The “New World Order” Ain’t New Folks

by Al Benson Jr.

Member, Board of Directors, Confederate Society of America

I can recall back when George Bush the First was President, he gave a speech that was pure propaganda. He waxed eloquent about how we now had a chance to push forward what he labeled as a “New World Order.” This was supposed to end up being, according to Comrade Bush, one great step forward for mankind, probably the greatest step forward in the history of humanity.

As Bush pontificated about how wonderful this new golden age would be, he forgot to tell us (on purpose) that what he was  pushing was really nothing more than the failed communism of the 18th and 19th centuries. It hadn’t worked back then, but he informed us that, somehow, with a little update, it would work wonderfully in our day.

I suppose some folks nowadays would get angry at me if I mentioned that what Bush was trying to sell us was one big pile of Texas cow chips he fervently hoped we would step right  into the middle of.

Arthur Thompson, author of To The Victors Go The Myths And Monuments, wrote a book, published  just last year (2018) called In The Shadows of the Deep State. He notes that it is “A century of  Council on Foreign Relations scheming for World Government.” A pretty apt description for the CFR, because that is exactly what this organization has been doing since 1921–scheming for the United States to become part, just one cog, in the plan for One World Government.

Mr. Thompson, who is quite a historian, takes this all the way back to the Illuminati and the French Revolution. He states, on page 26 that: “One of the key organizations run by perhaps the most important member of the Illuminati in Revolutionary France, Nicholas Bonneville, was the Cercle Social, or Social Circle. It served as an activist think tank regarding how to subvert any society and promote Illuminism.”

If you think the name Bonneville  sounds vaguely familiar, it is because Bonneville had a son that was an officer in the US Army back in the early 1800s. While in the army this man traveled all over the West on various assignments for we are not quite sure who. The Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah are named after him.

Thompson also observed that “Illuminism has two main tenets that have influenced both their existence  and that of those who can trace their origin to them: Te elimination of God and the building of a one-world government—to be run by them. There are many issues that come to bear to achieve these goals, but they all distill down to these two. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels referred to the Social Circle in their book The Holy Family, published in February 1845, three years prior to The Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary movement which began in 1789 in the Cercle Social … gave rise to the communist idea … re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830… This … is the idea of the new world order.”

And Thompson continued: “That is the Communist idea of a New World Order. This was not a new concept in 1845, but demonstrated that communism came out of the Cercle Social of Revolutionary France and tells us a great deal about the beginnings of a communist movement and the idea of a New World Order.”

So what good old Bush One tried to give us was an idea right out of the French Revolution. Note that there is some background here to show that the idea of communism did not originate with Karl Marx. It was in vogue before the League of the Just hired him, as a hack writer, to  put their agenda into what we now call The Communist Manifesto. It wasn’t original with him. In fact the first edition of it never even had his name on it. That came later, when it became convenient for the Illuminists to peg Marx for us as the originator, knowing that few folks would ever dig back past Marx to find out where he got it.

Mr. Thompson also notes the connections between Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx on pages 22-23.

Thompson also tells us that: “Out of the Cercle Social came a number of movements that coalesced into what became known as National Socialism (Nazism) and communism… The differences between Nazism and communism were very subtle, with the primary differences being which method is best to use to subvert any particular country and who should lead these movements–one group wanting to rule vs. another leadership team… In essence, the same force spawned both movements and there is considerable evidence that this force was controlling both at the same time behind the scenes.”

Thompson stated that both Marx and Engels  said the New World Order was a communist idea. And “It is also a socialist idea as well, since all socialists look to Karl Marx as their patriarch and claim to spring from the mind of Marx.” (Even though none of this was original with Marx).

In the next article, Lord willing, we will get into the Council on Foreign Relations, its origins and what it has been doing since 1921 to subvert this country.

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The Illuminist Agenda In Our Day–The CFR

by Al Benson Jr.

Member, Board of Directors, Confederate Society of America

In my last two articles, commenting on material written by T. C. Allen, I noted that Mr. Allen perceived the Illuminist agenda was active in several groups that we are forced to be confronted with in our day. He mentioned the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers and The Council on Foreign Relations. Better known as just the CFR.

