote:
"In Paris, as I have said, I achieved a freer attitude toward antiSemitism, which I now
began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognized the emptiness
and futility of trying to 'combat' antiSemitism."
To be a Good Zionist one must be Somewhat of an AntiSemite:
Although blut was a recurrent theme in preHolocaust Zionist literature, it was not as
central to its message as boden. As long as America's shores remained open, Europe's
Jews asked: if antiSemitism could not be fought on its home ground, why should they
not just follow the crowd to America? The Zionist response was doublebarrelled: anti
Semitism would accompany the Jews wherever they went and, what was more, it was
the Jews who had created antiSemitism by their own characteristics. The root cause of
antiSemitism, Zionists insisted, was the Jews' exile existence. Jews lived parasitically
off their 'hosts'...
These tenets combined were known as 'shelilat ha'galut (the Negation of the Diaspora),
and were held by the entire spectrum of Zionists who varied only on matters of detail.
They were argued vigorously in the Zionist press, where the distinctive quality of many
articles was their hostility to the entire Jewish people. Anyone reading these pieces
without knowing their source would have automatically assumed that they came from
the AntiSemitic press. The Weltanschauung of the youth organization Hashomer
Hatzair (Young Watchmen), originally composed in 1917, but republished again as late
as 1936, was typical of these effusions: The Jew is a caricature of a normal, natural
human being, both pysically and spiritually. As an individual in society he revolts and
throws off the harness of social obligations, knows no order nor discipline. (pp2223)
Similarly, in 1935 an American Ben Frommer, a writer for the ultraright Zionist
Revisionists, could declare of no less than 16 million of his fellow Jews that:
The fact is undeniable that the Jews collectively are unhealthy and neurotic. Those
professional Jews who, wounded to the quick, igdignantly deny this truth are the
greatest enemies of their race, for they thereby lead them to search for false solutions,
or at most palliatives." (p. 23)
And:
In 1925 the most vehement protagonist of total abstentionism, Jcob Klatzkin, the co
editor of the massive "Encyclopedia Judaica", laid down the full implications of the
Zionist approach to antiSemitism:
"If we do not admit the rightfulness of antisemitism, we deny the rightfulness of our own
nationalism. If our people is deserving and willing to live its own national life, then it is an
alien body thrust into the nations among whom it lives, an alien body that insists on its
own distinctive identity, reducing the domain of their life. It is right therefore, that they
should fight against us for their national integrity...Instead of establishing societies for
defense against antisemites, who want to reduce our rights, we should establish
societies for defense against our friends who desire to defend our rights." (p. 30)
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The Sixth Estate
From the Screenplay to The Russia House by John Le Carre
Barley Scott Blair: "If there is to be hope, we must all 'betray' our country. We have to save each
other because all victims are equal and none is more equal than others. It is everyone's duty to
start the avalanche...Listen, nowadays you have to think like a hero just to behave like a merely
decent human being."
"The fact that the candidate you're being asked to vote for is at this moment rotting in an English
jail shouldn't put you off. Sure I was in one myself until a week ago. They can jail us. They can
shoot us. They can conscript us. They can use us as cannon fodder in The Somme. But, but, we
have a weapon more powerful than any in the whole arsenal of the British Empire. And that
weapon is our refusal. Our refusal to bow to any order but our own; any institution but our own.
The Royal Irish Constabulary want to shut me up. Jail me again, shoot me, who knows. But I'd
like you to send them a message. If they shut me up, who'll take my place? Who'll take my
place."
Michael Collins
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2007
WHAT INSPIRED HITLER
Friday, September 30, 2005
What Inspired Hitler
"It is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural resistance to illness by
habitating so closely in these schools, and that they die at a much higher rate than in
their villages. But this alone does not justify a change in the policy of this Department,
which is geared towards the FINAL SOLUTION OF OUR INDIAN PROBLEM."
(Department of Indian Affairs Superintendent D.C. Scott to B.C. Indian AgentGeneral
Major D. McKay, DIA Archives, RG 10 series). April 12, 1910 (emphasis added))
According to James Pool in his "Hitler and His Secret Partners":
Hitler drew another example of mass murder from American history. Since his youth he
had been obsessed with the Wild West stories of Karl May. He viewed the fighting
between cowboys and Indians in racial terms. In many of his speeches he referred with
admiration to the victory of the white race in settling the American continent and driving
out the inferior peoples, the Indians. With great fascination he listened to stories, which
some of his associates who had been in America told him about the massacres of the
Indians by the U.S. Calvary.
He was very interested in the way the Indian population had rapidly declined due to
epidemics and starvation when the United States government forced them to live on the
reservations. He thought the American government's forced migrations of the Indians
over great distances to barren reservation land was a deliberate policy of extermination.
Just how much Hitler took from the American example of the destruction of the Indian
nations his hard to say; however, frightening parallels can be drawn. For some time
Hitler considered deporting the Jews to a large 'reservation' in the Lubin area where
their numbers would be reduced through starvation and disease. (p. 273274).
And:
The next morning Hitler's 'plan' was put in writing and sent out to the German
occupation authorities as 'The Fuehrer's Guidelines for the Government of the Eastern
Territories: ' the Slavs are to work for us. Insofar as we don't need them, they may die.
Therefore compulsory vaccination and German health services are superfluous. The
fertility of the Slavs is undesirable. They may use contraceptives And practice abortion,
the more the better. Education is dangerous. It is sufficient... if they can count up to a
hundred. At best an education is admissible which produces useful servants for us.
Every educated person is a future enemy. Religion we leave to them as a means of
diversion. As to food, they are not to get more than necessary. We are the masters, we
come first.'
Always contemptuous of the Russians, Hitler said: 'For them the word 'liberty' means the
right to wash only on feastdays. If we arrive bringing soft soap, we'll obtain no
sympathy...There's only one duty: to Germanize this country by the immigration of
Germans, and to look upon the natives as Redskins.' Having been a devoted reader of
Karl May's books on the American West as a youth, Hitler frequently referred to the
Russians as 'Redskins'. He saw a parallel between his effort to conquer and colonize
land in Russia with the conquest of the American West by the white man and the
subjugation of the Indians or 'Redskins'. 'I don't see why', he said, 'a German who eats a
piece of bread should torment himself with the idea that the soil that produces this bread
has been won by the sword. When we eat from Canada, we don't think about the
despoiled Indians." (James Pool, Ibid, pp. 254255)
And from a speech by Heinrich Himmler (date not given):
I consider that in dealing with members of a foreign country, especially some Slav
nationality...in such a mixture of peoples there will always be some racially good types.
Therefore I think that it is our duty to take their children with us, to remove them from
their environment, if necessary, by robbing or stealing them... (Telford Taylor "Anatomy
of the Nuremberg Trials", Alfred A Knopf, N.Y. 1992, p. 203)
And from John Toland, preeminent biographer of Adolf Hitler:
Hitler's concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed
much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history. He admired the
camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa And for the Indians in the Wild West; and often
praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America's exterminationby starvation and
uneven combatof the 'Red Savages' who could not be tamed by captivity. (John Toland,
"Adolf Hitler" Vol II, p 802, Doubleday & Co, 1976)
"Set the bloodquantum at onequarter, hold to it as a rigid definition of Indians, let
intermarriage proceed...and eventually Indians will be defined out of existence. When
that happens,the federal government will finally be freed from its persistent Indian
problem." (Patricia Nelson Limerick, "The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of
the American West" p338)
Government paper warns of risks of apologizing for residential schools WENDY COX
July 27, 1998 from Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA (CP) Government officials were urged two years ago to provide a
compensation package to aboriginal people who suffered in residential schools as an
attempt to control the potentially explosive costs of lawsuits, an internal document
shows. The report, stamped Secret and obtained by The Canadian Press, compares the
pros and cons of forcing claimants to go to court with offering financial redress to
victims. It concludes that in the long run, compensation would be cheaper.
