Obscurantist

Proposition 8

obscure — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:15:12 +0000

Proposition 8 was a fourteen-word amendment to the California Constitution selectively eliminating the right of marriage, which passed in November 2008. The amendment was back by groups with long histories of mutual antagonism, including the Mormon and Catholic churches, suggesting that there is no stronger force for religious tolerance and mutual aid than sexual bigotry.

Racist Symbolism

The numbers 14 and 8 have symbolic significance to white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and other racist hate groups. “The Fourteen Words” is a reference to a 14-word slogan: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” This slogan, coined by the Neo-Nazi David Lane, was inspired by an 88 word statement in Volume 1, Chapter 8 of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Because H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, “88″ is used by Neo-Nazis to signify “Heil Hitler.”

Lane also coined a follow-up 14 word slogan describing his sexual fears: “Because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth.” Lane also wrote extensively about his violent homophobia, and sexual bigotry remains a central feature of white nationalist and Neo-Nazi doctrine.

The supporters of the 14-word Proposition 8 have not explained their use of racist, Ne-Nazi symbolism, or their apparent reference to the ideology and iconography of white nationalists.

Mormon Racism and Traditional Marriage

Proposition 8 was largely funded by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or “Mormons”). The Mormon Church has a long history of racism — Brigham Young wrote that dark skin was the mark of Cain, a sign of evil and degeneracy, and blacks were denied priesthood as a cursed race.

“Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.”
- Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, 10:110

“The reason that one would lose his blessings by marrying a Negro is due to the restriction placed upon them. ‘No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood’ (Brigham Young). It does not matter if they are one-sixth Negro or one-hundred and sixth, the curse of no Priesthood is the same. If an individual who is entitled to the Priesthood marries a Negro, the Lord has decreed that only spirits who are not eligible for the Priesthood will come to that marriage as children. To intermarry with a Negro is to forfeit a ‘Nation of Priesthood holders’….”
- Mormon elder Mark E. Peterson, Convention of Teachers of Religion at the College Level at Brigham Young University, 1954

The negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain spiritual blessings are concerned, particularly the priesthood and the temple blessings that flow therefrom, but this inequality is not of man’s origin. It is the Lord’s doing, is based on his eternal laws of justice, and grows out of the lack of spiritual valiance of those concerned in their first estate.
- Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 1958

In 1978 the Mormon Church risked losing its tax-free status over its racist doctrine and black athletic teams were refusing to play at Brigham Young University. The church had also just opened a new temple in Brazil, and as Apostle LeGrand Richards explained: “down in Brazil, there is so much Negro blood in the population there that it’s hard to get leaders that don’t have Negro blood in them.”

In June of 1978, the Mormon Church president received a revelation that the cursed dark races would be allowed into the priesthood.

Mormons considered polygamy the original form of marriage, and their practice of “traditional” marriage caused repeated denials of Utah statehood. In 1890, when the federal government was about to seize the assets of the LDS Church, their Prophet suddenly received a revelation from God suspending the practice of polygamy. (Shortly thereafter, Utah became a state.) The corporate LDS Church now officially condemns their own traditional form of marriage.

However the doctrines of polygamy and holy concubines remain in Mormon scriptures and many Mormons still consider polygamy an important sacrament. Scholars generally count about 30 wives for Joseph Smith, about 10 of them married to other men, being sealed to the women, while still retaining an earthly marriage to their current husbands. But Smith was especially emphatic about polygamy in regard to multiple virgin brides:

61 And again, as pertaining to the law of the priesthood—if any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse another, and the first give her consent, and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then is he justified; he cannot commit adultery for they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to no one else.
62 And if he have ten virgins given unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for they belong to him, and they are given unto him; therefore is he justified.
- The Doctrine And Covenants Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Section 132

This emphasis on multiple virgin brides led to the practice of forced child marriage in Mormon communities, a practice which persists in fundamentalist Mormon sects.

Catholic Child Manipulation

The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal order, spent heavily on Proposition 8 because they wanted to teach young children that the Pope is infallible. This claim is as true as their advertising which claimed that Proposition 8 would keep young children from being taught about gay sex in school.

Not that there’s any reason the Catholic Church is self-conscious about authority figures engaging in gay sex with children. No reason at all. Absolutely none.

