Beware C Street
In 2002, the Washington Post revealed a hidden program in the bowels of Washington D.C. best known for lobbying.
The program was called “The K Street Project”. It was founded by Republican strategist Grover Norquist and then-House Republican Whip Tom DeLay, and began immediately after the 1994 mid-term elections which gave the GOP control over the Congress in the first time in forty years. After the election, DeLay reportedly summoned the prominent lobbyists to his office and told them in no uncertain terms that they answered to the GOP.
Under the program, Washington lobbying firms – most of whom had their offices on K Street – had to give a disproportionate amount of campaign money to the Republicans. They also had to make sure that their lobbyists be Republicans, not Democrats. Failure to comply, according to Norquist and DeLay, would result in that firm being shut out from access to key members of Congress, and later from the White House under President George W. Bush.
Traditionally lobbying firms would give both Democrats and Republicans either an equal amount in campaign contributions or slightly more in favor of which party was in the majority, and it didn’t matter what party their lobbying members came from or leaned towards, since the issue was supposedly more important than political affiliation. This changed with the forced balkanization program of Norquist and DeLay.
This opened the door to rampant corruption, as demonstrated by the scams perpetrated by power lobbyist Jack Abramoff. A massive scam that would involve former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed, Ohio Congressman Bob Ney, former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles, and both Norquist and DeLay, who was then House Majority Leader. Only some of these people would go to prison. The rest would weasel out of accountability.
A kleptocratic den of inequity to be certain, but it would pale in comparison to the connections made by investigative journalist Wayne Madsen to a group he refers to as “The Fellowship” or “The Christian Mafia”. Indeed, if the scandals of Abramoff, Reed, Ney, Griles, and DeLay are but the tip of the iceberg, then K Street isn’t even the iceberg. “The Fellowship” is.
According to Madsen, “The Fellowship” had its start in the 1930’s by a Methodist minister from Norway named Abraham Veriede whose views weren’t so much religious as they were political. Specifically, they were anti-communist, anti-New Deal, anti-union, and supposedly… pro-National Socialist. Veride was a student of Nietzsche, who was not exactly a fan of Christianity, and his views of an authoritarian religion fell right in line with the prevailing national socialist mentality that was rampant in Germany in the 1930’s. The same mentality that a certain Austrian named Adolf would tap into and use to take over Germany, and then most of Europe.
Okay, first of all, yes, we’re talking pro-Nazi. Go ahead and start erroneously screaming “Godwin’s Law” and get it out of your system. Godwin was a humorist, not a political observer. We are dealing with history, and Nazis WERE a part of history whether you like it or not. DEAL WITH IT! It is important to note that national socialism, which the Nazis were and which Veriede and his friends supported, was NOT compatible with communism. In fact when the Axis powers of Germany and the USSR initially met (along with Italy’s Mussolini and Japan’s Emperor Hirohito) it was always considered to be an alliance of convenience, and one that would be broken once Germany felt they were strong enough to do so. National socialists HATED unions, which the communists loved dearly. That made each group mortal enemies, even though politically they are on the same side.
The various members of Veriede’s “Fellowship” were joined not by religion, though, but by their common political leanings. Leanings that would continue to the 21st century and shape the course of politics. One of Veriede’s “Fellowship” travelers was Leo Strauss, the father of neo-conservative thinking and mentor to Richard Pearle and Paul Wolfowitz, advisors to then-President George W. Bush. Also linked to the Fellowship, according to this article, were famed navigator Charles Lindbergh, Alcoholics Anonymous founder Frank Buchman, Senator Prescott Bush… father to President George H. W. Bush and grandfather to President George W. Bush…and influential reverends Billy Graham and Sun Myung Moon.
The article itself exposes vast tendrils of political entrenchment and manipulation. The transformation of George W. Bush from a substance-abusing ne’er-do-well into a dry-drunk President of the United States was supposedly through his father and with the “Fellowship”. His re-election in 2004 linked in part to churches aligned with “The Fellowship”, churches that not only were voting centers for the community, but according to the article the same voting centers that were accused of vote manipulation.