"The number of individual claims as well as any negative implications for the federal
government in defending such actions (lawsuits) would likely be minimized if a
government policy, including some form of redress package, were adapted," says the
20page report. The document also warns against using the word "apology," preferring
instead "an acknowledgment or expression of regret." "It could be worded in such a
fashion so as to not lay blame on anyone."
Government officials confirmed the report, which is titled simply Residential Schools
Discussion Paper, was written in late 1995 or early 1996 for Ron Irwin, then the minister
of Indian Affairs. It may also have been prepared for the Justice Department. The report
never reached current Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart and the advice in it never
formed the basis for actions she later took, officials say. Earlier this year, Stewart issued
a Statement of Reconciliation, saying the government was "deeply sorry" for those who
suffered the "tragedy" of physical and sexual abuse at the schools.
The statement also included a $350million healing fund. "It was critical that the apology
meant something to us," said Shawn Tupper, spokesman for the minister on the
residential schools file. "We can point to (the $350million healing fund) and say we're
actually doing something substantive to back it up." The statement has been accepted
by national Chief Phil Fontaine, however other native leaders said at the time that it
wasn't good enough. But critics who have read the 1996 document say the federal
government has followed the advice to the letter. They say it's evidence the statement is
not an apology at all but merely an attempt to control costs. Ovide Mercredi, a former
national chief, said the document shows "the minister didn't follow her heart or her
sense of justice." "She followed legal advice and the advice was to reduce legal liability
at all costs and the government measure is designed to do that." Fontaine was
unavailable for comment.
The document advises that forcing former students to take the government to court
would ensure they would have to prove their claims. As an added advantage, it would
also limit lawsuits, the report states.
"There is a general disinclination by persons who have suffered abuse to testify on such
a personal and painful matter in a public and adversarial forum," the report says.
"A litigation approach may well keep the number of claimants down to a minimum."
However, going to court would cost the government dearly in money and in bad press,
the report concludes. The author, who is unnamed, recommends a compensation
package instead. Since the report was written, thousands of former students have
joined class action suits or have filed individual lawsuits against the federal government.
A landmark B.C. court ruling last month declared for the first time that both the federal
government and the United Church are legally liable for widespread sexual and physical
abuse at a Port Alberni, B.C., school and ordered them to compensate about 30 former
students. A figure for the compensation has not yet been decided. The mounting
lawsuits are anticipated in the 1996 report, but the document also cautions that
apologizing is dangerous territory.
"Whatever it is called, the department will want to ensure that the statement cannot
subsequently be used to establish a cause of action against the Crown in any particular
individual cause," it states. "It would appear that this government is committed to looking
ahead and in these tough economic times, it would not want to be involved in anything
that is too expensive or linked to the past." Tupper said the department's thinking has
evolved since the report. When asked at a news conference last January if the
statement of reconciliation was an apology, Stewart responded yes. "In our view, the
statement of reconciliation is not an acknowledgment of guilt in a court of law," Tupper
said. It is an acknowledgment of a historic policy and the negative impacts of that policy
and it is a commitment to do something about it."
However, John McKiggan, a lawyer for about 800 former students at the Shubenacadie
Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia, said the internal document reveals the federal
government's strategy. "There is an amazing similarity between the present and
suggestions made in the paper," he said. "The statement of reconciliation does not
apologize for government actions. It recognizes the pain. It doesn't admit responsibility
for that pain."
© The Canadian Press, 1998
Alberta sterilization victims also used as guinea pigs Revelation comes as 40 victims
win $4M settlement Marina Jimenez National Post 10/28/98
As many as 100 of the children at the centre of the Alberta sterilization scandal of the
late 1960s and early 1970s were also used as guinea pigs in drug trials, the National
Post has learned. The children lived at the Provincial Training School in Red Deer.
Some were wards of the province and others were placed in the school by their parents,
who did not consent to the sterilization or medical experimentation, which included the
administration of powerful steroids and antipsychotic drugs. Experts say one of the
drugs used, the anabolic steroid norbolethone, is illegal today. The antipsychotic
tranquilizer haloperidol was also used. Its effect on children is said to be akin to hitting
them over the head with a sledge hammer.
Yesterday, 40 people who were sterilized against their will reached a settlement totalling
$4million with the government of Alberta. This brings to 540 the number of people who
have settled with the province for being sterilized under the nowdefunct Alberta
Sterilization Act, which was in effect from 1928 to 1972. The operations were ordered by
Alberta's eugenics board to prevent the mentally disabled from passing on their defects
to offspring. Lawyers say they want more money from the government for victims who
had to endure being tested with powerful drugs in addition to being sterilized. "Invading
people's rights in the form of unauthorized research and taking advantage of people
who couldn't look after themselves is the kind of thing that courts award punitive
damages for," said Jon Faulds, an Edmonton lawyer representing 109 sterilization
victims still negotiating settlements.
Allan Garber, another Edmonton lawyer acting for the former training school residents,
said they were treated like cattle. "The experimental drug treatment only compounds the
evil that was done to our clients." Dr. Leonard J. LeVann, medical superintendent from
1949 to 1974 at the Red Deer school, published the results of his drug experiments in
scholarly journals, which were recently turned over to lawyers for the victims. The
articles show that Dr. LeVann, who is dead, gave 100 undersized children the anabolic
steroid norbolethone over a 12month period in 1971. The drug now illegal in Canada
made the children gain weight. But it also produced some side effects: the genitals of
two boys increased in size and one girl's voice deepened."The treatment of retarded
growth in children with anabolic agents is controversial," he wrote in the September
1971 edition of the International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Therapy and
Toxicology. Nonetheless, he called the drug study "entirely satisfactory."
Norbolethone is illegal today because of its powerful side effects damage to the liver
and negative psychological symptoms. Anabolic steroids can also increase aggressive
sexual behaviour in men and cause secondary sexual characteristics, for example,
facial hair in girls. Dr. LeVann also gave 100 children haloperidol, an antipsychotic
tranquilizer, over a period of 40 days in the late 1960s to counter hyperactivity and
excitability. Dr. Louis Pagliaro, a professor of educational psychology and the associate
director of the substance abusology research unit at the University of Alberta, says
haloperidol "would essentially knock (children) out. (It) generally decreases people's
ability to learn and adversely affects memory and behaviour." Dr. LeVann's studies are
"full of halftruths, assumptions and by today's standards, lack proper research
methodology," says Dr. Pagliaro.
About 2,800 people were sterilized in Alberta before the Sexual Sterilization Act was
finally repealed. Documents now show that many of the people sterilized were not
mentally disabled. In 1996, the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench ordered the provincial
government to pay Leilani Muirer $740,000 for being wrongfully confined in the Red
Deer school and sterilized. Her landmark victory opened a floodgate of litigation. In
June, 1998, the government agreed to pay 500 more sterilization claimants up to
$100,000. Many continue to live in the Red Deer facility, known today as the Michener
Centre. The province has spent $54 million on settlements to date. The compensation
deal for the sterilizaiton victims announced yesterday, much the same as those
announced last June, gives claimants $75,000 now and another $25,000 after three
years, if they are then living outside institutions.
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Posted by Omahkohkiaayo i'poyi at 10:56 AM
The Sixth Estate
From the Screenplay to The Russia House by John Le Carre
Barley Scott Blair: "If there is to be hope, we must all 'betray' our country. We have to save each
other because all victims are equal and none is more equal than others. It is everyone's duty to
start the avalanche...Listen, nowadays you have to think like a hero just to behave like a merely
decent human being."
"The fact that the candidate you're being asked to vote for is at this moment rotting in an English
jail shouldn't put you off. Sure I was in one myself until a week ago. They can jail us. They can
shoot us. They can conscript us. They can use us as cannon fodder in The Somme. But, but, we
have a weapon more powerful than any in the whole arsenal of the British Empire. And that
weapon is our refusal. Our refusal to bow to any order but our own; any institution but our own.
The Royal Irish Constabulary want to shut me up. Jail me again, shoot me, who knows. But I'd
like you to send them a message. If they shut me up, who'll take my place? Who'll take my
place."
