21st Century Progressivism

Author: Sheila Marler

  • Who Are These Americans?

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    America is supposed to be a melting pot. However, a certain cultural-religious group of people claimed ownership from the beginning. Not just ownership of industry and government, but ownership of Americanism. This should be obvious when people outside of the United States refer to Americans as Anglo-Saxons. However it doesn’t seem to register with ordinary Americans. Does anyone wonder about the nature of these people? Who are these Americans?

    Angles, Saxons and Jutes Meet in Britain

    The Angles, Saxons and Jutes originated in modern-day Denmark and Germany. They migrated to England after the withdrawal of Rome from 410 to 450 AD, and eventually merged to became the Anglo-Saxons. The Anglo-Saxons ruled England until the Norman Conquest in 1066. However, in their day they adopted Christianity and established kingdoms that spoke Old English. The Anglo-Saxons shaped English culture, language, and law.

    For Britons on the other hand, the Anglo-Saxon takeover was an unwanted incursion. Often it was deadly. Perhaps that explains why the US government makes immigration so difficult; they haven’t forgotten that they were once immigrants to Britain.

    The English Civil War

    In the seventeenth century, Anglo-Saxonism was a major ideological construct used to justify the English Civil War (1642-1651). The so-called Norman Yoke was another ideological construct and was used in a similar way. Adherents to these constructs could pose as people who were reclaiming ancient liberties that the Norman conquerors stole from them. These liberties included free parliaments and common law. In this way, English parliamentarians and radicals were able to invoke a romanticized, pre-1066 Anglo-Saxon past as marching orders for the politics of their time. Specifically, the Norman Yoke construct provided the rationale for challenging the divine right of Kings.

    Many of these concepts sound universal. But it’s important to note that these constructs belonged to a unique culture and religion at a specific time. The doctrine of the absolute authority of kings was no more universal than the doctrines of Anlo-Saxonism and the Norman Yoke. It arose after the religious wars spread chaos, instability and destruction all over Europe.

    In addition, it can be argued that the position of the parliamentarians and radicals in the seventeenth century was politically convenient. Divine kingship may have been a problem in itself, but the problem only became pressing when the radicals disagreed with Charles I. And subsequent historical events demonstrate that some of them wanted to take upon themselves the powers of kingship. Anglo-Saxonism and the Norman Yoke constructs were useful tools.

    The English Civil War ended with the execution of Charles I and the takeover by Oliver Cromwell, who proceeded to act like a dictator from 1653 to 1658.

    Factions in the Church of England

    It is also true that Charles acted recklessly. It was as though he was unaware of the fragility of the political and religious consensus that he enjoyed. The Church of England had been dealing with competing factions under Queen Elizabeth and James I, but everyone remained united by a Calvinist theology of grace. This consensus broke under Charles I.

    The king’s policies tended toward Anti-Puritanism in matters of liturgy and organization. The theological equivalent was Anti-Calvinism. Charles’s authoritarianism would prove his undoing at the hands of the Puritan faction. However, neither his behavior nor the parliament’s displeasure dictated his execution. Many of the agitators merely hoped to force his cooperation.

    The Puritans

    People in the United Kingdom and the United States often hear about how King Charles I overreached his powers as a king. But his execution was not a foregone conclusion. Many of those who opposed him were shocked when he was killed by the radicals and parliamentarians. But as argued above, this faction was acting according to its own peculiar beliefs.

    The Puritans were ethnically English, predominantly of Anglo-Saxon descent, and identified with this ancestry. As 16th and 17th-century English Protestants, they viewed themselves as a “remnant” continuing a divine, Anglo-Saxon tradition of piety and liberty. They were not genetically distinct from other English people, but were primarily a cultural/religious group from East Anglia. 

     Antonia Malchik

    Traditional Freemasonry

    Anglo-American style Freemasonry has played a part in the cultures of the United States and Great Britain. (This branch of Freemasonry is distinguished from Liberal Freemasonry.) It is the traditional, conservative branch of Freemasonry requiring belief in a Supreme Being and avoiding political/religious debate within the lodge. Anglo-American Freemasonry may not have played a part in the English Civil War because it only appeared in England as a formal organized fraternity in 1717. However, the first recorded initiation of an English gentleman, was of Elias Ashmole in 1646.

    But regardless of its past influences, I would argue that the most problematic influence of Freemasonry in our time stems from its adoption of Tubal Cain as its founding ancestor. This goes at least as far back as Albert Mackey.

    Freemasons believe there are two strains of people in the world. One comes from the line of Cain, and the other comes from Seth. The term, Sons of Cain, is derived from the Freemasonic tradition of referring to Tubal Cain as their ‘Masonic ancestor’.

    The Temple Legend

    Albert Mackey wrote about Tubal Cain in the Legend of the Craft. Mackey also wrote about him in the Lexicon of Freemasonry : Tubal Cain…

    …introduced many arts into society which tended towards its improvement and civilization. Tubal Cain is the Vulcan of the Pagans, and is thought to have been closely connected with ancient Freemasonry. Faber says that “all the most remarkable ancient buildings of Greece, Egypt, and Asia Minor, were ascribed to Cabirean or Cyclopean Masons,” the descendants of Vulcan, Dhu Balcan, the god Balcan, or Tubal Cain. Oliver says, “In after times Tubal Cain, under the name of Vulcan and his Cyclops, figured as workers in metals and inventors of the mysteries; and hence it is probable that he was the hierophant of a similar institution in his day, copied from the previous system of Seth, and applied to the improvement of schemes more adapted to the physical pursuits of the race to which he belonged.”

    (As cited by Freemason.com)

    The mention of ‘the previous system of Seth’, is interesting, to say the least. The Book of Genesis, says the entire human race is descended from Seth. It doesn’t say anything about a system that follows it. In verse 4:25 Eve says that God granted her Seth in place of Abel. Then, Genesis chapter 5 presents Seth as the ancestor of Noah. The descendants of Seth survived the flood through Noah. The descendants of Cain did not. More to the point, if Seth was the ancestor of Noah he was also the ancestor of Christ. This claim is never made for Cain.

    The claim that there are two strains of people in the world is especially troubling when one considers Rudolf Steiner’s embellishments on the Temple Legend1. Steiner interpreted the Temple Legend symbolically, and argued that it represents humanity’s evolution.

    The New Temple Legend

    In The New Cain, we are told the Temple Legend was originally introduced into Europe by Christin Rosenkreutz. Later it became the core of diverse types of masonic rituals. However, Steiner did not adopt the Temple Legend from masonic sources. He reconstructed it from his independent spiritual research.2 He also incorporated his version into masonic rituals. The New Temple Legend is an occult-imaginative means to school and develop the soul’s spiritual capacities.

    From the very outset, the Temple legend points to humanity’s dual origins in the children of Cain and of Abel. The former emerged from asexual procreation, the latter from dual-gender procreation. The origin of the sons of Cain reaches back to the pre-Lemurian period, that of the sons of Abel – or of Seth, who was given to his parents as a substitute after Abel was killed – to Lemurian times. The first became tillers of the soil, scientists and technologists, who had to elaborate everything for themselves, while the latter became shepherds, priests and artists who were given inspiration from above. In a soul-spiritual sense, we can also speak here of a masculine and feminine spirit.

