Update: I read Diana Johnstone’s piece at Counter Punch describing the provocative nature of Pussy Riot.(h/t Daniel McAdams)

Well, no disagreement there. But the piece as a whole was a disappointment and misrepresented a couple of things.

No. 1. While Johnstone called out Avaaz (behind the Anna Hazare trojan horse in India) correctly, as well as other rights organization, she promoted Assange uncritically. What’s the difference, pray tell?

It’s only because Avaaz is more from the liberal side of things. Assange is on the left and Johnstone is on the left.

The far let, like the far right, has taken to Julian in the most craven way, even though his claims are patently fraudulent and misleading.

Two. Johnstone’s whole tone was awfully patronizing toward Russians, Orthodoxy and Slavophiles, who apparently need the instruction of the West to understand the place of “wisdom” which the West has reached. Ir’s apparently uncontroversial that everyone in the world must follow the western model, not their own.

In the third place, the Orthodox leaders were not condemning the sexual practices of the young women. They were condemning their PUBLIC infractions against private property and the dignity of others.

Fourthly, the West has no special “wisdom” about morality that every other nation should swallow. Westerners indeed could learn a great deal from cultures they believe to be inferior to them. Technological superiority does not make you morally superior in any way. As the primary seat of globalism (along with the UK and Israel), Western cultures carry the infection of imperialism much more than other cultures, inspite of the other failings of those cultures. Westerners need to show some humility about that and some repentance.

Russians have their unique problems, so have the West.So have all cultures.

The commentary showed the incredible level of smugness present among even enlightened activists in the West.

Their reference point is always themselves as the omega point of the universe. They simply do not try to evaluate something in its own terms.  Others do not show this failing nearly as much.

Such insularity is not only morally offensive, it is a serious failure of rationality.

Finally, the West is plain wrong about sex (I mean the left, that rules academia). The results are apparent to everyone, even in the West.  Sexual disease, gender wars, destroyed marriages, and increasing dependence on government. The sturdy American women of the nineteenth century would be insulted by the whining drivel coming out of the left today.

At Veterans Today, a fascinating take on what’s real behind the Assange circus in London (at the Ecuadorian embassy):

“Have you ever asked yourself why the founder of WikiLeaks always reaches the front pages of our daily and international newspapers and yet this unknown entity (Andrea Davison) has little or no coverage!!

You may be surprised to learn that in the real sense what Ms Davison knows far outweighs the out of date garbage that comes from Julian Assange!!

Ms Davison had an incredible amount of very secretive documents in her possession that had the potential to put many ex and current Prime Ministers in prison for life and in some case many other very senior MP’s and members of the House of Lords so I again keep asking the same question why is the world’s media ignoring Ms Davison?

I would now like to continue in exposing exactly what this woman knew as proof that our government and the opposition certainly are making sure that the media does not get hold of this story.

Here is more information that Ms Davison herself produced and published in her own words with the title:

MI5 DESTROY THE BLAIR BROWN IRAQ DEFENCE ARE THEY NOW WAR CRIMINALS – Jul 20, 2010:

Former head of MI5 in her evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry showed Tony Blair’s evidence that “Toppling Saddan Hussein helped make Britain safe from terrorists” was false.

In her testimony she said, what every intelligence service in the world knew, that Iraqwas no threat and did not have the capability to use WMD’s. Whilst she did not say that Saddam had mobile biological weapons units in the southern marshes it was revealed in a memo to John Gieve, Permanent Secretary to the Home Office, in March 2002, that Saddam was not likely to use chemical or biological weapons unless “he felt the survival of his regime was in doubt”.

Britain and the USA supplied Iraqwith a military industrial base which included the facility to produce chemical and biological weapons and deliver them. Britain supplied large amounts of VX gas and the tech transfer which resulted in a bio engineered flu virus transposed with a biotoxin. Following Desert Storm much was transported to Sudan, Iran and Libya.