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John S McCain

obscurantist — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:13:48 +0000

John Sydney McCain III

terrible pilot (three planes crashed, one shot down)
POW
Philandering playboy (”maverick”)
POW
Senator
POW
Cylon operative
POW

John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone on August 29, 1936. His mother, Roberta Wright McCain, was an oil heiress. His father Admiral John McCain II, became commander-in-chief of the Pacific forces during the Vietnam War. His grandfather was Admiral John S. McCain, Sr., the commander of aircraft carriers in the Pacific under Admiral William F. Halsey in World War II.

On his 23rd mission in Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1967, McCain was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. Although he doesn’t like to mention it, McCain was then held as a POW.

McCain’s political career was launched with the fortune of his second wife, the beer heiress and USC cheerleader Cindy Lou Hensley. The couple begin their marriage as an affair while McCain was still married to his grievously injured first wife.

“At least I don’t pile on the make-up like a trollop you cunt!”
- John McCain, demonstrating his maverick streak to Cindy Lou

Alice in Wonderland

obscure — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:00:29 +0000

from “KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation” (CIA torture guide) dated July 1963:

The aim of the Alice in Wonderland or confusion technique is to confound the expectations and conditioned reactions of the interrogatee. He is accustomed to a world that makes some sense, at least to him: a world of continuity and logic, a predictable world. He clings to this world to reinforce his identity and powers of resistance.

The confusion technique is designed not only to obliterate the familiar but to replace it with the weird. Although this method can be employed by a single interrogator, it is better adapted to use by two or three. When the subject enters the room, the first interrogator asks a doubletalk question — one which seems straightforward but is essentially nonsensical. Whether the interrogatee tries to answer or not, the second interrogator follows up (interrupting any attempted response) with a wholly unrelated and equally illogical query. Sometimes two or more questions are asked simultaneously. Pitch, tone, and volume of the interrogators’ voices are unrelated to the import of the questions. No pattern of questions and answers is permitted to develop, nor do the questions themselves relate logically to each other. In this strange atmosphere the subject finds that the pattern of speech and thought which he has learned to consider normal have been replaced by an eerie meaninglessness. The interrogatee may start laughing or refuse to take the situation seriously. But as the process continues, day after day if necessary, the subject begins to try to make sense of the situation, which becomes mentally intolerable. Now he is likely to make significant admissions, or even to pour out his story, just to stop the flow of babble which assails him. This technique may be especially effective with the orderly, obstinate type.

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MKULTRA

Adnan Khashoggi

obscure — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:54:36 +0000

Saudi Billionaire: owns a mansion and a yacht
Connected to almost every major global conspiracy in the last 50 years

Arms Dealers + BCCI + Beatles + Bin Laden + Bush + Contras + Diana + Drug Dealers + Iran + Iraq + JFK + 9/11 …

Uncle of Dodi Fayed, Diana, lover of Paul McCartney’s wife, Queen wrote a song about his yacht, attended Cal State Chico

Convicted in absentia of fraud in Thailand.

Joseph A. Ball — the principal author of the Warren Commission report — represented Khashoggi in his 1980 divorce from Soraya Khashoggi.

After the death of her second husband, Jackie Kennedy was romantically involved with Khashoggi.

Khashoggi’s daughter Nabila, his former wife Lamia Khashoggi (formerly Laura Biancolini) and Ali Khashoggi are high level members of the Church of Scientology.

Khashoggi secretly contributed to Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign. He attended Nixon’s funeral in 1994.

Theresa LePore was supervisor of elections in Palm Beach County during the disputed 2000 election. In the 1980s, when she was chief deputy supervisor of elections, she moonlighted as a “flight attendant” on private planes owned by Adnan Khashoggi.

Robert G. Morvillo was the lawyer who got Khashoggi aquitted for siphoning money to Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. (Morvillo was not so lucky with Martha Stewart). In the 1960s and 1970s, Morvillo served in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York where he mentored a young assistant U.S. attorney named Rudolph Giuliani.