Michael Collins
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2007
BushHitler: Hypnotizing the Masses
BushHitler: Hypnotizing The Masses
By Russell M. Drake
07/21/04 Said by some to be more dangerous than Osama binLaden, he has been
condemned as a "war maniac," called a "moron" by the Canadian prime minister’s chief
spokeswoman, ridiculed as "The English Patient" for his struggles with language, and
likened to Adolf Hitler.
Of all the labels hung on George W. Bush, the hardest to shake may be the comparison
with Hitler.
Perhaps the clearest likeness between the two men lies in their use of emotionally
induced hypnosis to plant in the mass consciousness an image of themselves as
protectors of their subjects from threats to national survival both inside and outside the
fatherland.
In a June, 2003 article written for The Nation about Bush’s "mastery of emotional
language, especially negatively charged emotional language," clinical psychologist
Reanna Brooks observed that "Bush creates and maintains negative frameworks in his
listeners’ minds with a number of linguistic techniques borrowed from hypnosis and
advertising to instill the image of a dark and evil world around us."
His subliminal messages to justify religious war against "evildoers" are right out of
Madison Avenue. Writing in The New Yorker of July 12 & 19, David Greenberg tells how
Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, "himself an evangelical, laces the President’s
addresses with seemingly innocuous terms that the devout recognize as laden with
meaning: ‘whirlwind,’ ‘work of mercy,’ ‘safely home,’ ‘wonderworking power.’"
Aspiring political hypnotists would do well to study Hitler as an introduction to Bush.
"Without in any way straining language we can truthfully say that he (Hitler) was one of
the great hypnotists of all time," says George H. Estabrooks in Hypnotism, the ne plus
ultra of Hitler hypnosis books. Dr. Estabrooks was chairman of Colgate University’s
psychology department, and taught at the school from 1927 to 1964.
Demonizing Saddam
"The efficiency of the truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of
the attention of the people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy." Hitler said
that, in Mein Kampf.
Bush could just as easily have said it. Having lost public focus on Osama bin Laden by
his inability to capture the wily 9/11 bomber, he found it not just convenient, but
necessary, to replace bin Laden with Saddam Hussein as the new "single enemy," a
stratagem inherited from the first President Bush who damned Hussein as "worse than
Hitler" in the runup to Desert Storm, the first Iraq war. On the eve of war in early
October, 1990, expresident Ronald Reagan picked up the beat before a crowd of
Houston Republicans, denouncing his former Iraqi ally as "the reincarnation of Hitler."
"Depicting Saddam Hussein as an evil man made it easier to justify U. S. involvement in
the Persian Gulf War. Psychology is an important part of any war strategy." from
Introduction to Psychology, a textbook by Mark Garrison, Kentucky State University. If
demonizing Saddam was effective strategy in the first Gulf war, the current
administration worked wonders with it, with a little help from people like 60 Minutes'
Andy Rooney and Bill Clinton who, on the David Letterman show, September 11, 2002,
called Saddam "a threat, a murderer and thug..." while endorsing his removal.
Fear Hypnosis
In search of support for shaky WMD charges against Saddam, Bush found the torture
issue and put it on the front burner in his January 2003 State of the Union address:
"This dictator who is assembling the world’s most dangerous weapons has already used
them on whole villages, leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind or disfigured.
Iraqi refugees tell us how forced confessions are obtained by torturing children while
their parents are made to watch. International human rights groups have catalogued
other methods used in the torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot
irons, dripping acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues and
rape."
Bush went on to urge Americans to come together in an orgy of fear induced self
hypnosis by mentally imaging the dreadful prospect of Iraqi sponsored terrorists
attacking the U. S., and tried again to link the Iraqi leader to the 9/11 attack on the twin
towers: "Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans this time
armed by Saddam....We will do everything in our power to make sure that that day never
comes." If Saddam had not existed, Bush would have invented him.
Press Supports War on Iraq
With skillful use of fear hypnosis, Bush not only gulled the public, but played a credulous
press like a Steinway baby grand.
The establishment press fell in behind Bush almost to a man in endorsing his war aims
against Iraq. This blind procession is amply documented by reporter Chris Mooney in
the March/April 2004 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review. The L. A. Times and the
N. Y. Times weakly dissented from war without UN approval but rolled over when Bush
went ahead anyway. Even the usually skeptical The New Yorker saw merit in Bush’s war
plans, warning that absent "Saddam’s abdication, or a military coup...a return to a
hollow pursuit of containment will be the most dangerous option of all."
Hypnosis Contagion
The demonization of Saddam spread like germs.
"The mob leader will count on emotional contagion....Emotions are far more contagious
than the measles. This fact of emotional contagion was very important to Hitler," says
Estabrooks. Emotional statements by a hypnotic leader, he avers, are "burned" into
receptive subconscious minds with the permanence of an image engraved on a
photographic negative.
To be hypnotized by one such as Bush is to be branded with his ideology and to bend to
his will as he so directs. This is true of anyone drawn uncritically to any leader or
dominant figure. Be it Bush or Clinton, Hitler or Churchill, Reagan or FDR, the difference
in the degree of hypnotically induced allegiance depends on the skill of the hypnotist
and the suggestibility of the subject.
In The Group Mind, first published in 1920 by Putnam, author William McDougall says,
"It is well recognized that almost any emotional excitement increases the suggestibility
of the individual, though the explanation of the fact remains obscure."
By putting the horror mask on Saddam, by petrifying U. S. citizens with tales of
Saddam’s gases and torture chambers and terrorist connections, Bush dusted off and
refined an old Hitler trick.
"The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force." Hitler, Mein
Kampf.
Putting his own spin on Hitler’s formula, Bush induced fearofSaddam hypnosis in
Americans to set them up for repetition hypnosis, to deepen and fix the fear. "Axis of
evil" "weapons of mass destruction" "torture chambers" "Iraqi terrorists" "grave and
gathering danger," all gained dominance in the thought patterns of Americans to lure
them to Bush’s side against the evil Saddam.
"The influence of repetition on crowds is comprehensible when the power is seen which
it exercises on the most enlightened minds. This power is due to the fact that the
repeated statement is embedded in the long run in those profound regions of our
unconscious selves in which the motives of our actions are forged." So said Gustave Le
Bon in The Crowd, his seminal study of political hypnosis, published in 1897.
Bush Power Hypnosis
Why did Bush thus goad Americans to war by hypnotizing them? The answer seems to
be that from day one, he intended the chaos of crisis and war to put in place a domestic
agenda that he knew stood little chance of succeeding in peace.
He gambled that the electorate would be reluctant to change leaders in the crisis of war
just as crewmen would hesitate to pull the captain from the bridge of their ship even as
he sailed into a field of icebergs.
Bush’s incendiary bluster on taking office would seem to support this scenario. In turn,
he dissed North Korean and Iranian leaders, sat by while the intafada exploded into the
bloodiest, most enduring sequel of suicide bombings and Israeli retaliation in the history
of the war, trashed the Kyoto treaty to reduce global air pollution, unilaterally revoked the
AntiBallistic Missile treaty with Russia, and vetoed U. S. support of a world court to try
war crimes.
The Republican ‘Pearl Harbor’
His actions appeared designed to escalate seething world resentment of America’s
imperial transgressions to flash point, provoking an outbreak of hostilities that would
draw the nation into armed conflict.
While Bush and his handlers may not have expected a reaction to their warmongering
so costly as 9/11, when it came may well have regarded it as Godsent. The twin towers
disaster has been called "the Republicans’ Pearl Harbor," because of the opportunity it
presented to rally the electorate around Bush and continue him in power, as Pearl
Harbor did for FDR.
In Bush’s Brain, by James Moore and Wayne Slater, Bush advisor Karl Rove is seen as
agitating for the Iraq invasion to keep war fever alive when the hunt for bin Laden
faltered and as 9/11 receded in the public consciousness. Other administration figures
stepped forward to beat the war drums.
A March 5, 2004 article in the New York Times said, "Mr. Bush and his aides have
planned for more than a year to make the president’s response to terrorist attacks the
centerpiece of his reelection effort."