    We have before us here, therefore, a primal opposition in humanity’s evolution. To reconcile this was the aim of the theosophical, and now and in future of the anthroposophic world impulse, as well as of a freemasonry renewed through anthroposophy.

    (p. 10)

    One could argue that Steiner’s interpretation is more extreme than the original Temple Legend, implying that the original Legend is more benign. But the original version had already traced Freemasonry’s ‘masonic ancestor’ to Tubal Cain, in spite of the fact that his descendants did not survive the flood. Steiner merely expands on the occult implications of this mythology. In Steiner’s version, Freemasonry is the worship of Cain in the condition he had been in before his sin.

    It’s important to add that we are not presented here with the story of an ongoing rivalry. Cain’s vision is presented as the final victor over the vision of the sons of Abel-Seth. (p. 11)

    Paradise Lost

    It has been said that Milton’s Paradise Lost is the Protestant epic equivalent to Dante’s Inferno and its Catholic view of sin. The two poems clearly demonstrate corresponding differences in theology and focus. Although neither one of them is scriptural, they both exert some influence in the thought of religious believers.

    For the purposes of this article, it’s important to mention that Milton was influenced by Anglo-Saxon culture and history. In addition, he was very much a part of the English Civil War. There is a YouTube Video on the Chris Hedges channel that elaborates on the important points in Milton’s work. The interview covers important points and issues that resonate with American culture. Once you start to look for similarities you will find them everywhere.

    Misjudging Milton?

    In the Hedges interview, Orlando Reade argues that the finest moments of Paradise Lost are true to the New Testament. I am aware that I haven’t studied this poem as much as it probably deserves, but I still think it’s fitting to discuss Paradise Lost in an article that also deals with the rehabilitation of Cain. I worry about the modern ability to deal with such material on a poetic or literary level because the religious concepts these poems deal with are not fictions.

    In this work by Milton, the devil is a somewhat sympathetic character who was treated unfairly by God. Milton seems to identify his own plight with the devil, and he’s not the only one to do so. But of course, the devil was a sympathetic character because Milton created him that way. Other oppressed peoples have identified with Milton’s characterization of the devil in the same way. But if you take biblical concepts seriously, there is a difference between oppressed people and the devil.

    For one thing, Milton rebelled against the king while the devil rebelled against God. At best, you could argue that this is a powerful object lesson against divine kingship. For Milton, rebelling against the king was almost the same thing as rebelling against God. But, killing a king is another matter. Surely the comparison breaks down there?

    Donald Trump and the Idolatry of Kingship

    Today, history seems to be reorganizing itself with Donald Trump acting as an absolutist king who presides over a willing Anglo-Saxon government. In a rational world this would end Anglo-Saxonism as a meaningful construct.

    Who are these Americans? They are all of these things.

    1. Rudolf Steiner, The New Cain: The Temple Legend as a spiritual and moral impulse for evolution and its completion. ed. T. H. Meyer. Temple Lodge Publishing, 2017 ↩︎
    2. Ibid. p. 9 ↩︎

  • Strangers and Pilgrims in Anglo-Saxon Country

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    For several decades our government has behaved as if this country doesn’t belong to us. This can be explained in two ways. Either the country is ours and the government is cheating us, or it never belonged to us at all. Foreign political analysts like to call us Anglo-Saxons. Maybe they know something about our government that we don’t know. Christians say they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Maybe it’s fitting for Americans to acknowledge they are strangers and pilgrims in Anglo-Saxon country.

    America and the Anglo-Saxon Outlook

    I criticized Professor Wen Yang recently when he said Anglo-Saxons are the worst people ever. There may be some truth in this, but it’s too extreme. I think it would be better to explain Anglo-Saxon behavior as the result of a flawed social organization.

    Wealth Inequality and the Plight of the Male Sex

    Anglo-Saxon wealth inequality stems from a long-standing flaw in social organization. It is fostered and perpetuated by the institution of boarding school. According to Alan Macfarlane, this institution may have even created our economic system. He has argued that boarding school was the beginning of capitalism.

    Before boarding school, economic activity took place in the household. However, sons who were sent off to boarding school ceased being part of that household. This severed the link between economic activity and the household.

    Boarding school breaks the social bond between a boy and his family and makes him vulnerable to generic male influences and organized male cabals. In addition, his former household looses the connection and benefit derived from his economic activity. He loses benefits as well when his household ceases to participate in his efforts. This explains how capitalism became the stomping ground of independent (i.e. lonely) men.

    Great Personal Wealth leads to Radical (i.e. antisocial and inhuman) Independence

    There are additional dangers for men who become radically independent. I would put it like this: A man’s mental and spiritual health depend entirely on his family ties. Unaccountable wealth destroys family ties. I would argue that seizing wealth from these men would be more rescue than punishment.

    There have always been proposals for small improvements in ruling class behavior. Policy-makers, politicians, and religious leaders in the mold of Pope Francis hold out hope that the existing system can be preserved. However, that hope has proven to be futile.

    Conservatives Should Have Appreciated Pope Francis When They Had Him

    Pope Francis was economically pragmatic. He fought for justice within the economic system and preached against ‘unfettered capitalism’, but he defended everyone’s part in the system. If the wealthy had listened to him perhaps they could have prolonged their privilege. However, in the last ten years they have demonstrated that capitalism itself is a run-away train. Furthermore, they enjoy riding on that train. The more unequal things get the better they like it. This position never was acceptable, but now the spell has been broken.

    Wealth Inequality is a Curse

    There is no justification for wealth inequality. It is a curse that can no longer be tolerated. The world’s wealth must be returned to families. That’s where it began and that’s where it should be used. Wealth does no good to anyone in the bank accounts or tax havens of a handful of sociopathic men.

    However, in order for a seizure to work, the system must be overhauled. Otherwise these people will return to their old ways. The system must protect the wealth of families first. this can only be done by something like bridewealth, which I have argued for previously. This system served to safeguard a family’s wealth and protect mothers at the same time. Husbands benefitted from the system as well, but there were limits in place. By contrast, economic limits do not exist today. Instead, additional burdens are imposed on women.

  • The Shocking Fate of Superman

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    The ruffians have us on the run. All the signs are here. Whether the signs signal the ‘fall of the empire’, a worldwide annihilation, or the end of days remains to be seen. But if we take a philosophical stance for a moment, we will understand that something fundamental stands revealed: We see before us the shocking fate of Superman.

    I’m not talking about the trustworthy fictional Superman of the movies. Nor am I suggesting that the Superman I refer to is going to get his clock cleaned while we watch. Our Superman has been waiting in the wings since the end of World War II and he has already met his fate. He just doesn’t know it yet.

