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MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE, CONFUSED LAND OF CONSPIRACY
By Brad and Sherry Steiger
October 13, 2014
October 13th is Columbus Day, celebrated for the bold explorer who, in 1492, set out from Spain across the ocean blue to find a faster trade route to China and ended up discovering a New World.
Today, however, we know a bit more of the true history of our past, and we know that Christopher Columbus was far down the line from being the first to discover the New World—the Vikings, the Chinese, the Hebrews, the Greeks to name only a few.
In addition, we have learned that Columbus had his own very private reason for seeking out a new land. He held strong apocalyptic beliefs, and he claimed to have received a vision that the world would end in 1650. Columbus was convinced that it was his divine mission to find a new land that would be the location of the new heaven and new earth promised by St. John of the Apocalypse in the book of Revelation.
America has been a cradle for conspiracies and secret societies from its earliest beginnings. In the 1600s, the master Freemason Sir Francis Bacon predicted that America was the New Atlantis and that it would bring forth a New World Order that would restore all humankind to the earthly paradise that existed in that Golden Age of old.
By the mid-1700s, Freemasonry had established its lodges throughout Europe and had been carried across the ocean to the British colonies in New England. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and many others of the Founding Fathers were openly proud of being Masons, and Washington, the nation’s first President, donned his ceremonial Masonic apron to preside over the dedication of the United States Capitol.
On the back of our one dollar bill, opposite the spread eagle, is an incomplete pyramid with an eye floating in a glowing triangle where the capstone should be. The pyramid is the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza, which for the Freemasons is emblematic of the legend that Egyptian civilization was founded by survivors from the lost continent of Atlantis. The all-seeing eye represents the Great Architect of the Universe that guided the Founding Fathers to establish a nation that might one day reveal itself as the heir of the fabled mysteries of Atlantis. Above the eye is the caption Annuit Coeptis, commonly translated as “He has favored our undertaking,” and in a scroll beneath is the slogan Novus Ordo Seclorum, “a new order of the ages,” a New World Order.
While the Freemasons remain today as a benign nondenominational fraternity, many clergy members and conspiracy theorists insist that their secret rites, passwords, initiations, and handshakes have their origins in the Roman mystery religions, Egyptian rituals, and Babylonian paganism. These same critics claim that the Freemasons are linked to the Illuminati and other secret societies who work to achieve a New World Order and a One World Government. Together, conspiracists insist, these sinister groups constitute powerful brotherhoods of darkness that have exerted their influence on every aspect of American society and are planning to take over the world.
Fear of such conspiracies and shadowy societies have made American history replete with warnings of secret plots by the Freemasons, the Zionists, the Roman Catholics, the Communists, the World Bankers, the Secret Government, New Agers, and Extraterrestrial Invaders. Charges of conspiracy have grown to self-perpetuating histories of sinister cabals responsible for the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Princess Diana of Wales. Polls indicate that increasing numbers of Americans believe that they have not been told the truth about Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the fires that consumed Waco, the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, or the growing threat of such terrorists groups as ISIS.
The years following 9/11 have seen what Mike Ward, writing in PopMatters [January 3, 2003] termed “probably the most staggering proliferation of ‘conspiracy theories’ in American history. Angry speculation—focused mainly on government dirty dealings, ulterior motives, and potential complicity in the attacks—has risen to a clamor that easily rivals what followed the Kennedy assassination.”
There seems little question that since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the American public has tended to believe that their government lies to them. Rick Ross, whose Ross Institute of New Jersey investigates conspiracies, has observed that more and more Americans see manipulative forces working behind the scenes of their own government.
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MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE, CONFUSED LAND OF CONSPIRACY
By Brad and Sherry Steiger
October 13, 2014
October 13th is Columbus Day, celebrated for the bold explorer who, in 1492, set out from Spain across the ocean blue to find a faster trade route to China and ended up discovering a New World.
Today, however, we know a bit more of the true history of our past, and we know that Christopher Columbus was far down the line from being the first to discover the New World—the Vikings, the Chinese, the Hebrews, the Greeks to name only a few.
In addition, we have learned that Columbus had his own very private reason for seeking out a new land. He held strong apocalyptic beliefs, and he claimed to have received a vision that the world would end in 1650. Columbus was convinced that it was his divine mission to find a new land that would be the location of the new heaven and new earth promised by St. John of the Apocalypse in the book of Revelation.
America has been a cradle for conspiracies and secret societies from its earliest beginnings. In the 1600s, the master Freemason Sir Francis Bacon predicted that America was the New Atlantis and that it would bring forth a New World Order that would restore all humankind to the earthly paradise that existed in that Golden Age of old.
By the mid-1700s, Freemasonry had established its lodges throughout Europe and had been carried across the ocean to the British colonies in New England. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and many others of the Founding Fathers were openly proud of being Masons, and Washington, the nation’s first President, donned his ceremonial Masonic apron to preside over the dedication of the United States Capitol.
On the back of our one dollar bill, opposite the spread eagle, is an incomplete pyramid with an eye floating in a glowing triangle where the capstone should be. The pyramid is the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza, which for the Freemasons is emblematic of the legend that Egyptian civilization was founded by survivors from the lost continent of Atlantis. The all-seeing eye represents the Great Architect of the Universe that guided the Founding Fathers to establish a nation that might one day reveal itself as the heir of the fabled mysteries of Atlantis. Above the eye is the caption Annuit Coeptis, commonly translated as “He has favored our undertaking,” and in a scroll beneath is the slogan Novus Ordo Seclorum, “a new order of the ages,” a New World Order.
While the Freemasons remain today as a benign nondenominational fraternity, many clergy members and conspiracy theorists insist that their secret rites, passwords, initiations, and handshakes have their origins in the Roman mystery religions, Egyptian rituals, and Babylonian paganism. These same critics claim that the Freemasons are linked to the Illuminati and other secret societies who work to achieve a New World Order and a One World Government. Together, conspiracists insist, these sinister groups constitute powerful brotherhoods of darkness that have exerted their influence on every aspect of American society and are planning to take over the world.
Fear of such conspiracies and shadowy societies have made American history replete with warnings of secret plots by the Freemasons, the Zionists, the Roman Catholics, the Communists, the World Bankers, the Secret Government, New Agers, and Extraterrestrial Invaders. Charges of conspiracy have grown to self-perpetuating histories of sinister cabals responsible for the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Princess Diana of Wales. Polls indicate that increasing numbers of Americans believe that they have not been told the truth about Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the fires that consumed Waco, the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, or the growing threat of such terrorists groups as ISIS.
The years following 9/11 have seen what Mike Ward, writing in PopMatters [January 3, 2003] termed “probably the most staggering proliferation of ‘conspiracy theories’ in American history. Angry speculation—focused mainly on government dirty dealings, ulterior motives, and potential complicity in the attacks—has risen to a clamor that easily rivals what followed the Kennedy assassination.”
There seems little question that since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the American public has tended to believe that their government lies to them. Rick Ross, whose Ross Institute of New Jersey investigates conspiracies, has observed that more and more Americans see manipulative forces working behind the scenes of their own government.
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