"We are fighting a global war on terrorism," said National Security Advisor Condoleezza
Rice, on "Meet the Press," Sunday, March 14, 2004.
In early February on "Meet the Press," Bush referred to himself as a "war president" and
said he had "war on my mind" when he made decisions in the Oval Office.
Verbal Confusion Hypnosis
While Bush may have led the nation into war with Hitler hypnosis he has kept it there
with hypnosis of his own making, a technological tour de force of classical, textbook
hypnosis that eclipses anything Hitler used and sets Bush apart as a political hypnosis
stylist in his own right.
When it became apparent as time passed that Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq
was an illusion, Bush segued smoothly into verbal confusion hypnosis, which is
discussed at some length in Handbook of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, by Jesse
E. Gordon:
"The verbal confusion technique, which is quite difficult to administer, involves an
approximation of doubletalk in which instructions of a somewhat contradictory kind are
given in rapid succession making it impossible for the attentive subject either to quite
comprehend or quite acquiesce to any of them. Finally, he simply gives up all attempts
and more or less collapses into a hypnotic state."
Exactly. A review of the Bush hocuspocus in his 2004 State of the Union address, for
example, shows how nimbly he skipped through a maze of issues such as WMD deftly
changed to "weapons of mass destructionrelated program activities" no child left
behind, "the sanctity of marriage," senior drug discount cards, invading Iraq in the
interests of national survival and world peace, "foreign terrorists," permanent tax relief,
jobs, and much, much more. Holding up one theme card after another for public review,
before they could "quite comprehend or quite acquiesce to any of them," Bush fanned
the deck and flashed yet another card at his bewildered audience.
A "GOP strategist" complained to the Los Angeles Times, "He’s all over the map now,
sending a lot of confused messages to the voters." Of course.
Many now openly wonder how so obvious a lie as WMD could have passed muster with
such a large majority of Americans.
One answer is provided by Hitler in Mein Kampf: "In the size of the lie there is always
contained a certain factor of credibility, since the great masses of the people....will more
easily fall victim to a great lie than to a small one." Thus was born the concept of the
"Big Lie," yet another Hitler crowd manipulation tool coopted by Bush.
Even the most skeptical may succumb to hypnotic contagion but later find the resources
to cast off the devil spell, says William McDougall. Among the most fervent Bush
supporters have been people now coming forward to say that they are "uncomfortable"
with reports that the reasons given for going to war may have been nothing more than a
pack of Bush lies. Call them recovering Bush dupes.
War is Peace
Perhaps the biggest challenge he has given the public is asking them to think of his war
making as, actually, peace making. Think of the Pentagon as the "Ministry of Peace,"
charged with making perpetual war in George Orwell’s Nineteen EightyFour.
Bush has been almost studious in application of the hypnotic word "peace" to sugarcoat
his designs for war.
"Peace" has become his slogan.
"Slogans are both exciting and comforting, but they are also powerful opiates for the
conscience....Some of mankind’s most terrible misdeeds have been committed under
the spell of certain magic words or phrases," said Harvard University president James
Bryant Conant in the Baccalaureate Address to Harvard College, June 17, 1934.
"How many people in the confusion of a defeat or crisis have been reassured by one
word? Peace. Independence. Reconstruction. Without taking a closer look, they adopt
the leader in whose name this ideal has been proposed. It is the ideal that unites them
and leads them into the venture. If necessary, technicians will be responsible for
conducting it from the inside so long as the figurehead maintains his prestige." Jean
Dauven, The Powers of Hypnosis.
Nixon national security advisor Henry Kissinger intoned "Peace is at hand" as voters
prepared to go to the polls in November, 1972 to choose between George McGovern
and Richard Nixon as the candidate most likely to end the Vietnam War. In one of the
most cynical betrayals of public trust on record, Kissinger the technician lied to a
desperate nation about the prospects of peace in order to get the figurehead reelected.
After Nixon was safely reinstalled in the White House, saturation bombing to coerce
North Vietnam to U. S. peace terms started again, with the unspeakable Christmas
bombing of Hanoi as the main attraction.
Author, foreign correspondent and broadcaster William L. Shirer, who witnessed Hitler’s
rise to power, commented in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich on Hitler’s masterful
use of the peace card.
"On the evening of May 21 (1935), he delivered another ‘peace’ speech....one of the
cleverest and most misleading of his Reichstag orations.....He rejected the very idea of
war, it was senseless, it was useless, as well as a horror."
But while the world was lulled by his peace offensive, the master of the Thousand Year
Reich plotted the war he said he abhorred.
George W. Bush misses no chance to reaffirm his dedication to peace and to denounce
those who he says threaten peace.
He mounted the pulpit of the United Nations, September 17, 2002 to bully the
international body with his peace message: "The United Nations must act. It’s time to
determine whether or not they’ll be a force for good and peace or an ineffective debating
society."
He stood before Congress and the press, sent an emissary to the Orwellian sounding
United States Institute of Peace, went on the radio, appeared at factories and military
bases, hawking his peace message while putting U. S. forces in place to invade Iraq.
Sometimes, to justify keeping the country in a state of war, he combines "peace" with
"freedom" and "security" as in his commencement address to the students of Concordia
University, May 14 this year when he said, "America works for peace and freedom....For
the sake of peace, for the sake of security, we stand for freedom." Administration
spokespersons, notably Condoleezza Rice, repeat these buzz words in their own
speeches.
Bush Radio Hypnosis
With his regular Saturday radio addresses, Bush works heroically on turning Americans
into automatons of subservience to his goals. John Kerry, refusing to concede the
airwaves to Bush, is using the medium to respond to Bush attack ads and launch
attacks of his own, giving every indication that he will continue the tradition of Saturday
presidential radio if elected.
Radio is the most hypnotic of the media as, in the words of Jean Dauven, "It is through
the spoken word that the hypnotist exercises his power." The audio nature of broadcast
fosters an illusion of privacy that allows the hypnotist to flatter the listener that he/she is
being addressed exclusively, enhancing the listener’s suggestibility.
HateTalk Radio Hypnosis
Estabrooks witnessed the birth of political radio hypnosis and the advent of the craft’s
earliest stars, FDR, Churchill, and Hitler. He predated Rush Limbaugh’s lobotomized
rabble by decades, but was in on the beginnings of hatetalk radio when Father Charles
Coughlin and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith poisoned the airwaves in the 1930s.
Estabrooks would have been fascinated with the emergence of Ronald Reagan, radio
hypnotism’s modern master. With his banal gipperisms, deeply imbedded fear of
communism and Soviet nuclear threat obsessivecompulsive anxiety disorder, all
delivered in the polished tones of a professional broadcaster, Reagan robbed a
generation of Americans of their capacity to think critically, a condition perpetuated by
his disciples as witnessed in the transcontinental state funeral of early June, 2004, a
sevenday binge of national hypnosis. Brain dead from Alzheimer’s for 10 years, Reagan
was resurrected from the public media files to extend his hypnotic hold on Americans, all
part of the Republican power keeping machinery which includes putting Reagan’s
picture on money and carving his likeness either on Mt. Rushmore, or "our own
mountain," as one of his adherents puts it.
Men of Action Don’t Apologize
The president, by the very nature of his position at the pinnacle of power, is hypnotic.
Probably no president, with the possible exceptions of Nixon and Reagan, has
marshaled so powerful an arsenal of hypnosis, or exercised it so energetically and
effectively as George W. Bush.
Successful hypnosis of the electorate satisfies a demagogue’s dream uncritical
acceptance of the man and his policies by a majority. Bush has been good enough at it
to acquire an aura of invincibility that predictably has led to an excess of hubris in his
conduct.
As Reagan and the elder Bush did not apologize for IranContra, do not expect George
W. Bush to ever forswear his actions in Iraq. It is not in his nature to admit mistakes or
reflect on his misdeeds, nor apparently is it in the nature of his closest aides and
subordinates to do so either. Gustave Le Bon described the type in The Crowd.