Khashoggi met with Richard Perle shortly before the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Khashoggi owns the Genesis Communications Network which syndicates the Alex Jones Show. Jones — a central figure in the “9/11 Truth” movement — advocates of the theory that the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks were government produced hoaxes. Jones also filmed the “Cremation of Care” ceremony at Bohemian Grove in 2000. GCN also syndicates Jeff Rense, who has promoted the cocaine-fueled reptoid hallucinations of James Casbolt. GCN also hosts Dave Von Kleist, an outspoken advocate of the invisible elfin demolition team theory for 9/11.

Khashoggi was partner/financial backer of John “Men are from Mars” Gray, connected through Genesis Intermedia. Khashoggi’s longtime business partner Ramy El-Batrawi was CEO and Chairman of the company, and was even executive producer of gray’s 1997 CD, “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus - Songs for Loving Couples.” (Gray claims he was victimized by Khashoggi’s stock scams.) Gray is a prominent member of the 9/11 Truth movement.

Lee Harvey Oswald

obscurantist — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:17:25 +0000

The Oswald backyard rifle photos are considered clumsy fakes, in part because the shadows on the face don’t match anything else in the picture. The head appears to be from a photograph taken at a different time of day, pasted onto a body that is actually shorter than Oswald. The FBI made this test photo and submitted it to the Warren Commission — with the head removed — as proof that the backyard rifle photos were genuine and unmodified.

Lee Harvey was a Friend of Mine
written by Phil Bennison (Homer Henderson), covered by Laura Cantrell, T. Tex Edwards, Split Lip Rayfield…

I was born in Dallas in 1952,
Lee Harvey moved across the street on Bentley Avenue,
He used to throw the ball to me when I was just a kid,
They say he shot the president—I don’t think he did.

And Lee Harvey was a friend of mine,
He used to take me fishing all the time,
He used to throw the ball to me when I was just a kid,
They say he shot the president but I don’t think he did.

I’ve seen them pictures of him with the family and a gun,
Shadows were pointin’ every-which-a-way;
‘Twas only just for fun,
Someone faked those photos; that’s not the way it is,
They say he shot the president; I don’t think he did.

And Lee Harvey was a friend of mine,
He used to take me fishing all the time,
He used to throw the ball to me when I was just a kid,
They say he shot the president but I don’t think he did.

I seen it on the TV when Lee Harvey got gunned down,
Murdered by Jack Ruby—the biggest sleaze in town,
He stuck that gun into his ribs;
Says, “Here’s lookin’ at you, kid,
Ruby killed Lee Harvey—TV proved he did!

And Lee Harvey was a friend of mine,
He used to take me fishing all the time,
He used to throw the ball to me when I was just a kid,
They say he shot the president but I don’t think he did.

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James Casbolt

obscurantist — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:05:13 +0000

drug mule
conspiracy theorist
disinformation agent

Casbolt believes that alien-human reptoid hybrids are living in underground bases and drinking the blood of innocent children. He believes that British intelligence runs all the other governments of the world, along with the global drug trade. He believes the London train bombings in 2004 were fake and the bus bombing was performed by actors.

Casbolt backs up his beliefs with the claim that he smuggled cocaine as a British MI6 intelligence agent. He claims he is a highly practiced, government trained liar with no moral scruples about using propaganda and violence for personal gain. He uses this claim to suggest people should trust what he says.

One possibility is that Casbolt is a profiteering cynic who is merely reciting lines from a threadbare script about alien-human hybrids (see: the X-Files movie) to pump up his reputation among the desperate and confused in order to make a quick buck. Another possibility is that Casbolt is mentally ill. (Of course this does not actually conflict with his own account, since he proudly describes himself as an amoral sociopath.)

But there is a possibility that Casbolt is in fact working with national intelligence agencies… as a disinformation agent and patsy. In this scenario, his community of conspiracy researchers are not truth seekers — they are actually lab rats in an experiment to test the spread of disinformation.

George H W Bush

obscurantist — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:44:32 +0000

CIA director
Son of a Nazi-supporting Senator
Father of an alcoholic coke-head
Married to Aleister Crowley’s illegitimate daughter
Shape-shifting reptoid (disputed)

In 1992, it was revealed that Bush had been taking benzodiazepine in the form of the sedative drug Halcion (Triazolam). The effects of the drug can include fuzzy, clouded thoughts and incomprehension of the passage of time, and violent and unpredictable mood swings. Triazolam was briefly removed from the American market due to concerns over serious psychological side effects. It has been banned in the UK since 1991.

