Attack Against Christendom

...excerpt from post #747

"Marcuse studied under Heidegger to develop his phenomenological analysis of modern life but broke off the relationship because Heidegger did not publicly denounce the Nazis and instead became Rector of the University in 1933 only to resign in one year. I should mention that some members of the “Confessing Church” that publicly spoke out against the Nazis interfering with the Protestant churches were jailed, murdered, hung, and sent to concentration camps including theologians Martin Niemöller, Heinrich Gruber, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In another case, famous European Opera Singer Marianne Golz-Goldlust was guillotined for anti-Nazi activities. The price was high for anyone (and their families) publicly embarrassing the Nazis."

The Executions Of The Four Priests Guillotined In 3 Minutes By Hitler
​

 

Excerpt from video on Christian Nationalism:

“Michael Flynn who you may remember was pardoned by Trump for lying to the FBI which just happens to be federal crime is now leading a national Reawakening tour to recruit an army of God blending alt-right politics Christian rhetoric and Q a conspiracy theory at somewhere between 250 dollars and five hundred dollars a ticket and they're even offering baptisms in big metal tubs which as a priest of the church I actually find a bit blasphemous these beliefs in a movement that includes a large segment of the population will not go away even as in the recent election cycle there was some movement away from White right-wing extremism in some parts of the country as of all 2022 a large percentage of Republicans about two-thirds still believe in the myth of widespread fraud in the 2020 election as do about 40 percent of all Americans several Christian-identified law schools curricula are explicitly designed to send out an ever-increasing Cadre of graduates to strengthen the influence of Conservative Christian beliefs on the practices of law the Judiciary and the national government a secretive Christian right legislative campaign project Blitz which is sponsored by the Congressional prayer caucus and other right-wing Christian groups....(Video transcript @ 20:03).”

Notice the fascist rally name banner “Reawakening.” I thought the Christian Nationalists were anti-woke! Religious revivals are by definition woke!

This is a Cult of Irrationality that mimics all the memes including progressive memes that could form a political faction. They are able to steal progressive memes (fake news, awakening, corruption, unfair trade) because the Democratic party will not claim them.

The American Churches have been infiltrated through fascist ratlines as documented in the essay “The Parallelism of American Fascism and Christian Fundamentalism” (post #738). Each religious group is fed propaganda tailored to a specific demographic. American fascists learned from the German Nazis how to take on the disguise of New Testament Christianity to seize power.

The Psychology of Christian Nationalism - January 18, 2023
​

Summary of Crimes Committed by Killer Priest Andras Kun of the Arrow Cross Party:

"During the Second World War there were a number of executioners who became infamous for their work slaughtering many people. But there was one man in Hungary who stood out because he was a priest who lead a death squad or a group of executioners that carried out chaos inside of Budapest. Following the Arrow Cross Party coming to power, Andras Kun wielded power brutally against civilians and he would break into hospitals and would slaughter hundreds.

Andras Kun's behavior got too much even for the Arrow Cross Party and the Germans and because of this he was arrested, and he would then sentenced to death at the end of World War 2. He was charged with being responsible for the deaths of around 3,000 people, and Andras Kun was brought into Budapest for his execution on the gallows."

The Execution Of The Killer Priest Of Budapest

​

...and there were no tears shed for Andras Kun.

 

Budapest, Hungary Jewish victims of Arrow Cross men in the court of the Dohány Street Synagogue.​

And speaking of the Arrow Cross Party that Priest Kun was a member and would go into hospitals and murder hundreds of people, I found this piece of historical information about one of our former American presidents and a Republican religious leader:

"George Bush appointed chairman of the Republican Party. Bush proceeds to set
up the ethnic heritage groups in the party. In short, these groups are nothing more
than a haven for Nazi émigrés from Eastern Europe. Members of the Republican
Heritage Groups Council included Lazlo Paszor, Hungary Arrow Cross member, Radi
Slavoff, Bulgarian fascist, Nicolas Nazarenko former SS officer in the Cossack
Division, Florian Gaddu, Romanian Iron Guard member, Method Balco Slovakian
In Fascist America fascist. Both Allen Dulles and Nixon believed
these émigrés were useful in getting out the vote (The Nazi Hydra, p. 389). "

The Arrow Cross Party murdered about ten to fifteen thousand Hungarian citizens and sent 80,000 to death camps. We can thank former CIA Director Allen Dulles for directing the Nazi ratlines into the United States by hiding Nazi war criminal records from US Immigration.

"A case in point is that of Laszio Pasztor, a convicted Nazi collaborator
who was imprisoned for his role in WWII as a member of the Hungarian Arrow
Cross. Pastor was a diplomat for the Nazi puppet government in Hungary. His name
surfaced in the Bush campaign of 1988 as a worker for Paul Weyrich's Free Congress
Foundation.42 No attempt has been made to deport him. Earlier Pasztor was a leader
of 1968 Nixon-Agnew ethnic unit in the election campaign. Since then he was the
organizer for the Republican Ethnic Heritage Groups. These groups are composed of
largely fascist-minded emigres (The Nazi Hydra, p. 518 )."

 

Post #718: Paul Tillich on Blood and Soil Cults
Post #719: Tillich on Socialist Inner-Conflict with Free Enterprise Economics
Post #736: The Un-American Fascist Congress of the 1930s
Post #738: The Parallelism of American Fascism and Christian Fundamentalism
Post #740: Ministries of Hate

The Rise of Fascism in post-WWII America​

"They had overplayed their hand. The Fourth Reich would indeed rise but it would not rise in Germany. It would rise in the United States.”
--The Nazi Hydra, p. 366​

I began these series of short summary essays as a critique of the Christendom of our times, or Christian fascism, and to historically review key movements of the rise of fascism in American Christian Churches at the start of WWI until today. However, such an historical analysis is meaningless, if not impossible, without understanding the historical-politico-cultural context in which this particular cult of irrationalism emerged. This limited inquiry is meant to stimulate reader interest in this period of history with the hope of enhancing understanding of the political environment today in America.

Fortunately, yet in another sense unfortunately, there are plenty of resources for documenting eyewitness testimony and important historical events. But the question is also “What do the facts mean?” I believe there has been enough of a political paradigm shift in American perception to now allow this question to be answered more clearly. The amount of reading required for this topic is overwhelming, but not impossible to comprehend with organized research. Here are some key historical resources that I have depended upon in my reading and have available pdf files:

"The Nazi Hydra: How America's right-wing politicians are plunging the country into a fascist police state," by Yeadon/Hawkins (2003-200 (denoted as Hydra)( pdf.). 540 pages with a fat bibliography of other resources documenting the rise of American fascism. Yeadon reports more detailed documented reports of treason by Allen Dulles than even the next volume by David Talbot.

“The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the rise of America's secret government,” by Talbot, David, (2015) (denoted as DC) (pdf.). 723 pages with a good photo section. How Allen Dulles with Nazi war criminal intelligence officer Major General Reinhard Gehlen reverse engineered the Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers, or SS Nazi intelligence agency, and adapted it to post WWII America and Germany. Talbot's profound insightful conclusion is Allen Dulles organized the murder of JFK. My focus is not primarily about the assassination of JFK, but about Allen's Dulles actions that embedded fascism in American intelligence bureaucracies which brought about the young president's death.

“The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination: the definitive account of the most controversial crime of the twentieth century,” by Waldron, Lamar (2013) (HH)(pdf.). 548 pages. Waldron narrows down a short list of suspects in JFK's murder and their relationships to Allen Dulles as director of the CIA.

"Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK," by Lamar Waldron & Thom Hartmann, Carroll & Graf, (2005) (denoted as US) (pdf.) 964 pages. A massive resource for key historical data on JFK assassination and goes into some details of how Dulles deceived JFK about the plans to invade Cuba.

The historical documentation in all four books independently overlap and reinforce one another in specific details and narratives. I recommend starting with the most general description “The Devil's Chessboard” followed by “The Nazi Hydra,” then “The Hidden History,” and lastly, the very detailed, “Ultimate Sacrifice.”

We will review some of Allen Dulles' actions during WWII while 1.) managing Nazi industrial cartel finances and leaking valuable war intelligence. 2.) Recreated a fascist anti-Soviet intelligence agency for both West Germany and America (the Org) based on the experience of Wehrmacht Major General intelligence officer, Reinhard Gehlen, (CIA code name “UTILITY”) who retired in luxury including a sailboat and living in a mansion near Pullach, Germany thanks to the American taxpayer's limitless generosity to Nazis (see details; DC, p. 252). Lastly, 3.) helped Nazi war criminals escape the hangman's noose, lobbied for commuted prison sentences, and purged intelligence records of Nazi war criminals to help them evade justice.