    The Conservatives have had their way at least since the assassination of JFK. Since then they have been busily corrupting the key structures of a free society. They may have thought they could slowly ease on to the throne without being noticed, but in 2015 the progressives called their bluff. Their response was to call out their heavy artillery. I admit it is intimidating, but there is something vaguely ridiculous about it. Superman is a cartoon.

    Superman is a Cartoon

    Our superman, or supermen, have been stewing in their juices since World War II, and dreaming of a final victory. But that isn’t what caused the present ridiculousness. They have always been ridiculous. It’s just that we see them now against the background of climate change and mass migration so their solutions appear as absurd as they are. The situation calls for a farsighted, compassionate manager but instead we are offered solutions from a superhero cartoon. The bright ideas of these characters float in space surrounded by microchips, high finance, gears, and jet fuel. And they themselves have long since ceased belonging to the earth. In fact, they despise the earth.

    So now that it’s finally time for their big reveal, they are completely unsuited to lead. But how is it possible that their cartoonish plans continue to be so honored in this day and age? We have all been blind together.

    They Never Accepted Their Defeat in World War II

    They were defeated in World War II because their ideas were just as stupid then as they are now. That should have been the end of it. However, they were allowed to keep their stolen loot and their societies rebuilt themselves exactly as they had been before the War. The thinking that led to the carnage stayed exactly the same, wrapped in a thick veil of denial. The lessons that they should have taken from their defeat have been biding their time–until now.

    Maybe This Is Justice

    It’s possible that what we see now is justice. If it makes you feel better, you could say it’s the fault of the World-War leaders and their societies, not to mention those who have supported cruel actions of their governments since that time. In any case, the outcome is no longer in our hands. Behold the shocking fate of Superman.

  • ‘They’ Told Us Who Killed Charlie Kirk

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    I think ‘they’ told us who killed Charlie Kirk. They may as well have signed their names to it. My suspicions in this regard only increased when the FBI announced the arrest of six defendants and charged them with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. In these two incidents together, there may be clues to the powers that control the current administration.

    Gambling

    Assassinations and gambling are the specialities of organized crime. However, it’s not confined to organized crime. Or rather, organized crime is not roped off from the government. They are intertwined. The book, Double Cross,1 written by Sam and Chuck Giancana is helpful in this analysis. (Chuck Giancana is the brother of Sam Mooney Giancana. Sam is Chuck’s son and the godson of Mooney.)

    At the end of his life, Mooney Giancana’s empire was based on a numbers racket–gambling was his forte. He learned about this racket when he was sent to Leavenworth for running a still in Illinois. There he met Eddie Jones, who was incarcerated for running a policy racket, also known as ‘numbers’. Black men invented the policy racket and back then, black men owned it.

    Giancana had never heard of this racket, but after learning the ropes from Eddie Jones he determined to take it for himself. He probably had fewer scruples than usual, due to his extreme racism. After he secured Jone’s racket, he expanded it into Texas with the help of Jack Ruby.

    This could be a coincidence or it could be a red flag, but five of the six suspects in the FBI’s recent gambling case are black.

    Mooney Branches Out

    Mooney spent the years from 1966-74 in Mexico setting up the most lucrative gambling enterprise in history. Chuck believed his murder was largely the consequence of his actions there, in combination with rogue elements of the CIA. It all came to an end for Mooney Giancana when the FBI pressured the Mexican government to deport him. He had received a subpoena to testify before a Grand Jury and he knew way too much. He was shot to death in his basement kitchen.

    But before Giancana was deported, he had been operating from Mexico to the Caribbean and Central and South America, setting up operations on cruise ships and ports of call. He bought protection from dictators and presidents, including Noriega. And to top it off, he and his associates ingratiated themselves with Columbia’s Medellin Cartel. Naturally, they sent the Chicago Outfit a cut of everything. The relevant question today is what happened to this network after Mooney died?

    In this light, the FBI’s apparent glee at taking down this gambling racket brings up more questions than it answers. The numbers rackets never ended. They would know that better than anyone. Illegal gambling continues today. Maybe this case was particularly egregious. But even so, it seems to me there would be an additional red flag: the crime families involved.

    The Three Crime Families

    The crime families involved in the FBI’s current case are the Gambinos, Bonnanos, and Genoveses. They all operate in New York. New York was sometimes allied with Chicago, but the two organizations were separate and had different bosses.

    At Meyer Lansky’s suggestion all of the different branches had given their organization a name. The new names were:

    • The National Alliance became the Combination or Commission
    • The New York organization became the Mob
    • Chicago became the Outfit
    • New Orleans became the Combine or the Mafia

    Before His Death, Mooney Giancana’s Organization Controlled Everything But New York

    At the time the McClellan Hearings were being held in 1958, Mooney Giancana controlled everything but New York. His partners were Marcello for gambling in Texas, Alabama and Georgia and Trafficante Jr. in Florida. Trafficante was feeding casino money to Chicago from Cuba and drugs from Central America, the Caribbean and Asia. The term Chuck used for Mooney’s relationship with Carlo Gambino in New York is ‘aligned’. Mooney worked with him to deal with European rackets and drug trade. 

    The Most Important Question: Who Ended Up With Sam Mooney Giancana’s Empire?

    It’s fair to assume that the empire that Mooney Giancana left behind was taken over by his associates. His brother, Chuck Giancana was concerned about this. He was concerned that its nefarious influence is still operating under the radar. And he would know better than anyone that this was a strong possibility. He states several times in his book that there are few lines of demarcation between the Outfit and the CIA. “There are no Black Hats and White Hats.” So he considered the following questions to be important. Have U.S. organized crime, the CIA and internal criminals shaped our world since his brother’s death? How many wars have been funded by this wealth? Which governments were compromised? How many world leaders were corrupted, imprisoned, and assassinated? Which U.S. presidents have benefitted from covert CIA operations and drug money?

    These questions should be in the back of our minds when we read about the arrests of black athletes and New York crime families for gambling.

    The Assassinations: JFK

    I’ve argued previously that the signature on Kirk’s assassination was similar to the signature on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The first similarity is that they both crossed the wrong people.

    JFK’s death warrant was sealed by his father’s behavior, his own behavior, and by the expectations of aggrieved parties, including organized crime, the CIA and officials in the U.S. government. He was aware of these factors, but he was probably in deeper trouble than he knew. Joe Kennedy had received favors from the Chicago Syndicate before JFK was in the public eye. When he asked Mooney Giancana for his assistance in getting JFK elected president his indebtedness reached a new level. This favor had far-reaching consequences for his family and the USA.

    Joe Kennedy made certain promises to Mooney Giancana, which he had no intention of fulfilling. Instead, all three Kennedys, Joe, JFK and Bobby, betrayed Giancana by turning against the mafia that had helped them. This was a double cross. All things considered, the false sense of security was breathtaking. Joe in particular had to have known what Giancana was capable of.

    Anton Cermak and Huey Long

    As Chuck Giancana tells it, two previous assassination cases had similarities to the Kennedy assassination: the public murders of Anton Cermak and Huey Long. All the signs were there for anyone knowledgeable about mafia tactics. The first sign, according to Chuck, is making a hit look like a looney did it. It’s an old Sicilian tactic.

