Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North - EntreWave

TWO KINDS OF CONSPIRACY, by Gary NorthThe conspiracy is powerful. But the key to stopping the conspiracy isabove all educational. If it were simply a matter of personal power, afew bombs would do the job. Neither side believes in the power ofbombs, as such. What distinguished Lenin from two generations ofsuicidal Russian revolutionaries was that Lenin believed in centralizedParty discipline, newspaper articles, tracts, books, and bombs —probably in that order. Bombs were in last place, as the OctoberRevolution proved in 1917. He captured Russia virtually withoutfiring a shot. Why was he able to do this? Because the Russian rulers,like the Russian people, had lost faith in the moral and intellectualfoundations of Old Russia.Also, the Czar had a massive centralized bureaucracy, all ready andwaiting to be captured. 8 So, for that matter, did Louis XVI of Francein 1789. 9So it is not simply a question of conspiratorial mobilization. It is aquestion of conspiratorial mobilization within a particular climate ofopinion and within particular historical circumstances. Conspiratorsunderstand this best of all. They also understand that if any hostilecritic of their actions dares to mention the existence of theirconspiracy, which has been successful in using the climate of opinionto manipulate the majority, he can be cut off at the knees simply bysneering, "Oh, yes, a conspiracy thesis of history. How infantile."That sneer, coupled with threats to professional careers, has workedincredibly well. So, academic outsiders necessarily have to do theinitial work, people such as Dan Smoot, who wrote the first majorexposé of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Invisible Government(1962), got it published by a small conservative maverick publisher,and then sold an incredible one million copies through the mailsbecause he had his own weekly T.V. show. The same is true of Allen,Abraham, and Skousen. These men understood Rushdoony's principlethat "intellectual respectability in the eyes of either the liberals oranyone else is an irrelevant matter in the discussion of any question.We must leave the dead to bury the dead." 10Dead and dying men, however, continue to be outraged. Nevertheless,they must keep their outrage concealed. They must appear to be calm,cool, and collected. So they have hired other men to do their work forthem. Instead of an outraged cry against conservatives who resisthttp://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gnco/html/4.htm (10 of 11) [5/26/2000 1:48:10 PM]