The CFR has been much commented on in patriotic circles, but the average American has heard little or nothing about this group, does not even know it exists, and this fact is not accidental. The CFR is what former FBI agent and writer, Dan Smoot, called The Invisible Government in a book about them he wrote back in 1962, It is  probably out of print now, but you might check the internet to see. In the forward to his book, Mr. Smoot wrote: “I am convinced that the Council on Foreign Relations, together with a great number of other associated, tax-exempt organizations, constitutes the invisible government which sets the major policies of the federal government; exercises controlling influence on governmental officials who implement the  policies; and, through massive and skillful propaganda, influences Congress and the public  to support the policies. I am convinced that the objective of this invisible government is to convert America into a socialist state and then make it a unit in a one-world socialist system.”

Here we are, 57 years later, and I cannot disagree with Smoot’s assessment. He called it back then. Almost no one listened. As we travel down the road to world socialism, even with Trump in office, almost no one is listening even now. If you want to do a little exercise, check out how many in Trump’s administration belong to the CFR. The CFR has had plants in every presidential administration in my lifetime. And probably before that, since they have been around since 1921.

In 1970, W. Cleon Skousen, an excellent researcher, wrote a book called The Naked Capitalist in which he noted the reach of the CFR into most presidential administrations.  On page 3, he wrote: “Politics in Washington were equally puzzling. Why were so many top government officials always members of the Democratic Socialist cadre called Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) or were members of the exclusive Council on Foreign Relations? Whether the President was Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson or Nixon, it seemed to make no difference. There was often a change of personalities, but membership in these two organizations seemed a prerequisite for many top government jobs.” Ever wonder why your managed news media never touches on any of this?

Skousen continued, on page 51: “Although the Council on Foreign Relations is not the secret inner circle, its front activities are kept as mysterious as they are powerful. Practically no publicity is tolerated. If the student  researches the recent periodicals for articles on the CFR, he is likely to find nothing.” Of course, some things have changed with the advent of the internet so you can find material about the CFR today, at least to some extent, both pro and con.

One place there was an article was back in 1958, in Harpers, in July of that year. Joseph Kraft wrote an article for them, School for Statemen. Kraft was a CFR member. He wrote, in part, “It (CFR) has been the seat of…basic governmental decisions, has set the context for many more, and has repeatedly served as a recruiting ground for ranking officials.”

And Skousen notes: “There were 74 CFR members in the American delegation to the U.N. Conference in San Francisco in 1945. They included Alger Hiss (Communist spy),  Harry Dexter White (Soviet Agent), Owen Lattimore (described by a Congressional committee as a ‘conscious articulate instrument of the Soviet international conspiracy’, John T. McCloy…Harold Stassen, Nelson Rockefeller, John Foster Dulles, Phillip Jessup and Dean Acheson. These and 38 additional CFR members occupied nearly every decision-making spot in the American delegation to the San Francisco conference to set up the United Nations.” So you can basically say that the CFR gave the US the very questionable gift of the United Nations, which continues to be a millstone around our necks–with its socialist hand in our wallets to pay for all its one-world government foolishness.

Skousen tells us that: “The CFR has participated to some degree in each of the last ten administrations and dominated those of FDR, Truman, Eisenhower,  (Eisenhower was the establishment candidate against Taft), Kennedy, Johnson and the present administration as well.” And lists the CFR appointments made by Nixon–Henry Kissinger, Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles Yost, Arthur Burns, …George Ball,…Ellsworth Bunker,…General Andrew Goodpaster,…Joseph J. Sisco, Jacob Beam…” Other charter members of the CFR were the Dulles Brothers, John Foster, and Allen. Skousen has much, much more in his book. I have about one third of it underlined in my copy or future reference.

