It’s the Jesuits!

by Not Sure

22 June 2025

 

                Alan Watt was comfortable without a ‘world view’ as in an organized answer to everything.  He didn’t put a bow on a package of facile explanations, but there is a ribbon (or thread, if you like), of an ancient priestly class that we can follow from YOU ARE HERE all the way back to Sumer. 

            Here is a definition of what is called the cherry-picking fallacy:  Picking and choosing only some of the available evidence in order to present only points most favorable to your point of view. If someone knowingly chooses certain (favorable) pieces of information and conveniently ignores less favorable information, then the argument is not supported by all of the available research.”  In the case of the genuine seeker of knowledge who has been victimized by the cherry-picking fallacy, this is not so much a failure of your logic but the unfortunate condition of being ignorant of a great many facts.  For the perpetrator, is it not more accurate to describe this fallacy as telling a half-truth?  Or lying?  Argument from ignorance is another fallacy, the term for which was likely coined by the philosopher John Locke.  To argue from ignorance is to claim something is true or false because of a lack of evidence to the contrary. 

            Donald Rumsfeld was the US Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford and much later under George W. Bush.  Bush was obsessed with Saddam Hussein and deliberately misled the American people that he was behind the 9/11 attacks.  Rumsfeld argued against the ‘argument from ignorance’ fallacy when he discussed the lack of evidence for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in Iraq prior the US invasion into that country in March of 2003.  He said, “Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.”  Remember that famous Rumsfeldian reasoning which came to be known as the Rumsfeld matrix? This was part of his response to a Department of Defense (DoD) news briefing question on Feb. 12, 2002 about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq supplying weapons of mass destruction to various terrorist groups: 

 

“Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know,

there are known knowns; there are things we know we know.

We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.

But there are also unknown unknownsthe ones we don't know we don't know.

And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries,

it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.”

 

            What we don’t know that we don’t know is a difficult category.  Hmmm.  Perhaps Rumsfeld’s failure of logic did not stem from ignorance, but the newer fallacy of “alternative facts” which we sometimes call gaslighting.  It only looks like he’s arguing from ignorance if you can’t recognize a liar when you hear one.  According to his biography, Donald Rumsfeld’s father came from a German family that had emigrated to the U.S. in the 1870s.  He was raised in Illinois and attended a Protestant Congregationalist church with his family.  We’re going to be ignorant of lots of facts here as we can only go by the official history, but here are a few random things we can consider.  Are these known knowns?  You decide.

1)     Without going as far back as the pagans and Romans, let’s start with the Carolingians particularly under the reign of Charlemagne starting in 768 AD.  Christianity spread throughout Germany like a wildfire.  This was pre-Great Schism and pre-Protestant Reformation.  What spread was Roman Catholicism.  In 1517, Martin Luther published his 95 Theses and thus kicked off the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, and the Thirty Years’ War.

2)     The year is 1871 and Chancellor von Bismarck can’t tolerate any power outside of Germany, so he launched his Kulturkampf against the power of the pope and the Catholic Church.  Many peasants, workers, shopkeepers, and artisans emigrated from Germany in the period between 1860 and 1890.  The U.S. was a popular destination and in 1870 and 1871 alone, nearly a million Germans arrived in the United States.   In 1880, anti-Semitism saw a rise in Germany, and even the Chancellor’s top financial advisor Gerson Bleichröder suffered.  He was ‘the Rothschild of Berlin’ and got to use ‘von’ even though he didn’t convert to Christianity.  There were about 250,000 Jews living in Germany between 1870 and 1880.  As many as 70,000 German Jews emigrated during those years, many to the U.S.

3)     Rumsfeld received a degree in political science from Princeton University.  He attended Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center but did not get a degree from either.  Georgetown University is where Carroll Quigley spent his academic career. 

