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Gish Gallop: The Plot Against Civilization pp. 118-128

Webster continues trying to lay the intellectual foundation of the world revolution (which she opposes) with Comte de Simon. Simon, Webster claims, was born with an unbalanced brain inherited from his mother; but I do not see confirmation of this fact in any source I quickly checked. She then claims Simon “ had early thrown himself into the wildest excesses and led the life of ‘an adventurer in quest of gold and glory’ but after a while, weary of orgies, he had turned his attention to the regeneration of the world…” I don’t know about the orgies, but I did find her source, “ La Monarchie de Julliet ;” and while my French is pretty bad what isn’t bad is my ability to search through a PDF. I can find no mention of Saint-Simon apart from the ideology that bears his name. Again, her ability to cite cannot be this bad accidentally. Simon did go on a bit of an adventure when he served with the artillery corps in the American revolution where he held the rank of Captain. This is something tha...
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The Philosophers: The Plot Against Civilization 111-118

 Our chapter is about the growth of Socialism and instead of talking about the Jews, we are going to get some actual historical information…well, we shall see about how much true information we get—but it is a step up to read an entire page and not read that she’s blaming the Jews. This section is called “The Philosophers” and we begin with Robert Owen. Owen was a textile factory owner and philanthropist who believed in “ the proper housing of the workers, the better education of the children, and indeed of the whole population by the inculcation of ideas of thrift, sobriety, and cleanliness, brought about a complete regeneration of the town and excited universal admiration.” Those words were from Webster, and from what I can discover, she’s right. Owen operated a factory where the wages and living conditions were improved from the average factory worker at the time. This factory at New Lanark in Scotland paid its workers with tokens that were only useful in the factory store (in t...
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Blaming the Victim: the Plot Against Civilization pp. 106-111

 Webster loves her block quotes and in today’s section we get a bunch of them. It seems like her floor is anti-Semitism, and her writing is a ball dropped from the hand. It hits the anti-Semitism floor once, then rises above it, only to come down again. The trouble is that the ball does not bounce as high as it did before and it spends less time away from the floor. In the last few months Webster has mentioned “The Jew” once or twice, but then she’ll spend some odd paragraph on it going back to whatever her target was before. In the last few of our posts, her return to blaming Jewish French has become more frequent and today’s post she’s back on it. The question she begins to answer on page 107 (of the PDF) is very interesting: did the Jews do better in France before or after the Revolution? This is a question that is within some sphere of historical research and as an outsider I’d be interested to hear the yes/no. Webster isn’t interested in that question so much. She’s more inter...
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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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