Dulles Does the Fascists' Laundry

On January 4, 1933, Hitler was invited to the Schroeder Bank by a group of industrialists. The industrialists gave Hitler the money to overcome his financial problems in turn for a pledge to break the trade unions. Present at this meeting were two Americans John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles.”
--Hydra, p. 386.​

Allen Welsh Dulles (1893-1969) was the official fifth director of the CIA from 1953 until JFK fired him in 1961. Dulles had also been an agent in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) since 1941. Allen Dulles was the brother of the corrupt Republican John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) who served as a New York senator, and the 52nd U.S. Secretary of State from 1953 to 1959 under President Dwight Eisenhower. Allen Dulles worked as a lawyer at the League of Nations and met Hitler, Mussolini, and Goebbels. Both Dulles brothers worked as corporate lawyers for the Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell. During WWII against Nazi Germany, Allen was the Swiss Director of the OSS in 1942 in Bern, Switzerland until the agency was dissolved in 1945. Although A. Dulles was handling intelligence about Nazi Germany, he was also managing Nazi corporate finances of American/German cartels agreements and leaking sensitive American war intelligence to the Nazis:

“In fact, Dulles’ career in Berne during WWII is marked by several money laundering cases. After the Nazis tipped Dulles off that the Swiss codes had been broken, Dulles shifted his operation to the banks of Belgium, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein, using a roundabout route through Japan aided by Vatican couriers.8 After the end of the war all the banks in these countries refused to allow allied investigators to look at their books. One of Dulles’ dirtiest tricks may have been an effort to buy more time to move Nazi gold through Switzerland. A former East Bloc intelligence officer has confirmed that Dulles warned the Nazis the Japanese code had been broken at a crucial time. Shortly after warning the Nazis, the SS suddenly told the High Command to use tighter code security and to stop using the radio. They suddenly stopped using Ultra and switched to couriers. For once, the Allies had no information on the German battle plan. This most likely explains how the German’s were able to launch the Battle of the Bulge as a complete surprise 13 (Hydra, p. 411).”

Talbot has additional historical information on Dulles activities during the war:

“...Hermann Schmitz, the CEO of IG Farben, the chemical conglomerate that became notorious for its production of Zyklon B, the gas used in Hitler’s death camps, and for its extensive use of slave labor during the war. Schmitz was one of the many Dulles brothers’ law clients and business associates who were involved with BIS [Bank for International Settlements]. It was a close-knit circle of men whose relationships smoothly weathered the storms of war. Even as his company was stockpiling poison for Hitler’s exterminators, Schmitz would send cheery Christmas and birthday greetings to his American business friends. The secretive BIS became a crucial financial partner for the Nazis. Emil Puhl—vice president of Hitler’s Reichsbank and a close associate of McKittrick—once called BIS the Reichsbank’s only 'foreign branch. 'BIS laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in Nazi gold looted from the treasuries of occupied countries. Some of the gold was torn from the mouths of concentration camp victims or melted down from Jewish families’ candleholders, cigarette cases, and other personal belongings (DC, p. 31).”

“1934: The US Senate Nye Committee hearings revealed Samuel Pryor, chairman of Remington Arms & founding director of both the UBC & the American Ship & Commerce Corp. had joined in a cartel agreement with I.G. Farben. The committee also uncovered that the Nazis were armed with mostly American arms.” --Hydra, p. 386​

next...."The Tricky Dick."

 

Post #718: Paul Tillich on Blood and Soil Cults
Post #719: Tillich on Socialist Inner-Conflict with Free Enterprise Economics
Post #736: The Un-American Fascist Congress of the 1930s
Post #738: The Parallelism of American Fascism and Christian Fundamentalism
Post #740: Ministries of Hate
Post #756: The Tricky Dick

 

The Tricky Dick​

Allen Dulles is responsible for starting the careers of two politicians—Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. Eisenhower was indebted to Allen Dulles: “Eisenhower was deeply beholden to the Wall Street Republican power brokers who had not only recruited him for the presidential race but had helped finance his electoral battle, loaned him one of their own—white shoe lawyer Herbert Brownell Jr.—to run his campaign, and had even tapped Dick Nixon as his running mate. The Dewey-Dulles group was Ike’s brain trust and bank (Hydra, p. 189).”

During and after WWII, Nixon was able to hide evidence that would have found Dulles guilty of treason: “While still serving in the navy, Nixon was given some captured documents to review. The contents would have revealed Allan Dulles as a traitor. In exchange for burying the documents Dulles agreed to fund Nixon's first political campaign. Nixon's campaign benefited from large contributions from a large New York bank connected with Brown Brothers and Harriman (Hydra, p. 398 ).”

Nixon's first political campaign Dulles financed was the 1946 California 12th congressional district election against the incumbent New Deal Democratic representative Jerry Voorhis because he had called for an investigation of the BIS and the dismantling of the Nazi corporation I.G Farbin. Such investigations would expose American corporate officers including Rockefeller's Chase Bank and JP Morgan's National City Bank of New York of working with the Nazis during the war. Nixon won the election against Voorhis charging the Democratic candidate with being a communist, and the proposed investigations never happened (see details; Hydra, p. 241-2).

Where specifically did Dulles get the funds to bribe Nixon? It turns out that one source of Nixon's campaign money was channeled through a client of Allen Dulles named, Nicolae Malaxa, a Romanian industrialist described by US security reports as a “master of the art of bribery” who financed right-wing groups in Romania...and we could add the United States. Dulles introduced Nixon to Malaxa knowing he collaborated with both the Romanian homegrown fascist Iron Guard and communists so that he fled to the United States in 1945 as the communist took over; and with Dulles as his lawyer, was allowed to stay in the United States as a non-citizen with a nice tax break to boot! The poor Romanian emigrant only had a paltry $500 million dollars ($6.5 billion into today's dollars) left hidden in overseas accounts to finance Cold War operations in other countries. Nixon received a $100,000 check and a...Cocker Spaniel. But then just before the Eisenhower-Nixon Presidential election of 1952....In a twist of bad luck for Nixon, one of the tellers at his bank branch turned out to be a Romanian refugee who loathed Malaxa. He sent a photostatic copy of the check to political rivals of the notorious industrialist in the exile community, who in turn forwarded the copied check to their contact in the CIA, Gordon Mason, chief of the agency’s Balkans desk (DC, p. 173).”

The bribery scandal hit the national American media forcing Nixon to go on television in defense of himself, but the Big Dick didn't mention the $100,000 check, or the Romanian fascist CIA financier...it was instead about the...tiny dog, Checkers.

And on a last note of the brutality of the Romanian fascist Malaxa and his Iron Guard allies:

“In January 1941, Malaxa’s green-uniformed Iron Guard thugs...launched a coup attempt, using the industrialist’s [Malaxa] mansion as a base for their assault. During the coup, the Iron Guard fell upon the country’s Jews in one of the most horrific spasms of violence in Romania’s history. Thousands of Jews in Bucharest were rounded up and beaten and tortured, including one group of more than a hundred—among them children as young as five—who were marched into a municipal slaughterhouse and butchered. The Iron Guardsmen hung their victims, some still alive, on meat hooks and 'mutilated them in a vicious parody of kosher slaughtering practices,' according to one later account (DC, p. 175).”

The Gehlen Org​

“If Gehlen had not been rescued by U.S. intelligence authorities after the war, he almost certainly would have been convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg.”--Talbot, DS, p. 249.​

The “Gehlen Org” had an annual budget of US$1,500,000, in 1948, or $18.3 million dollars adjusted for today. In 1956 Gehlen officially became the first Chief of the foreign intelligence service, the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) of West Germany until his retirement in 1968. Gehlen's fantastic luck of being fired by Hitler and rescued by A. Dulles was due to the fact the shrewd intelligence officer had the presence of mind to collect a cache of Soviet military intelligence which he copied onto microfilm and hid in the Austrian Alps. Gehlen was able to negotiate with Dulles to escape war crimes and rebuild the Nazi intelligence agency that monitored the Red Army. Using the Org as the prototype model, Dulles was able to adapt this horrific intelligence institution to American society.

Some critics of Gehlen's creation of the Org charged the intelligence agency reports were all along misleading by overstating the Soviet's military power and fueling a Cold War atmosphere of fear and paranoia threatening to bring about a re-Nazification of Germany and Europe. Old habits are hard to break. At one point when the leftist Social Democratic Party look as though it would replace the conservative Adenauer government, Gehlen proposed to Dulles overthrowing West German democracy. Talbot summarized the situation:

“In 1952, West German police discovered that the CIA was supporting a two-thousand-member fascist youth group led by ex-Nazi officers who had their own alarming plans for terminating democracy. Police investigators revealed that the CIA-backed group [the Org] had compiled a blacklist of people to be 'liquidated' as 'unreliable' in case of a conflict with the Soviet Union. Included on the list were not just West German Communists but leaders of the Social Democratic Party serving in the Bundestag, as well as other left-leaning government officials (DC, p. 257; bracket added).”