The intelligence reports from around the world did not suit Tony Blair’s agenda and he made war on Iraq causing the radicalization of British Muslims and thereby increasing the threat of home grown terrorism Just as the intelligence reports he chose to ignore warned. Some of those reports were written by former arms investigator and intelligence agent Andrea Davison.

Manningham-Buller also said Iraq had posed little threat before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, and insisted there was no evidence of a link between former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. “There was no credible intelligence to suggest that connection and that was the judgment, I might say, of the CIA,” she told the inquiry. “It was not a judgment that found favour with some parts of the American machine.”

Former head of M15 Eliza Manningham-Buller revealed that there was such a surge of warnings of home-grown terrorist threats after the invasion of Iraq that MI5 asked for – and got – a 100 per cent increase in its budget. Baroness Manningham-Buller, who was director general of MI5 in 2002-07, told the Chilcot panel that MI5 started receiving a “substantially” higher volume of reports that young British Muslims being drawn to al-Qa’ida.

As reported she told the inquiry: “Our involvement in Iraq radicalised, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people – a few among a generation – who saw our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as being an attack on Islam.” She added: “Arguably we gave Osama bin Laden his Iraqi Jihad so that he was able to move into Iraq in a way that he was not before.”

Her words are in stark contrast to the claim that Mr Blair made in front of the same inquiry on the 29 January this year “If I am asked whether I believe we are safer, more secure, that Iraq is better, that our own security is better, with Saddam and his two sons out of office and out of power, I believe indeed we are. “It was better to deal with this threat, to remove him from office, and I do genuinely believe that the world is safer as a result.”

Sir Menzies Campbell, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, added: “I should be astonished if Mr Blair were to return to give further evidence, but questions will remain as to what it was which prompted him to disregard the reservations of officials and their advice. If only Britain had been as well served by its politicians as it was by Eliza Manningham-Buller then we would never have got ourselves into the illegal mess of Iraq.”

Only 16 days before Blair gave evidence to the Inquiry documents were seized by Derby Police from Andrea Davison proving that the Government knew there were no WMD’s in Iraq at the time of the second Iraq War, along with Intelligence reports which would have ended Tony Blair’s and Gordon Brown’s carefully laid tissue of lies

Ken Livingstone, who was Mayor of London at the time of the 7 July bombings, said: “Eliza Manningham-Buller’s evidence is a damning indictment of a foreign policy that not only significantly enhanced the risk of terrorist attacks in London but gave al-Qa’ida the opening to operate in Iraq too.”

Evidence showed that a year before British troops went into Iraq, Elize sent the Home Office a memo which – though phrased in official language – demolished the idea that Saddam Hussein’s regime represented a credible terrorist threat to theUK. The memo went on: “We assess that Iraqi capability to mount attacks in the UKis currently limited.”

Lady Manningham-Buller also hinted at disagreement between Blair’s office and MI5 over the dossier that the Prime Minister presented to Parliament in September 2002, to prepare public opinion for the likelihood of war.

“We were asked to put in some low-grade, small intelligence to it and we refused because we didn’t think it was reliable,” she said.

Andrea Davison has repeatedly asked the Home Office for the Return of her documents and Intelligence reports from the Derby Police in order to present them to the Iraq enquiry without success. Why the new Government want to keep them hidden is a mystery yet to be revealed.
They both ended up seeking political asylum in this building – The Ecuador Embassy in London

As I told you all in my last article Ms Andrea Davison has far more to offer than the CIA conman Julian Assange so why isn’t the world media interested in this scoop and more to the point just what does this women know that the British Government does not want you to know?

To prove that the information I printed is authentic I will now show you some very sensitive letters letter that Ms Davison herself released into the public domain before she was gagged and forced to take down her webpage…….you will see extremely confidential letters that proves beyond a shadow of doubt that all that she did was known to Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and the current PM David Cameron who between them not only carried out breaches under the Nuclear Explosions Act but she herself and her journalistic puppet, Pete Sawyer, could both have breached the Official Secrets Act!!

This story is truly a major scoop but the current Zionist controlled world media refuses to print it and those in high places continue to evade prison!!

