Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North - EntreWave

THE REALITY OF CONSPIRACIESinstitutions in Western Civilization that have been marked by robes —the clergy, the judiciary, and university professors — were targeted acentury ago by conspiratorial groups. These groups did everythingthey could to capture the leadership of each group, in order to moldpublic opinion. They have been remarkably successful in their efforts.We might also call this process "capturing the minds." It is incorrectto say that a man is what he eats. It is also incorrect to say that a manis what he owns. No, a man is what he thinks, what he truly believesin. Shape his thinking, and you can manipulate the man. Shape thethinking of the spokesmen of the activist minority in any society, andyou can manipulate that society (within shifting limits historically, ofcourse). Political or financial control over institutions is not enough.Temporary political power is not enough. You can eventually losecontrol to other dedicated conspiratorial groups. Therefore, controlover people's access to information, and more importantly, controlover the moral and theoretical principles that govern theirinterpretation of information, is essential. Lose this, and you have inprinciple lost control. You will eventually lose control. No civilizationhas ever fallen to outsiders that did not first suffer a loss of faith in itsfirst principles. The failure of faith always precedes the failure ofwill. 12In the United States, the conspirators understood the nature of theconflict from the time of the Abolitionist movement. 13 Consider thecareer of Rev. Thomas Wentworth Higgenson, a Unitarian minister.He once wrote a letter to the murderous John Brown in which heannounced: "I am always ready to invest money in treason ...." 14Higgenson had a long and perverse career. He was an active supporterof Horace Mann's Massachusetts experiment in state-supported publiceducation, a member of the Secret Six which financed John Brown inthe 1850's, and a founder of the Intercollegiate Society of Socialists in1905, along with Clarence Darrow, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, andothers. 15 The I.S.S. later became known as the League for IndustrialDemocracy, a first cousin (or closer) of the British Fabian socialistsociety. 16These sorts of men, and others far richer and with more capital todefend, saw to it that they and their allies gained control of thoseinstitutions that can legally sound the alarm against any infringementof the people's Constitutional liberties: the courts (especially thehttp://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gnco/html/1.htm (7 of 12) [5/26/2000 1:48:02 PM]