You'll never know who will show up at The Org!​

“In a secret 1954 memo, later declassified, the agency acknowledged that at least 13 percent [about 40 agents] of the Gehlen Organization was made up of former hard-core Nazis.”--Talbot, DC, p. 241;brackets added.​

The Org compound-- also known as “The White House”-- was setup in the village of Pullach, Germany that had been headquarters of Hitler's advisor, Martin Bormann. Gehlen told Army officials he would not hire former SS or Gestapo officials (Ibid., p 246). However, Gehlen began to hire former high-level elite Nazi officials such as Dr. Franz Six who was tasked to command death squads after the invasion of Britain to exterminate anti-Nazi resistors just as he did in the Einsatzgruppen death squads on the Eastern Front, and the Weimar lawyer Dr. Hans Globke who authored parts of the 1936 anti-Semitic Nuremberg Race Laws. These were the happy faces around the Org. This passage by Talbot is really disturbing:

“Gehlen had turned Pullach into its own separate world, with over two hundred of his top staff and their wives and children living and working in the compound. Before Critchfield [The 1948 CIA Chief of the Munich office who wanted to shutdown the Org] moved in, the German spymaster himself had lived with his wife and four children in Bormann’s two-story house. Known, ironically, as the “White House” (DC, p. 247: brackets added).”

“Angleton, Dulles and Wisner all worked with and helped Nazi war criminals to escape from Europe. Many immigrated to the US after having their records sanitized by Dulles and others within the intelligence community.”-- Hydra, p.310​

Globke was a close political advisor to the West German ultra right-wing extremist Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and was gathering intelligence on Adenauer's political opponents. In one incident Globke was collecting information on German political leaders from the Org's vast secret database, and of course, decided to remove his own incriminating intelligence file.

The Soviet mole Heinz Felfe and proud Kristallnacht Nazi thug was able to infiltrate the Org for over ten years handing over secret surveillance information to Russian intelligence.

In another case, Gehlen hired the highly educated and charming Franz Six who was an officer of the SD intelligence agency of both the SS and Nazi Party. His job assigned by Hitler himself was to form death squads to exterminate anti-Nazi partisans and some 300,000 British Jews after the planned invasion of Britain, but the invasion was canceled due to British resistance. The reassigned Chief Six of Vorkommando Moscow instead applied his expertise in the Soviet Union and executed 144 persons and another group of 46 of which 38 were Jewish intellectuals. U.S. Army intelligence agents finally arrested Six for his war crimes and served only a four year prison sentence, but after his release he returned directly to work at the Org in only a few weeks (see details; DC, p. 246-7).

Konrad Fiebig, is another Org member, but was later charged with murdering eleven thousand Jews in Belarus during the war. Also, Walter Kurreck commander of the death squad Einszgruppe D, was responsible for tens of thousands of murders. All of these war criminals got on the US payroll list.

….next, “The 4D's of Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

 

Post #718: Paul Tillich on Blood and Soil Cults
Post #719: Tillich on Socialist Inner-Conflict with Free Enterprise Economics
Post #736: The Un-American Fascist Congress of the 1930s
Post #738: The Parallelism of American Fascism and Christian Fundamentalism
Post #740: Ministries of Hate
Post #756: The Tricky Dick

Four D's of FDR:
demilitarization, denazification, decartelization and democratization


“The failure to denazify Germany was largely due to a deliberate sabotaging of the 4Ds program by those seeking
to protect the US corporations that had traded with Hitler throughout the war. “
--Hydra, p. 358​

There were two schools of thought regarding Germany after WWII with Franklin D. Roosevelt ordering the tougher Morgenthay Plan, or hard peace that required the demilitarization of a partitioned Germany. FDR's post-WWII plan for Germany is referred to as the 'Four D's” plan. The Marshall Plan to rebuild West Germany's industrial base was to be the next phase of development. However, key figures in FDR's administration had other opinions and would sabotage Roosevelt’s Four D's plan with acts of treason.

Immediately after Germany's unconditional surrender, the United States began war crime trials of the Nazi leadership, and punishment. Two American tribunals were formed to carry out FDR's denazification program: the Simpson commission, and the Peck commission were composed of member panels to review the sentences of persons convicted of war crimes. Yeadon/Hawkins noted how these commissions worked to allow Nazi war criminals escape justice.

“Both the Simpson and Peck commissions were politically motivated. The Nazis were counting on their agents and sympathizers in other countries— including the United States— to do their bidding after the close of the war. The conservative faction of Congress did not disappoint the Nazis. In fact, the conservative Republicans by the end of the 1940s had succeeding in perpetrating the myth that the Nuremberg war criminals were not criminals but were instead the victims of Roosevelt. By the decade’s end, many people had come to accept that myth. This conservative faction was aroused to action by the Malmedy Trial, and the false charges made by Nazis within Germany of torture and brutality. Included in this faction was John Rankin and Harold Knutsen, the pro-fascist Minnesota congressman. Also, included were Francis Case Republican representative from South Dakota and John Taber Republican representative from New York (Hydra, p. 337; links added)."

High Commissioner of Germany, John McCloy:

“At the center of the sabotaging of the denazification program within the United States were three
Wall Street firms: Brown Brothers and Harriman, Dillon and Reed, and Sullivan and Cromwell.
At the very eye of this corruption was Prescott Bush, John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles....”
--Hydra, p 264​

John J. McCloy (1895-1989) was a Republican Wall Street lawyer for the firm Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine and Wood (that happened to represent I.G. Farben) who was hired as a consultant in 1940 by the US War Department, and in 1949 appointed as the High Commissioner of Germany. McCloy was one of three men governing post-war Germany including the right-wing Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and economist Lewis Douglas as the head of the Finance Division of the Control Council. Amazingly, all three men governing West Germany were related by marriage and were sons-in-law of the JP Morgan partner and wealthy industrialist Fredrick Zinsser! (See details; Hydra, p. 332).

During WWI Zinsser's chemical plants produced mustard nerve gas that can cause genetic damage to human DNA. Working for the War Department McCloy selected targets for bombing in Germany. He once shared a spectator box with Hitler during the 1936 Olympic Games, and as an assistant secretary of war planned the internment of Japanese Americans (Hydra, p. 332). He stopped the bombing of death camps, and even of the rail lines leading to the death camps (see details, Hydra, p. 333). During 1944, FDR's US Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr. accused McCloy of being anti-Semitic for refusing to take in Jewish refugees into the United States. Yeadon/Hawkins described McCloy's role in disobeying FDR's orders for West Germany:

“Clearly McCloy’s machinations was to crippled the 4Ds program from the start. He had his hand in the selection of two of the most powerful positions in postwar Germany, the military governor and his economic aide. McCloy carefully chose both knowing that they were opposed to dismantling German industry and largely opposed to the 4Ds program. Moreover, he was chiefly responsible for rewriting the directive to insure that German industry would not be held responsible for some of the worst crimes of the Third Reich. Later, McCloy would take over as the military governor and free most of the war criminals (Hydra, p. 278 ).”

Yeadon/Hawkins report that after WWII McCloy became president of the World Bank (1947), chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank (1953), the Council on Foreign Relations (1954), Ford Foundation (1958 ), the Warren Commission (1963), and “...one of the original supporters of one world government ruled by corporations (Hydra, p. 279).” After WWI the American oligarchy (Wall Street lawyers and bankers) rebuilt and rearmed Germany prior to WWII resulting in a greater fusion with Germany's oligarchy after its military defeat.

John McCloy accepts award.
John McCloy accepts an award for an honorary citizen of Berlin as President von Weizsacker and President Ronald Reagan look on.​

McCloy's brother-in-law, Lewis Douglas was a mining engineer with a degree in economics and most likely worked for the OSS. Douglas was the massively wealthy heir to the Phelps-Dodge copper mining operation who was against FDR's New Deal believing it was a Jewish conspiracy. Douglas was a right-wing extremist like his father's former employer, the Dodge Family who were members of the eugenic movement, antisemitic, and militantly anti-union. (See details, Hydra, p. 278 ).

The Blessed Courts

“The resulting Cold War would serve as a smokescreen to cover up the crimes of fascists within the United States. No American corporation would face charges of trading with the Nazis. None would be even charged. Dulles was adamant on that point. He had used his post in Switzerland to protect his own dealings with the Nazis and those of his clients. He was now in a position to further protect those American corporations that had willingly supported and traded with the Nazis during the war.
Roosevelt’s pledge to bring all war criminals to justice had died with him.” --Hydra, p.310​

McCloy used his powerful position to ignore FDR's demand for a hard peace meaning all Nazi war criminals be judged and sentenced; instead, McCloy commuted the death penalties of ten defendants, and reduced the sentences of seventy-four others against the Peck Commission's final judgments with the exception of four unlucky Einzatzgruppen defendants, and the key architect of the Final Solution Oswald Pohl whose death sentences by hanging where carried out. (See details, Hydra, p. 351). However, Baron Otto von Bolshwing worked closely with Adolf Eichmann persecuting Jews in Bucharest, Romania and even organized an anti-Jewish attack with the Romanian Iron Guard in 1941 resulting in 125 deaths. Otto Von Bolshwing worked for the Gehlen intelligence group and was allowed to enter the United States to eventually die peacefully at a California rest home in 1982.