4)     Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in Washington D.C., famous for cranking out Rhodes Scholars and Fulbright Scholars.  The diplomats and ambassadors who hail from the School of Foreign Service (SFS) are Legion.   The SFS was the first school for international affairs in the United States and was founded by Edmund A. Walsh in 1919.  Walsh was a Catholic priest for the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order) and a career diplomat.

5)     Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense when 9/11 occurred, and during the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War.  He provided testimony about crowd control and non-lethal combat to the House Armed Services Committee in February 2003.  Some press focused on things like CS gas, but 'calmatives' was picked up by several news agencies including UPI.  Lots of drugs are considered calmative/sedative, e.g. Valium, Xanax.  Rubber bullets filled with Xanax were discussed and Alan Watt reminded us of aerosolized Valium quite a few times.

6)     The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee held Rumsfeld responsible for the Abu Ghraib torture and abuse scandal.  At those hearings, a memo was shared which detailed the stress induced in prisoners by interrogators at Guantanamo Bay detention camp when they forced prisoners to stand in one position for a maximum of four hours.   Rumsfeld had scrawled a handwritten note on the memo, “I stand for 8–10 hours a day. Why is standing [by prisoners] limited to 4 hours? D.R.”

 

Ready to uncover the truth?  Sick of the lies?  Then hurry on over to…pick an alternative news outlet.  In the U.S., the alternative is brought to us by the Central Intelligence Agency, the same organization that brings us the mainstream.  Go figure.  I’ve watched the ‘alternative’ world for enough years to have seen the explanations come in cycles, and depending on the outlet, sometime the explanations come in stereo.  ‘It’s the Jesuits.  It’s the Jews.  The Papacy is the anti-Christ.  There are tunnels under the Vatican where babies are sacrificed in the Black Mass for the Black Pope.  Jews control everything.  It’s the Zionists.’  And on it goes and will go for as long as these narratives serve those at the top of the capstone (which is not the Jesuits and not the Jews.)  Search as you will, the top of the pyramid is obscured by a cloud.  If you can see ‘them’, if books have been written about ‘them’, if radio hosts and internet podcasters shriek about ‘them’, then you can take it to your Jewish-controlled bank:  it’s not ‘them’.

Recently, I saw a hit piece on the Jesuits that started with this quote, “It is my opinion that if the liberties of this country – the United States of America – are destroyed, it will be by the subtlety of the Roman Catholic Jesuit priests, for they are the most crafty, dangerous enemies to civil and religious liberty. They have instigated most of the wars of Europe.”  This was attributed to “Freemason and 1st U.S. President, George Washington.”  The irony was lost on the author.

An alternative history of the founding of the United States of America tells us that Queen Elizabeth the First despised the Catholic Church and its Jesuit army so she did what she could to drive them out of England.  This version leaves out the part where the Queen’s big advisor for many years was John Dee, a Catholic.  But back to the narrative.  Her antipathy forced the Jesuits to set their sights on the New World, where they could create a form of government that would appear to grant its citizens freedom and liberty, while creating a slave state of taxpayers and docile workers.  The Jesuits came up with that?  I thought this was a timeless system, perfected in Egypt.  Well, except for the part about the appearance of freedom and liberty.

Conspiracy theories about the Jesuits are about as old as the Order itself.  These proliferated during the 18th century when some sort of rivalry between Freemasons and Jesuits is said to have developed.  Anti-Jesuitism was a big part of von Bismarck’s Kulturkampf, and even the Nazis, who were as jealous of their power as Bismarck, engaged in anti-Jesuit propaganda.  The Jesuits have been blamed for the assassination of Abe Lincoln (a Jew?) and John F. Kennedy (a Catholic).  JFK was the first Roman Catholic U.S. President and there wasn’t another until Joe Biden.  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Abe Lincoln had no religious affiliation, though some Jews have claimed him.  From an article in the Jewish Journal, “It is historical fact, however, that Lincoln was very much a friend of the Jews, and he was much loved by the Jewish community, both in his day and after his death. There is even some reason to believe that Lincoln himself had Jewish forebears…Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, author of the Union Prayer Book and founder of Hebrew Union College, delivered in his funeral address for Lincoln in Cincinnati in 1865: “Brethren, the lamented Abraham Lincoln believed himself to be bone from our bone and flesh from our flesh. He supposed himself to be a descendant of Hebrew parentage. He said so in my presence. And, indeed, he preserved numerous features of the Hebrew race, both in countenance and character.”