"The leaders we speak of are more frequently men of action than thinkers. They are not
gifted with keen foresight, nor could they be, as this quality generally conduces to doubt
and inactivity. They are especially recruited from the ranks of those morbidly nervous,
excitable, halfderanged persons who are bordering on madness...their convictions are
so strong that all reasoning is lost on them. Contempt and persecution do not affect
them, or only serve to excite them more."
George Estabrooks spoke of such men possessing ".....an uncanny drive, a restless
energy, as they push forward toward their own selfcentered ideal, and they will be
utterly ruthless in attaining their ends. The rights of others, even the lives of others, are
simply of no consequence if they stand between the dictator and his determined goal....
The dictator really believes that he is God’s chosen instrument or society’s chosen
instrument if he does not believe in God to lead his group, or possibly the entire world,
into the promised land."
Bush apparently has long held the notion that God wants him to be president. On the
occasion of his second inauguration as Texas governor, he "gathered a few trusted
colleagues in his office to announce, ‘God wants me to be president,’" according to
Southern Baptist leader Richard Land as quoted in online Slate magazine, April 29,
2004.
Bush’s Hypnotized Supporters
Bush spinmeisters will continue to place their candidate in front of unsuspecting
NASCAR dads, right wing religious fundamentalists, teenage soldiers, home owners,
sports fans, snow mobilers and dirt bikers, loggers and roughnecks, teamsters and
hardhats, 2nd Amendment zealots, high school dropouts, Orange County developers,
and field hands, where the president can work his inspirational way into their hearts and
minds. This has been called targeting "the lowest common denominator," but Nazi
propaganda chief Paul Joseph Goebbels had a better description, revealed in his diaries
discovered in the rubble of the Propaganda Ministry at the end of World War II:
".....the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda
must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious. In the long run only he will
achieve basic results influencing public opinion who is able to reduce problems to the
simplest terms and who has the courage to keep forever repeating them in this
simplified form despite the objections of the intellectuals."
Bush, the Elected Dictator
Will all of this lead to a New Thousand Year Reich in America?
George Estabrooks warned that such an outcome, while not inevitable, is not
impossible.
"How can we guarantee that our choice at the polls will be a wise one?......on this matter
of electing a potential dictator, you will make that mistake once only. From then on, he
will take care that your mistakes are always in his favor......
"Sit down and think over that last spellbinder you heard on the platform, over the radio
or on television.....Were you listening to a man of reason or to a hypnotist who aimed to
limit your field of consciousness? You say you cannot be hypnotized against your will.
Perhaps you were hypnotized last night as you listened to that political address over
your TV.....The most dangerous hypnotist may be the man you listened to last week over
the radio. You were his subject....As a matter of fact, you were a very excellent subject.
Think it over....."
Hitler aide Albert Speer and newscaster William L. Shirer commented on a recent
moment in history when a great people became the eager followers of a hypnotic leader
who led them to ruin.
".....as I see it today, these politicians in particular were in fact molded by the mob itself,
guided by its yearnings and daydreams...Certainly the masses roared to the beat set by
Hitler’s and Goebbel’s baton, yet they were not the true conductors. The mob
determined the theme." Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich.
"The Germans imposed the Nazi tyranny on themselves." William L. Shirer, The Rise
and Fall of the Third Reich.
Russell M. Drake is a freelance writer and photographer in Yucca Valley, California. He
is a journalism graduate of the University of Texas, and a former reporter for the Wall
Street Journal and The West Texas Livestock Weekly. He cofounded and later sold a
Los Angeles company that produced self hypnosisaided educational courses on audio
cassette. He has contributed articles and pictures to newspapers in Southern California.
Contact: russ33@msn.com
Copyright 2004 Russell M. Drake, P. O. Box 1213, Yucca Valley CA 92286
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Skull and Bones: A Preppy Fascist Cult
, January 24, 2006
SKULL AND BONES: A FASCIST CULT
Skull and Bones
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Skull and Bones is the most well known of the secret societies based at Yale University,
in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1832 by William Huntington Russell and
Alphonso Taft, two students who were not admitted into Phi Beta Kappa. [1] The first
Skull and Bones class, or "cohort," was in 1833. The society's current membership
rosters and activities are not disclosed to the public. It is a "senior society," which
inducts only upcoming seniors, for the year prior to their graduation.
Skull and Bones is known by many names, including The Order of Death," The Order,"
The Eulogian Club," and Lodge 322. Initiates are most commonly known as Bonesmen,
Knights of Eulogia, and Boodle Boys. The women who have recently become members
would be known as Boneswomen, Ladies of Eulogia, and Boodle Girls.
Its corporate name is the Russell Trust Association. In 1999 it had assets of $4,133,246.
It owns Deer Island, one of the Thousand Islands in the waterway between the United
States and Canada, which was given to the Order by one of its early benefactor families.
The society sometimes inspires a fanatical loyalty. Members have been known to stab
the Bones insignia into their flesh to keep it on them while showering or swimming.
Contents[hide]
1 Known members
2 The U.S. branch of a German secret society
3 Bones and U.S. Education
4 Bonesman socialization: core families of "Knights" versus "Barbarians"
5 Nicknames
5.1 Nicknames of selected Bonesmen
6 Deer Island
7 Skull and Bones members
8 Cultural references
9 References
10 External links
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Known members
Both twoterm U.S. President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry (Democratic
candidate who lost the 2004 U.S. Presidential election to Bush) are members of Skull
and Bones. Bush declined to talk about their common membership in the Order of
Death during his February 9, 2004 appearance on NBC's Meet The Press.
Bush: “It's so secret I can't talk about it.”
Tim Russert: “What does that mean for America? The conspiracy theorists are gonna
go wild.”
Bush: “I'm sure they are, I don't know, I haven't seen their webpages yet. (laughs)”
In another interview, when Kerry was in turn asked what he could reveal about Skull and
Bones, Kerry said: “Well not much, because it's a secret… Sorry, I wish there was
something I could manifest…” and then changed the subject.
Bush reportedly appointed 11 Skull and Bones members to his Administration in his first
term.[2]
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The U.S. branch of a German secret society
The Order has a private group portrait taken for every new cohort of fifteen. It is always
posed in the same manner, showing human bones and a grandfather clock at 8 p.m.
Some people, like the first rigorous outside researcher of the secret society, the late Dr.
Antony Sutton (PhD, Stanford, economics), say that Skull and Bones is a U.S. chapter
of an early 1800s German secret society. Those who have broken into the Bones
“Tomb” (or those members who are disaffected from the Bones experience and wanted
to report on them) describe many Germanlanguage pictures and themes on the walls
and in daily use. Several disaffected Bonesmen testimonies on this point can be read in
Alexandra Robbins's book on Skull and Bones.
Cofounder of the order, William Huntington Russell spent some time studying in
Germany. It has been suggested that while he was there he was initiated into a secret
society with a skull and bones for its emblem. Some even claim that he was initiated into
a continuation of the Illuminati, and granted authorization to start a Yale chapter.
Bonesman Daniel Coit Gilman, immediately upon returning from Europe himself in 1855,
spent the next 14 years almost exclusively around Yale University. William Huntington
Russell and Daniel Coit Gilman incorporated Skull and Bones in 1856 under the name
of The Russell Trust, with Gilman as treasurer and Russell, the cofounder, as
President. This is the period in which Bonesman benefactor Miller started funneling
large funds, building projects, and real estate purchases all around New Haven and the
"Tomb" for The Russell Trust.
On Skull and Bones being a branch of an international secret society, official material
from Skull and Bones supports this theory. First, an invitation to a thirteenthanniversary
describes a “Jubilee Commemoration of the History of Our Establishment in New
Haven”. Second, a historical address that has found its way from the tomb states “The
Eulogian Club: An Historical Discourse Pronounced before our Venerable Order on the
Thirtieth Anniversary of the Foundation of our American Chapter in New Haven July
30th 1863 Thursday evening. By Timothy Dwight of 1849…” Third, mentioned in the Kris
Millegan book on Skull and Bones, according to information acquired from a breakin 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.” Fourth, a 1933
Bones document refers to the “birth of our Yale chapter”. It is also suggested that when
Bonesmen refer to the order as “Lodge 322” they are acknowledging that they are but a
chapter of a secret society.