    In the case of Huey Long, the looney was a sharpshooter and in debt. Huey Long was a Louisiana senator on the take. He had worked for years with the Syndicate on everything from slot machines to casinos. His partners included Carlos Marcello in New Orleans; Frank Costello, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky in New York; Santo Trafficante in Florida; and Paul Ricca in Chicago. Unfortunately for him, he got greedy. By 1935 he demanded over $3 million a year in payoffs. Long’s friends in New York had him hit with the help of the New Orleans boss.

    Anton Cermak was the Mayor of Chicago who went to war against Al Capone on behalf of a rival, Teddy Newberry. When Cermak fled to Florida in December of 1932, Paul Ricca enlisted Joe Zangara to kill him. Zangara had been a sharpshooter in the Italian Army. Diamond Joe Esposito had sponsored him five years earlier to come to the U.S. from Sicily. Since then he had been working sugar runs from Cuba. However, he got into debt and was in trouble with the Chicago bosses.

    Zangara shot Cermak while he was riding in an open car with president-elect Roosevelt in Miami. When he was arrested he spouted anti-capitalist nonsense. The main problem with that tactic was that he was really a Republican. Or it would have been a problem if anyone had cared. He also claimed he had been trying to kill FDR and got Cermak by mistake. The press did not mention the fact that Zangara was connected to the Chicago Syndicate, and cops were paid off. 

    The Fall Guy

    And then there are the cases where the accused shooter, although seeming to fit the description of a looney, appears to be a patsy. This is suspected in the assassinations of JFK and Charlie Kirk. Related factors include the claim that an ancient bolt-action rifle fired the fatal shot. Basically, the general details given to the public don’t match what people actually saw or what they know about the particular weapon. And there is the question in both cases as to the direction of the fatal shot. Finally, there is the nonchalant way the authorities address the inconsistencies–or refuse to address them.

    Lee Harvey Oswald and His Connections

    We are familiar with the FBI’s case against Tyler Robinson, but maybe not so much with Lee Harvey Oswald. We know Jack Ruby, Chicago’s man in Dallas and Oswald’s assassin, had ties to both the CIA and the Outfit. So did Oswald.Oswald was also connected to the New Orleans mob from birth. His uncle was Carlos Marcello’s lieutenant and he had a big influence on the boy.

    U.S. Intelligence Community

    Oswald was allied with the U.S. Intelligence community. He was in the Civil Air Patrol as a young man, where he worked with a homosexual CIA operative and Outfit smuggling pilot, David Ferrie. Mooney and Marcello used Ferrie to fly drugs and guns out of Central America.

    Last but not least, Oswald was not a Castro supporter. He was a CIA agent and a right-wing supporter of the “Kill Castro’ Bay of pigs camp. When he was in the Marines in the late 50s he attended intelligence training sessions run out of the office of Naval Intelligence in a top secret Japanese Spy base.

    Nor was he a communist. He went to the USSR as a spy for the U.S. government.

    The Setup

    After Oswald returned to the US he worked for a company that was doing top security projects for the US government. The CIA directed him to former Chicago FBI agent Guy Banister as soon as he and his Russian wife were back in New Orleans. Banister’s Camp Street detective offices were a front for CIA covert domestic operations, similar to the Miami-based detective agency of Richard Cain. Bob Maheu’s Washington-Vegas agency was similar. They were all fronts to cloak illegal CIA-Outfit activities and draw agents for the CIA. During this time, Oswald trained Cuban exiles. 

    Oswald’s intel superiors sent him to Dallas. There he met with Jack Ruby at the Carousel Club and re-established his relationship with David Farrie. He also established a relationship with another Mooney associate, Russian exile and CIA operative geologist George De Mohrenschildt. De Mohrenschildt had contacts with Texas oilmen. Texas oilmen contributed cash to the assassination project.

    Oswald’s Patriotism and Malleability Were His Downfall

    They decided on Oswald as the fall guy in early spring. They had already laid the groundwork to make him look like a commie by sending him to Russia and associating him with the pro-Castro stuff. He had been a bright kid according to Chuck Giancana. His downfall was his patriotism and his malleability.

    The Professional Killers

    Later, Chuck learned through the grapevine that Mooney had solicited professional killers from several quarters. They included two of Marcello’s men and two of Trafficante’s Cuban exile friends. One of them was a former Havana vice cop who became a mobster. The other was a radical-turned-corrupt US customs official. 

    From Chicago Mooney brought in Richard Cain, Chuckie Nicoletti and Milwaukee Phil. They had all worked previously on the Bay of Pigs. Cain and Nicoletti were the actual gunmen for the hit. They were at opposite ends of Dallas Book Depository. It was Cain who fired from the 6th story window. 

    The CIA added several of their own “soldiers” using one of the anti-Castro men and Roscoe White as actual gunmen, along with J. D. Tippet and Oswald. The CIA planned for White and Tippet to eliminate Oswald, but Tippet wavered and allowed him to escape. So, White had to kill Tippet.

    It Was a Coup, Obviously

    J. Edgar Hoover was fine with this plan. And if somebody knew too much the CIA took care of it. Mooney specifically told Chuck it was a coup. He said they had done the same in other countries.


    “On November 22, 1963 the US had a coup; it’s that simple. The government of this country was overthrown by a handful of guys who did their job so damned well…not one American even knew what happened. But I know. I know I’ve guaranteed the Outfit’s future…once and for all. We’re set here in the United States. So, it’s time to move on to greener pastures. Spreadn’ the Outfit’s power and makn’ a fortune in deals overseas are two of the best reasons I can think of to leave the country.” (Sam ‘Mooney’ Giancana, as quoted by Chuck Giancana)

    1. Little Brown Paperbacks (a&C), Jan. 1, 1998. ↩︎

  • Smoke and Mirrors

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    Our political situation looks bad, but there is literally nothing of substance behind it. It’s all smoke and mirrors. Whenever the establishment gets in a bind it creates distractions. Well, currently its behavior is the official version of stomping its feet, roaring, and waving its arms around. It’s really quite astonishing to see grown men and women behaving this way. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

    NAFTA: The Establishment’s Folly

    I have been increasingly astonished at your behavior since 2015. I’m speaking to both parties here. I was amazed, when Hillary called progressives ‘children’ during the 2016 Democratic primary. She and Bill had slit the throat of our Democracy when they were in the White House by signing NAFTA into law among other things. But Hillary blithely expected working class people to vote for her from the depths of a poverty that she helped create. And yet we are children?

    I assume you think we are children because we don’t kowtow to the bosses in the CFR like you do; because we don’t blindly follow the rules of wealthy know-it-alls, like you do. The gall of prancing around on stage like some kind of savior when the voters were cheering for another candidate!