Other books about the CFR and its one-world government friends are out there. You can read, on the internet now, Gary Allen’s None Dare Call It Conspiracy and Gary Allen’s other blockbuster The Rockefeller File is also on the net. You can find and read these and it doesn’t cost you a thin dime and it will give you a good idea of what has gone on in this country since the early 1900s and is one of the results of the North having defeated the South in the War of Northern Aggression. Had the results of that War been different then our history would have been different and the ability to form groups like the CFR would not have been as easy as it was, so Southern patriots need to be aware of some of this stuff.

More on the CFR later.

The Illuminists Continue To Destroy The South

by Al Benson Jr.

Member, Board of Directors, Confederate Society of America

As stated in the first installment of  this article, the Illuminists performed their evil deeds not  only in the French Revolution, but also in the 1848 Socialist revolts in Europe (and by extension in our own War of Northern Aggression through the efforts of the “Forty-Eighters” and others, even before them).

In https://tcallenco.blogspot.com  T.  C. Allen told us of their efforts in the South even before the War. He said: “Years before the War for Southern Independence, Illuminists had sent agents to the South  to take control of  key positions and to agitate for secession. These agents included John A. Quitman, John Slidell, and Albert Pike. Thus, Illuminists were behind the abolitionists and others in the North provoking the Southern States to secede and the provocateurs in the South advocating secession. Quitman, a New Yorker, moved to Mississippi and married into a prominent Southern family…Slidell, an agent of the Rothchilds, led the secessionist party in Louisiana. He was from New York and a Masonic protégé of Edward Livingston, Grand Master of New York. Livingston, who was President Jackson’s Secretary of State, was a coconspirator with Aaron Burr…Slidell’s second in command in Louisiana was Judah  P. Benjamin, a Jew.  Benjamin and Slidell were partners in the same law firm. Like Slidell, Benjamin was also an agent of the Rothschilds…Albert Pike moved from New York to Missouri in 1831 and then to Arkansas in 1833…” Does the same question occur to you as did to me as I read this? Seems we had lots of New York folks all of a sudden  pushing for secession in the South!

And then there was Judah Benjamin. Did anyone ever see a picture of Benjamin when he wasn’t smiling? I don’t think I ever have. Seems like every picture I’ve ever seen of him, he has almost a smirk on his face–like he knows something you don’t! Maybe it’s me, but I never trust a man who constantly smiles–and with his Rothschild connections, Benjamin obviously knew something most of his contemporaries in the South didn’t.

Allen noted also: “After the North had pushed the South  beyond any reasonable forbearance, the Southern States sought independence. The Northern States were determined to reduce them to provinces to be exploited for the benefit of the North–primarily the banking and industrial interest in the North. Finally, war broke out. To provoke a war, Lincoln sent a fleet to reinforce Fort Sumter. Lincoln was an agent of the Illuminists if not an Illuminist himself.  The Illuminists wanted war, and Lincoln gave it to them.” Now I can’t say definitely that Lincoln was an Illuminist or not. I know he had a socialist world view, which was in keeping with Illuminism. Donnie Kennedy and I in Lincoln’s Marxists noted his socialist world view, which was also in keeping with the views of Lincoln’s Forty-Eighter  buddies.

According to Allen, and I  don’t disagree with him, the Illuminists maneuvered North and South into a war that neither Northerners or Southerners really wanted. Allen said that “The Reconstruction Amendments, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, especially the last two, overturned much  of the original Constitution and reduced the States to administrative provinces subservient to the United States government. Perhaps more importantly in furthering the Illuminists’ goal was the precedence set by the imperial presidency of Lincoln during the war and by the Radical Republicans in Congress and the Johnson and Grant administrations during Reconstruction.” And even with Lincoln’s presidency, you had those like Stanton in the background who  ended up being much of the real power.

Allen has made an interesting observation here, and I think I tend to agree with him. He said: “Contrary to what many conspiratorial historians believe, the War for Southern Independence was not fought to split the United States into two or more countries….The objective, however, was not division, but the consolidation of power. True, the Illuminists wanted war, but they did not want war to divide the United States into multiple countries. They wanted war to destroy the United States Constitution and the sovereignty of the States. They wanted war to consolidate political power in the federal government (one government is easier to control than many, which is why the Illuminist want to consolidate all political power into a one world government) and to make the United States a great military power that they would control. All these goals they accomplished.”