On the particular German heritage of Skull and Bones, one could cite the Nazi
memorbilia there as well. From a report published by Stephen M.L. Aronson in Fame
magazine [Vol. 2(2), August 1989] discussing a "sort of a quick canter through the
premises" in 1979 by Yale females invited by a "dissident" member:
"There were tons of rooms, a whole chain of them. They were a couple of bedrooms,
and there was this monumental dining room with different rolls of Skull and Bones songs
suspended from the ceiling. And there was a President Taft memorabilia room filled with
flyers, posters, buttons the whole room was like a Miss Haversham's shrine. And a big
living room with a beautiful rug. And this big, huge, expensivelooking ivory carving in
the hallway. The whole thing was on a very medieval scale. The most shocking thing
and I say this because I do think it's sort of importantI mean, President Bush does
belong to Skull and Bones, everyone knows thatthere is, like a little Nazi shrine inside.
One room on the second floor has a bunch of swastikas, kind of an SS macho Nazi
iconography. Somebody should ask President Bush about the swastikas in there. I
mean, I don't think he'll say they're not there. I think he'll say 'Oh, it wasn't a big deal, it
was just a little room.' Which I don't think is true and which I wouldn't find terribly
reassuring anyway. But I don't think he'd deny it altogether, because it's true. I mean, I
think the Nazi stuff was no more serious than all the bones that were around, but I still
find it a little disconcerting.
Other German heritage connections can be seen in Skull and Bones 'financing,'
particularly in one of its early benefactors, Bonesman George Douglas Miller (1847
1932). Miller gave his inherited Deer Island to Skull and Bones. Miller was closely
associate with a German connected Bonesman, William Walter Phelps (S&B, 1860), the
soninlaw and estate trustee of John Sheffield, benefactor of Sheffield Scientific School
(SSS) and later U.S. Ambassador to both Austria and Germany.
First, Phelps's connections were of a high financial nature. He was a Director of: the
Rockefeller/oil linked National City Bank; the Second National Bank of New York; the
U.S. Trust Company; nine railroads and several other firms. Researcher Kris Millegan
surmises that Miller was a conduit of others' monies and property to the Skull and
Bones organization because Miller's own claims to wealth are sketchy and hard to
document in their origin. Additionally, Phelps's connections were of a high political
nature: he was a U.S. Congressman from the age of 34 (187374, 188389), the original
pick to organize the 1880 campaign for the Republican Party for President James A.
Garfield (which is a study of high level odd shenanigans); U.S. Ambassador to Austria
for a short while (188182), and U.S. Ambassador to Germany (188993). Phelps was
later appointed as Judge for New Jersey Court Errors and Appeals (189394).
Throughout his high political career he was simultaneously a member of the Yale
Corporation (187292). Showing the continuous high level Austrian/German connections
in Skull and Bones, there were backtoback Bonesman in the Austrian ambassador
position. It should be noted that cofounder of Skull and Bones, Alphonso Taft, was
ambassador to AustriaHungary in 1882immediately after fellow Bonesman W. W.
Phelps.
Another Germanic high political connection is Bonesman Charles Seymour (S&B, 1908),
who served as chief of the AustroHungarian Division of the American Commission to
Negotiate Peace, and as the U.S. delegate on the Romanian, Yugoslavian, and
Czechoslovakian Territorial Commissions in 1919which would put him only in his late
20s when he was redrawing the map of Europe. Additionally, after that high level
position in World War I, he got the almost the same position in World War II: the same
person was the Chairman of the U.S. Postwar Planning Commission (194345).
Bonesman Seymour's high level positions may be due to him being a close friend of
'Colonel' Edward M. House. While at Yale as a history professor, Bonesman Seymour
was the curator to the Edward M. House Collection.
Further evidence of the widespread chapter bases of Skull and Bones in the United
States surfaced in a short history of the Penn State Chapter of Skull and Bones. The
Penn State version started in 1912. It taps just like the Yale version, though only 12
juniors. There is additionally another tapping junior society of extreme secrecy at Brown
University. According to the Penn State Chapter of Skull and Bones, "[i]n the 194748
academic year, under the leadership of President Lawrence G. Foster, Jr., Skull and
Bones tried to establish a national governing body for the numerous local Active
chapters extant in the United States. The Society sent letters to 30 colleges and
universities with the proposed national as a goal. Their efforts were not successful due
to the fact that other chapters did not want to conform to national guidelines on who
could or would be tapped, how to initiate, and what would be the purpose of each local
chapter. Thus today there are several similarly named chapters across the U.S. that are
not affiliated." [3] The locations of the other 28 chapters of Skull and Bones in the U.S.
are unknown at this time.
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Bones and U.S. Education
The connections that Bonesman George Miller had with high finance and high politics
through Bonesman William Walter Phelps (S&B, 1860) helped 'steer' U.S. Education to
take root in a GermanPrussian vein as well. W. W. Phelps was soninlaw and estate
trustee of John Sheffield, benefactor of Sheffield Scientific School (SSS), founded in
1854 as Yale Scientific School and renamed in 1861 after Joseph E. Sheffield. In the
history of American education, SSS at Yale University was the origin of the "science
departments" within the Calvinist religious origin of Yale, and furthermore is cited as a
seed altering European classicial educational institutions toward German empirical,
experimental, and materialist sciences education and liberal arts. SSS as a different
model of education for the United States really expanded because of Skull and Bones
memberships channelling a thirty year monopoly of all of Connecticut's LandGrant
College Act funds into SSS from 18621892, while other Connecticut instituitons were
denied funding. It helped that Bonesman Augustus Brandegee (S&B, 1849) was
speaker of the Connecticut State Legislature in 1861 when the state bill to accept the
federal land grant script was aired and aimed at Bonesconnected SSS exclusively
afterwards. (His son, Bonesman Frank Bosworth Brandegee (S&B, 1885), like his
Bonesman father, was another high Connecticut politican. He committed suicide. His
appointed replacement was another Yalie Hiram Bingham III who had two Bonesmen in
his family.[4]) No other educational institution in Connecticut was allowed Land Grand
College Act funds until 1893. SSS was absorbed by Yale in the 1950s; the SSS trust still
controls its "Yale" land however.
The same "land grant grab" occurred in the educational history of New York State, with
federal land grant monopolies being steered exclusively toward Cornell University.
There, Bonesman Andrew Dickson White (S&B, 1853), in the next Bones cohort after
Daniel Coit Gilman (S&B, 1852)thus Gilman had input in sponsoring White for Skull
and Bones the next yearwas a key activist in this connected operation. Bonesman
White later became the first President of Cornell. (Continuing the Germanic connections
of Skull and Bones, Bonesman White was Minister to Germany (1879–1881), followed
consecutively by previously mentioned Bonesman W. W. Phelps [Ambassador to Austria
(188182); then to Germany (188993)], then cofounder Bonesman Alphonso Taft
[German Ambassador, 1882]. Later, after being Minister to Germany, Bonesman White
was Ambassador to Germany (1897–1902) as well).
This is somewhat of a Bones theme: the Order using public monies and positions for its
own objectives.
Bonesman Daniel Coit Gilman helped to found the institutions and frame the curricula
for the University of California system. Other Bonesman were connected with the
organizing of the University of Michigan System, and the University of Wisconsin
system. (At the link, note the decidely Masonic 'all seeing eye' seal of the University of
Wisconsin.) More educational details are available in the Antony Sutton book on Skull
and Bones.
The treasurer of the Russell Trust, Bonesman Daniel Coit Gilman, had a brother who
married the daughter of another BonesmanChemistry Professor Benjamin Silliman, Jr.
(S&B, 1837) of SSS at Yale, who invented petroleum cracking. His father, Benjamin
Silliman Sr. was a Chemistry Professor (like his son, who took his father's place at Yale)
who had earlier established a high marriage alliance into the last British appointed
Governorship family of Connecticut, the Trumbulls. Bonesman Daniel Coit Gilman's
uncle Bonesman Henry Coit Kingsley (S&B, 1834) was Yale Treasurer, appointed from
18621886capable immediately of further rarifying Bonessteered LandGrand College
Act funds toward preferred projects the moment it was passed, after it was written up by
Gilman for the purpose.