Friedrich Flick was one of twenty-two high Nazi officials of Nazi Germany held for war crimes that included exploiting 48,000 forced slave laborers taken from concentration camps of which some eighty percent died and providing funding for right-wing parties including the Nazis (50,000 Reich Marks) plus 100,000 Reich Marks yearly donations from 1936 to 1944 to the Nazi party totaling 7.65 million Reich Marks by end of the war in 1945. The I.G. Farben cartel (composed of six dye companies), Alfried Krupp, and Flick were key financiers of the Nazi Party. As the Jews were persecuted, Flick would seize their property by forced low priced selling. Flick was held in the Landsberg Prison (the same prison Hitler was jailed for his crime of treason in 1923) and sentenced by the Nuremberg court to seven years in prison in 1947. During his imprisonment Flick was allowed to direct his companies and summon advisors at will. As High Commissioner of Germany McCloy allowed Flick to walk out of Landsberg Prison in 1950, along with one-third of all the other prisoners. McCloy reduced seventy-four sentences, while commuting ten death sentences including Nazi officers that murdered eighty-four surrendered Americans POWs at the 1944 Malmedy massacre in Belgium. The Dachau Trials handled by the Simpson Committee imposed 43 death sentences, but none of the guilty were executed for their crimes.

After release from prison the Nazi war criminal, Friedrich Flick, was the richest person in West Germany (the fifth in the world) when he died in 1972. His industrial empire included 330 companies, and 300,000 employees. Most disturbingly, the unrepentant Flick continued to use his vast wealth to rebuild fascism by paying off politicians like the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl of the Christian Democratic Party between $53,000 to $200,000, and laundering money to right-wing political operatives—the same pattern Flick engaged the Third Reich. (See details; Hydra, p. 347).

…next, “The Non-Confessing Church.”​

 

Wow... posters here seem to have diarrhea of the keyboard! This thread needs an infusion of the KISS PRINCIPAL... Keep It Simple Stupid!

 

“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage.
Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”
― Augustine of Hippo
​

I still have about four thousand words to go before finishing these connected essays on Christian fascism. Writing about all these war criminals and the barbarity against millions of innocent ordinary citizens was depressing especially considering the crimes American fascism is committing today. It's a real downer, but I came across a historical video of the post-war Germany and suddenly by spirits were lifted, the world looked brighter, a smile of joy replaced the oppressive weight of reading of the endless victories of the Nazi Hydra over their victims. A joyful spring returned to my step. I was particularly uplifted by the appearance in the film of the helpful kapo Fritz M.K. Becher who beat a priest to death @ 40:31 minutes. So, if you are depressed, I recommend viewing this uplifting historical film. Hopefully, this history of justice will repeat itself today with our gang of Nazis. I like the rope hanging method, its cheap, simple, and dependable.

Hope is truly a beautiful thing....and it's in color!

Pt 4 WW2 American Hanging Executions IN COLOR. Germany, May 28- 29, 1946. Dachau War Crimes Trials
​

 

Post #718: Paul Tillich on Blood and Soil Cults
Post #719: Tillich on Socialist Inner-Conflict with Free Enterprise Economics
Post #736: The Un-American Fascist Congress of the 1930s
Post #738: The Parallelism of American Fascism and Christian Fundamentalism
Post #740: Ministries of Hate
Post #756: The Tricky Dick
Post #757: The Four D's of FDR

The Non-Confessing Church


"In post-war Germany, the clergy proved to be mostly pro-Nazi.
The clergy that had opposed Hitler and his henchmen had been sent to the concentration camps.”
-- Hydra, p. 301​

"Yet it is beyond any human effort, even the Christian, to escape from the demonic control of everything real.
Therefore even the Church has again and again succumbed to demonry.”
--Paul Tillich, Interpretation of History (pdf.) p. 51​

In an earlier essay, “The Parallelism of American Fascism and Christian Fundamentalism,” (Post #738 ), authors Yeadon/Hawkins reviewed the history of fascism infecting American Churches after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 resulting in a destructive mutant version of Christian Nationalism financed by a right-wing corporate oligarchy with powerful political committees, surveillance organizations, cultist right-wing sects, authoritarian, anti-unionist, antisemitic, virulently racist, and chiliastic. These same prewar fascist forces were already duplicated in Nazi Germany to regenerate Christian Nationalism by rescuing Nazi war criminals from punishment. Nazi diplomats developed a Niederlage, or “defeat” for a Nazi comeback plan that required placing agents in charitable organizations such as shelters, orphanages, and the Evangelical Relief Society for example. (see details, Hydra, p. 355). The “Confessing Chruch” was a group composed of Protestant Germans in opposition to the pro-Nazi Protestant German Evangelical Church that I call the “non-Confessing Church.”

Post-WWII Germany was still very dangerous for antifascists since many pro-Nazi fascists were reappointed to their positions of authority such as in law enforcement, the shopkeeper's store, the workplace, and the church—especially the church. Those citizens set to testify before denazification tribunals were still in physical danger from the defendants. Some trial witnesses were victims of Nazi death squads called “Werewolves.” The German churches, especially the Catholic Church, encouraged potential witnesses to give false positive testimony in support of former Nazis, and manipulated witnesses into believing it was a sin to give a bad testimony. (see details, Hydra, p. 353). German law enforcement was particularly corrupted by employing former Gestapo officers and were an important part of the Niederlage comeback plan. Yeadon noted one investigative article reporting on the degree of re-infiltration: “The November 1957 issue of the Frankfurter Hefte exposed the number of the news and publishing media that was willing to promote the Nazi line: 'In the Federal Republic there exist today 46 political associations of this character. The Nazi-militaristic wing is served by 30 newspapers, 68 Rightist book and magazine publishers, and 120 former Nazi publicists. In addition, there are approximately 50 nationalistic youth organizations'103 (Hydra, p. 358 )." Church officials were continually lobbying McCloy to set Nazi war criminals free, and he responded by allowing some of the worst war criminals to escape punishment, setting a pattern for decades to come.

"Thus the social demonry of the present is revealed in its duality, in its immense supporting and destructive strength. Shattered for a moment, it is at present on the point of re-establishing itself, in order better to sustain and—better to destroy.”
--Tillich, IH, p. 58​

Klaus Barbie (1913-1991), the Butcher of Lyons was able to avoid justice for 33 years thanks to the generosity of the Christian American people. This may explain why the French hate Americans so much. Christian Nationalist Klaus Barbie tortured some 14,000 French adults and children, in some cases using water and ammonia. The Gestapo Barbie set up a trap in Lyon at a charitable shelter for Jews known as the 1943 rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup and arrested 86 people, of whom 62 were men and 24 women who in this case were later deported to extermination camps such as Sobibor, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, and Majdanek. There were only three survivors. One arrestee was an eight-month-old infant sent to a death camp because the child was crying too loudly. The open killing of children by camp guards was a practice meant to psychologically torture prisoners. Attractive women were sometimes whipped in the face in an attempt to blind them. French authorities asked for custody of Barbie who was in the American military zone in 1943, but McCloy refused claiming the charges against Barbie were merely hearsay even though Barbie was on the Allied list of wanted war criminals. (see details, Hydra, p. 351). With the help of American intelligence agents Barbie escaped to Bolivia, but not until 1987 was he arrested for war crimes and convicted with a life sentence. The Butcher of Lyon died of cancer while in prison.

"Now, if it [the State] claims absolute validity for the assumed forms in which it must live as earthly society,
if it calls itself Kingdom of God, then it succumbs to arrogance and violates culture and society in demonic heteronomy.”
--Tillich, IH; bracket added, p.107​

Long books could be written about any one of the atrocities as in the case of Nazi war criminal Schutzstaffel (SS) officer Joachim Peiper who escaped the Allies' executioner for egregious crimes against humanity including murdering 24 Italian soldiers, and 84 American POWs machined gunned with twenty of the wounded soldiers shot in the head at the Belgium Malmedy Massacre during December 1944. Other massacres of American POWs in the area by the Waffen-SS amounted to 300. As Himmler's ideal Nazi, SS Peiper was a propaganda superstar of Operation Barbarossa (22 June – 5 December 1941) death squad operations in Russia, then Italy, and later Belgium. Peiper's division was known as the “Blowtorch Battalion” that burned entire Soviet villages as he rolled through in his flame throwing tank.

"But real demonry—if this word is to have any special content—occurs only in connection with a positive, sustaining,
creative-destructive power. This is true also of the last great demonry of the present, nationalism."
--Tillich, IH, p. 57​

SS Peiper was sentenced to death in 1946, but was then commuted to life in 1951, and released from Prison in 1956. Once again the Dachau Trials were governed by the Simpson Committee which means ultimately by McCloy. The Malmedy defendants claimed they were tortured by guards for confessions. A committee was set up to review the case which included the right-wing Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI), who represented a substantial block of constituents of German heritage and was fervently for the defendants. Imagine the American Senator McCarthy arguing that the defendants were tortured and should be released while hundreds of thousands of Americans mourned their dead fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters. Juxtaposed that defense of Nazi war criminals against McCarthy's 1947-1957 persecution of at least 245 blacklisted American leftists. The fuller historical context given by Yeadon/Hawkins tells us about the church:

“The only evidence that the Simpson Committee relied upon came from the defendants and German clergy working to free all war criminals. In post-war Germany the clergy was uniformly sympathetic to the Nazis. The dissenters had been sent to the concentration camps where many of them perished. The evidence the Simpson Committee gathered regarding torture of prisoners was incredulous at best. More often than not the evidence did not bear up to examination...[Judge Edward Leroy van Roden, of Delaware County, Pennsylvania] ludicrous claims of torture were the beginning of the revisionist movement about the Holocaust (Hydra, p. 337; brackets added).”

