guruilla » Fri Aug 26, 2016 10:41 pm wrote:divideandconquer » Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:41 am wrote:These people will never be held legally accountable so they have the power to create events to, as guruilla said, "map cultural influences". The distribution of images and information--or lack thereof--is weaponized in the hand of these culture creators.
To clarify, mapping cultural influences is what I am attempting, here & elsewhere; what the social engineers are doing, IMO, is more like terraforming.divideandconquer » Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:41 am wrote:There is some evidence that supports that the witch hunts of history seem to be initiated and carried out by the "witches" themselves especially in the case of Salem. In other words, that although the "witch hunts" were targeted against innocent people, there was some truth to the claims that initiated them.
Bella Dodd's book, School of Darkness (not to mention her testimony to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1952 and 1953) explains the depth of penetration that Communism made into the fabric of our nation in the 1930's and 40's, which supports some of McCarthy's claims of communist infiltration into education, the Catholic Church, etc.
I've not heard anything about this but what I began to see while reading Cheit's book was a pattern relating to many of the child abuse cases that were eventually reframed, and dismissed, as "witch-hunts." They began with medical evidence, credible children's testimony, and other strongly corroborating material; then, at a certain point, often when other investigators (often but not always self-identifying as Christian) became involved and began leading witnesses, making exaggerated claims and baseless accusations, and so on. I had assumed this was a case of real abuse followed by an understandable panic reaction that interfered with the investigation, and in some cases it probably was. But the more I read of the data (Cheit refers to court records, primarily), the more it struck me how effective this was as a deliberate strategy to undermine the investigations. Coerce children to make claims that aren't true, accuse innocent people, confabulate evidence, all under the guise of trying to expose the evil-doers, and pretty soon you can't find the real culprits or victims for all the straw ones, and of course, the whole thing begins to look like a witch-hunt. Juries were often unable, or unwilling, to distinguish between individual cases, and they had a tendency to lump all the accused together as if all the charges were equally valid (human beings have low tolerance for ambiguity). Hence, since there were obvious cases of wrong accusations, the jury tendency was to exonerate them all. With hindsight, this couldn't have worked out better for the perpetrators if it had been a conscious strategy at work, which is exactly what I think it was.
This isn't to say there aren't individuals who throw bricks through windows and lynch innocent people based on fear of the supernatural and/or rank ignorance & bigotry; as a onetime occultist & street Tarot reader (yes, Thoth deck), I have been on the wrong end of (a mild version of) that sort of suspicion & distrust and yeah, it really pissed me off, and yes, it's pretty ironic to find myself accused of being on the other end of that polarity now. But in terms of organized persecutions/mass hysteria, I am no longer convinced they happen without at least some foundation in reality, at least in recent times. It's telling that people, like Levenda, who throw the 'witch-hunt' phrase about to counter inquiries into child sexual abuse refer back to the McMartin case, which is demonstrably not a case of hysterical overreaction, much less confabulation, but which remains the template for this sort of alleged phenomenon in recent history. That suggests that there are no real cases, for otherwise, why cite a provably bogus one as the primary precedent?
Sorry, I misinterpreted what you said regarding "mapping cultural influences", which I should've understood from the beginning, the keyword: "mapping".
As for what I said about the guilty hunting the innocent in Salem, I should never have used the word evidence because as far as I know there isn't any hard evidence. I was referring more broadly to the divisions between elite and popular religiosity, specifically to the practice of alchemy and/ or witchcraft that John Winthrop claimed, in so many words, was too complex and beyond the comprehension of the unwashed masses.
For instance, it appears that Ben Franklin may have been deeply embedded in the occult. It's reported that he was a Rosicrucian--in addition to Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine--and a freemason who eventually rose to Grand Master of the St. John's lodge and in 1749 and was elected Grand Master of the Province. While in France Franklin was made Grand Master of the Nine Sisters Lodge in Paris, Then, there is his involvement with a secret society called the Friars of St. Francis of Wycombe, more popularly known in the parlors of London as the Hell Fire Club. He may have been part of the British intelligence agency created by Dr. John Dee and Francis Bacon.
On February 11, 1998 The London Times reported that workmen restoring Benjamin Franklin's London home dug up the remains of six children and four adults hidden below the home.
"Initial estimates are that the bones are about 200 years old and were buried at the time Franklin was living in the house, which was his home from 1757 to 1762, and from 1764 to 1775. Most of the bones show signs of having been dissected, sawn or cut. One skull has been drilled with several holes. Paul Knapman, the Westminster Coroner, said: "I cannot totally discount the possibility of a crime. There is still a possibility that I may have to hold an inquest."
Human sacrifice? Probably not, but we'll never know for sure.
There was an active network of alchemists communicating throughout Europe and the British Colonies according to Walter Woodward's book Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676 that continued on into the new world. In other words, despite the official claim that the procession toward modernity was the result of an age that placed reason, rational argument, deduction, judgment, etc., above the supernatural/spiritual or occult, there is evidence that witches, alchemists, ritual magicians, and occult Freemasons, Rosicrucians, etc. may have paved the way. It seems that occult symbolism and the hidden hand of Freemasonry is at work in every turning point in America’s history.
The Enlightenment elite throughout history to the present would have us believe that they were/are above such nonsense. That witchcraft, the occult, the supernatural, and religion in general is the purview of lesser human beings, the uneducated, the ignorant, etc. when in reality it appears the opposite is true. As more research emerges, yet, suppressed to one degree or another, it paints a very different picture of the elite and powerful leaders that we learned about in school.
Whether or not you call it a witch hunt, the guilty have intentionally led the hunt for innocent scapegoats all throughout history: blacks, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Native Americans, homosexuals, etc.
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