    Ignoring the Signs

    Of course he Republicans were right behind you. They thought they were being all covert, but they were uncovered just the same. There were a few miraculous signs during the 2020 campaign. I didn’t foresee them and I certainly didn’t cause them to happen, but I did appreciate what they revealed. For example, I didn’t know the Mormons were behind the craziness until the earthquake in Utah knocked the trumpet out of the Angel Maroni’s mouth.

    You do love to make mischief in secret and then present a sympathetic face to the voters, don’t you. The earthquake didn’t hurt anyone but how annoyed you were just to be outed. That’s not how you people operate is it? You believe if you can cause fear and pain and death it demonstrates your power.

    Your Crowning Achievement: The Earth’s Destruction

    But the height of my amazement is caused by your plan for our common home, Mother Earth. What great senseless oafs you must be! What resounding bozos! You can’t be serious!

    You have acted as if our suggestions were nothing more than political challenges from your inferiors and therefore meant to be defeated by you, yourselves, with all your clever plans and tricks and money, none of which you created on your own. Our suggestions were not frivolous. They were based on something you know nothing about, common sense. And you call yourselves ‘good’! You give goodness a bad name.

    Your Lack of Belief

    You have taken all your resources from people who believe in you, and from a planet that is defenseless against you. The most glaring flaw in your plan is your failure to recognize real power; a power that heals and comforts and watches over us. This power doesn’t belong to you. It wasn’t invented by your ideologies, and it doesn’t point to your being supreme. You would do well to recognize this important flaw because it demonstrates the lie of your leadership. You are not convincing anyone. We see you.

    Your Tech Lords are Some Kind of Joke

    And then there’s the comical performance of your tech-lords who honestly believe their ideas are the answer to any questions worth asking. Their ideas are cosmic pratfalls. They are not proposals for life. They are proposals for metal and plastic and shiny reflective surfaces–things that can’t speak or breath or talk or think. And yet they use the resources needed for life. These are the fantasies of children who persistently block out the warnings and pleadings of anyone who ever cared for them.

    Come Down From That High Place Where You Don’t Belong

    You are all hot air. There is nothing real or substantial to you. Come down from that high place before you hurt yourselves.

  • With Best Wishes, I am, Sincerely, Donald Trump

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    I was surprised recently to learn that Donald Trump has been signing his tariff documents “With Best Wishes, I am, Sincerely, Donald Trump.” The reason for my surprise is the last time Jair Bolsonaro ran for office in Brazil he boasted that only God could oust him, and he was promptly ousted.

    Bolsonaro Loses His Election

    I commented on Bolsonaro’s brazenness at the time. He seemed to have no fear about what God might actually think about a politician claiming His support. It seemed reasonable to assume that when someone makes such a declaration in public and for their own advantage, they present an opportunity for God to agree or disagree. We can’t say for sure if God had anything to do with what happened, but the election didn’t go well for Bolsonaro.

    I Am, He Whispers

    It could be argued that Donald Trump learned from what happened to Bolsonaro, even if he didn’t quite believe it had anything to do with God. He’s been signing his tariff documents “I am”, but in an unobtrusive way, as though it’s part of his signature. Perhaps he’s doing it that way because then he can deny that’s what he meant. However, it is not us he will have to convince if worse comes to worse. So what exactly does Trump mean by his use of this phrase?

    What Does “I Am” Mean?

    Several Old Testament texts use the phrase “I am.” In Exodus 3:14, Moses asks Yahweh (God) for His name and God responds, ‘“I AM WHO I AM.” In John 8, Jesus uses the Greek phrase ἐγώ εἰμι (egō eimi – literally: “I – I Am”) to refer to himself. This phrase occurs 21 times in that Gospel. Considering Trump has been telling the world he’s the ‘chosen one’, it’s not likely he doesn’t understand the significance of signing “I am” on his official documents. Maybe he really believes it. But then why the timidity?

    Either he really believes it and is willing to take the consequences, or he knows it’s not true. But as it is, instead of openly stating egō eimi, it’s more like a whisper. Why whisper if it’s true? And if it’s not true, I think it would be a bigger offense than Bolsonaro claiming God’s support for a political office. Especially since the Trump Administration is not behaving in a Godly way and they know it. They’re acting more like the devil.

    If Trump were to continue this practice now that it’s out in the open, he would be openly declaring that he is Yahweh/Jesus. I don’t think he wants to go there. This needs to stop.

  • The Metaphor of Cain and Abel

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    Shortly after I wrote The Coup is Complete, a helpful article was published on La Civiltà Cattolica entitled “Fraternity From Cain’s Perspective.”1 I think it’s obvious that the metaphor of Cain And Abel can help us understand the current political turmoil around the world. I would also argue that these two articles can be associated with Freemasonry. Neither article mentions Freemasonry but I will explain the connection.

    Freemasons don’t openly honor Cain, but they do celebrate Tubal Cain as the first blacksmith. Tubal-Cain is not a murderer like Cain but the descendants of Cain are portrayed as being outside the worship of God. In Genesis 4:22, Tubal-Cain (spelled Tubalcain in the Bible) was a descendant of Lamech and Zillah. I believe he was seven generations from Cain.

    Tubal Cain is a master craftsman and a forefather of all skilled workers. He also symbolizes the dedication to craft and the development of tools. Last but not least, he represents the transmission of knowledge and the foundational skills that contribute to the betterment of society.

    Addressing Political Violence

    In the story of Cain and Abel as analyzed by Vincent Anselmo SJ there is an important difference between the Biblical story of Cain and the lesson the Freemasons take from it. As presented by Anselmo, the story of Cain and Abel may not be as dark as we think. But according to some versions of Freemasonry it implies division.

    Freemasons don’t excuse Cain’s murder. They focus on Tubal-Cain’s skills and contributions and avoid talking about any perceived spiritual shortcomings connected to his lineage. But something positive is missing in their interpretation. No one mentions that Cain was no longer belligerent toward God by the end of the biblical story.

    Cain and Abel in the Bible

    In the Bible, Able is a shepherd and Cain is a farmer. The prominence given to Cain is an important part of the story.

    Cain is presented as the more important character not only because he is the first in order of birth, but also because of the kind of welcome he receives when he comes into the world. Eve greets the birth of her first son with a cry of exultation, as if in the presence of something prodigious.[4] The first man, born of woman, is introduced as an exceptional, almost divine being. The words pronounced by Eve can be translated with a shocking expression: “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man” (Gen 4:1). From Eve’s point of view, there seems to have been a  participation with  God in this exceptional birth. Abel, by contrast, is mentioned almost en passant, as the additional son. (Anselmo)

    The character of Abel is presented as barely solid. His very name suggests breath and vapor. The two brothers are not able to see one another as a brother. Instead, they see one another as a competitor and an adversary to be eliminated. Anselmo represents the clash between Cain and Abel as a clash of hierarchies and preferences.

