QUOTE OF THE DAY (or week or whenever)

[Brandyman]

Hello. My idea isn't to have every quote be this lengthy, but for starters...

From Controversy of Zion, by Douglas Reed, Chapter 23:

"THE 'PROPHET'
The 19th Century moved inexorably towards the repudiation of the Sanhedrin's avowals to Napoleon,
towards the re-segregation of the Jews, towards the re-establishment of that theocratic state in the midst of
states, the danger of which Tiberius had depicted before the Christian era began. The struggle was not
between "the Jews" and "the Gentiles"; as on the ancient day when the Persian king's soldiers enabled Ezra
and Nehemiah to enforce "the new Law" on the Judahites, it was once more between some Jews and some
Gentiles and the other Jews and the other Gentiles. The mystery always was that at such junctures the Gentile
rulers allied themselves with the ruling sect of Judaism against the Jewish masses and thus against their own
peoples, among whom they fostered a disruptive force. This paradox repeated itself in the 19th century and
produced the climacteric of our present day, in which all nations are heavily involved.
The emancipated Jews of the West were undone on this occasion, with the mass of Gentile mankind,
by the Western politicians, who enlisted, like a Swiss Guard, in the service of Zionism. Therefore this
narrative must pause to look "at the Liberals" of the 19th Century, who by espousing Zionism enabled it to
disrupt the affairs and deflect the national policies of peoples.
They may best be studied through the founder of their line. "The Prophet" (he claimed the title which
Amos angrily repudiated) was Henry Wentworth Monk, by few remembered today. He was the prototype of
the 20th Century American president or British prime minister, the very model of a modern Western
politician.
To account for this man one would have to revivify all the thoughts and impulses of the last century. It
is recent enough for a plausible attempt. One effect of emancipation was to make every undisciplined thinker
believe himself a leader of causes. The spread of the printed word enabled demagogues to distribute ill
considered thoughts: The increasing speed and range of transport led them to look for causes far outside
their native ken. Irresponsibility might pose as Christian charity when it denounced its neighbours for
indifference to the plight of Ethiopian orphans, and who could check the facts? Dickens depicted the type in
Stiggins, with his society for providing infant negroes with moral pocket handkerchiefs; Disraeli remarked
that the hideous lives of coalminers in the North of England had "escaped the notice of the Society for the
Abolition of Negro Slavery".
The new way of acquiring a public reputation was too easy for such rebukes to deter those who were
tempted by the beguiling term "liberal", and soon the passion for reform filled the liberal air, which would
not brook a vacuum. The "rights of man" had to be asserted; and the surviving wrongs were most easily
discovered among peoples faraway (and, for fervour, the further the better). It
[183] was the heyday of the self-righteous, of those who only wanted the good of others, and cared not how
much bad they did under that banner. The do-gooders founded a generation, and also an industry (for this
vocation was not devoid of material reward, as well as plaudits). In the name of freedom, these folk were in
our day to applaud, and help bring about, the re-enslavement of half Europe.
Into such a time Henry Wentworth Monk was born (1827) in a farm settlement on the then remote
Ottawa River in Canada. At seven he was wrenched from kith and kip and transported to the Bluecoat
School in London, at that time a rigorous place for a lonely child. The boys wore the dress of their founder's
day (Edward VI), long blue coat, priestly cravat, yellow stockings and buckled shoon. They lived as a sect
apart, ate monastic fare and little of it, the rod was not spared, and they were sternly drilled in the Scriptures.
D. REED :: The Controversy of Zion
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"Thus young Monk had many emotional needs, crying to be appeased, and his child's mind began to
find modern applications in the Old Testament, to which his infant mind was so diligently directed. By "swift
beasts", he deduced, Isaiah meant railways, and by "swift messengers", steamships. He next decided, at this
early age, that he had found the keys to "prophecy" and could interpret the mind of God in terms of his day.
He ignored the warnings of the Israelite prophets and of the New Testament against this very temptation;
what he found was merely the teaching of the Levitical priesthood, that one day the heathen would be
destroyed and the chosen people re-gathered in their supreme kingdom in the promised land.
Men of rank and influence also were toying with this idea that the time had come for them to make up
God's mind. When Monk was eleven a Lord Shaftesbury proposed that the great powers should buy Palestine
from the Sultan of Turkey and "restore it to the Jews". England then had a statesman, Lord Palmerston, who
did not let such notions disturb his duty, and nothing was done. But in young Monk an idea was ignited, and
The Prophet was born; his life thenceforth held no other interest until it ended sixty years later!" ...

[Brandyman]

Every relationship is a marvel of the imagination.

--Camille Paglia, from Sexual Personae

She's not being sunny and bright here, just telling it like it is. This is an imaginative way to relate, come to think of it, so there's your relevance. By the way, if you know anyone here who lives in the Washington, D.C., area, please let me know. mailto:Noelpratt2nd@yahoo.com">Noelpratt2nd@yahoo.com
The brandy's cheap but enlightening, and we can do a sit and sip over the philosophy of conspiracy.

[Brandyman]

Prejudice and hatred are the very conditions which a scientific study of the Jewish Question will forestall and prevent. We prejudge what we do not know, and we hate what we do not understand; the study of the Jewish Question will bring knowledge and insight, and not to the Gentile only, but also to the Jew.

--Henry Ford, The International Jew, Section 7