With the CIA and German governments still covering for Peiper, he decided to move to the beautiful countryside village of Traves, France in 1970; a country where the Nazi blitzkrieg burned through entire villages down with the victims locked inside a church, or barn.

After knowledge of SS Peiper's presence within France spread more widely during 1976, a group of antifascists become so outraged they burned Peiper's house down with him inside. There were no tears shed for Joachim Peiper.

Joachim Peiper - Burned Alive 30 Years After WW2​

"But it is necessary to interpret some structures on which society is built as symbols of demonic powers, and it is necessary,
in making these symbols manifest to open the struggle against the demonry of a period...as everything that points to the
unconditioned has a symbolic character and can never be grasped actually, empirically.
In symbols and only in symbols shall we speak now of the demonries of the present.”
-Tillich, IH, p. 107​

The key church officials during the war crimes trials were Cardinal Faulhaber, Bishop Wurm, Cardinal Josef Frings, Bishop Meiser (Protestant), and Pope Pius XII. Any church officials who resisted the Nazis had long since been sent to the death camps. Germany was a leading light in modern science and philosophy with some of the greatest theologians of Western Civilization including Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was tortured daily and hung in April 1945: that generation of religious thinkers was nearly wiped out—in some cases actually crucified. One month later German Cardinals renewed the 1934 concordat in May 1945. Between the years of 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany used the guillotine to execute 16,500 prisoners; however, 10,000 of them were guillotined during 1944 and 1945 alone (Wiki: fn. 27-28 ).

"The demonry of the state, church, and economics is visible when the holiness of these social forms, their right to sacrifices, is misused
destructively—wherewith as a result the self-destruction, namely the shaking of the belief in their holiness, is connected.”
--Tillich, IH, p. 45​

...to continue, "The Non-Confessing Church."

 

Post #718: Paul Tillich on Blood and Soil Cults
Post #719: Tillich on Socialist Inner-Conflict with Free Enterprise Economics
Post #736: The Un-American Fascist Congress of the 1930s
Post #738: The Parallelism of American Fascism and Christian Fundamentalism
Post #740: Ministries of Hate
Post #756: The Tricky Dick
Post #757: The Four D's of FDR
Post #760: The Non-Confessing Church

"Amen, Hitler!"
--French Roman Catholic Military Chaplin,
Mayol de Lupe​

Because official Vatican courier diplomats had immunity, Dulles and chief of counter-intelligence James Jesus Angleton were able to help the Nazis and the Vatican launder their assets. The friendly relationship was mutual as the Nazis told Dulles that the Swiss communications codes were broken just in time to redirect funds to Belgium, Luxemburg, Liechtenstein and Japanese banks; later, all participants refused to disclose to the Allies their transactions. The redirected monetary flow of funds was so vast, the influx of currency literally stimulated the entire national economy of Argentina during the1950s. Human identities were also laundered by the Britian-Vatican-CIA cartel. Yeadon/Hawkin recommends the book, “Unholy Trinity” by Mark Aarons, John Loftus, St Martins, 1998, 545 pages (pdf.) (See details: Hydra, p. 410, 412, 494, 516).

"The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, is creating and
securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life.”
-- Adolph Hitler, 1933 Reichstag speech​

Both Catholic and Protestant clergy competed for Hitler's favor in the hope of controlling the German educational system that meant millions of Marks in government subsidies in a classic kickback scheme. Hitler favored the Catholic Church only because it was more centralized for control with a relatively smaller membership to bamboozle and to further factionalize a very religious German culture. Germany had 45 million Protestant members, compared to 21 million Catholics. For a full history see Robert P. Ericksen's book, "Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust," (pdf.),1999. You will find very familiar phrases used in Nazi Christian Theology such as "Kulturkampt", the word from which we get "culture wars." One Nazi slogan is, “Kinder, Küche, Kirchen,” or “Children, Church, Kitchen” to describe the proper social roles for women. Some American churches are totally unaware they have been bombarded with Nazi propaganda presented as theology for decades. In actuality, Hitler was an unhappy atheist discussing with his closest secretary, Martin Bormann, for a way to replace a pacificist “Jesus is a woman with a beard "version of Christianity that is incompatible with Nazism: there would be no plans for church buildings in a new Germany after military victory. For a complete treatment of this topic see, “The Great Scandal: Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis – Part I by Gregory S. Paul,” (pdf.) 2003.

“You shall know them by their fruits.”
--Jesus Christ, Matthew 7:16​

Cardinal Faulhaber was opposed to the denazification program (video: Erasing Hitler) as was the Bishop Wurm from Wurremberg who believed Hitler that Nazism and Christianity were compatible, and hoped the Führer would bring about a Great Awakening religious revival. Other church officials included Cardinal Josef Frings, who demanded all executions of war criminals be halted, and Bishop Meiser from the Protestant church who never protested the Nazis Regime. There were 351 Protestant clergy still identified as Nazis with only three removed by 1946 (details, Hydra, p. 351). These clergy were members of the 1948 propaganda group “Committee for Christian Aid to War Prisoners” led by Dr. Rudolf Aschenauer who invited McCarthy to the Malmandy trial, and Ernst Achenback who helped round up 2,000 Jews before 1945; both lawyers advocated granting amnesty of war crime defendants. Clergymen Frings and Wurm were able to raise substantial amounts of money from more than sixty industrialists through “The Committee for Justice and Trade,” to create a war crimes defense fund. (Details, Hydra, p. 353).

In 1955 Dr. Hans Globke had control of Gehlen's Org network of former Nazis spies and special access to German chancellor Konrad Adenauer while packing Nazis into many important West Germany government positions. These resurrected Nazis soldiers planned to regain power in Europe once again by waging an anti-Communist propaganda program of fear to provoke a war between the United States and the Soviet Union. (Details, Hydra, p. 364). The propaganda memes of a world-wide threat of communist domination, and the unjust persecution of Germany's prisoners of war were repeated in the American media. Globke was able to get written support in the States from North Dakota governor William Langer, publicly avowed Nazi banker Prescott Bush, Strom Thurmond, Thomas Dodd, West Virginia Rep. Robert Byrd, Missouri Senator Stuart Symington, FBI Director Herbert Hoover, and retired U.S. generals del Valle, Willoughby and Wedemeyer with a total of 150 congressmen. Republican Senator William Langer claimed the American tribunals were like Stalin's show trials charging, "At Nuremberg the Communist used war crimes trials to liquidate their external enemies (Hydra, p. 339)."

The most powerful liaison of the Vatican to Allied occupied West Germany Bishop Fargo Muench called during 1950 for a full general amnesty of war criminals with the support of Pope Pius XII comparing the Nazi criminals to persecuted Jews. (See Hydra, p. 341). This gaslighting technique was known as “fragenogen, or a pledge that the accused was whiter than white (Hydra, p. 354).” Yeadon/Hawkins report of another case wherein a local priest warned his followers not to speak to a prosecutor because he was “a Jew that had just returned from Auschwitz.” For the larger context British officers Stang and Steele reported their conclusion on the failure of the Allied war crimes tribunals: “They reported that the Nazis remained a privileged class. The failure to remove Nazi foremen and shopkeepers left the Nazis in control of the daily lives of the German population. The anti-Nazis did not have the strength to challenge the former order. The foremost anti-Nazis had already perished in the concentration camps or were executed by Nazi courts (Hydra, p. 353).”

Believe it or not, veteran Nazi soldiers already organized themselves into an illegal clandestine paramilitary group of 40,000 soldiers that included 2,000 former Wehrmacht officers called the Schnez-Truppe (1949-53) organization and was structured like the Freikorps. Before WWII, all the Wehrmacht Army drove GM trucks and carried U.S. made weapons—but after their military defeat the Wehrmacht Army drove GM trucks while carrying U.S. made weapons.

I want to contrast efforts of the US Government that worked so hard to grant clemency to Nazi war criminals against the cruel use of Amercian drug laws that sentenced millions of young Americans to hard prison time, in some cases a life sentence for possession of a single cannabis seed, or contrast the two life sentences of the Native American activist Leonard Peltier who has served over forty-six years in prison for the alleged murder of two FBI agents (which he denies). Take for example, the Treblinka guard, boxer, and skilled whipper, Kurt Franz, whose one hobby was to kick infants up into a wall to watch their skulls break open. The courts took ten years after WWII to find Franz guilty of 35 other counts of murdering 139 persons, and 300,000 camp prisoners collectively (see full list of indictments describing hundreds of Franz's murders). Franz was released from prison in 1993 for bad health and died in 1998. Even though Amnesty International, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and the 14th Dalai Lama requested clemency, Obama still denied clemency for Peltier.