    It is for this reason that it is surprising how the story of the first pair of brothers is presented from the point of view of the guilty one, that is, of Cain, who, by killing Abel, also eliminates the possibility of defining himself as a brother.[2] Moreover, in the biblical account  we do not see any justification of the murderer, as  for example, in the story of Romulus and Remus, but the serious responsibility of the murderer is highlighted in an authoritative way by God. (Anselmo)

    A Clash of Hierarchies

    I’m starting to think that our familiarity with the story causes us to overlook important information. We know how the story ends. Cain kills his brother Abel. Then he attempts to avoid God’s judgement. Cain’s efforts to evade responsibility for his brother’s death are futile and he is eventually banished from the land and from his parents.

    The trouble between them begins when they both present an offering to the Lord. We are told the Lord looks with favor on Abel and his offering (Gen 4:3-5a). When the Lord reveals his preference it upsets the hierarchy between the brothers and Cain becomes angry. However, in Anselmo’s telling of the story God discerns Cain’s feelings and tries to intervene before Cain does something he will regret. God loves Cain.

    Eve’s firstborn is not left alone with himself to brood over his resentment and anger. God intervenes and speaks directly to Cain,[9] first of all through a double question that is an invitation to discuss the issue: “The Lord said to Cain, ‘Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?’” (Gen 4:6).

    The Lord’s acknowledgement of Cain’s turmoil allows him to see his inner emotional state from an outside perspective. In this way, God invites Cain to reflect on what’s happening within himself.

     “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” (Gen 4:7).

    The Lord’s intervention has no effect and Cain remains gruff and dismissive. However, he does express remorse later in the story. When he considers the sentence of being driven from his home and becoming a ‘restless wanderer on the earth’, he speaks to God sincerely and acknowledges his loss.

    “Cain said to the Lord, ‘My punishment is more than I can bear. Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me’.” (Gen 4:13-14).

    The Lord responds by putting a mark on Cain to protect him from the violence of strangers.

    “But whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance!” (Gen 4:15). Faced with the drama of evil and the gravity of its consequences, the Lord confirms that God is the God of life. God’s word has the effect of stopping an intensification of evil and of restarting the path of history. The reader is informed that Cain receives from the Lord a sign to protect him (cf. Gen 4:15).

    Cain was not a reprobate in the end. He was a repentant soul.

    Cain and Abel: The Esoteric Offshoots.

    In my article I wrote that those who have taken control of our government (and their supporters) can still change their minds. I believed we could all be reconciled if they would just stop tearing things down and help us build. And this line of thought reminded me of Cain. I wasn’t likening them to Cain. I was thinking of the promise made to him by the Lord: “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?”

    The Freemasons

    The Temple Legend of the Freemasons has been on my mind since the first time I read about it. The main thing that stayed with me is that the Freemasons identify with Cain’s lineage. And they consider the lineage of Cain superior to the other half of humanity.

    We have seen that the Old Testament’s picture of Cain almost encourages this view. As Anselmo said above, “The first man, born of woman, is introduced as an exceptional, almost divine being.” This establishes the sense of a hierarchy. However if it’s true that Cain accepted his guilt and repented, any lingering sense of competition and superiority has no parallel in the biblical story.

    The Legend of Hiram Abiff

    The original Temple Legend is quite old. It has been embellished over the years, but the key figure has always been Hiram Abiff. He was the master architect sent by Hiram, King of Tyre to help Solomon build the temple at Jerusalem. Hiram Abiff embodies the ideal of knowledge, integrity, and perseverance within the legend and serves as a pivotal figure in the Masonic Third Degree ritual. But this legend also has complications.

    Construction of the temple lasted for years and members of the craft were frustrated by the lengthy process and the time required to advance in their titles and expertise. Three of them demanded that Hiram Abiff immediately give them the knowledge of a Master Mason. When Hiram refused, they killed him. Although they tried to hide his body, it was eventually found and they were brought to justice.

    The Metaphor of Cain and Abel

    In Freemasonry, the Temple Legend is seen as an instructive legend about the past and future of human evolution. It’s not hard to argue that this view pits the Freemasons and the Church against each other. According to some tellings, a person either belongs to one group or the other from birth.

    The situation is described differently by the Catholic church. We have evidence of the division in letters exchanged by Pope Leo the XIII and the Grand Orient of Charleston in the State of South Carolina.

    Humanum Genus

    In April 1884, Pope Leo XIII wrote Humanum Genus2 as a warning to the human race. He said it had departed from God and divided itself into two different and opposing parties, one of which assiduously combats for truth and virtue, and the other for those things which are opposed to virtue and to truth. One is the kingdom of God on earth, (the Church of Jesus Christ) and the other is the kingdom of Satan. (De iv. Dei, lib. xiv., chap. 17.)

    The Grand Orient’s Reply

    Albert Pike answered in behalf of The Grand Orient in August 1884. He began by claiming that The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry had accepted the Apostolate of Civil and Religious Liberty more than a century ago. He said they had not been in a hurry to answer ‘the Bull of Excommunication’ because the letter itself is proof that there is no reason to fear it. Pike claimed the controversy only existed because it was forced by the Church of Rome, its Jesuit soldiery, and its Tribunals of the Holy Office. (The Inquisition is used over and over to reinforce various arguments.) But now, he says, these things have no power because the Church has lost its temporal and spiritual power.

    Apparently, English, German and French Masonry had answered the Pope’s encyclical by denying any claim to religious or political principles, and Pike said he regretted this. In his opinion, they had undergone a fruitless humiliation. Therefore, he felt it was the right of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Freemasonry to ‘carry the war into the quarters of error...’

    Later in this letter he actually says that the Roman Church is “the Kingdom of Satan,” and calls the encyclical a manifesto against every other church calling itself “Christian.” (In other words, he claims all of Protestantism in Freemasonry’s apostolate.)

    Therefore, whatsoever the Popes, our Predecessors, have decreed to hinder the designs and attemps of the Sect of Freemasons; whatsoever they have ordained to deter or recall persons from Societies of this kind, each and all we do ratify and confirm by our apostolic authority. 3 (Grant p. 284)

    The letter was signed THE GRAND COMMANDER, Albert Pike, 33°.

    The Hubris of Freemasonry has Become Ironic

    Here is one more quote from Albert Pike lamenting the Church’s lack of tolerance. I include it because it’s so ironic.

    It was believed that the Pope looked with at least tolerant and indulgent eyes upon the people of the great Protestant Kingdoms and Countries, upon the Clergy and Laity of other denominations of Christians, upon, even such Hebrews as Sir Moses Montefiore; felt that the Turk, the Moor, the Parsee or the Hebrew was entitled to somewhat more merciful consideration and greater immunity from torture and mutilation than the dog, the wolf or the hyaena; and no longer considered it to be contrary to the law of God for men to insist upon imposing constitutional restrictions upon Autocracies and Despotisms, and for the People to demand to have a voice in the making of laws.

    Pike includes in this letter the names of previous Popes who had written papal bulls against Freemasonry: In Eminenti of Clement XII. inApril, 1738; Providas of Benedict XIV. in May, 1751; the Edict of Pius VII. in 1821; the Apostolic Edict Quo Graviora of Leo XII. in 1825; Pius VII. in 1829; Gregory XVI. in 1832; and Pius IX. in 1846, 1865, etc. So, the battle lines were drawn long before the more esoteric versions of this myth were developed.

    Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy and the Temple Legend

    In Rudolf Steiner’s book, The New Cain,4 we learn that the Temple Legend was introduced into the cultural life of central Europe by Christian Rosenkreutz. (p. 9) At first it was intended as teaching material for small groups of students. It was an aid for instruction about the past and future of human evolution. Later it became the core of different types of masonic rituals.

    Rudolf Steiner reconstructed his own Temple Legend from his own ‘independent spiritual research’. It can be seen as an ‘occult-imaginative means to school and develop the soul’s spiritual capacities’.

    Cain and Abel: the Primal Opposition in Humanity’s Evolution

    The division of the human race into two types is made clear in this version. Steiner calls it ‘a primal opposition in humanity’s evolution’. His book seems to say that the original Temple Legend had already described humanity’s dual origin. But here he makes clear that humans are either the children of Cain or the children of Abel. (I believe this is where anthroposophy branches off from Freemasonry.)

    The Influence of Theosophy

    According to Steiner, the children of Cain emerged from asexual procreation and the children of Abel emerged from dual-gender procreation. Steiner tells us that the sons of Cain belong to the pre-Lemurian period, and the sons of Abel, or Seth, belong to Lemurian times. (Again, I could be mistaken but I think this concept comes from Helena Blavatsky’s Theosophy. In any case, there doesn’t seem to be a distinction between Abel and Seth.)

    The aim of theosophy was to reconcile this opposition. Today the anthroposophic world impulse and a freemasonry renewed through anthroposophy have taken up the challenge.

    Is Reconciliation Really the Goal?

    In my opinion, the word reconcile may be misleading. We are told that the initiation developed by Steiner will eventually replace the vision of the sons of Abel-Seth. This line will fade away, or at least the vision of this line. However there doesn’t seem to have been much fading since this book was written. Fading away would be preferable to what’s actually been happening.

    ..The brazen or molten sea can stand as a symbol of what the human being would have become if the three treacherous powers of doubt, superstition and the illusion of a personal self had not come to occupy the soul. Through these powers, human evolution on earth developed the fire in Lemurian times that water processes cannot quench in the Atlantean period. Instead human earthly powers must evolve in such a way that the original condition present in Cain before the fratricide is at last recreated in the soul. Only the descendants of Cain, coming to full and real I development, can sustain themselves in the face of earthly forces. The dreamlike soul powers of the children of Abel-Seth are not able to do so.

    1. Anselmo, Vincent, SJ. “Fraternity From Cain’s Perspective.” La Civiltà Cattolica, Jan. 4, 2023, https://www.laciviltacattolica.com/fraternity-from-cains-perspective/ ↩︎
    2. Leo XIII, “Humanum Genus.” The Holy See, 20 Apr. 1884, https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_18840420_humanum-genus.html ↩︎
    3. M. R. Grant, True Principles of Freemasonry: A Treatise on the History, Principles or Tenets of Freemasonry, For The Information of Those Who Are “Within the Veil,” As Well As Those Who Are Without. Truth Publishing Company, Mississippi city, Miss. 1927. ↩︎
    4. Rudolf Steiner, The New Cain: The Temple Legend as a spiritual and moral impuse for evolution and its completion. Temple House Publishing Ltd., Hillside House, The Square, Forest Row, RH18 5ES. ↩︎

  • The Right is Passing Judgment on the Left

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    This video published just a few hours ago indicates that the Right is doubling down on the claim that Kirk was shot by Tyler Robinson. Turning Point USA has issued a statement saying there was no exit wound in Kirk’s neck after he was shot with a .30-06 caliber bullet. Apparently, the bullet was stopped by his strong neck bones because he is a man of steel. This has unpleasant implications. It implies that the propaganda surrounding this assassination is going to be maintained. Because the alleged assassin has been identified as a member of the Left, the Right is passing judgment on the Left.

    The Accusations Are Not Going Away

    I regret to tell you, reader, what this means. It means outrageousness, and not truth, is the point. And because of its similarities with the JFK assassination, I think we have to assume outrageousness was the point there too. Whoever did this to Charlie Kirk is saying they can do whatever they want and no one can stop them. And when the authorities publicly ignore evidence in the public domain, they seem to be saying it’s all a joke. In my opinion, there is no response from the Left that will make this go away.

    Taking Refuge in the Epistle of James

    In this article, I’m taking the opportunity to share what James the Just says about judging one’s neighbor. I have been writing a series on the Epistle of James on my other website, but I’ve only got as far as James 1:11. I’m writing this here because I think these verses are particularly relevant in this context. The verses I would like to share are James 4:11-12. Please pay close attention to the conclusion in the commentary by James B. Adamson. I think it’s the best response to the Right’s accusations.

    James 4:11-12

    11.  Do not speak ill of one another, brothers. He that speaks ill of his brother and passes judgment on his brother is speaking ill of the law and passing judgment on the law; but if you pass judgment on the law, you are not a servant of the law but a judge of it.
    12.  There is one dispenser of law and judge, he who has power of life and death. And who are you, that you pass judgment on your fellow? (Translation by Adamson, p. 175-6)

    Previously in this chapter, James has focused on the temptations of the tongue. “Who are you to judge another?” He has made it clear that the failure to control the tongue is a form of self-righteous pride.

    The Word Brother

    11. The word brother is repeated three times in verse 11. Some have argued that James is talking to hypercritical Christians, anti-Pauline Christians, or Gnostic teachers. Adamson disagrees. He believes this signals a change of tone and a fresh appeal. This verse refers to all who submit to the world, and especially the proud (4:10). It is a warning. It is also an echo of James’s previous verses, 1:26; 2:12, 13; and 3:10. (Please hover your cursor over the verses if you want to read them.)

    Evil Speaking Kills Three Persons

    The Old Testament denounces evil speaking more often than any other offense, both against God (Numbers 21:5) and man (Psalms 49:20). Slander was called the third tongue because it killed three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of. It has been said there is no salvation for anyone who slanders his neighbor.1 Here Adamson compares James’s view of the seriousness of slander to what Christ said in Matthew 7:1. James equates slander of a fellow Christian with breaking the Christian Torah2, because the interests of both are the same.

    Hillel said, “Judge not your neighbor before you find yourself in the same situation.“3

    The Difference Between Judging and Doing the Law

    The difference between judging and doing the law is carefully explained. Man must obey the law, not judge it. To set oneself above the law is to usurp the divine prerogative. In fact, the Rabbis taught that judging our neighbor leads to the graver sin of judging God. Respect for law and order is necessary for the health of modern society, but James reminds us that God is the source of all law. So, what is at stake in a ‘permissive society’ is respect for the authority of God himself. (From the context of this commentary, I think he means a society that permits Christians to judge one another.)

