This diary is going to be extremely challenging, so if you’re having problems focusing, or your mental acuity is at a low ebb for one reason or another, don’t bother. I’ll be jumping all the hell over the place, but please come along for the ride if you feel like it. The stuff about the Hopi elders is pretty interesting by itself alone. I found this quote about them in a Wall Street Journal article from 1959.
Yesterday’s diary was an attempt to explain why difficulties arise when using words in nonliteral ways. One of the words was elite. The point I meant to make was that there’s such thing as an elite in our society and in our world, but that there is not just one, single, mythical, elite. Indeed there’re various groups and classes of elites jousting for power and primacy on the world stage today--this very moment--smack dab center of the holidays and all. Why? Because we’re a bunch of raving corporal beings who like to feel warm and fuzzy inside, and think our way of seeing the world is best. And that may well be, but when facts otherwise rear their ugly heads, you either go into denial/fantasyland, or you become authentic/genuine and lead a life with some modicum of righteousness behind it, however difficult that may be.
Many Kossacks, while perhaps not plugged into any group(s) of elites, nonetheless are living authentic and genuine lives as Americans and this blog is testament to that. This is where you come to examine stories and facts the MSM no longer provides, and to voice concern and offer opinion as how best to effect change. Kossacks are righteous because they are progressive, they have concern about common welfare/opportunity. This is a blog of Americans who believe the Democratic Party can be made over into a bulwark against elites who would subvert the rule of law. But what elites? The Republicans? Industrialists? Media moguls? Financiers? K Street Officers? Does it really matter? Progressives want the elements which would subvert the rule of law taken away from the controls of governance. The last word on law is the Constitution and to this day it contains the legal tools to build a platform that progressive Democrats can helm to do what most Americans actually already really want to see happen in our year 2007.
This is a partisan Democratic blog and Democrat Party elites no longer serve the Democratic Party. This is where dissent about use of the word elite cropped up. One Kossack was referring that Democrat Party elites no longer serve Democrats. And they don’t and that’s going to become really clear sometime next year. This is not mere opinion, the position is supported by mountains and mountains of facts and figures. One, that both parties of Congress are funded by corporate elites which fund think tanks, who write up policy papers supporting things like deregulation, then write the legislation, and have Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and my representative Lois Capps sign off on it. Corporate elites contribute equal amounts of monies to candidates of both parties every election cycle.
Shifting gears: I read this book once: American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns. Richard Rosenfeld, 1997, St. Martin’s Press:
American Aurora is the absorbing story of the nation's leading opposition newspaper during the incendiary history of America in the 1790s. It chronicles the birth and near death of civil liberties in that turbulent decade. Rosenfeld has exhaustively examined the Philadelphia Aurora and has chosen as heroes its two young editors: Benjamin Bache (Benjamin Franklin's grandson), and William Duane, who fearlessly waged a decade-long campaign to keep America's founding fathers true to their original mission. They claimed George Washington was an incompetent commander in chief and that John Adams, as his presidential successor, wanted a monarchy and was plotting to be king.
As a result of their inflammatory articles both editors were arrested. Bache died awaiting trial. The paper was briefly silenced. Nonetheless the Aurora was eventually successful in persuading the nation to oust Adams and usher in a Jeffersonian democracy of which Benjamin Franklin, the true father of our country, could only dream. Revisionist and daring and brilliantly conceived this is a work of enormous power that indisputably rewrites the early history of our nation and champions the civil liberties on which the country was founded.
Born in Boston in 1941, the son and grandson of printers Richard Neil Rosenfeld is an independent scholar who lives in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from Yale, Columbia and Boston Universities, is Councillor at the American Antiquarian Society and is associate fellow at Yale's Timothy Dwight College.
OK, so it's 1798 and you have the Federalists:
The Federalists support a powerful federal government to lead the nation and fear the French Revolution as an international threat. That leading Federalist newspapers are the Gazette of the United States and the Porcupine Gazette.
Federalist leaders are US President John Adams, his wife Abigail Adams and son John Quincy Adams; also George Washington, a private citizen and former US President, and Alexander Hamilton, a private citizen and former Treasury Secretary.
And the Republicans:
The Republicans are vigilant of a federal government threatening liberty [i.e. an elite group/class of Americans taking back civil liberties gained in the revolutionary war]. They support the French Revolution for its opposition to monarchy. The leading Republican newspaper is the Philadelphia Aurora.
Republican leaders are Thomas Jefferson US Vice President, James Madison, a private citizen and former Republican House leader; also James Monroe, a private citizen and former US minister to France.
One of the funny things in the book is all the people who were for the federalists and Adams, in their hats they wore a cockade. A cockade is an ornament, a rosette, worn on a hat as a badge. And all the men, the elites at the time, Hamilton right there in lower Manhattan, went around with a hat that either had a black cockade for the federalists and aristocratic control, or a red, white, and blue cockade for Jefferson and defenders of representational democracy.
The word cockade comes from the Old French cocky. Elites are a bunch of goddam roosters strutting around. Isn’t that funny though? The exact thing back then happens today. Except today, our proponents of aristocracy have become an oligarchy of elites connected one way or another to high office or corporate media. This high office/corporate media elite are currently using a bogus war and non-existent threat to secure the very best life has to offer for themselves and their loved ones. It's not good or bad, it's the status quo. Whether every elite member of high office/corporate media are cognizant of what’s going on or not is not as important as defenders of representational democracy knowing things are dire and that the status quo of the current oligarchy must be broken to be reformed.