All this does not mean that what the South fought for was wrong by any stretch of the imagination. Allen observed: “Southerners had fought to preserve the God-given inalienable rights and liberties of mankind embodied in the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. They fought for the dispersal and decentralization of power as opposed to the illuminstic goal of the concentration of power  and centralization of power. The South had the highest concentration of anti-illuminists of any place in the world. The great Christian revival and conversions that occurred among the Confederate soldiers during the war accented this anti-Illuminism. The Illuminists had to destroy the South. Destroy her they did.”

Allen here says that: “How much involvement that the Radical Republicans had with Lincoln’s assassination may never be fully known. They certainly were not disappointed with his death.” Actually, there may be a bit more known now than when Allen wrote his article in 2009. Researchers Dave McGowan and Steven Hager, both of whom I have quoted in my Lincoln assassination articles wrote much of their material in 2014-15. And the man who writes https://ersjdamoo.wordpress.com did a lot of his writing about Lincoln’s assassination in 2012-2013.

Allen noted, in conclusion that: “Reconstruction formally ended in 1877, but efforts to reconstruct the South into the image of Illuminism continue to this day.” Mr. Allen, how right you are! And if more Southern folks don’t begin to awake from their Illuminist-induced slumber and start removing their kids from what passes for public schools then the Illuminists may well seize the day–and where will we be then? Worse, where will your kids and their kids be? You better give that some  serious thought.

Illuminism And The Destruction Of The South

by Al Benson Jr.

Member, Board of Directors, Confederate Society of America

Recently I read an article on https://tcallenco.blogspot.com written back in July of 2009. It was a bit lengthy and I did not agree with parts of it, but on the whole, I felt Mr. Allen was pretty much on target. He looked at the Illuminist presence in the world and in this country. He noted the activities of one Giuseppe Mazzini, an Italian revolutionary who “…came to the United States and organized the Young America movement. The Young America society was modeled  after his Young Italy, a secret society whose objective was to overthrow the established governments of Italy and unite Italy under a republican government…He was a believer in violent revolution and a forefather of Communism. He organized the Revolution of 1848, whose purpose was to overthrow the monarchs of continental Europe and replace them with a communist state.”

He noted that, in our day, Illuminists are supporters of one world government and have a globalist world view. Among their numbers are Trilateralists, Bilderbergers, Communists, Council on Foreign Relations members and others, right down to certain groups of New Agers.

Mr. Allen mentions the Young America Movement, and he notes: “It was also active in the abolitionist movement. Mazzini became the godfather of the antislavery campaign. The abolitionists became front men for the Illuminists, who wanted to destroy the United States and their  Constitution.” And here is where they played both sides of the fence to do just that.

Allen stated: “Also involved in the founding of the Young America movement was Edwin DeLeon. DeLeon became an advisor to President Jefferson Davis and the chief propagandist of the Confederacy in Europe. While DeLeon led  the expansionist wing of the Young America, William Lloyd Garrison, a spiritualist, led the abolitionist wing.” Do you begin to see here what I am saying about them playing both sides of the fence?

And Allen noted: “Garrison was a leading abolitionist and a friend of Mazzini. Garrison published the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator which he started in 1831. Unnamed backers financed his paper, so it could be distributed free through the South. The abolitionist movement was in effect an undeclared war against the Southern States. (Until the War for Southern Independence,  most Americans viewed the United States as a ‘confederation of states associated under the provisions of a compact, the Constitution of the United States’.”

Interestingly,  many in the South had been working toward the elimination of slavery. There were abolitionist societies founded in the South, that had nothing whatever to do with Garrison and the radical abolitionists in the North. The groups in the South had worked to  try to eliminate all the agitation of slavery, but that agitation was exactly what the Illuminists wanted.  This agitation was to be used for “…the drive for total control of the economy of the United States. Lincoln knew that the war was over the economy and not slavery, so did most Southerners.” And Allen also observed that “Intelligent people of both sections  knew that technological advances would end slavery.” What the Illuminists and their flunkies hoped to do was to instigate a war before that happened, while they remained hidden behind the curtain in the background. They managed that thorny little problem.