Here are a sequence of letters that show communications between Ms. Davison and the Prime Minister and other very senior MP’s and member of the House of Lords which clearly reveal that the current Chilcot Inquiry will be a total cover-up and the star witness – Ms Davison was never called to give her evidence…….not to mention the fact that three nuclear weapons went missing and were allowed to be sold on the black market………many of the above received back handers from that fraudulent deal including our current PM who received £17.8 million for his party and another £1 million went to Tony Blair….not forgetting many other of the political elite who also got a slice of the cake!!

I will also mention other names such as Sir Ken Warren and Peter Lilley MP who employed Ms Davison and Dr. David Kelly who suffered the ultimate sacrifice in being assassinated simply because he knew too much!!!

Here are the letters in sequence of date order…….note the items seized during the police raid as highlighted in the letter to Gordon Brown the PM at the time and also note the reference made to the DTI which obviously implicates Sir Ken Warren and Peter Lilley to name but a few of those involved:

One can clearly see political interference into the case being mounted by the Derbyshire Police which they ignored and continued to put Ms Davison on trial to which she was found guilty of 27 charges…….

However, she did not attend the Mold Crown Court and so the police issued a bench warrant for her arrest…….she eventually turned up in the Ecuador Embassy in London and is currently seeking political asylum with Julian Assange as her roommate!!

The question remains will the Police or government ask the embassy to release her so that she can continue to give her vital evidence at the yet to be revealed Chilcot Inquiry……….obviously not as that would be the downfall of not only ex Prime Ministers but also the current PM and possible many members of the Government.

One should also mention in closing the fact that Ms Davison and her journalistic friend, Pete Sawyer could possibly also be charged under the official secrets act for holding and sharing official secrets and then in their publication on Ms Davison’s own blog and also in articles published by Mr. Sawyer himself that could be considered as highly sensitive!!

Mr. Sawyer had the audacity to tell Gordon and I that the reason he was attending the Royal Courts of Justice was to make sure we never printed such articles as this one……..Sorry Mr Sayer you failed on that point……also this so called journalist had the audacity to wait outside the court and take photographs of Gordon and I…………this gave me no option but to also film him which upset him deeply and he responded by almost poking his telephoto lens up my nostril……all to no avail!!!

Stayed tuned for more juicy government cover-ups and if you want to learn more you can go to the US Republic Broadcasting Network and listen to Paul Drockton and I in our own show……you can find this also on the link on this page……happy listening!!”

Peter Eyre – Middle East Consultant – 30/7/2012

Comment:

Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

“It was granted to me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and how good. In the intoxication of youthful successes I had felt myself to be infallible, and I was therefore cruel.

In the surfeit of power I was a murderer and an oppressor. In my most evil moments I was convinced that I was doing good, and I was well supplied with systematic arguments.

It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts….

That is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me: “Bless you, prison!” I…have served enough time there. I nourished my soul there, and I say without hesitation: “Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!”

(The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, Vol. 2, 615-617)

I used to use the term “anti-politician” and argue for a “politics of anti-politics” as far back as 2007 on this blog and its predecessor:

“The only political figures who make sense to me are anti-politicians or pure constitutionalists.”

But, since, this last campaign of Paul’s – a complete fiasco – I’ve crossed him off my list of “anti-politicians”:

… I’m not an ideologue and the only political figures who make sense to me are anti-politicians or pure constitutionalists, like Ron Paul, who represent what I think of as the best American tradition — non-interventionist, entrepreneurial, and individualist. And I think corporations can be as anti-individualist as the state.

Lew Rockwell, on the other hand,  has decided he wants to call Paul just that

“In fact, he didn’t do any of the things we associate with politicians. What his supporters love about him has nothing to do with politics at all.

Ron is the anti-politician.”

Hey, Lew, quite right. We’re flattered you read us.

That IS what his supporters did like about him.

But guess what?

He isn’t an anti-politician any more. He’s an ex-politician.

He ran a political campaign, with political ads, that used political rhetoric, replete with sins of omission, if not commission. He spoke like the rest of the frauds.

