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Against All Enemies -
Review By G. Edward Griffin

By G. Edward Griffin
©2004 by G. Edward Griffin
8-23-4
 
In March of 2004, I was asked by a new member to comment on a best-selling book that had just arrived in the stores, Against All Enemies, by Richard Clarke. My one-sentence review is that this book is a classic example of opinion engineering to perpetuate policies of the CFR.
 
A little background is in order. For those who are familiar with the creation of the Federal Reserve System, it will be remembered that the Federal Reserve Act was an outgrowth of a public outcry to "break the grip of the money trust. The financiers who constituted the money trust did not wait for a genuine grassroots movement to take hold. Instead, they covertly led the crusade against themselves and drafted their own so-called reform legislation. They created an institution that was offered to the public as a government agency to break the grip of the money trust but which actually consolidated the power of the money trust and expanded it. This was a classic example of offering false leadership and leading one,s own opposition.
 
LEAD YOUR OWN OPPOSITION
 
In 1987, Simon and Schuster published William Greider,s book, Secrets of the Temple, which was offered to the public as a scathing exposé of the Federal Reserve System. His history was excellent, but his conclusion was fatally flawed. After having proven that the Fed was conceived as a weapon of the banking elite against the common man and having shown throughout his book that this is exactly the function it has always served, his conclusion was, not to abolish the Fed or even to make serious changes to it. His "call to action was simply to stop worrying about it. The Fed has made mistakes, he said, but we have learned many lessons along the way. All we need now are wiser men to run it! That is exactly the kind of solution that made his book acceptable to the giant publishing house, Simon and Schuster. It is no solution at all. The elite do not care what we know about a problem if we don,t do anything about it. They are quite good at putting forth their own opposition - people like Greider - who will sound the alarm and rally the troops but lead them exactly nowhere.
 
In 2000, Simon and Schuster published another book in this same category, Day of Deceit; The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, by Robert Stinnett. It is a block buster of facts and previously hidden documents proving beyond doubt that FDR, Secretary-of-War Henry Stimson, General George Marshall, and many others high in the Roosevelt Administration secretly plotted to cause Japan to Attack Pearl Harbor as an excuse to bring the United Stated into World War II supposedly as a victim of an unprovoked attack. So, what was Stinnett,s conclusion? Was it to condemn these men for their treachery? Not at all. It was that this act was justified because it helped put a stop to Hitler in Europe. In other words, to halt totalitarianism in Europe, it was necessary to adopt totalitarianism in America, and to do so was an act of great statesmanship! Once again, Simon and Schuster provided the American people with a false opinion leader. What,s the point of getting all frothed up over a president lying to the voters and deliberately causing thousands of Americans to be killed if we are then to decide that he was a hero for dong so?
 
Now, in 2004, we have Simon and Schuster continuing the tradition. Against All Enemies, by Richard Clarke, is an excellent overview of certain aspects of George W. Bush,s abuse of the Presidency. It verifies that, prior to 9-11, Bush disregarded warnings of pending terrorist attacks and, after 9-11, launched an unnecessary invasion of Iraq. There are no surprises here. Almost all of this information had managed to seep through to the public in spite of media loyalty to the White House. In fact, it was this information (plus a lot more never mentioned by Clarke) that caused Bush,s popularity ratings to decline sharply. This book added very little to the knowledge base except that the author had been an insider with first-hand involvement. The book,s true agenda is revealed by the author,s solutions. He reluctantly accepts totalitarian measures in the U.S. as necessary for homeland security and indirectly supports the expansion of UN power as a desirable goal on the path to world order. However, the real solution that jumps from almost every page of this book is to replace George Bush in the November 2004 elections. That makes a lot of sense, but who will take his place? The fact is that Bush would be replaced by John Kerry. (Clarke,s book didn,t go to press until after Kerry had become the clear frontrunner of the Democratic Party.) This is no solution at all. Kerry is a member of the CFR and, although he might make minor alterations in Iraq, we can be sure that he would continue to follow the CFR blueprint for world government based on the model of collectivism.
 
THE QUIGLEY FORMULA
 
The net effect of Against All Enemies is to implement a strategy described by Professor Carroll Quigley, President Clinton,s mentor when he was a student at Georgetown University. In his book, Tragedy and Hope, Quigley explained the value of allowing people to believe that, by choosing between the Democratic and Republican parties, they are participating in their own political destiny. To a collectivist like Quigley, this is a necessary illusion to prevent voters from meddling into the important affairs of state. If you have ever wondered why the two American parties appear so different at election time but not so different afterward, listen carefully to Quigley,s approving overview of American politics:
 
The National parties and their presidential candidates, with the Eastern Establishment assiduously fostering the process behind the scenes, moved closer together and nearly met in the center with almost identical candidates and platforms, although the process was concealed as much as possible, by the revival of obsolescent or meaningless war cries and slogans (often going back to the Civil War). The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy. Either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies. [Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (New York: Macmillan, 1966), pp. 1247-1248.]
 
OBVIOUS CLUES
 
When Against All Enemies hit the bookstores in March, there were several obvious clues that it was following the Quigley formula. The first was that it was given incredibly favorable coverage in the mass media. It was on the network news and received front-page coverage in almost every major newspaper. No book publisher could purchase that kind of publicity at any price. No author who offered genuine opposition to the CFR agenda would ever receive such a favorable and extensive media blitz like this. There have been many White House whistleblowers over the years, but they seldom if ever get favorable treatment in the media. If you understand the degree to which CFR collectivists control the media, you would know immediately that Clarke,s message was given the green light by that group. With this knowledge, you would also know that they are leading their own opposition. They are perfectly willing to dump Bush and replace him with Kerry, because they win either way.
 
(Bush, of course, is not without resources. If Osama Bin Laden would be captured or another horrible terrorist attack would happen prior to the elections, it is possible that the public might still rally behind Bush one more time.)
 
Clue number two was that the activist group, MoveOn, chose this book for national promotion and fund raising. MoveOn was created as an organization to defend Clinton during his impeachment, and its total focus has always been to promote the Democrat Party. It is very selective in its choice of issues to promote. Partisan loyalty is paramount. It condemns Republicans for being indifferent to terrorist threats from Islamic regimes but it is silent when Democrats are indifferent to terrorist threats from Leninist regimes. MoveOn serves the same function for the Democrat Party as Rush Limbaugh does for the Republican Party. They both attack the opposition party but seldom say an unkind word about those on their side of the aisle. Partisanship is always above principle. They serve the CFR as bell ringers to "throw the rascals out without really changing basic policies.
 
The third clue was that Against All Enemies was published by Free Press, a division of Simon and Schuster. As mentioned previously, Simon and Schuster is the same company that published Secrets of the Temple and Day of Deceit. I am not aware of any of its hundreds of titles that seriously challenge the goals of the CFR. It would be foolish to expect this book to change that pattern.
 
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"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years."
 
"It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
 
--Quote from David Rockefeller, Internationalist billionaire, Humanist, CFR kingpin, founder of the Trilateralist Commission, World Order Godfather, Bilderberger Meeting, Baden, Germany, June 1991
 
 
"We shall have World Government,
whether or not we like it.
The only question is whether
World Government will be achieved
by conquest or consent."
 
--Infamous Quote from James Paul Warburg
(1896-1969) Chairman of the CFR, 1921-1932,
Foreign Agent of the Rothschild Dynasty, major player in the Federal Reserve Act




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