Benzodiazepines are extremely addictive, and withdrawal is extremely uncomfortable. Some effects from withdrawal include: drowsiness, nightmares, hallucinations, panic, muscular spasms, seizures, and nausea.

At a state dinner in Tokyo on June 8, 1992, Bush vomited in the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, and then collapsed on him. This was memorialized by the Japanese word Bushuru which means to vomit publicly.

Bush lost the 1980 Republican nomination to Ronald Reagan, who made Bush his Vice-President. In an odd coincidence, Scott Hinckley — brother of Reagan’s attempted assassin John W. Hinckley Jr. — was scheduled to have dinner the night after the assassination attempt at the Denver home of Neil Bush, one of the vice-president’s sons.

The Bush family has long-standing ties to the Bin Laden family. In an odd coincidence, the day before the 9/11 attacks, George H.W. Bush and several members of his cabinet were at a Carlyle Group business conference with Shafig bin Laden — half-brother of Osama bin Laden — at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, located a few miles from the Pentagon.

Unique among Americans, Bush cannot remember exactly where he was on November 22, 1963 when Kennedy was shot. A confidential memo (declassified in 1993) suggests that he was in Tyler, Texas — about two hours from Dallas — and would be proceeding to the Sheraton in Dallas that day. There is also evidence that he was already checked-in at the Dallas Sheraton.

In an odd coincidence, there is a photograph of a man who strongly resembles George H W Bush on the steps of the Texas Book Depository just after the assassination. While the police in the photo seem to be focusing on pursuit of a fleeing gunman, this man is focusing his attention towards the underpass and train tracks.

At a speech for the funeral service of Gerald Ford in January 2007, Bush Sr. considered it a relevant occasion to publicly denounce JFK conspiracy theorists and affirm the magical conclusions of the Warren Commission report.

BCCI

obscure — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:11:47 +0000

Bank of Commerce and Credit International

Joe Klein

obscure — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:59:57 +0000

A “centrist” pundit.

“The only way that real change… will come is through coalitions built from the center out. And those coalitions will only flourish in a public atmosphere of civility, humanity and compromise.”

– Joe Klein

Personal attacks by Joe Klein:

Eric Alterman: “futile and pathetic”, narcissistic, lazy, peripheral, inaccurate, foolish, silly…
Reason: “has been on my case”

Duncan Black: “illiberal leftist”, Extremist (demoted to: “extremely smug”)
Reason: Atrios has been mostly correct over the last few years (and called Joe Klein a wanker)

Noam Chomsky: “America Hater”
Reason: No explanation whatsoever

John Edwards: “Edwards’ line of work: ambulance-chaser”
“skeevy ambulance chasers (probably) contributing to his campaign”
Reason: Edwards is a Democrat with money

Al Gore: “a smug, stubborn, and aloof human being”, “harsh and stupid”, “Gore’s populism reeked of resentment and neurosis”, “looked like a madman”
“was it the powerful or Bill Clinton he really disdained? The anger was a bit too sweaty and confused for most Americans, who tend not to elect angry presidents.”
Reason: (ad hominem)

John Kerry: effete, awkward, aristocratic, Frenchy jerk
Reason: false claim that Kerry focus-grouped his Abu Ghraib response (a claim which Klein used to plug his book)

Paul Krugman: “fool”, “ill-informed dilettante”
Reason: Krugman said that those who argue for an failed escalation in the Iraq war are either cynical or delusional

Media Matters: “thought police”
Reason: Media Matters highlighted Klein’s use of a Republican cliché

Michael Moore: “a disgrace”
Reason: Took 9/11 victims to get free healthcare in Cuba

Markos Moulitsas: “dangerous extremist” “Robespierre”
Reason: Kos believes in the efficacy of democratic primary elections

Al Sharpton: “a race-hustling phony” “a dangerous buffoon”
Reason: Sharpton asks too many questions, leads “phony protests”

Joe Klein on Democrats in general:

“a party with absolutely no redeeming social value”

“They seem as confused as Democrats normally do”

“make fools of themselves even when they speak the truth”

“the perpetually benighted Donkey party”

“It’s a really boring and flat party.”