He was in it to win, or so he said, and so all his supporters said too.

He took real money, not anti-money, and real time, not anti-time, and real effort, not anti-effort from his supporters.

And he handed the whole thing over to a real politician, not an anti-politician – Mitt Romney.

You can’t have it both ways, Dr. Paul.

You either remain an honest elder statesman, a lovable father figure, in which case you stick to that role throughout.

Or you become a politician, in which case, you get to shade your meanings, talk out of both sides of your mouth, play partisan hard-ball,  take expedient positions, and join the rest, walking on earth, not on water.

Remember wrapping yourself in Reaganism? Think that brought you favor with pro-Reagan or anti-Reagan folks?

It’s all very well for your friends to start a festival called P.A.U.L to save something of the brand value to help their marketing and publishing business.

A clever idea. Worthy of genius marketers.

I would have preferred a little humble-pie. Like, “we were wrong.” “Our campaign helped Mitt Romney and hurt conservatives who actually showed us some respect and whose ticket we could actually have joined.”

But we preferred to make nice to our liberal network.

Now that we’d done the damage, we just do a little revisionism and claim to be “anti-politicians” again.

Ha ha.

You lose your cherry, that’s it. There’s no delete button. You don’t get to rewind and undo what you’ve become.

At least, not without a lot more than a rebranding campaign.  You’d need an admission of reality, to begin with.

No. Paul was an anti-politician in 2007.  In 2012, he is a failed politician.

He played the game and failed. He sold his support and the credibility of hundreds of thousands of his supporters for a mess of pottage for his son, who doesn’t look he’s going to be dining, anyway.

The father lost with the son.  That’s how it goes with these things.

Wenzel can delete a couple of those blog posts and comments talking up the campaign as “genius marketing.” That’s his privilege. But he can’t delete my memory of them.

We like you guys. But we actually do worry for you. We don’t think you know what the stakes really are or how you are being played….

Or are you – sickening thought – players?

Whether it was rigged and Paul is one more tool of the elites co-opting the opposition, or simply old and unable to manage, it does not reflect well on him, in either case.

I would have made a statement that took some blame, myself. I would have given some explanation.

But no.

Double- down on the self-approbation and forget the mea culpas  that a level-headed glimpse of the truth would warrant.

But, of course, marketing isn’t about truth, is it?

It’s about selling.

So sell away, boys.

Just make sure you’re not selling your souls in the bargain.

You can’t press rewind on that, either.

From Oriental Review.org, a good dissection of the CIA-sponsored cultural terrorism of Pussy Riot.

It doesn’t matter that Putin isn’t a “good guy”. Putin’s goodness is irrelevant to the ethics of CIA interference and mind-control operations. The fact that your neighbor is beastly to his wife doesn’t mean you have a right to assault his daughter:

“To illustrate the Russian public reaction on pussy-provocation we are posting a fragment of the open letter to Sir Paul McCartney written by a Russian priest. (He replied to the recent touching message of the British star in support of the ‘rioters’).

“Dear Sir Paul,

Some months ago Russia witnessed an act of evil. We, Russian believers, perceive this event in this way. In the church, built in honor of freeing Russia from Napoleon’s invasion, in the church which for us is the greatest national shrine, four young girls began to dance right before the altar swearing, singing sacrilegious songs and offences to Patriarch, who is for all of us the spiritual leader and honorable man. All this Bacchanalia was filmed and blown the world. Needless to say what a shock and spit in the soul we, Russian orthodox religious people, had experienced.

Several weeks before this event Pussy Riot tried to do something similar in another Moscow church. They were politely asked out without giving this public utterance. They conducted a similar action in the Red Square, just exactly where you, dear Sir Paul, gave your concert. And again, sacrilege and twisting were left without any consequences. At last, before the “action” in the Church of Christ the Savior members of Pussy Riot cropped up and performed an act of group sex with their partners in the State Zoo Museum in the broad daylight and in the presence of visitors including children. Video and photos of this effrontery were also made public in Internet and shown over the central Russian TV channels.