"... it is necessary and absolutely demanded to unveil the demon and to seek and use all the weapons of resistance; but there is no certainty
of success, for there is no certainty that a finite reality, even if it be Christian culture, is indestructible. The demon inspires such a false certainty.
There is only one certainty, that the demonic is overcome in eternity, that in eternity the demonic is depth of the divine and in unity
with divine clarity. Only in view of the eternal may one speak of overcoming the demonic, not in the view of anytime, a past or future.”
--Tillich, IH, p. 58​

...next, Allen Dulles Gaslights America.

 

Post #718: Paul Tillich on Blood and Soil Cults
Post #719: Tillich on Socialist Inner-Conflict with Free Enterprise Economics
Post #736: The Un-American Fascist Congress of the 1930s
Post #738: The Parallelism of American Fascism and Christian Fundamentalism
Post #740: Ministries of Hate
Post #756: The Tricky Dick
Post #757: The Four D's of FDR
Post #760: The Non-Confessing Church, Part I
Post #761: Non-Confessing, Part II

Allen Dulles Gaslights America:
Democracy as a Cold War Casualty

"They had overplayed their hand. The Fourth Reich would indeed rise but it would not rise in Germany.
It would rise in the United States.” --Hydra, p. 366​

My hermeneutical principle of historical interpretation is simple: imagine the worst possible debacle, and that will be the truth. However, it has a flaw—historical reality is far worse than my ability to imagine. World War II resulted in the deaths of 70 million to 85 million human beings from the battlefields, diseases, and famines. These series of short essays re-accounting the rise of fascism in America only touched on this complex history relying on Yeadon/Hawkins' historical research with other critically selected resources found in Wikipedia, and YouTube documentaries for factual information that provide a general idea of the cultural-political context in which this catastrophe occurred. This historical narrative of Nazi Fascism is not based on some occult history contradicting long accepted documented events, but rather is a more complete history of those military, ideological conflicts and most importantly, the role of capitalism. How easy it is to reduce the war against fascism to battle dates—to logistical facts, or partisan party politics, and overlook the fascist paradigm. General Patton was chewed out by Eisenhower for saying, "This Nazi thing is just like a Democratic and Republican election fight (Hydra, p. 351).” The Allied Forces won the war despite the American oligarchy dragging its feet to enter the war; helped the Nazi cartels hide stolen national treasures; protected joint American-Nazi capital; and after the war opened the prison doors for some of the elite Nazis who committed mass murder on an industrial scale while other war criminals were even rewarded to a degree that boggles the mind of ordinary people.

"What in the devil is the American Army doing in Germany, if not to denazify the German government and administration?
The Russians killed their Nazis; the Americans put them in office."
--Eisenhower's response to General Patton (Pledge Betrayed, p. 136-7) (pdf.)​

There are at least 2,000 books on JFK's murder, and it is easy to get lost in the battle of ballistics which is not irrelevant, but downstream from those ultimately responsible for setting off these murderous series of causes and tragic consequences. After many decades of research by an army of authors, it is time to look upstream to the sources of power during the buildup of the Cold War that caused so much human suffering, and death, and destructiveness of lives unlived. During the 1950s American anti-communist fever turned into a nationally subsidized cottage industry once insiders realized money and careers could be made—and on television! The same kinds of right-wing fear campaigns and political lobbying are being subsidized today by a tsunami of money derived from the environmentally devastating effects of oil drilling and fracking.

Careerism was the driving force behind this Cold War jobs program. Corrosive patriots arose everywhere! Anyone could be the Good James Bond despite one's own flaws because the bad guys where commies...and the unpopular, a minority, a friend, and a politician. Cuban mafia exiles were in Florida since the 1953-59 Cuban revolution with some merging operationally with the American mafia—and they hired a good mafia lawyer, Richard Nixon. During 1963 New Orleans was the headquarters of mafia boss Carlos Marcello who ruled over Louisiana, Mississippi, and parts of Texas and Alabama (see, US, p. 12), then both criminal organizations invited their White Supremacists friends in the South so that everybody could get on the CIA intelligence payroll directly, or indirectly. Careerism is the major driving force of American Cold War hysteria during the 1960s and on.

The US government intelligence agencies have lied about JFK's murder for over sixty years, hiding classified documents; fabricating conspiracy theories to mislead and discourage critical thinking; and even edited the Zapruder film to gaslight the American people (see documentary, “The Zapruder Film Mystery”). Any conclusive evidence to settle questions about Kennedy's murder—the subject's pulverized brain for example—is missing, or destroyed. However, the circumstantial evidence of JFK's murder collected during these decades of research by various citizen investigators is overwhelming and sufficient to form a judgement of the kind of government we live under.

Oswald's Background

“...this indigestible morsel”
--Soviet intelligence agent's description of Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia​

Lee Harvey Oswald was first described by the media as a lone child who rode the subway all day to escape home; having no loving parents and grew up to be a Marxist, then decided to kill JFK. I remember these media reports as a child—communist, Marxist, Russian spy, and Jack Ruby (not initially described as the mob boss who casually walked into the Dallas Police Department like it was one of his strip joints). However, many decades later biographies of people in Oswald's life emerged. Life biographies are more difficult to falsify and can even be corrected. I have already reviewed some of Allen Dulles' history, but CIA agent David Ferrie, and Oswald also have interesting biographies.

Allen Dulles loved to drop references to Plato in interviews while denying the CIA would not kill anyone (unless authorized) implying to the listener, “Look, I'm just a scholarly professor that wouldn't harm a fly... Plato said.... etc.” Dulles despised idealists of any kind, whether it was his Presbyterian minister father Allen Macy Dulles, JFK, or “true believers” like Lee Oswald. CIA agent and pedophile David Ferrie (US, p. 465) would present himself as a professor of philosophy and even took up the nickname “The Professor” (US, p. 499). I believe the teenage Oswald later modelled his CIA persona on Ferrie by claiming to have studied Marxist philosophy. Oswald's public radio recitation of Marxism could be found in any Encyclopedia's first three introductory paragraphs on Marxism. Viewing the infamous photograph of Oswald holding his rifle and two newsletters, one could not know the publications were printed by two opposing factions of communism (US, p. 492). It is not impossible that Ferrie could have written Oswald's Marxist elevator spiel. Oswald had a high IQ of 118, an excellent memory (maybe a photographic memory), but was dyslexic, had some hearing loss (US, p. 462), and was a terrible marksman (US, p. 266).

Note: Speaking of philosophy, the old OSS intelligence agency respected philosophy, and especially logic. CIA agent Lewis Williams Douglas (bother-in-law of McCloy, and Konrad Adenauer of West Germany) had a difficult time at Amherst until college president, Alexander Meiklejohn, taught him logic. Also, I should mention German paramilitary death squads murdered some 2 million people in 500-man units known as the “Einsatzgruppen” during 1938 and was led by some of Germany's most highly educated leaders: nine of the seventeen death squad leaders held Ph.Ds. One commander, Otto Rasch held two Ph.Ds (law and political economy) and demanded he be addressed twice as “Doctor, Doctor Rasch.” Higher education is no absolute defense against barbarism. The most fearsome power of the demonic is its dynamic-creative self-sustaining ability to metamorphize a person's highest values and aspirations into opposing forces within a spiral of blind destruction.

“After the Bay of Pigs debacle, he [CIA agent David Ferrie] denounced Kennedy with such vicious abandon
during a speech to a veteran's group that he was asked to step down from the podium.
The president “ought to be shot,” Ferrie began telling people.”
--Devils' Chessboard, p. 463​

A close look at Oswald shows he was up to his neck with CIA agents—it would be simpler to keep track of those near Oswald not connected to the CIA! The fifth teen-year-old Oswald first met CIA agent and commercial pilot Ferrie at a Civil Air Patrol group in 1954. Ferrie recommended to Oswald that he join the Marines military force. The youth flying club was established by a right-wing extremist Texas oilman and defense contractor who also owned the building known as the Texas School Book Depository that hired Oswald in 1963. Agent Ferrie was a homosexual pedophile who often traveled with two teenage boys. Ferrie would attempt to hypnotize the young cadets and lure them into a drug research program at the University of Tulane. Incredibly, the CIA MKUltra drug experimentation program ran for twenty years from 1953 to 1973. Oswald was stationed at the Atsugi, Japan naval air base that also had a CIA LSD experimentation center. (see details, DC, p. 463-4). Ferrie denied ever knowing Oswald. A few weeks after the “New Orleans States-Item” published a story in 1967 about New Orleans Attorney Jim Garrison's investigation of Ferrie's imminent arrest for conspiracy of murder, Ferrie wrote two suicide notes and was found dead however Orleans Parish coroner Nicholas Chetta and pathologist Ronald A. Welsh ruled that Ferrie died of a stroke.

On the same night of Ferrie's death his friend Eladio del Valle —an associate of mobsters Trafficante and Masferrer—had a terrible accident in Florida. (details, Ultimate Sacrifice, p. 813).