Mr. Allen also noted the work of New England secessionists. You see, you can’t just say that secession is “that dirty S word” and blame it all on the South! And I’m not convinced that secession is all that bad anyway. He also stated that: “The abolitionist movement grew out of the Essex Junto in New England. (The Essex Movement was the New England secessionist movement that calumniated in the Hartford Convention of 1814.) Associated with the abolitionist movement were the pseudo religious cults of Unitarianism and Transcendentalism, which  were often called ‘the New England religion.’  Both sects reduce Jesus to a mere human albeit an extremely good man. They also rejected the bodily resurrection of Jesus from death. Transcendentalism was based on the Jewish Cabala. It invalidated the Bible by claiming that no final authority in any religious matter existed…Fervently worked the abolitionists to thwart the Southern emancipation movement. They wanted a destructive war against the South. Emancipation was irrelevant except as an excuse for war.”

Noted by Allen were those sterling individuals we have come to know as The Secret Six–the men who financed terrorist John Brown in his Harpers Ferry debacle. He noted some of their backgrounds. Thomas Wentworth Higginson was from “a leading New England banking family…Howe was from a wealthy banking family and husband of Julia Ward Howe…(Gerritt) Smith was the first to finance Brown. He was the son of John Jacob Astor’s business partner. Holding more than a million acres, he was the largest landowner in New York. Smith was also a financial backer of Mazzini.” So you can see the connections here. None of these folks were worried about where their next meal was coming from. They were the elite among the elite! The same holds true in our day. Many of those that continue to finance radical leftist projects and activities are literally swimming in cash. They are hardly Marx’s workers who have nothing to lose but their chains!

This is something people today can’t seem to fathom–how some of the richest folks around can continue to fund radical Marxist causes and groups. They can do it because they are some of the people responsible for promoting these leftist groups, and if the left finally finishes the rest of us off, they are not going to lose anything.

Many of the super-rich like the Rockefellers and their ilk are really kissin’ cousins to the radical left. They both want the same thing–to tear down the country and cut our throats.

More to come.

Yankee Torture

by Al Benson Jr.

Member, Board of Directors, Confederate Society of America

Years ago I did an article about how the federal government was using torture to extract information from potential terrorists. I noted in that article that, as a Christian, I did not believe torturing people, no matter how bad they were, was something we should be doing. If I recall correctly, I asked in that article if Jesus Christ would endorse torture. It was a rhetorical question, as, obviously, He would not.

The responses I got back were surprising. They came from Christians who seemed to feel that torturing terrorists was okay because they were, after all, terrorists. My initial reaction to this was–if the terrorists torture people and then we end up doing the same thing–are we any better than they are? One Christian lady was able to see it my way and admit that torture was wrong. Others remained adamant that torture was a great way to get information out of terrorists and so it was okay.

My thought was–if Christians feel this way, what does that say about where this country is really at? If you don’t like the answer to  that question, neither do I. But, in doing a little homework, I found that torture in  this country is hardly a new  thing.

Years ago I read a book by Mark E. Neely Jr called The Fate of Liberty. I’ve mentioned it before, but not recently. It was about civil liberties under the Lincoln administration (or the lack thereof). Pages 109-112 went into a bit of detail about torture as practiced in the Lincoln administration. Neely noted that: “The steady decline  in the status of Southern noncombatants in the military thinking of the North might lead one to suspect  that the likeliest torture victims were the detested Southern guerillas or scouts. In fact the victims were not  Southerners at all. They were Northerners suspected of deserting from the United States Army.” So Neely has to admit that the North tortured possible deserters from her armies. Neely observed, on page 112 that: “As military authority was extended to cover more and more kinds of cases, torture might have spread also. And the history of the war would have become darker yet.”

