Monday, Nov. 01, 2004 - 11:34 a.m.

Bonin' in the Boneyard

Responding to Alektra's comment in my guestbook, royal ancestry alone does not prove anything nefarious. To be nefarious about it, one has to never let it go, keep track of it, and consciously use it to attain power. I also read that around 70% of Americans are descended from the prophet Mohammed, so surely with an exponentially expanding population and remixing every generation, everyone is going to wind up distantly related to everyone else after only a few dozen iterations. What aristocracy does to counteract this dillution of bloodlines is to deliberately intermarry within their set in order to consolidate their wealth and power and pass it down to their progeny. This is but one of the functions of the organization popularly known as Skull and Bones, also known as The Order, also known as The Brotherhood of Death. Both Bush and Kerry are members.

I was in a bookstore several months ago, and saw a copy of Vanity Fair out of the corner of my eye that boasted an article about Skull and Bones. The article went into some detail, even describing their fraternity game called "boodleball" (irrelevant as far as I can see) and interviewing a Skull and Bones member who was willing to comment a little about it. The article laid out several alarming facts:

• Skull and Bones members have attained positions of great power.
• Once in these positions, they appoint other Bonesmen to offices of great power.
• They have a code of silence regarding their organization.
• They swear an oath of loyalty to their organization that they understand to superceed any other loyalty.

I felt compelled to read Vanity Fair's take, because I had just read a book about Skull and Bones, America's Secret Establishment by Antony Sutton. I didn't really want to mire myself in conspiracy theory, and it's accompanying feeling of powerlessness, but I figured that if these are the people trying to rule me, perhaps I should learn something about what their plans are.

Some parts of the book are weak. Sutton's claims that Skull and Bones is satanic, and that the educational system is preparing students for global communism are poorly argued and based on quotes that could be interpreted a number of different ways.

However, the the strongest parts of the book also happen to be the most important to the fate of the world. Sutton shows how Skull and Bones was brought over from Germany, with a mission to create a totalitarian government guided by Hegelian thought. Sutton shows how Skull and Bones took over the educational system in the United States in the 1800's through controlling Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, The University of Chicago, and The University of California (and got the government to pay for it through land grants), starting education as a university major of its own, and training and installing Hegelian professors such as John Dewey. This research parallels stuff I've read by John Taylor Gatto.

But most damning, and most astonishing, and most cooberated, is the section, "How the Order Creates War and Revolution" that details how Skull and Bones members ran Wall Street investment firms, notably the Guaranty [sic] Trust Company and Brown Brothers, Hariman, and used these in turn to fund both the Soviet Union and the Nazis. Sutton reproduces numerous government documents and letters that conclusively demonstrate, if these documents are genuine, that Skull and Bones knowingly violated U.S. law to carry out these deals. They were playing all sides in the fomenting of World War I and World War II in order to consolidate their power.

Why would capitalists conspire to create the Soviet Union? Sutton puts it in context--they don't believe in capitalism as such; their goal is power. They believe in Hegel's idea that history evolves through the synthesis of conflicting sides. If you can engineer the sides in a conflict, say totalitarian fascism versus totalitarian communism, you can ensure that the synthesis will be totalitarian.

Thus, through tax-exempt foundations, the media, education, their puppet the Council on Foreign Relations, and participating in politics directly, Skull and Bones has largely shaped both the political left and the political right as we know them. If you choose one of those sides, or if you fancy yourself a "moderate" within that spectrum, you're playing your part as an unwitting pawn in the Skull and Bones plan.

The thesis and antithesis these days is no longer fascism vs. communism, but rather corporate globalization vs. Islamic Fundamentalism. I also suspect the next shift is to a conflict between military conquest by America and military conquest by the United Nations Security Council. You can already sense that these are the acceptable limits of public debate. That there will be military conquest is accepted as a given.

I don't want any of this to imply, as Sutton does, that if Skull and Bones had never come around, the United States would be hunkey-dorey. I want to make no excuses for the State, but Skull and Bones takes a bad thing and makes it worse. I'm intrigued enough to want to check out the book edited by fellow Eugene resident Kris Milligan, Fleshing Out Skull and Bones.

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