Eladio del Valle had been tortured, shot in the heart at point-blank range, and his skull split open with an axe. This must be some kind of message.

Continuing....” The Paines (sic) of Government Intelligence.”

 

Post #718: Paul Tillich on Blood and Soil Cults
Post #719: Tillich on Socialist Inner-Conflict with Free Enterprise Economics
Post #736: The Un-American Fascist Congress of the 1930s
Post #738: The Parallelism of American Fascism and Christian Fundamentalism
Post #740: Ministries of Hate
Post #756: The Tricky Dick
Post #757: The Four D's of FDR
Post #760: The Non-Confessing Church, Part I
Post #761: Non-Confessing, Part II
Post #762: Allen Dulles Gaslights America

The Paines (sic) of Government Intelligence


"The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society, and we are as a people, inherently and historically, opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of
pertinent facts far outweigh the dangers which are cited to justify it."
--John F. Kennedy, Secret Societies Speech, 1961.​

Kennedy was not only speaking of the secret societies such as those found in some political organizations, and corporations, and even universities, but also of the mafia, paramilitary groups, and rogue intelligence agencies—JFK was onto Allen Dulles. Other intelligence agents in Oswald's life includes the former OSS agent and later military intelligence CIA field agent George de Mohrenschildt who in 1961 introduced the newly arrived Russian immigrants, Lee and Marina Oswald (formerly, Marina Prusakova) in 1961 to Ruth and Michael Paine. Mohrenschildt first met Oswald through “Fort Worth's Russian-American community, oil accountant George Bouhe.” Mohrenschildt said FBI agent Max Clark and CIA agent J. Walton Moore reported Oswald was safe to help, but never explains why he wanted to help. George was formerly, “von Mohrenschildt” indicating aristocracy, and he was a founder of Radio Free Europe. George knew the Bouvier family and as a child Jacquelin Bouvier (later married JFK) called him “Uncle George” and even sat on his knee. It gets stranger.

Agent de Mohrenschildt worked as a petroleum geologist based in Haiti in 1963 and worked for Pantepec Oil owned by the William F. Buckley Sr. family in Venezuela. Also, he was a member of the extremist right-wing Dallas group Texas Crusade for Freedom whose members included oilman David Harold 'Dry Hole' Byrd (owner of the Dallas school book depository that employed Oswald and founded the Civil Air Patrol club where Oswald and Ferrie first met). Mohrenschildt as able to get Oswald a job at the Dallas photographic lab Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall in Oct. 1962 to prepare maps from U-2 spy plane photos in spite of the fact Oswald was claiming to be a pro-Cuban Marxist! He believed Oswald was an scapegoat and eventually entered a mental institution in 1976, then committed suicide with a shotgun in 1977. Witness, Joseph Dryer, told the HSCA in 1978 that shortly after the assassination of JFK $200,000 or $250,000 had been deposited into de Mohrenschildt's bank account. CIA director Richard Helms believed Mohrenschildt was a Nazi espionage agent. A Nazi within the CIA--really?

On December 3, 1963, before JFK was killed the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) ran by Naval Intelligence reported to the 'National Security Council Staff' that Oswald did not work for Castro and he was under 'tight surveillance.' (details, US, p. 129). Also, US Army intelligence had a surveillance file on Oswald that predated the assassination and kept from the Warren Commission led by Allen Dulles. A year later when Congress asked for Oswald's Army intelligence file, Congressman Richard Preyer told journalist Anthony Summers that it had been destroyed. (details, US, p. 261).

“The problem with Oswald is he hung around with the wrong crowd.”
--Unknown​

Agent Mohrenschildt introduced Lee and Marina to the married couple Ruth and Micheal Paine (Documentary) who happened to be deeply involved in national security all through both family histories. Ruth Paine's mother was Ruth Forbes Young and great-granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson who lived on Naushon Island near Cape Cod where Allen Dulles and his mistress Mary Bancroft visited. Both Bancroft and Dulles knew Ruth and Micheal Paine from the island. In fact, after visiting her mother on Naushon Island, Ruth went to pick up the arriving Oswald family from Russia. Ruth Paine's stepfather was the Bell Helicopter inventor, Arthur M. Young, who made a fortune selling the Model UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) helicopter used in the Vietnam War. Young was a defense contractor and had security intelligence clearance (so his phone was recorded). And working with his father-in-law at Bell Helicopter was Ruth's husband, Michael Paine, who also had security intelligence clearance and had a role setting up SWAN Island radio used in the Bay of Pigs failed invasion. After JFK's killing, Michael calls Ruth on the phone from his Bell office before Oswald was identified as a suspect saying, “Oswald will be blamed for the killing, but we both know who was really responsible for the assassination.”

Ruth Paine's biological father, William A. Hyde, worked for USAID, a foreign aid front agency for the CIA, and had been considered as a covert agent assigned to Vietnam during 1957. Ruth Paine's sister Sylvia Hoke was a psychologist for the...CIA. Sylvia's husband, John Hoke, worked for USAID, but later failed security clearance to be an intelligence agent. (See de-classified CIA documents). At least Oswald's mother Marguerite wasn't a CIA agent, but she was running her own investigation!

I always wondered how Oswald could take care of his pregnant wife and still be so politically active. It turns out that Ruth Paine let Marina Oswald and her new born child move into her Dallas home with her own two children since she was separating from her husband Michael Paine. Oswald could only visit his wife on weekends, however, Michael would take Oswald to at least six left and right political meetings during these family weekends. It was at Ruth Paine's home Oswald stored his rifle that was then missing, but also other evidence mysteriously appeared after agents searched her home at least three different times. Ruth would find evidence the agents supposedly missed in earlier searches including an unauthenticated confession handwritten by Oswald having the fingerprints of seven people, but without Oswald's or Marina's fingerprints. It was Ruth Paine who found Oswald a job at the Texas School Book Depository, but she did not tell Oswald about an employment agency message offering a better position. Ruth Paine was absolutely convinced that Oswald was the lone killer of JFK. Shortly after the assassination, Ruth and Michael reunited. It appears that Ruth, Michael, and Mohrenschildt were baby-sitting Oswald's family all this time.

JFK's Sexual Affair Doings

While taking a political science class, I discovered that one conservative politician would spent two hours a day researching the US Library of Congress for Kennedy's sexual affair stories to leak to the press. I am sure some the these stories are true, but it takes two--or more--to tangle. But to be fair, Allen Dulles was doing Miss Clare Booth Luce, the wife of his close friend and owner of Time-Life Magazine, Henry Luce, who was a fervent promoter of Italian Fascism, even publishing two editions of Time magazine in 1923 and 1926 with Mussolini's portrait as the cover story. On the other hand, publisher Henry Luce was getting his revenge by doing Dulles' mistress, Mary Bancroft. The wife of Allen Dulles, Martha Clover Dulles, knew Bancroft very well and knew that Allen Dulles was doing them both. When Clare Booth Luce wasn't doing Allen Dulles, in her spare time she would republish a speech given as an ardent Christian Catholic condemning the new sexual social mores of the 1930s. (details, DC, p, 217). Martha Dulles also had an affair with JFK's father, Joseph P. Kenndy.

The Zapruder Film: version 2.0

There is a massive amount of literature on the assassination of JFK with some more recent information on the Zapruder film researched in the documentary “The Zapruder Film Mystery” already mentioned. The documentary interview is of the photo interpreter Dino Brugioni who worked at the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC). Brugioni was asked by agents to copy selected frames for making briefing boards; however, Brugioni now reports the Zapruder film was altered from the original copy and is missing critical frames essential for reconstructive forensic interpretation (see documentary @ 1:18:48 minutes). The critical film frame 336 showing the fatal rifle shot has the back of JFK's head inked out to conceal the exiting impact direction of the rejectum and bullet path.

Also, Professor of History, Harry Bowen, has presented enhanced photo evidence of the fatal rifle shot coming from the front of Kennedy's head and forming a swelling tuber in the back of the head. (see, Bowen's Presentation on JFK Assassination; 11/15/18; @ 36.50).

"In the practical sphere two demonries likewise surpass all the others in significance and symbolic force
and shape the face of our times. They are the demonries of autonomous economics: capitalism, and
the demonry of the sovereign people: nationalism.”
-- Tillich, IH, p. 57.​

next...”Meditations on the Diremption of Spirit.”

 

Post #718: Paul Tillich on Blood and Soil Cults
Post #719: Tillich on Socialist Inner-Conflict with Free Enterprise Economics
Post #736: The Un-American Fascist Congress of the 1930s
Post #738: The Parallelism of American Fascism and Christian Fundamentalism
Post #740: Ministries of Hate
Post #756: The Tricky Dick
Post #757: The Four D's of FDR
Post #760: The Non-Confessing Church, Part I
Post #761: Non-Confessing, Part II
Post #762: Allen Dulles Gaslights America
Post #763: The Paines (sic) of Government Intelligence
Post #764: Meditations on the Diremption of Spirit
End

Meditations on the Diremption of Spirit


“...self-consciousness passes in its unhappy state of diremption.”
--Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, Baillie trans., p. 203 (pdf.)



