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Part One The big question is, why should we believe any of these radical accounts we always hear about, these crazy conspiracy theories? Shouldn't we consider their sources? Shouldn't we be far more skeptical and take them with a grain of salt? The masses have been duped time and time again. It's time to take a closer look now. Numerous political plots and other diabolical schemes inspired the naïve people of countless nations, not just the United States, for the last few centuries, but we can actually trace most of these to a few sources. I want to focus on these particular conspiracy theories that involve the Secret Government, the New World Order, the Illuminati, the Masonic Order, the French Revolution, Communism, and so forth. Augustin De Barruel and John Robison started conspiratorial rumors in the late 18th Century through proliferated literature to the masses, regarding the French Revolution, the Illuminati, and the Freemasons. De Barruel claimed this particular Revolutionary war was caused by the Freemasons and other secret societies, and that the Illuminati was a secret inner conclave of the Masonic Order. The plot's aim was to overthrow the French monarchy as well as Christianity in general. Although he had no real evidence, the people believed the radical claims he promulgated. The question is, did he make it all up, or was his radical ideas based on any facts at all? It's hard to tell, but quite often conspiracy theorists will find questionable tidbits of information scattered here and there, often just rumors, then he tries to connect the dots, making them fit together whether they actually do or not. As time goes on, sometimes these conspiracies go to the wayside or are forgotten. But often if they're left on the backburner, someone else down the road will pick them up and breathe into them new life, usually to support some new cause - or lie. Take for instance Robert Welch who obviously saw promise in the old Augustin De Barruel and John Robison conspiracies. He founded the John Birch Society if for any reason to cause political uproars in society with his diabolical hypothesis. The John Birch Society was formed in 1959 (named after a missionary murdered by Chinese Communists) and its members used these old conspiracy stories and took advantage of them, resurrecting them in a new light. Although it began with it's verbal fight against communism, it expanded to conspiracies of secret groups and insiders involved in the diabolical plan of world domination. In fact, Robert Welch, coined the phrase "New World Order," which became one of the most intriguing if not fear-fraught conspiracy concepts to date. Robert Welch and the John Birch Society claimed that conspiratorial insiders thrived in such groups as the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Bilderberg group, and a few others. Various banking families were also members, such as the Rockerfellers, the Rothchilds, the Morgan, the Warburgs, and others. Ironically, key men in the John Birch Society were Freemasons! This is intriguing since the original conspiracy theories, perpetrated by Barruel and Robison, claimed Freemasons were accused of conspiratorial agendas. Although the Society still exists, it has dwindled and decreased in size greatly, but its ideas and influence still spark the masses, especially those who enjoy such conspiracy theories. And the threat of supposed world domination still looms in the minds of many believers -- due to these conspiracy proliferators. There's another contributing element of the whole New World Order conspiracy theory, which arose around the 1890s when a most peculiar subversive piece of literature was circulated all over Europe and eventually gained popularity all over the globe, that being The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a manifesto of sorts revealing a suppose plot by a Jewish faction to dominate the world. Although it began as a hoax, its contents and principles were taken too seriously, especially by Adolph Hitler. You can easily put two and two together and imagine what heinous schemes he had in mind. Although he succeeded in the harrowing plot of massacring millions of Jews, his dreams of expanded conquest never came to fruition. And of course, the John Birch Society redefined this scenario around the 1960s, or upgraded it from a Jewish conspiracy to clandestine Insiders of a secret New World Order plot. References: The Elemental Encyclopedia of Secret Societies, by John Michael Greer Rule by Secrecy, by Jim Marrs Part Two So how is a conspiracy theory born? Quite often, a rumor will circulate, sometimes based on truth, sometimes not, and then other people hear it and add to it, write about it, embellishing it further, until it grows and becomes some radical conspiracy theory that strikes fear in the hearts of gullible people, whether it's the 9/11 disaster being orchestrated by our own government, the Apollo moon landings being totally fake, the scare of aliens planning an invasion, on the Earth, or a secret government concocting the New World Order, and so forth. Some such conspiracy theories may have some truth to them, others may be just harebrained wild yarns. We can't always tell which is which. Unless we dig even deeper, uncovering more info, hence embellishing the conspiracy theory even further as it changes and morphs into something even grander. So it keeps going and growing, year after year, and century after century. So it's true, the same has been happening for centuries with the whole world domination scenario. Many past conquerors had a lust to rule many kingdoms, if not the whole world, although they had no idea what its scope truly was. Usually they succeeded in ruling these other lands, but as always, empires fall, just as the Roman Empire rose, thrived, and failed. Hitler's Nazi dream empire began rising, but fell pretty fast. But they all dreamed and yearned for something on the lines of a New World Order. So we always come back to the real question: were any of these original wild speculations or rumors based on any truth at all? Or was all of it just a pack of lies? But is it possible that there was a grain of truth in the beginning that got sprinkled with mostly disinformation and propaganda? Or is there truly a threat that exist today, something on the lines of a plan for the New World Order? Perhaps the truth will be revealed in days to come. We may never know -- until it hits the fan. References: The Elemental Encyclopedia of Secret Societies, by John Michael Greer Rule by Secrecy, by Jim Marrs |
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