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Piccolo Tigre: The Plot Against Civilization pp. 102-106

 Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories are the laziest conspiracy theories. Obviously, they are immoral theories seeking to demonize an entire group of people. I just want to add this additional pejorative to it. Webster, in her discussion of the Italian revolutionaries (secretly on the payroll of the Illuminati) adds this, “ but it was not in the band of dissolute young Italians he gathered around him, but in his Jewish allies, that Nubius found his principal support.” When she writes “Jewish allies” we should hear a “dun dun duuuuun,” in our heads. The reader of this book doesn’t need more explanation, just mentioning the word “Jewish” is enough for her intended audience to think, “of course.” Yet, let’s re-examine what she’s claiming. Her target here is the Carbonari, the Italian group that would fight for a unified Italy. Apparently, this is a goal that the Jewish underground also wants. Her source for this allegation comes from a Joseph de Maistre, a counter-enlightenment thinker a...
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Ze Germans: The Plot Against Civilization pp. 98-102

 Before we even delve into chapter IV, we have to get something straight. When people like Webster (and anyone in the conspiracy world today) talk about “Socialism” they do not mean the philosophical stance about resource allocation. They are not referring to a classless society, or any of the positions of 19th century industrial revolution philosophers. They mean something much different: a strawman of the position usually written by people who have no interest in reading what actual Socialism means. Do not get me wrong, I’m not a Socialist evangelical, I’m not saying that if they read it, they would agree; my position is that if they read it, or even just skimmed a proper definition, they might still disagree, but they wouldn’t be wrong about it. What Webster and her kind mean by Socialism is this: “To achieve the SOCIALIST dictatorship of the proletariat, three things would have to be accomplished: (1) The elimination of all right to private property; (2) The dissolution of the ...
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The New World; the Plot Against Civilization pp. 93-97

 Just to remind the reader, this chapter is supposed to be about Babeuf and we’ve long left him. Maybe we will come back to the guy but I’m not going to hold my breath on that. We’re now sailing across the sea to the infant United States to see how exactly they have treated the incoming new world order. Webster provides two long quotes from Rev. Jedediah Morse and Timothy Dwight respectively; both discussing the threat the Illuminati posed to the young nation. In both cases we see the fear that the orthodox is being challenged and that these men are afraid that society is going to be changed into something not completely subservient to their religious belief system. At this point in our reading it’s become very obvious that the fear is not domination by these Illuminati members rather the fear is that the world will change beyond their grip. As the Dwight quote ends, “ shall our sons become the disciples of Voltaire and the dragoons of Marat, or our daughters the concubines of the ...
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The Irish: The Plot Against Civilization pp. 90-92

 It’s 1794, the French Revolution is close to an end. We are being told that the Illuminati is now going to set its sight on a larger target, Great Britain. Where would one start if they were going to invade England, once you have France the answer is really obvious. In fact, it is so obvious the French and English governments built an underwater train tunnel between Folkestone and Coquelles. This would later be the spot where Allied forces told Patton to pretend to invade France from to divert the Nazis. People can swim this, in calmer waters. Yet, no, “ Then, as now, Ireland was recognized as the most vulnerable point of attack, and for three years an Irish Society had been at work in that country.” In Webster’s mind, the best way to attack Britian is to attack their most troublesome property. In a way it makes sense because it is so close, and if one could get a foothold in Ireland you’d have a nice base. The question I will ask though is if there is a location closer to England...
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The Rights of Man: The Plot Against Civilization pp. 87-90

 Last post we covered a very long section where Webster mostly stuck to her historical guns with a spattering of conspiracy thrown into it. This week’s post will be full on Illuminati conspiracy. The layout of this chapter is strange; I would think that the organization of it would be the reverse but then I began wondering how clever Webster really is. If I want to give her a bunch of credit, and I don’t, but I have to float the possibility that she’s laying this out to confound the skeptics. You start reading the story of Babeuf and it just reads like her personal gripe with a proto-Socialist and nothing more. Someone like me would set it down at this point, but if you keep reading it becomes the Illuminati conspiracy that we all know and love. The trouble for my theory is that this would also be how her intended audience would read the book too. Sure, Babeuf is described as someone that worked for the Illuminati or was in charge of them…Webster muddles that up; but the real consp...
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Babeuf: The Plot Against Civilization pp. 67-87

 We begin the third chapter with a new villain: Francois Noel Babeuf. I have never heard this person’s name until this book. He gets a mention in the last chapter, but Webster is devoting the entire chapter 3 to this man. A quick jaunt over to Wikipedia reveals an interesting facet about Babeuf: he seems to be some kind idealist about the French Revolution. He believe in the principles of the revolution and when the revolutionary government’s ideals met reality—he still wanted them to hold to those ideals. He fomented revolution ideals during the revolution against the government, and in the end he was arrested and executed. That’s the story Wikipedia tells us. This chapter is going to be interesting because Webster is going to have to work to frame this person as our villain. So far she’s argued that the Revolution was not about helping the poor or even the common people, rather it was a plot by the Illuminati to take control of Europe and further oppress the people. This is the k...
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Social Equals: The Plot Against Civlization pp. 62-66

 “ The conception of France rising like a phoenix from that great welter of blood and horror is as mythical as the allegory from which it is taken and has existed only in the minds of posterity.” No notes, I just like that sentence. Webster wants us to believe that the revolution failed. Not that the aristocrats retook power, but that the revolution never helped anyone. This is an interesting take, so we’ll have to consider her evidence for it. If you’ve been following along, she doesn’t have any. She has the people’s suffering during the terror, the counter-revolution, and the numerous groups fighting for control in this period. This is to be expected, and I don’t think any historian really believes that everything was just oysters and baguettes for the French during this period. Webster is playing on the ignorance of English history lessons that do not get into the nitty details of what it was like to live through the revolution. Indeed, the American revolution had periods of unc...
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