“the Democratic Party has had a love affair with eggheads, and sad to say, high IQ is not a leading indicator of success in the presidency.”

“unable to creatively engage or oppose President Bush, or even to start an interesting fight among themselves”

Joe Klein on about everybody on “The Left”:

“the take-no-prisoners left”

“illiberal leftists and reactionary progressives”

“rooting for an American failure”

“assume every U.S. military action abroad is criminal”

“a need, born of intellectual myopia and insecurity, to burn heretics”

“The default position of leftists like, say, Michael Moore and many writers at The Nation, is that America is essentially a malignant, imperialistic force in the world and the use of American military power is almost always wrong.”

Joe Klein on Conservatives:

“An argument can be made that NASCAR rules in presidential elections, and victory goes to the most convincing cracker.”

Newt Gingrich: “an intellectually honest policy wonk”
“It’s almost always a joy listening to Gingrich when he’s on a tear.”

“I don’t want to say Gingrich has mellowed–the staccato feistiness is still there”

Now, Newt Gingrich is not a public figure who has often been associated with civility. His angry hyperpartisan rantings defined him during the period before he led the “Republican revolution” of 1994 and during his four years as Speaker of the House. But there was always another side to Newt. He was an intellectually honest policy wonk with an appetite for taking on the most important issues facing society

Rudy Giuliani: What is COIN? Let me oversimplify: coin is the military equivalent of the police strategies that mayors like New York City’s Rudy Giuliani used to reduce crime rates in the 1990s.

John McCain: “the avatar of a new passage in American politics”

(”I suspect–well, I hope–that McCain was the avatar of a new passage in American politics: The public… will not trust a consultant-created android.”)

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WTC 7

obscurantist — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:38:47 +0000

The original 7 World Trade Center was a 47 story skyscraper across the street from the Twin Towers. It is the focus of the “controlled demolition” conspiracy theory, better known as the “invisible elfin demolition team” theory.

WTC 7 was heavily damaged by tons of falling debris from WTC 1 — emergency workers reported a twenty-story gash in the side facing the towers. The building burned for more than four hours before firefighters announced that the structure was beginning to buckle and they pulled back all their crews. It continued to burn completely out of control for another two hours before collapsing.

it’s just a flesh wound!

Explosive sounds immediately before and during the collapse could have been due to half a city block of concrete and steel slamming in on itself. Or it could have been explosions of the many large electrical transformers throughout the building (example). Or it could have been related to the the 40,000 gallons gallons of diesel fuel in the basement used to power huge generators in a multi-story electrical substation over which the entire building was cantilevered.

Or it could have been due to a carefully rigged controlled demolition which had been set up months in advance by special teams of elfin bomber-commandos.

Level 47 Elfin Bomber-Commando

According to the invisible elfin demolition team theory, these magical creatures tore out the interior walls of three massive skyscrapers, wrapped the structural beams with powerful cutting charges, replaced all the walls and furniture exactly as they were, and erased the memories of the thousands of people who would have witnessed their walls and furniture moving around without apparent cause. (They were probably aided by rings imbued with unspeakable powers, and cloaks woven by spiders of pure darkness.)

Dark Elves used ninja levitation to plant thousands of bombs in the twin towers

Then, on September 11, most if not all of the emergency workers on the scene were part of this sprawling conspiracy — perhaps under the sway of a dark elfin charm. Rather than trying to save survivors, these first responders were in fact the willing assassins of thousands of innocent people. And after the towers fell, while standing in the charred remains of their friends and co-workers, they pretended to try to put out fires in WTC 7, but in fact they were all just biding their time, waiting for just the right moment to push the big red explosion button which would cover their tracks with the pixie dust of elfin thermite.

(To be fair, the bombs were probably manufactured by gnomes)

Obscurantist

Proposition 8

Racist Symbolism

Mormon Racism and Traditional Marriage

Catholic Child Manipulation

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John S McCain

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Alice in Wonderland

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Adnan Khashoggi

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Lee Harvey Oswald

James Casbolt

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George H W Bush

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BCCI

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Joe Klein

Personal attacks by Joe Klein:

Joe Klein on Democrats in general:

Joe Klein on about everybody on “The Left”:

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WTC 7

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