Skull and Bones Conspiracy

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Ok, now I've heard some crazy shit in my time, but this is really good.

So in another thread I pulled up some crazy web article after a simple Google search on "Democratic Convention results". Here it is. (http://madiaq.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/8573.php) Its way over the top anti-Bush and rife with conspiracy. So, I'm reading it for a laugh, and cringing at some of it, and get to the part about Prescott Bush.

Googled Prescott Bush and found this. (http://www.who2.com/prescottbush.html) Now I'm getting really intruiged and try Skull and Bone.

Skull and Bone (http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/skullbones.htm)

Now I'm flipping out, because its so crazy. I'm laughing at it all because it turns out Kerry is in on this secret club too! Its just too funny. Then I'm seeing CBS news articles mentioning it, New York Observer and other places.

Just wanted to share some fun with my fellow political pundits.

[StrayRogue]

You've never heard of Skull and Bones? Its as legitimate and real as the Masons.

[StrayRogue]

Additionally, do you honestly think people with any real amount of power or money are not in such organizations as this or the Trilateral Commission, or the Beldenbergers?

[ThisOtherKingdom]

Who controls the British Crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do, we do.
Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do, we do.
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?
We do, we do.
Who robs cave fish of their sight?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do, we do!

[Parkbandit]

"PS Find Robert Langdon"

[Mistomeer]

The Simpsons rules.

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Never heard of Skull and Bones until last night. I've dipped into the occult realm and read about the Pythagoreans, Masons, and the Rosicrucians. All really fascinating reading. The whole Illuminati thing... yeah. How long has that shit been around now and still lurks in the backgrounds?

Anyway, I don't give it all that much creedence. My grand-dad is/was a Mason and he told me its an organization that while having secret rites, does things to help the community it is based in, like building hospitals and schools. Knowing my grand-dad as I do, there is nothing sinister about him. He IS from Texas though and he DID work the oil.

[Latrinsorm]

My favorite bizarro conspiracy thing is the Da Vinci Code, because that was a good read, multiple factual errors aside.

[Jazuela]

I didn't read any of the links in this thread - so I don't know what's already been confirmed and what hasn't. So I'll just add my 2 cents.

The Skull and Bones is a fraternal organization (a frat house) at Yale, around a block east of the Beineke Library in downtown New Haven. It is a building made of solid walls of stone-tinted concrete, and has no windows whatsoever. No one ever sees anyone entering the front doors, and I don't recall seeing a back door.

There -are- tunnels under the campuses...so I imagine that some of them must lead to a hidden entrance to the S&B building. Tunnels under major university campuses aren't all -that- rare around here... MIT has them too, and I'm pretty sure Harvard has a series of tunnels as well. They're mostly for convenience sake, but some of them are paths to old fall-out shelters.

It's a secret society in that it is a frat house, that you cannot apply to join. You have to be selected. The existence of the society is no secret - everyone around here, at least, knows about it, even though the building has no sign saying what it is. But - the fact that it has no sign is a dead giveaway, heh. EVERY Yale building in New Haven is marked with a sign saying what it's for!

One rumor has it that the top floor is just one enormous cavernous room, and that underneath is where all the interesting stuff happens. Another is that inside, it looks just like every other frat house in town - except for the lack of windows. Who knows? Who cares? No one really - we all know it's there, and mostly we just snicker at people who make a fuss about it.

The -big deal- about the S&B, however, is that it's an "old boy's club." It could boast (if it wasn't supposed to be a secret) many influential leaders of this country and commerce. Whether these people are hand-picked as members because they are training them to become leaders..or because they come from backgrounds that already contain leaders.. is also a secret. It seems like a mix of the two.

And what, exactly it is that they do in there, no one knows. There's never been a police raid of the building, so either it's so soundproof that no one can hear the screams, or it's just not nearly as exciting as everyone makes it out to be.

I'm of the opinion that it's a little in the middle between both extremes. The usual mysterious initiation ritual involving a blindfold and a wooden paddle and massive quantities of properly aged brandy (no beer for those rich boys, nosirreee!), and a bunch of very dull meetings where they decide whether or not to get Mitzy and Muffy of Sorority X a pair of matching bunny slippers for their birthdays.

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It is amazing who has been a member of this Yale secret society. I saw a show on Skull & Bones and they interviewed a few members who tried to debunk the conspiracy rumours. They interviewed an Italian fellow who came from a working class background and who was a member of Skulls. He is currently a Partner in a National Law Firm. His protestations only convinced me further that the rumours are true.

Eh. That has to be the most retarded excuse for those who are truly unrevealed Luminatis. The workers of Yale are mainly upper-middle class PhD's and you only find real tight-lipped conservatives in the Provost and the Chairmen.
What makes me chuckle the most, is that knowing a wide array of the most comical faculty inhabitting Yale, the only deep-rooted secrets are who is fucking who in who's office and why some phenominal grants won't pass at the NIH.
I guess some of the Yale college students could go into their "protesting-phase" and become infatuated with a concept like the Skull and Bones and what is now popular Iconoclast, try mimicry, and just be one more pseudo-genius, self-infatuated, basshead, ultra-liberal college student.
And as for GWB, you can't be the daddy of the CIA, the Prez himself, or the Pope, and get your kid(s) into Yale this day and age, let alone by having some poppycock, "unmentioned," affiliation with said conspiring organization.
This is a bunch of good old fashioned tomfoolery.

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Guess who else went to Yale... uh huh, Bush's nomination as the new CIA director, Porter Goss (http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=H0846103). Cooincidence?

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So it is pure coincidence that so many power leaders in business and government have been members of Skulls? I am not a big believer in conincidence.