From the start of 1862 and the steered windfall of the Land Grant funds, Bonesman
have dominated the funding frameworks of the Yale Treasury. Starting with Bonesman
Gilman's Bonesman uncle Kingsley in 1862, the period of Yale University Treasurers
from 18621978, except for two who served 36 years, was exclusively occupied by
members of Skull and Bonesa 116 year stretch. However, the one nonBonesman
serving longest, 32 years, hailed from a top Bones family.
The Skull and Bones Treasurers of Yale, 18621978
1. Henry Coit Kingley, S&B 1834, Treasurer 186287 (D. G. Gilman's uncle; Gilman even
wrote the land grant application for Yale, which was quickly authorized; monies passed
to his uncle, treasurer of Yale.)
2. Timothy Dwight, S&B 1849, acting Treasurer 188789, Yale Pres. 188699
3. Morris Tyler, not Bones, Treasurer 190003, Yale grad. 1870 with G. D. Miller
4. Thomas Lee McClung, S&B 1892, Treasurer 190409 (Bones U.S. Treas as well
190912, appointed by Bones U.S. President Taft)
5. Arthur T. Hadley, S&B 1876, acting Treas. 190910, Yale Pres. 18991921
6. George Parmly Day, not Bones, Treasurer 191042 [9 members of Day family in S&B
though]
7. Lawrence G. Tithe, S&B 1916, Treasurer 194254, Director/Partner Brown Brothers
Harriman
8. Charles Stafford Gage, S&B 1925, Treasurer 195466, and with Bones family firm
Mathiesson Chemical
9. John E. Ecklund, S&B 1938, Treasurer 196678, Partner in Bonesdominanted New
Haven lawfirm Dana & Wiggin
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Bonesman socialization: core families of "Knights" versus "Barbarians"
The Skull and Bones tomb
Starting in 1833, each year one of the responsibilities of the cohort of fifteen seniors is
to select fifteen new junior members to replace them. This is called being "tapped"
(selected) for the society. To be tapped for Skull and Bones is seen by many Yale
students as the highest honor that can be attained, though some occasionally refuse.
For a year, Bones members meet at least weekly and conduct long selfanalysis of each
other and critique. This is aimed at creating a long term bond between them as they
leave the university instead of during their stay at the university. Kris Millegan writes that
one of the rooms is uncannily arranged like a room arranged for an entrance into an
higher level of the Bavarian Illuminati [5]. There are human skulls and bones in the
"tomb", which is illegal under Connecticut law. Bones members are reported to be
forced to reveal their innermost secrets and their "sexual biography" to one another. It
has been suggested that this may be used for blackmailing. In the tomb with each other
for one year, members dine off a set of Hitler's silverware according to "dissident" Bones
members interviewed by Alexandra Robbins for her book Secrets of The Tomb [p. 5],
consuming expensive gourmet meals. Members are given new code names. The
members call themselves "Knights," and simultaneously call everyone else in the world
at large "barbarians". Another dissociation is that clocks in the Bones "tomb" run
intentionally five minutes ahead of the rest of the world, to give the members an ongoing
sense that the Bonesmen's space is a totally separate worldand a world just a bit
ahead of the curve of the rest of the "barbarians" outside.
Partially, "tapping" is a response to visible or anticipated excellence, thus it could be
considered meritocratic. However, since a great many members of the membership in
this secret society are drawn over and over from the same families as the "core" of the
group, it is a typical nested secret society with "porch brethren" on the outside making a
power network for those in the inner administrative levels of the secret society. The top
repetitive families in Skull and Bones are known because in 1985 a disgruntled Skull
and Bones member leaked rosters to a private researcher, Antony C. Sutton. Many
people believe that the membership of Skull and Bones had been totally secret.
However the membership for each year is held in the Yale University archives.
The membership rosters cover the years 18331985, with some additional years. This
original leaked 1985 data was kept privately for over 15 years, as Sutton feared that the
xeroxed pages could somehow identify the member who leaked it. The information was
finally reformatted as an appendix in the book Fleshing out Skull and Bones by editor,
researcher, and writer Kris Millegan, who published it in 2003.
The data shows that certain families have been well represented, and that these happen
to be related to each other as well—such as the Cheney family, Taft family, Whitney
family, Walker family, and Adams family. Other subordinate members are often related to
these families. Other core family names are common. However, not all initiates in these
families are as interrelated as the above group. This second category of core families
covers such names as Smith, Allen, Brown, Clark, White, Day, Johnson, Jones, Miller,
Stewart, Thompson, Cheney, Taft, Williams.
For an example of the predilection of certain core families being embedded in Skull and
Bones (or vice versa), here are the top 15 families in Skull and Bones with 10+ Members
(over 18331985, with occasional later years available):
Smith (15)
Walker (15)
Allen (13)
Brown (13)
Clark (12)
White (12)
Day (11)
Johnson (11)
Jones (11)
Miller (11)
Stewart (11)
Thompson (11)
Cheney (10)
Taft (10)
Williams (10)
Their house is located on Yale's campus at 64 High Street. The property is registered
under RTA Incorporated. A search of the records of the state of Connecticut shows that
the officers of RTA Incorporated all appear on lists of Skull and Bones members from
the 1960's and 1970's. The building itself has no windows on the outside and the
exterior walls are made of concrete. The inside walls are drywall/plaster and the floors
are carpeted. It has a heating system, but no air conditioning.
The building itself is about 5,968 square feet on the first floor. There is also a basement
of similar size. It was built in 1900. New Haven police, as mentioned in the Robbins'
book, say that the Bones tomb has an underground entrance connected to Yale
University's steam tunnel system, allowing covert entrance or escape unobserved.
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Nicknames
On an initiate's first day in Bones they are assigned a name, which they will be known
as for the rest of their life. Names that are regularly used are: Magog, which is assigned
to the initiate with the most experience with the opposite sex; Gog, which is assigned to
the least sexually experienced; Long Devil, for the tallest; Boaz, for varsity American
football captains; and Little Devil for the shortest. Bonesmen have often assumed
names of mythological and legendary figures.
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Nicknames of selected Bonesmen
William Howard Taft: Magog
F. O. Matthiessen: Little Devil
Averell Harriman: Thor
Henry Luce: Baal
Briton Hadden: Caliban
Archibald MacLeish: Gigadibs
McGeorge Bundy: Odin
Potter Stewart: Crappo
George W. Bush: Temporary
William F. Buckley: Cheevy
Anson Phelps Stokes: Achilles
Reuben Holden: McQuilp
Charles Seymour: Machiavelli
Donald Ogden Stewart: Hellbender
John Kerry: Long Devil
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Deer Island
Deer Island (44°21′41″N, 75°54′24″W) is a privately owned island retreat owned by
Skull and Bones' Russell Trust Association. It is on the Saint Lawrence River two miles
(3 km) north of Alexandria Bay. Among the island's facilities are two tennis courts, two
houses, a bungalow, a boathouse, and an amphitheater. It serves as a getaway for the
present members of Skull and Bones, and is often used to host reunions to which family
members of Bonesmen are welcome. It can also be hired out for personal use, but
membership of Skull and Bones as well as upkeep is required. The island is governed
and maintained by the Deer Island Club, membership of which is only available for
initiates of Skull and Bones. They say in their articles of association, the purpose of the
club is: to promote the social intercourse of its members, and to provide for them
facilities for recreation and social enjoyment; and to this end, to purchase, hold and
convey any property, real or personal, which may be necessary or convenient therefor;
to maintain a Club House for the use and benefit of its members; and to adopt bylaws
and generally to exercise all the usual powers of corporations not prohibited by said
statutes.