And the war did become darker yet, thanks to Edwin Stanton, the War Department, and Stanton’s secret police, run by his  pet stooge Lafayette Baker. Most Northern folks would prefer not to hear about all this. They want to cling to the fairy tale that the North fought a noble, pure as the driven snow, war to free the slaves in the Southern states. If you ever ask them why they were not concerned with freeing the slaves in those slave states that had to remain in the Union, all you get is blank stares back. They have no clue what you are talking about. Let us make note here that the “history” they are taught in public schools does not tell them about any of this.

But, for all of that, torture was practiced in the North and it was particularly notable in the case of the alleged Lincoln conspirators. Steven Hager, in his enlightening articles  on the Lincoln assassination conspiracy on https://stevenhager.net has stated: “But similar techniques (of torture) were employed at the end of  the Civil War, and employed to secure the cover-up of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, whose murder was engineered by the leaders of his own party, along with funding and support from a secret entity in New York. Although dozens of people aided and abetted Booth (and over a thousand immediately arrested and incarcerated for a month) the unlucky six who would soon be put on trial for their lives received very special treatment different from all the others.”

Hager said: “Instead of a prison cell, they were moved to iron-clad ships located far away from listening ears, so nothing could be spoken from a prison window. Heavy canvas and leather hoods with padding over eye and ear sockets were chained permanently over their heads, and only removed during  the trial when inside the court room. Their hands were locked in cuffs that prevented independent motion. They remained in isolation for weeks  prior to the trial, and could not see or hear anything, and had only a flap  revealing a small hole for breathing  and feeding, a flap that could be kept sealed.” It would seem that Stanton’s War Department was not buying into  any of this “innocent until proven guilty” claptrap!

With this kind of “special treatment” is it any wonder  that some of the six started to slip mentally and emotionally, with those hoods on in 90 degree heat? But, then, that was probably part of the game. Hager noted that “All interrogations were kept secret, but it’s evident the interrogations were designed to  shape later testimony favorable to the government’s case. The purpose of this extreme inhumane treatment was to guarantee no prisoner revealed sensitive information, while rendering them  helpless to marshal a complete defense.  The initial confession given by George Atzerodt was destroyed and not allowed into evidence, and would not be located for 117 years.” After all that time, a copy of it was located, and that is on the internet now. A little late to do George any good. In it he confessed to being part of a plan to kidnap Lincoln. He never confessed to a murder  plot.

We have been duly informed that there were three murder plots that night, one to kill Andrew Johnson, one to kill Grant, and one to kill Stanton. Hager stated that these “…were invented by Edwin Stanton to shield himself, as he was an alleged target of his own fictional assassination plot…But if you follow these trails up the chain of command, you’ll locate the true perpetrators of Lincoln’s murder…Because the people stage-managing  the sham trial of the patsies are always the same ones who engineered the crime in the first place.”

It’s interesting that, in his original confession Atzerodt listed around a dozen extra names of people in the kidnapping conspiracy–and these good folks were never charged with anything or investigated. Makes you wonder who they really were. Atzerodt eventually changed his story, but, then, that was after wearing that canvas and leather hood 24 hours a day,  which had to impair his mental capacity. Hager restated that: “This torture device, which he was forced to endure for weeks until hanged, had been invented to keep him from revealing information to anyone while the government fabricated a case with paid perjuries.”

Atzerodt said Booth had been told that “the New York crowd who’d been assisting the kidnap plot had decided to put a hit on Lincoln. Booth accepted their mission.” Makes you wonder who this New York crowd was, doesn’t it?

So Who Profits From Lincoln’s Death?

by Al Benson Jr.

Member, Board of Directors, Confederate Society of America

The title of this article is a logical question people today should be asking. Unfortunately most are not. They have believed the befuddlement fairy tales spun by those who have a vested interest in selling their “history” books and  peddling tales that blame the South for Lincoln’s death. As expected, they are being pointed in the wrong direction so they will never think to ask the right questions.