“The Old Man will take care of it.”
--A Russian Orthodox Priest's reference to the “Kennedy problem” at the home of
the right-wing Director W. Glenn Campbell of the Stanford Hoover Institution in the summer of 1963

.

JFK awards the National Security Medal to Dulles at the CIA headquarters in Langley, November 28, 1961.
The very next day JFK fired Dulles who then immediately ran CIA covert operations from his home office.

Autopsy Photo of JFK (jpg)
Exactly two years to the day after his firing, Dulles was appointed to the Warren Commission.
John J. McCloy also served on the Warren Commission.



“446. Spirit is essentially self-diremptive, but just as bare being dirempts itself into the
Thing with its many properties, so the ethical life dirempts itself into a web of ethical relations.”
--A.V. Miller translation, “Phenomenology of Spirit;” his interpretation of para. 446, p. 551 (pdf.).​

How are we to interpret these historical facts, i.e., what do the facts mean? There are two general approaches for conducting historical research: on the one hand is Reason (Vernunft), or collecting empirical facts of events (name, dates, places). On the other hand, Understanding (Verstand) goes beyond the particular facts to the universals of language meaning so that unity and coherence is given to the stream of raw sense data received in experience and through historical research. This second kind of historical study must use language in a highly metaphorical style to convey the abstract meanings not explicitly expressed with empirical descriptions of facts.

The philosopher, Wilhelm Hegel, would often use the language and symbols of the Christian religion, or picture thinking, to interpret historical change such as in the phrase, “the Calvary of absolute Spirit” and writes: “But the other side of its Becoming, History, is a conscious, self-mediating process--Spirit emptied out into Time; but this externalization, this kenosis [self-emptying], is equally an externalization of itself; the negative is the negative of itself (Phenomenology of Spirit: para. 808; brackets added).” " Geist” is a key term used by Hegel meaning both “spirit,” and “mind,” to describes the shape of human consciousness (i.e., worldview, or life-world) in a particular historical period (i.e., Ancient Greece, Feudal Middle Ages, the Enlightenment). Hegel's ontology (Absolute Idealism) is not emergent from below, but emanates from latent potentiality appearing phenomenologically as actuality unfolding through Reason (Logos) in a dynamic teleological process of oppositions in time slowly drifting toward the achievement of authentic human freedom. For Hegel, world history is about the human spirit becoming incarnate as objective phenomena by expressing itself in the world—this historical experience is described symbolically by Hegel as the “the road to Calvary.” Hegel believed spiritual life is culture. Of course, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche would strongly disagree with many of Hegel's views. Marx's criticism of Hegel is that he only interpreted the world, but the point is to change it. (Video, “Hegel's Idealism & Marx's Materialism” @ 7:20 minutes).

“Consciousness, on its part, appears here likewise as actual, though, at the same time, as internally shattered; and this diremption shows
itself in the course of toil and enjoyment, to break up into a relation to reality, or existence for itself, and into an existence in itself.”
--J.B. Baillie's translation, “Phenomenology of Spirit,” p. 211 (pdf.)​

“Diremption” is defined as a violent separation, to put asunder, to divide, or to break off. The New Testament gospels write of the moment of Christ's death upon the cross of Calvary, "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent... (Matt. 27:51; Mark 15:38; Hebrews 10:20; ll Cor. 3:15).” The term ἐσχίσθη (verb 3rd sg aor ind pass) means, “to split, cut open, to part, to separate.” The Greek term for “rent” used by Matthew is σχίζω from which we get the word “schizo” as in “schizo-phrenia” (two minds). French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and psychoanalysts Félix Guattari write in their book, Anti-Oedipus (1972), that schizophrenia is the disease of capitalism. The term “diremption” can be found in Hegel's “Phenomenology of Spirit” translated by Hegelian scholars A.V. Miller who used this word eight times and J.B. Baillie transcribed it seventeen times. Hegelian scholars translate the German word “Urteil” [judgment, or decision] taken by Hegel to derive from “Ur-” and “Teilung” [division], the meaning of “originary division.” “Diremption” describes human consciousness in the state of internal conflict from contradiction, as when making moral, legal, or political judgments. Contradiction—whether a propositional contradiction, or a performative contradiction— is a precursor of an extensive paradigmatic shift in self, society, and life. St. Paul reminds the early New Testament Christians of the woven three-and-a-half-inch thick torn veil in the Holy of Holies representing the Old Testament paradigm of Hebraic sacrificial laws that was negated; yet, retained in another form by a transcending New Testament telos toward a new form of life (καινότητι ζωῆς: Romans 6:4).

“Without idea no lofty, great, rounded, splendid life exists.”
--Tibor Szemzo​

The assassination of John F. Kennedy is a diremption of the Spirit of a nation yet to be resolved. Allen Dulles is the deist god who released a demonic, autonomous Cold War Fear Machine that devours everything in its path—friend and foe alike. It is not human genetics that defines a person as an American, but rather one's belief in the propositions and ideas of the United States living Constitution. How can a people of a nation rationally hold to a national idea if educational, religious, and governmental institutions if the same are suspected of committing, concealing, or accepting such an irrational act of homicide in order to better prepare militarily for nuclear world war? Could such a nation even be rational, or a free country, or a democracy, or even Christian? An Empire of Lies is vulnerable to cultism, collapse, and the ruination of life.

"...Spirit has dirempted from itself. It has completed its task, thinks Hegel, so now philosophy must step-in
to provide the foundations for ethical life [Sittlichkeit in German]. Thus again, the end is the beginning.
So are you ready to rise to the occasion of philosophy to contribute to its project?"
--Dr. Johannes A. Neiderhauser​

Hegel: The Owl of Minerva (is not what it seems)

The End​

 

There really should be some kind of rule about having more than two posts in a row by the same poster in a thread. Spamming copious posts in a thread is not a discussion.

 

Thank you for your comment!

 

When we name the gods, we name ourselves....

Mnemosyne| A Poem
(Mnemosyne is the goddess of memory and the mother of the nine Muses
by her nephew Zeus, and is the word that "meme" is derived)

​

 

Roses are red... violets are blue...

 

(from post #737)

Rachel Maddow has destroyed her credibility multiple times by lying to the American people.

Here's an example.

WATCH: Rachel Maddow Spreads DANGEROUS Disinformation


I'm not saying that everything she says is a lie, but we shouldn't simply take everything she says as fact. If she says something new, I'm going to assume it's a lie until it's proven true.

 

Have you even watched that stupid video? Or is it one of those "I haven't watched it but I'm posting it anyway" moments you keep doing!?

• The video title deceptively defines the term DISinformation, the host Michael Knowles cites MISinformation. The two are NOT the same!
• Though his example is technically correct it is the ONLY example and is not a lie. You claimed "multiple lies" and that was FALSE!
• Vaccines DO inhibit the spread of a virus by using "herd immunity" - though Maddow was wrong to suggest it guaranteed all people would be immune it doesn't alter the underlying principle that they work to suppress transmission in that fashion.
• Half way through that stupid video he actually starts a long marketing ploy for bedtime products!

Why would ANYONE do that anyway!? And what's with this "we" business!? People are perfectly capable of making their own minds up without your meaningless commentary.

Exactly what means are you going to use to verify its veracity? When all your sources are batshit, you aren't likely to succeed.

 

Rachel Maddow is a propagandist. She helps the government keep people thinking inside the box. Here are a couple of people analyzing how she lied about the origin of the war in Ukraine.

Rachel Maddow's Unhinged Over-The-Top WARMONGERING!
https://rumble.com/v2938gg-rachel-maddows-unhinged-over-the-top-warmongering.html

 

Hogwash - prove it. Properly!

Hogwash. The people you rely on for your "information", seek out gullible people who are looking to satisfy their personal confirmation bias.

See batshit, post batshit. No analysis, no commentary, no detailed summary of how they achieve this crap you say they are doing.

YOU: If she says something new, I'm going to assume it's a lie until it's proven true.

ME: Exactly what means are you going to use to verify its veracity? When all your sources are batshit, you aren't likely to succeed.

 

Do page searches on "Maddow" in these sites to find more info on her.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/?s=Maddow&x=12&y=12
https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=01073....info/&ref=www.google.com/&ss=5593j6078385j16

Here are some more videos about her.
https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Maddow

 

Yes, I'm sure all the viewers will find the batshit website "global research" enticing. If not they can go to the video-dregs-dumping-ground of "rumble". As for that inspired and most helpful "cse.google" link with the person's name as the search criteria - people will be overwhelmed at your assistance in finding information.

Exactly what means are you going to use to verify its veracity? When all your sources are batshit, you aren't likely to succeed.

 

Here is another excellent video by the "Academy of Ideas" on nonconformity as viewed by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1841 essay, "Self-Reliance,"(pdf.) who wrote, “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.” Emerson is not encouraging, or speaking of sophistic contrarianism which is a use of doubt, or skepticism as a strategy to discourage, or shutdown authentic oppositional dialogue.

Why Nonconformity Cures a Sick Self and a Sick Society
​