Sir Paul, I would like to ask you whether you consider these actions normal? What could happen in future if these so called punk rock performers who in reality have nothing to do either with punk movement or with rock music were not stopped? Of course, times are changing and in the “civilized world” this is probably considered normal, but I cannot imagine that musicians of Beatles group even with their nonconformity would allow something alike in the presence of children in a museum. There exist some norms of moral, decency, ethic, good and evil, not necessarily connected with this or that religion, which nobody can neglect. Because if the people overstep this limits, they will lose the character of Homo Sapiens and become the animal.

Dear Sir Paul, I am sure that you and other famous musicians were misled as to the essence of this latter event and came out for Pussy Riot without knowing these details. That is why I ventured to let you know the position of Russian believers. In your letter addressed to Pussy Riot you struggle for the freedom of art and self-expression. Nobody is against. Everything – freedom, art and self-expression – are elementary rights which God gave every man. As Lord Jesus Christ is teaching us, You shall know the Truth, ant the Truth shall make you free (The Gospel According to John, ch. 8, para. 32). Christianity is the religion of lovers of liberty and free-thinking people.

And in the present Russia our desire to be free is multiplied by that life experience in totalitarian communist state which we, Russians, had. Sir Paul, please note that the Russian Orthodox Church did not call upon to punish Pussy Riot: judicial proceedings took place upon the court petition of private persons who had been deeply offended by their act. And I understand those people. When Pussy Riot blasphemes in the street, it is their private affair. Many people do the same. But if they break into our church disturbing praying people, blaming our God, out faith, our Patriarch, they offend personally each of us.

Please tell me, Sir Paul, what would be your reaction if during your concert somebody run onto the scene and began to break your instruments, hindering your performance and then took your microphone and in dirty words offend everything that is dear and sacred for you, i.e. your wife, your parents, your art, your moral values? Would you call it self-expression and freedom of art or consider it as usual disorderly conduct? And what would you do in such a situation? I think that as a man possessing chivalry you would not wait for the guard but take actions against such a person yourself.

Probably the sentence for Pussy Riot is somewhat severe. But it was passed by the judiciary bodies. Wishing these young women good, please understand also us, orthodox believers. To nobody we wish ill, prison, long time in prisons, but at the same time we wish that our shrines for which not in so far past our fathers and grandfathers spilled blood, were subjected such an affront. It was not us who pitched the members of Pussy Riot group but it were they who plunged into our church and insulted deeply the present people and thousands of Internet users, which saw the movie with this sacrilege. They mocked before the God’s altar. And we wish not long terms in prison for these ill-educated and disorderly women but only that something similar will never take place in any of our churches.

With all due respect,

Hegumen Sergy (Ribko),

Rector of Moscow Church of Holy Spirit,  in the 1970s – drummer of a rock-group and member of hippies movement.”

Comment:

Some have pointed to Pussy Riot’s elaborate and thoughtful (I would say, pretentious) political statements as proof that the group is genuine.

I read through the manifestos and was even more convinced that the whole thing is yet another intelligence psyop.

The girls compared themselves, modestly, to Jesus, Dostoevsky, Socrates, Solzhenitsyn etc. etc.

Tut.

Pompous, rude twits AND bad artists.

A too-fer.

Pussy Riot talks too much to be genuine rebellion.

The trio remind me of one of those modern paintings with ten paragraphs of explanation for each boring blob. Anything that needs that much explanation in polysyllabic words shows the dead hand of  agitprop not the living touch of art.

I got news for ya, sweets.

Art ain’t big on manifestos.

Jesus – never wrote a book. Spoke in parables. Threw the merchants out of the temple. Didn’t desecrate it.

You’re thinking of Aleister Crowley, not Rabbi Yeshua.

Socrates – never wrote a book. Asked questions and drew out answers from the man on the street.

Solzhenitsyn – wrote good books, not pamphlets. Submitted himself to his tradition.

Dostoevsky –  Real books, not agitprop.

