The original article is full of defecation about the JBS. There is plenty to criticize about them – they are, after all, a group of human beings, and as such are subject to the failings of humans. What group isn’t? Either political party? The Catholic Church? Cops? Congress?
Ernie is a very good, very well researched, apparently well intentioned source to start with to read all the dirt there is to find on them, though I may be giving him too much credit. Given that his heart and head are immune to questioning his own perceptions, as I have learned in long debates with him in the past, it is not out of the question that he is not as well intentioned and honorable as he seems, but rather has a vendetta against them and his agenda does not include discerning truth at any cost (as is my goal).
Ryan Mauro (the author of this hatched job) knows just enough about the JBS to be dangerous. He grossly mis-states their view on conspiracy. It didn’t take Welch more than a few years to see that communism was not the “inner circle” around which the conspiracy revolved. There is a conspiracy, but it is not like a unified group of business, political, media, and other powerful interests with Deep Throat getting on conference call weekly to issue plans – it is more like a dozen Mafia families with no love lost between them, sitting around the table and forced to work with each other, each vying for as much power and control as possible but none wanting to kill the golden goose of power flowing through DC and the UN.
The JBS holds and defends not only the Constitution, but a traditionally religious mindset. It is not denominational in any manner and they do not even screen for religious affiliation in their membership, but they firmly believe that we are in a struggle of good vs evil, and the only “conspiracy” in the sense that the author writes is Satanic. Business leaders, politicians, media personnel, etc., are each attracted to their role in the grand drama not based on their desire to further some eternal or worldly conspiracy, but for their own motives. For some that may be pure greed or lust for power; for others it may be to save the world from Global Warming or help the poor. In the end, power and money and control flowing into ever more concentrated hands is the result. A small number of humans are conscious of the big picture to some degree, but most are merely motivated merely by their own lower, sel-serving human nature.
To the leadership of the JBS the spiritual battle is the ultimate cause. Be they right or be they wrong about that aspect, the fact remains that they have been far more correct than any other group over the last 60 years about the big trends in government and economics (towards a “New World Order” where government power is ever more concentrated globally, as Bush and dozens and dozens of world leaders have openly proclaimed), the implications of that trend (dire, including a loss of sovereignty!), and how to reverse it (restore the Constitution and encourage individuals to live moral lives). Fiscal conservatives and libertarians have much to agree on – we do not have time to waste bickering about whether the cause of the decline of America is ultimately spiritual or merely pure bungling by well intentioned bureaucrats.
A word to the wise – don’t waste your time trying to prove the JBS wrong that some bankers and other power groups worked consciously for decades to influence and nurture the developments we see unfolding around us with such clarity every day – a quick read of Carroll Quigley’s book Tragedy and Hope (if you can read a 1400 page tome quickly) reveals that there is no way you can ever prove he is wrong – he details the blueprint far too clearly with exhaustive references. That does not mean that Quigley “proves” the conspiracy exists by any totally objective means, but it does mean that the matter is not going to be settled with any degree of certainty in this life.
(Quigley, for those who do not know, was an uber liberal professor at Georgetown with absolutely impeccable credentials, not the least of which is the fact that he was Bill Clinton’s mentor – Clinton said Carroll clarified his world vision. Quigley based much of his “tell all” book on the two years of research he did studying the secret records of some extremely powerful world shakers. He actually agreed with all of their elitist “white man’s burden” views, with the main exception that they preferred their names and goals kept out of the public eye, and he thought their noble work deserved the limelight. If anyone wants to read my review of the book, let me know.)