According to Skull and Bones researcher (and member of Scroll and Key, another secret
society at Yale) Alexandra Robbins, who interviewed many Bonesmen in her book about
the group:
The fortyacre [162,000 m²] retreat is intended to give Bonesmen an opportunity to "get
together and rekindle old friendships." A century ago the island sported tennis courts
and its softball fields were surrounded by rhubarb plants and gooseberry bushes.
Catboats waited on the lake. Stewards catered elegant meals. But although each new
Skull and Bones member still visits Deer Island, the place leaves something to be
desired. "Now it is just a bunch of burnedout stone buildings," a patriarch sighs. "It's
basically ruins." Another Bonesman says that to call the island "rustic" would be to
glorify it. "It's a dump, but it's beautiful." [6]
One factor which may explain the change would be the arrival of increasingly
widespread airplane travel by the 1930s. Thus, there was an increase of spatial choices
given for "escaping from the summer heat". However, in the mid 19th century through
the early 20th century, it was certainly a much more prevalent and elegant Bones
"getaway" private island. There are many pictures of the island and its buildings in Kris
Millegan's edited book Fleshing out Skull and Bones (2003).
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Skull and Bones members
The Skull and Bones published membership lists until 1971, which were kept at the Yale
Library. The following list of noteworthy Bonesmen is compiled from those lists.
List of Known Members
William Huntington Russell (1832), Founder of the Skull and Bones
Alphonso Taft (1832), CoFounder of the Skull and Bones
Simeon Eben Baldwin (1861), Governor and Chief Justice, State of Connecticut (son of
Roger Sherman Baldwin)
Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1936), U.S. Senator
David Boren (1963), U.S. Senator
Amory Howe Bradford (1934), general manager for the New York Times
Augustus Brandegee (1849), Speaker of the Connecticut State Legislature in 1861
Frank Bosworth Brandegee (1885), U.S. Senator
James Buckley (1944), U.S. Senator
William F. Buckley
William F. Buckley, Jr. (1950), founder of National Review, author, CIA covert agent
McGeorge Bundy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs under Kennedy and
Johnson, National Security Advisor, Professor of History
George Herbert Walker Bush (1948), 41st President of the United States, Vice President
under President Ronald Reagan, Director of the CIA, Chairman of the Republican
National Committee, Ambassador to the United Nations, Ambassador to China
George W. Bush (1968), 43rd President of the United States, Governor of Texas
Prescott Bush (1916), father of George H.W. Bush
John Chafee (1947), U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy and Governor of Rhode Island;
father of U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee
Thomas Cochran (1904), JP Morgan partner
John Sherman Cooper (1923), U.S. Senator and member of the Warren Commission
Alfred Cowles (1913), Cowles Communication
John Thomas Daniels (1914), founder of Archer Daniels Midland
Russell W. Davenport (1923), editor of Fortune Magazine, created Fortune 500 list
F. Trubee Davison (1918), Director of Personnel at the Central Intelligence Agency
Henry P. Davison (1920), senior partner, JP Morgan's Guaranty Trust
William Henry Draper III (1950), chair of United Nations Development Programme and
ImportExport Bank of the United States
Timothy Dwight (1849), Yale acting Treasurer 188789, Yale Pres. 188699
Timothy Dwight V (1849), President of Yale College
John E. Ecklund (1938), Treasurer 196678, Partner in Bonesdominanted New Haven
lawfirm Dana & Wiggin
William Maxwell Evarts (1837), U.S. Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Senator
(grandson of Roger Sherman)
Robert D. French (1910)
Charles Stafford Gage (1925), Yale Treasurer 195466, and with Bones family firm
Mathiesson Chemical
Evan G. Galbraith (1950), Ambassador to France and managing director of Morgan
Stanley
Artemus Gates (1918), President of New York Trust Company, Union Pacific Railroad,
TIMELife and Boeing Company
Daniel Coit Gilman (1852), Attache to the American legation at St. Petersburg; President
of the University of California, and of John Hopkins University
William Henry Gleason (1853), Lt. Governor of Florida, founder of Eau Gallie, Florida,
lawyer and land speculator
Robert Gow (1955), president of Zapata Oil
Briton Hadden (1920), Cofounder of TimeLife Enterprises
Arthur T. Hadley (1876), Yale acting Treas. 190910, Yale Pres. 18991921
Averell Harriman (1913), U.S. Ambassador and Secretary of Commerce, Governor of
New York, Chairman and CEO of the Union Pacific Railroad, Brown Brothers &
Harriman and the Southern Pacific Railroad
John Heinz II (1931), heir to H. J. Heinz Company, father of U.S. Senator John Heinz
Reuben Holden
Pierre Jay (1892), first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
John Kerry (1966) U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee
Henry Coit Kingsley (1834), Yale Treasurer 186287 (D. G. Gilman's uncle; Gilman even
wrote the land grant application for Yale, which was quickly authorized; monies passed
to his uncle, treasurer of Yale.)
Charles Edwin Lord (1949), U.S. Comptroller of the Currency
Winston Lord (1959), Chairman of Council on Foreign Relations, Ambassador to China,
and Assistant U.S. Secretary of State
Henry Luce (1920), Cofounder of TimeLife Enterprises
Archibald MacLeish (1915), poet and author
F. O. Matthiessen
Thomas Lee McClung (1892), Yale Treasurer 190409 (Bones U.S. Treas as well 1909
12, appointed by Bones U.S. President Taft)
David McCullough (1955), U.S. historian
George Douglas Miller
William Walter Phelps
Gifford Pinchot (1889), first Chief of U.S. Forest Service, under President Theodore
Roosevelt
Dino Pionzio (1950), CIA Deputy Chief of Station during Allende overthrow
John Rockefeller Prentice (1928), grandson of John D. Rockefeller, pioneer of artificial
insemination in farm animals as a means of improving their genetic pool
Percy Rockefeller (1900), Director of Brown Brothers Harriman, Standard Oil and
Remington Arms
Charles Seymour
Benjamin Silliman, Jr
Frederick W. Smith (1966), founder of FedEx
Harold Stanley (1908), founder of investment house of Morgan Stanley
Donald Ogden Stewart
Potter Stewart (1936), U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Anson Phelps Stokes
William Howard Taft (1878), 27th President of the United States, Chief Justice of the
United States, Secretary of War
Lawrence G. Tithe (1916), Yale Treasurer 194254, Director/Partner Brown Brothers
Harriman
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1898), son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and brother of Gertude
Vanderbilt Whitney
Morrison R. Waite (1837), U.S. Supreme Court Justice
George Herbert Walker, Jr. (1927), financier and cofounder of the New York Mets
Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser (1896), scion of the Weyerhaeuser Paper Co.
Andrew Dickson White (1853), first President of Cornell University
Edward Baldwin Whitney (1878), New York Supreme Court Justice
Harry Payne Whitney (1894), husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, investment
banker
William Collins Whitney (1863), U.S. Secretary of the Navy and New York City financier
Hugh Wilson (1909)
Dean Witter, Jr. (1944), founder of the investment house Dean Witter & Co.
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Cultural references
In 2000, Universal Pictures released The Skulls starring Joshua Jackson and Paul
Walker capitalizing on the conspiracy theory element surrounding the organization.
Rising seniors at Yale are inducted into the secret society and, after witnessing a cover
up of a murder, one character tries to defect from the group. The society is portrayed as
having intergroup tensions, coverups, lavish lifestyles, and corrupt business deals.
Fictional character Charles Montgomery Burns of The Simpsons was supposedly a
member of the Skull and Bones before his graduation from Yale in 1914. In The Canine
Mutiny, an episode from the eighth Simpsons season, Burns identifies Laddie the collie
as a potential Boneshound.
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References
Millegan, Kris, ed. Fleshing Out Skull and Bones: Investigations into America's Most
Powerful Secret Society. Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2003. ISBN 0972020721
Sutton, Antony C. America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull
& Bones. Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2003. ISBN 0972020705
Tarpley, Webster, et al. George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography. Washington, D.C.:
Executive Intelligence Review, 1992. ISBN 0943235057. Available free on the web:
http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm
Robbins, Alexandra. Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the
Hidden Paths of Power. Back Bay Books, 2003. ISBN 0316735612
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