Books take effort and thought. Agitprop takes ego. Especially, lascivious, bigoted agitprop.

Rioting is not rebellion.

Meanwhile, the hypocrisy of the West in all this takes away the breath.

In the US, there is NO major media outlet that dares to expose things as they really are, without adding its sly twist, its sin of omission or commission into the mix.

Each has an agenda, some more, some less. With millions of agendas clashing, the noise is continuous. We can barely hear our own thoughts through them, let alone our consciences.

We have marine vets threatened with psychiatric confinement for two sentences on Facebook.  Every word written or spoken by activists is monitored, collected and analyzed. Even casual words spoken by ordinary citizens.

TV and print media are a pack of lies or distraction, for the most part.

Drive down the road and forget a paper, you are liable for hundreds of dollars. Do that a few times, you pay in the thousands, more than the average man earns in a month.

If they even think you have contraband, they pull down your pants, bend you over and search your anus manually.

Women are spreadeagled like whores over the front pages, shaved and displayed like specimens in a lab, categorized like butchers’ cuts according to the shape, size and age of the parts.

Girls are spread out like this.

This is called “sexy.”

We live and die for “sexy.”

Yes. This is sexy like factory-farming or a slaughterhouse is sexy. It is the sexy of  serial killers and psychopaths.  It is John Wayne Gacey sexy.

This is empowerment of women, our special gift to the world.

And we have our own Defender of the Vagina, Naomi Wolf, to speak up for the new cloacal revolution.

For this joy of letting it all hang out, without consideration or feeling or judgment or modesty or shame or any shade of feeling, except the one supreme one of modernity – utter shamelessness.

The shamelessness not even of the brazen, but of the utterly ignorant. The shamelessness not of people who reject their forefathers, but of those who don’t even know they have them.

What’s the matter, mama. People acting like they got no mamas, Kuzhali Manickavel likes to say.

People acting like they have no teachers, no churches, no histories.

Each day brings a fresh propaganda assault, a new idiocy.

Blogs are hacked, wikipedia is manipulated, activists are harassed and jailed.  Public office is bought and sold, journalists lie, stalk, and assault people for a living, calling it freedom of expression.

TV is filled with porn propaganda or war propaganda.

The women on them are cretinous puppets, giggling and shaking their cleavages in hopes it will make up for the drivel spewing out six inches up.

From left to right, activist leaders have shown us their clay feet and their idle talk.

They are all eunuchs, every one of them, and their followers too, leading us no where, blowing soap bubbles and massaging our backs in the tub, while the house is on fire,  while the mandarins of global order relentlessly add piece upon piece to their master plan, while the spymasters run non-stop assaults on our souls with twisted lies.

And this is the culture from which Putin is denounced?

If Russia today has cancer, in which part of the world did the cells first metastasize?

Wasn’t it here?

Was Marx a product of Russia?

Who spits out the global porn industry, which has turned the diminutive for a beloved pet into slang for genitals?

Isn’t more than 80%  of porn from the US?

We are the p**** peddlers of the world.  The kings of the sex-trade and the sultans of child-rape.

The masters of  huckstering and packaging and hyping and pimping everything, including our sons and daughters.

Who controls the drug trade? Who sells the arms? Who instigates and meddles and lectures and bombs? Who has been at war every year with now this, now that country?

Who meddles in the currency and trade of every country?

Who dumps its waste in pitiful backwaters in the third world, and bribes the worst elements there to the top? Who hides in off-shores havens and manipulates economies to extract their value, then runs, leaving ruin behind?

Who sells junk financial products of no value – none – and extracts real value from everyone else?

Isn’t this slavery?

Aren’t we the slave masters of the world, fat, crude, and lascivious, our tongues out, drooling in front of every base act, sniggering and leering, peering, and calling this freedom?

Freedom to be base and barbaric.

Freedom of pornocracy and fascist finance and race supremacism and hatred of goodness that masquerades as universalism and rights and liberalism and freedom.

It’s not a free world we have. It is an enslaved world.  A world of slaves.

Bondage and submission, indeed.