The article exposes the “C Street Center”, which is the hub of “Fellowship” activity in Washington. Its list of members past and present are a veritable Who’s Who of politics, including former and current Secretaries of State Condolezza Rice and Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, Karl Rove, and, yes, K Street Project architect Grover Norquist.
If “C Street Center” sounds vaguely familiar to you, it should. It was listed as the meeting place where a shadow cabinet of Senators tried to step in and stop the ongoing extramarital affair of Senator John Ensign of Nevada. Ensign was a resident of “C Street”, as was former Congressman and now South Carolina Governor Mark Stanford.
But what needs to be pointed out is that this article by Madsen exposes the ugly truth about “C Street” and its secret cabal. This is an organization that is obsessed with the complete and absolute control of every aspect of human existence, from religion, to the family, to education, obviously to government, to the media, arts, and to business, the so-called “Seven Mountains Mandate”; and to have and to wield this level of control by any means necessary.
To them faith is not a matter of a specific belief, but as a means to control others. This goes back all the way to the formation of their “Fellowship” in the 1930’s. Their organization is a collection of various religious faiths from Mormons to Lutherans to Baptists and Catholics, but they share one common element: their obsessive lust for power and control.
Suddenly a lot of things become clear concerning politics. President Barack Obama’s appointment of career insiders, including and especially former Clinton officials, have changed the whole tone of his administration from fulfilling the campaign promises he once made to sustaining and defending the status quo, no matter how wrong or repressive that status quo may be. Even diehard Obama supporters were slapping their heads in frustration and struggling to understand as to why this was going on, but now it is clear. It is a status quo that was built by the Fellowship, and as long as there are members of that Fellowship in positions of power, that status quo will stay exactly where it is.
When times are tough for the world of business, why do the banks get strings-free bailout money but the automakers get hurdles and hoops to jump through? Because the banks aren’t unionized; and unions are the sworn enemies of the Fellowship. AIG can give its people “retention incentives” over and over again while reaping billions in taxpayer-funded bailout money, but automakers, airlines, anyplace where there are unions, they get broken promises. Wall Street has plenty of friends in the Fellowship, both Democrat and Republican alike, while any employer with a union has to BEG for help from Democrats and HOPE they’re not a member of the Fellowship.
And you’ll notice that AS SOON as the discussion in the media focused on “C Street”… the MOMENT people began to ask questions about it… BOOM! All of a sudden a dead campaign issue is resurrected and is being force-fed by the media.
Coincidence, you say? Convenience, you speculate? Crack-pot conspiracy theory, you suggest?
Or is it just part of their contingency plan to divert attention?
Bear in mind that these Fellowship members are obsessed with achieving dominion over the “Seven Mountains” of all human interaction, and to do so BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY! If it means keeping the masses fearful, ignorant, bankrupt, then so be it. If it means aligning themselves with groups that they eventually have plans to subjugate? That’s just gravy for them!
Even more ominous, though, is that this is not an organization that is PLANNING on taking over. This is not an up-and-coming threat. This is not a group LOOKING to gain control. THEY ARE ALREADY IN! They’ve BEEN in power for a while now! Now it’s just a question of HOW MUCH power they have and HOW MUCH influence they can wield. HOW CLOSE can they get to fulfilling that “Seven Mountains Mandate”?
Think back to some of the social challenges of the past and see which of those “Mountains” have been claimed. For art, you just have to go back to all of the instances of edgy and controversial exhibits like the Mapplethorpe exhibit in Ohio. For media, just look at the recent power-grabs by the FCC. Education? “No Child Left Behind” ring any bells? Business? Sarbaines-Oxley and the other various regulations. Family? Who do you think is behind the push against gay marriages and abortion? Need I even mention the last two?
Still think you’re safe? Still think this is all pie-in-the-sky, never-can-happen?
This is not about parties. Republicans and Democrats are just empty letters to them. It’s not even about religious beliefs. What you believe in is nothing more than a tool for them to exploit. This is about subjugation. Once they know they have that power, it will be next to impossible to wrest it away from them without resorting to doing something drastic. They know this already. The whole matter with K Street and Abramoff should be proof alone of their scope. Once they start fretting about little details like “R” and “D”, then it’s already a done deal for them.
The real question, then, is when will YOU realize this?