    James 4:12 is the Most Important Point in the Entire Section

    Adamson thinks the next verse, James 4:12, is the most important point in the entire section. The section in question is James 4:4 to 5:8. For ease of reading I’l repeat James 4:12 here.

    There is one dispenser of law and judge, he who has power of life and death.
    And who are you, that you pass judgment on your fellow?

    (Adamson believes Matthew 10:5-42 makes the same point, especially verses 15, 22, and 28.)

    James’s Personification of the Law

    12. James personifies the law and he seems to identify it as the brother. In his view, “any slander or judgment of a brother implies not only an active disregard of Torah but also an attitude of superiority reserved solely for God, who is the omnipotent Lawgiver and Judge.“

    This is a characteristic Jewish monotheistic doctrine of God’s supreme sovereignty. Rabbi Ishmael spoke on God as the final source of judicial authority: “Judge not alone; for there is none save One that judgeth alone.” Adamson also quotes Dibelius: “Truly, the Eternal destroys life and sustains.” and “One he casts down and the other he raises up….”

    Adamson’s Conclusion: Salvation (or its Opposite) at the Last Judgement

    Adamson believes James is referring to ‘salvation’ or its opposite at the Last Judgement (5:9).

    The point is clinched with a devastating question. The disjunctive pronoun is sarcastic, emphasizing the sheer folly of the world to judge, while the vigorous proleptic ‘you‘ serves to widen the gulf between God’s judgment and man’s. ‘And who are you that pass judgment on another?’ To which John Wesley replies: ‘A poor, weak, dying worm.’ For James, as for us, however, the best answer is scornful silence. (Adamson, p. 178)

    1. Derek Erets Zuta 1: Midr. R. Deut. vi. 9; Cohen, Everyman’s Talmud, p. 99; SB 1, pp. 226ff., 905. ↩︎
    2. On this as Jewish Torah, see Oesterley, Knowling. ↩︎
    3. Aboth ii. 4; see b. Shab. 127a; Matt. 7:1f.; John 12:31. ↩︎

  • Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson

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    Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson are two young men who were sucked in to someone else’s nightmare. Charlie’s nightmare is over; Tyler’s nightmare is still very much in charge of his world. As I write, the same nightmare lords it over the the rest of us. We are all helpless spectators. But my hope is that we are not entirely helpless. This is important because Kirk’s death has been weaponized against the Left.

    Problems With the Official Story

    Many convincing videos have called into question the weapon that killed Charlie Kirk. I’ve linked two of the videos below and I hope you will watch them. However, I don’t want to focus on the videos. (I deleted one of the videos. I appreciated the work he did on the ballistics, but his other content is unpredictable. I’m sure we can all handle these ideas when necessary, but if I can’t guarantee his content I can’t leave his link on my website. If you want to learn about the Tyler Robinson saga there will be plenty of updates on your favorite platform. Who knows, maybe this guy will mellow out with time.)

    I want to focus on a few parallels with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The first parallel is the overall messiness of the scenario as presented to the public. No one has bothered to clear up the official story.

    Bolt-Action Rifles

    The police found Tyler Robinson’s rifle in the woods wrapped in a towel. Sheriff Eugene Boone found Lee Harvey Oswald’s rifle in an upper room of the Texas School Book Depository. They were both older model bolt-action rifles.

    In Robinson’s case, they say he disassembled the rifle in order to climb off the roof, and then he reassembled it before leaving it in the woods. But the videos that show him climbing off the building don’t indicate that he had the rifle at that time.

    Oswald told reporters he was a patsy.

    Ballistics

    People who know about guns say that the report of this shot did not sound like the rifle that Tyler Robinson supposedly used. And that’s not the only problem. Judging by the sound of it, the gun that killed Charlie Kirk was not far from the camera that recorded his death. If the shot had come from the building on the other side of the grounds, as law enforcement personnel claim, it would have had a different sound. And then there is the wound in the front of Charlie’s neck. It appears to be an exit wound, based on the size of it and the amount of blood. Therefore, it seems likely that the shot came from behind him and to his right. That would make more sense. He fell to his left.

    The direction of the shots that rained down on the Kennedys were not consistent with the story the authorities provided. They said JFK was hit in the back of the head. That’s the only thing that would have been consistent with their story that Oswald was firing out of a window above and behind the Kennedys’ car. But the bullet that killed JFK actually exited from the back of his head. Those who saw his body afterward said he had an exit wound there. Strangely, it was no longer there when his body arrived back in Washington D.C.

    Please Don’t Repeat the Assassination of the Accused Killer

    The parallel I am most worried about has not happened yet. It’s the main reason I’m writing this article. Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald at close range before Oswald could be tried. This took place in the basement of a police station. Oswald’s guilt is now a permanent part of the official story.

    I hope this article will dissuade anyone who might be thinking of doing the same to Tyler Robinson.

    See the following video:

    Israeli News Live: Sound Signature Pinpoints Charlie Kirk’s Shooter’s Location

  • Right-Wing Violence

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    I was going to summarize an article on the history of right-wing violence. I actually spent quite a lot of time on it, but I decided that I don’t want to include all of the information. As bad as things are now, they have been worse in the recent past. I believe the right will find new ways in it to torture people.

    All I really wanted to do was show the Left how closely the administration is following the right-wing playbook on taking power. People on the Left suffer when the Right accuses us of assassinations, or of celebrating when someone on the right dies. But there’s no need to take it personally. They don’t really think we are responsible. They just want to get people riled up. They may be responsible for the deaths themselves.

    How Do We Know if Violence is From the Right?

    Movements can be identified as right wing when they accept human inequalities and when they act as if violence is a legitimate way to defend hierarchies. Right-wing violence is violence that supports right-wing goals.

    Right-wing violence generally has two targets: the primary target is an ‘inferior community’; the secondary target is the government.

    Why Does Right-wing Violence Happen?

    Right-wing violence goes hand-in-hand with democratic mass politics. The problem from the Right’s point of view is that public opinion becomes more important when the public can vote. And mass communication influences public opinion with information about the government and the candidates. So, wherever there are mass publics there will be radical movements around the edges trying to drag public opinion in their direction.

    The United States

    In the American north, industrialists have always been able to hire private bodies to keep workers in line. Organizations like the Pinkertons and the National Guard have acted like their private militia. The system in the Deep South has been even more brutal. After the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan terrorized the black population until they had built a new caste system. This system lasted for another hundred years.

    World War I

    After World War I there were waves of violence across Europe. Elites used both high and low roads to take power. The violence was either elitist or mass-action. High roads involved coups, assassination, and strategies of tension. A strategy of tension is an attempt to ride chaos to power.

    The low route to power is the conquest of the streets or mass mobilization. Bombing (or shooting) attacks might continue under this strategy.

    Conclusion

    There’s more. Much more. And believe it or not, it only gets worse from here. The main point is that we are in the world of rightist tactics. Lies and accusations of the Left are not meant to be true or accurate. They are meant to stir people up.

    Wilson, Tim. Rightist Violence: An Historical Perspective. International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, 2020. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep23578. Accessed 15 Sept. 2025.