Former pro football players as corporate broadcasters who wear the 911/War on Terror cockade--that one the high office/corporate media elite have turned the American flag into? Or tried to. Many of them probably have no idea what the fuck is really going on. But what’s great, is that if they were told the truth, they’d probably be totally in favor of holding an Article V Convention.
Anyway, on May 22, 1798, in the Porcupine Gazette a review is found:
[Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy] contains an exposure of such deep laden villainy.... The French Revolution with all its abominations are traced to the Illuminati.... While a pupil is under trial and before he is admitted into this infernal society many questions are put. For instance: "How far is the proposition true that wicked means may be used for a good purpose?" In one of the answers to this question, the example of a great philosopher and cosmopolite is adduced, who betrayed a private correspondence entrusted to him, for the service of freedom: the case was Dr. Franklin!!! This is excellent! Dr. Franklin is held up as an example to the pupils of a society, surpassing if possible hell itself in perfidy and every species of wickedness!! The Illuminati understand the merits of Dr. Franklin....
What? The Illuminati? You dragged us all the way over here to tell us about the Illuminati?
No--no--no--I didn’t. I just want to use the notion of the Illuminati and an elite elite to describe something else, something that has to do with the Hopi elders.
I know we're not supposed to talk conspiracy theories on DKos and this is a good idea because there are so many goddam conspiracies out there with so many twists and turns--it’s the Freemasons--it’s the Jews--it’s the Knights Templar--it’s this lobby--it’s that lobby--it’s Opus Dei.... I mean, I’ve said this before: what’s the point of traipsing up and down the halls of conspiracy theory? Especially when you have a much more simple explanation like plain human greed?
So no, I’m don’t want to talk about the Illuminati, I wanted to point out what it is in terms of how it works. The way it’s supposed to work, the story is, some guy back in the 1700s got some funds and started a secret society of elites, and they had a plan to gain control of power and money. Simple enough, right? But part of their plan involved passing along certain information from generation to the next so that the plan gains a type of immortality much in the same way a corporate charter does without any adequate anti-trust law enforced. Too abstract? We’ll get back to it. Let’s talk about the Hopis.
The history of the Hopi Indians, like any Indian of the Americas, goes back a long way. The Hopi elders were kind of like an Illuminati. They had a prophecy they handed from generation to generation. For over two thousand years the Hopi elders transmitted this prophecy from one generation to the next: when the "gourd of ashes" is dropped on "mother earth," the elders of that day were to go to the "house of glass" on the "eastern shore" to address the leaders of the nations, that if they did not become peaceable and blend with the land they would cause a catastrophe. For over two thousand years Hopi elders passed that along, and the prophecy instructed the elders to go to the "house of glass" three times. So when President Truman dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, the Hopi elders took that to be the "gourd of ashes" and they made a trip to the United Nations building in New York City to address the General Assembly. Here is an article found on page twelve in the May 7, 1959 Wall Street Journal:
The Hopi Message
Six Hopi Indians, having consulted their gods and their prophecies, traveled to New York City to instruct the delegates to the United Nations on what the Hopi fear will come to pass as soon as the corn is harvested.
The reason for their long trip from Arizona was that an ancient prophecy adjured the latest leaders of the Hopis to go, at a certain time, to the "house of glass walls to inform the nations of the day of purification." And that certain time is ripening as corn does in the Arizona summer sun.
Now there will doubtless be great differences as to whether a time of war is inexorably upon us; we, for one, don't think so. But, considering the views of many military authorities, if war does bring into use thermonuclear weapons, the purification of mankind may well last only one day.
But these differences won't be discussed at the U.N. because the wheels of world bureaucracy turn as slowly as he the other. The Hopis were told by Mr. Gerald Widdrington of the U.N. Visitors Service to put their message in writing and request that it be considered, in the proper framework of U.N. protocol, by one or another of the groups working in the U.N. and for this or that purpose and maybe even a peace. In any event, nothing could come of even a request in writing to be permitted to tell what the prophecy says until the General assembly meets, in September.
Well, it does seem to us that somebody might have taken time out to hear the Hopis, if just for politeness’ sake. The day they appeared at the U.N., the Social Council was continuing discussion started in 1945 or so on social services. While what the Hopis had to say might not have fitted into that particular social pow-wow, the Transport and Communications Commission should have been able to give the Hopis a bit of time during its discussion of tourism and travel, since they came so far.
Further, the U.N. busies itself with many matters that strike us as no more inappropriate than a Hopi prophecy, so that's no reason to turn away the Indians. We sincerely hope that the chiefs of the U.N. will not have reason to regret that they didn't take the trouble to hear the Hopi warning that it's high time to light the peace pipe. For that, in essence, is not only the Hopi message but the reason usually given for the U.N.'s existence.
Isn’t that fascinating? Take a good look at that.
Recently a friend of mine was a guest at a dinner you probably didn’t hear about. It was a tribute to Tom Brokaw and others, I forget the names but people like Summner Redstone and Les Moonves and Julie Chen, basically Americans who make up the corporate media part of the high office/media elite (an acronym? The HOM elite? No?). Anyway, there is not one all-powerful elite, there are many rings and some are inter-locked. But those currently in power also have control of our party, and while they’ve done a good job of playing poor-little-lost puppy these last few years--or rather--HOM elites have done a brilliant job portraying the Congress as such, as far as I can tell, this next year is the crossroad.