So who did profit from Lincoln’s death? Just a subtle hint here–it was not Jefferson Davis or the Confederate States of America, although they became the official scapegoats of the “spooks” who ran the trial of the Lincoln assassins (some of whom weren’t).

Steven Hager on https://stevenhager.net noted on September 20, 2014 that Salmon P. Chase created the Republican Party. Here I would disagree with him. Arthur R. Thompson, in his book To The Victors Go The Myths And Monuments noted on page 220 that “The president of the National Reform Association was Lewis Ryckman from Brook Farm. The secretary of the NRA in 1848 was Alvan Bovay, who went on to form the Republican Party six years later.” Bovay probably had some help as doing what he did would involve more people than just himself, and Chase was probably one of those, but he was not the biggest spoke in the Republican wheel. In fact there were some very conspiratorial types, some of them from Europe, that were involved in all of this. Mr. Thompson’s book would be a good research tool. I would recommend it.

Hager noted that Chase, in the new Republican Party “…led its radical abolitionist wing, a cabal that took over the country when the South seceded.” He also observed that, “Yes, a small cabal of Radical Republicans fomented the Civil War and a possible reason some Northern banks funded their movement may have been a realization the Southern economy would eventually outpace the North due to the economic advantages of slavery. Cotton was King and it was growing cash in the South  much faster than anything the North could produce.” So the Northern banksters wanted to do away with slavery in the South, not for humane reasons, but so they could end up prostrating the South and make more money for themselves. So much for altruism!

And another interesting observation, one that Otto Eisenschiml also made in his book Why Was Lincoln Murdered? was, according to Hager: “The reason the Civil War had to last so long and be so bloody was so the North would embrace the abolitionist cause and allow this cabal to punish the South as a conquered nation afterwards.  Had General George McClellan simply been left alone, Richmond may have surrendered early, and the South welcomed back into Congress with slavery intact. For that reason, the Civil War was engineered to be long and bloody. McClellan never would have waged ‘total war’ on civilians like General Sherman did.”

So Stanton then sabotaged McClellan and got him out of his command so generals with more blood and gore in their makeup could have a chance at savaging the South, because that was really the name of the game, right from the beginning! When McClellan started to write his own autobiography he may have started to figure some of this out.

The Radical Republicans didn’t want Lincoln to put his plan for reconstruction into play because that would mean “…the cabal of Radical Republicans who’d been running the country (and looting it six-ways-to-Sunday) were about to lose power once the Southerners were restored to vote with the moderate Republicans. Instead of plundering the South for patronage, Bribes and booty, the Radicals were about to be left with the short end of the Congressional stick. And they knew it…The obvious solution was to get rid of Lincoln, who’d just been re-elected for another four years, and that’s exactly what happened.”

Hager also stated: “You’ve been told there was an aborted attempt on Vice President Johnson that night, as well as assassinations planned on General Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of War Stanton. But those allegations were concocted by perjurers, some of whom had been paid to lay down testimony implicating Confederate President Jefferson Davis, the ultimate scapegoat. Forgotten today is the fact Davis was also convicted of the Lincoln assassination by Stanton’s illegal military tribunal, the same one that hanged poor Mary Surratt, but at the time, Davis was in Union custody in Virginia and he was eventually released without any trial. This because a trial would have opened even more wormholes in the tribunal’s parade of manufactured evidence, something exposed soon enough during Johnson’s impeachment hearings and the trial of Confederate spy John Surratt who was captured in Egypt. Surratt’s mother was a complete innocent in the murder plot,…”

Hager then makes a statement that should be obvious to those who have done the homework. He says The only people who benefited from Lincoln’s death were the leaders of his own party, who quickly reversed his pledge of forgiveness and began looting the South.” Actually, Lincoln wanted the patronage his brand of reconstruction would have engendered, and so he and the Radicals both wanted the same thing–but only one of them could have it–them or Lincoln. And they made sure they got it and not him.

Booth was not the originator of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln as we have all been informed he was. He was the Lee Harvey Oswald of the 1860s and he and those that aided him were the ultimate patsies, the expendables. Once they were all either hung, shot, (or possibly aided in escape to other places) no one bothered to look any further–and that was the idea. It still is today–“nothing to see there folks, so just move along.”

