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 unknowns—the
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 Jews
– Jesuits 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
Transcript –
Alan Watt on Investigative Journal with Greg Szymanski – July 31, 2007