Bondage to the flesh and submission to the father of lies.

Our p****** can riot and our c**** can party.

But upstairs, our brains have been foreclosed on and the debts have come due on our souls.

“Remember it is better to take the largest plate within reach and fling it at a woman’s head than it is to wriggle like a worm whenever she looks at you!”

From Murder in Mesopotamia circa 1936, Agatha Christie (h/t to Alphagameplan.blogspot.com)

From comments at EPJ this morning:

Taylor ConantAugust 26, 2012 10:22 AM

Too bad Ron Paul’s truth machine didn’t. Imagine if the RP campaign had spent all its funds on witty TV ads explaining basic economic and political principles not connected to Ron Paul’s campaign instead of… whatever the hell they spent it on that was ultimately a waste because his campaign is now dead.

Well said, Taylor Conant.

The excellent reference site ISGP.EU (formerly pehi.eu) run by Joel Van Der Reijden has not disappeared. It is now housed at wikispooks.

It was an original and serious multi-researcher project attempting to compile lists of members of important secret societies influential in world politics and economics.  ISGP stands for the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics. I came to the site only in 2010 and I changed my mind about the extent and significance of child sex abuse after reading its account of the Dutreux scandal.

In “Mobs,” (2007) I  included a section about it, as an example of moral panics, at the suggestion of my co-author, who had seen what was happening in France in the nineties, as I had seen the equivalent panic in the US. For my research, I relied mainly on the account of Alexander Cockburn, the co-editor of Counterpunch, who took the view that the child sex abuse scandals had been vastly exaggerated by sensational accounts.  That was my view too, from reading about it, with the caveat that I came to believe the panic was manufactured in some way. Since then, my research leads me to believe that the moral panic was fanned in order to create a cover for real, intelligence-related sex rings, used to entrap and blackmail politicians and other prominent or influential people.

Posted at the Lew Rockwell blog:

Brandon Raub Ordered Released By Circuit Judge

Posted by Christopher Manion on August 24, 2012 11:30 AM

In a stinging rebuke to the FBI, the Secret Service, and other self-appointed Thought Police, Hopewell Circuit Judge W. Allan Sharrett ordered the immediate release of Brandon Raub, whom Virginia authorities had imprisoned last week because of anti-government comments that he had posted on the Internet.

Judge Sharrett found “that a document ordering Raub’s transfer this week from a Hopewell hospital to the Salem VA Medical Center was faulty and “so devoid of any factual allegations that it could not be reasonably expected to give rise to a case or controversy.”

Special thanks and congratulations are in order for the vital role played by the Rutherford Institute, which immediately came to Raub’s defense and exposed the scandalous series of illegal actions on the part of Virginia officials that railroaded Mr. Raub into a psychiatric jail for a thirty-day term without being charged of any crime.

Readers should note that every level of government, from the federal to the local police in Chesterfield County, here in Virginia, were complicit in this illegal arrest and incaceration. No one at any level of government stepped forward to defend Mr. Raub’s First Amendment rights until the Rutherford Institute initiated legal action in his defense and took the matter to court. That includes Virginia Republicans Rep. Bob Goodlatte and former Senator and current Senate candidate George Allen, both of whom did not respond to requests I placed with their respective offices.

This should be a lesson — and a warning — for us all

Comment:

I’ve been thinking this case is very strange (see my comments under my post about the Sikh temple shootings) and I’ve held my tongue about it for the same reason.

This sudden release confirms my feeling. There’s something more going on here and I wouldn’t be surprised if this was not just a misstep on the government’s part but a staged arrest to let the blogosphere know what could be in store for it if it steps out of line. I think it is especially aimed at homecoming vets who might be inclined to lead any “revolutions” or “sharpen their axes” for the generals, as Raub put it on his Facebook page.  I don’t think Raub is what he seems to be.

It’s a kind of intimidation, just as the massive militarization and purchases of arms by the DHS is  intimidation. The government could also be worrying about a possible insurrection from the vets, who would make credible foes that could unite the country behind them.

More on this to come…