Thankfully, there has been a whole group of real researchers who have refused to “just move along” and they have given us the truth behind Lincoln’s assassination that the establishment toadies steadfastly, even today, refuse to bring to light.

Is There A Pattern Here?

by Al Benson Jr.

Member, Board of Directors, Confederate Society of America

When I was going through Dave McGowan’s series on the Lincoln assassination Why Everything You Think You Know About the Lincoln Assassination is Wrong I took note of Mr. McGowan’s commentary about the federal government’s seeming lack of interest in John Surratt after the government had hung his mother. McGowan even felt John Surratt may have been a Union operative posing as a Confederate operative and so that may have been why they never bothered him.

When he came back to this country he did go through a trial in a civil court that resulted in a hung jury, so he walked, and no one ever bothered him after that. Strange behavior from a government that is supposed to have believed you were a Confederate spy.

Yet we see some of this same behavior in regard to John Wilkes Booth’s attempts to kidnap Lincoln before some in his own Party finally decided he had to be done away with.

Steven Hager has noted on https://stevenhager.net some  similar behavior regarding Booth’s kidnap attempts. In an article on October 9, 2014 he noted some facts about Louis Weichmann, who was a friend of John Surratt. He ended up moving into Mary Surratt’s boarding house.

Hager stated that “Weichmann worked as a clerk at the War Department of Prisons and sat next to Daniel H. L. Gleason. After arriving at the boarding house, he immediately began telling Gleason the house was a nest of illegal activities. Of course the possibility exists Weichmann was placed in the house as a confidential informant from the beginning…Gleason testified Weichmann informed him in March that ‘he was well-acquainted with some blockade runners, young fellows, not secessionists, who were out for money and excitement, who were currently involved in a new project that aroused his suspicion.’ This message wormed its way up the chain-of-command and it soon came back down Weichmann should join this project, whatever it was.” But here is the clincher to the whole episode. “But in 1911, Gleason unloaded his conscience and confessed the real story: The War Department was made aware of John Wilkes Booth’s plot to kidnap Lincoln weeks before the assassination.”

If that was the case, then why didn’t Stanton do something to stop Booth at that point? Another of those anomalies that routinely turn up in this whole situation. It’s full of them! Hager observed, again, quite accurately, that “Since Stanton controlled the secret police, the army, the telegraph and the entire Washington DC police force, his power was absolute and once he discovered this plot, Booth was obviously at his mercy. At any time, Stanton could have arrested Booth and hanged him for treason, standard treatment for a Confederate spook like Booth…Sol why wasn’t Booth arrested in March? Even stranger, Stanton suddenly demoted his chief detective (Baker) moving the head of the National Detective Police to Manhattan, leaving the NDP headless for the crucial few weeks the assassination plot unfolded.”

Hager continued: “Stanton’s specialty was manufacturing evidence, and he had an entire crew led by Sanford Conover (real name Charles Dunham) for this purpose, so guilt or innocence never got in the way of his agenda. It’s possible Dunham’s real employer, however, was the treacherous Jay Gould, soon to be the richest man on Wall Street.”

Hager also commented on how John Parker, the “guard” who deserted his post guarding Lincoln was never punished for that and returned to work at the White House the very next day. He also noted that Boston Corbett, the rather deranged soldier who is supposed to have shot Booth against orders, was never punished for that.

He felt this was inexplicable unless “…this is exactly what Stanton wanted:  an unguarded President and dead assassin to tell no tales.” Whether he got the “dead assassin” or not is, even today, an argument that is still up for grabs.

Hager said that: “In December 1869 Edwin Stanton died shortly after complaining of being haunted by Mary Surratt’s ghost. Caleb Cushing immediately claimed Stanton had slit his throat, same as his brother had done many years earlier, and there was a coverup in progress.” A  coverup in progress–my, what a surprise. The entire Lincoln assassination scenario was one gigantic coverup–and it still is today!