The Jesuits are said to have conspired to create the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States and to have sunk the Titanic to achieve this, since onboard the Titanic were Benjamin Guggenheim, Isador Straus, and John Jacob Astor IV, who opposed the central bank plan.  Of all the Jesuit conspiracy theories, this is certainly one of the most exciting and compelling, but still, it suffers from the Baconian fallacy, under the historical fallacies heading.  “Supposing that historians can obtain the “whole truth” via induction from individual pieces of historical evidence. The “whole truth” is defined as learning “something about everything”, “everything about something”, or “everything about everything”. In reality, a historian “can only hope to know something about something.”

In researching this article today, I came across a book entitled The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of JewsJesuits of Jewish Ancestry and Purity-of-Blood Laws in the Early Society of Jesus.  At more than three hundred pages, I’ve not read this yet, but it serves to underscore my thesis which sounds like Donald Rumsfeld’s: I know there’s a lot I don’t know, and a lot more I don’t even know that I don’t know…I don’t know.  Yeesh!  (Spell-check would like me to correct ‘Yeesh’ to ‘Yeshiva’.)  You can get lost in that man’s twisted logic!  What I do know is that the Jesuits most certainly are not behind all the evils of the world.  Yesterday, I learned that aqua is Latin for water and ignis is Latin for fire.  A listener had put this together in a way that made sense to them.  Aqua is A, Ignis is I.  AI.  Water and.  Fire and water.  The representation of balance for Freemasons, the pyramid right side up, and upside down.  The compass and square.  I also learned that the summer Solstice coincides with St. John’s Day, a celebration of John the Baptist, that always involves fire and often involves water.  Finally, I learned that Ignatius comes from the word ‘fiery’ and Loyola from a Basque word meaning swamp, or muddy place.  Water.

Perhaps this essay is part one of two, or part one of six.  There’s a lot more to say about the Jesuits, and I haven’t even begun with B’nai B’rith or Chabad-Lubavitch, and a few other organizations that might like some recognition for world domination aspirations.

Being comfortable with a world view that doesn’t claim to have the answer to everything is not a ‘cop out’ as has been claimed.  It’s not the coward’s crouch of going along to get along.  It’s sanity, respect for one’s own limits and a healthy distaste for fallacies. 

© Not Sure

 

Additional reading:

Weapons of Mass Elation

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/05/weapons-mass-elation/

Rumsfeld Wants to Use Riot Control Agents in Combat

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2003-03/news/rumsfeld-wants-use-riot-control-agents-combat

Rumsfeld: New rules for non-lethal combat

https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2003/02/05/Rumsfeld-New-rules-for-non-lethal-combat/72471044486254/

Abraham Lincoln: The First Jewish President?

https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/214544/abraham-lincoln-the-first-jewish-president/

The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews

https://ia902303.us.archive.org/15/items/the-jesuit-order-as-a-synagogue-of-jews-jesuits-of-jewish-ancestry-and-purity-of/The%20Jesuit%20Order%20as%20a%20Synagogue%20of%20Jews%20Jesuits%20of%20Jewish%20Ancestry%20and%20Purity-of-blood%20Laws%20in%20the%20Early%20Society%20of%20Jesus%20by%20Robert%20Aleksander%20Maryks%20%28z-lib.org%29.pdf

Transcript – Alan Watt on Investigative Journal with Greg Szymanski – July 31, 2007

https://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Alan_Watt_on_InvestigativeJournal_GregSzymanski_July312007.html