From jhdaugh@a-albionic.com Sat Nov  5 04:41:57 1994
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 04:06:15 -0500 (EST)
From: James Daugherty 
Reply to: prj@mail.msen.com
To: Steve Crocker 
Cc: A-albionic Mailing List 
Subject: Roots of British Israel

Thanks for the interesting post Steve.  I have sent it to A-albionic 
Research so they can add the book you review below to their Super 
Catalog.  They have 100's of titles on the subject, pro and con, 
including many of the authors and activists that you cover below.

Have you read A-albionic's Project on the issue?  They point-out that 
British Israelism was one of the founding philosophies of the the British 
Empire.  It could well be the founding or "social organism" building meme 
of the British Empire, invented by Queen Elizabeth's magician, John Dee, 
according to Francis Yates' incredibly important, but now out-of-print, 
The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age. (Currenly listed for $30.00 
in the A-albionic catalog.)  Note that the "British" aspect has now been 
dropped by most British Israel groups and they now preach 
Anglo-Saxon-Celtic Identity or simply White Racial Identity.  The 
Identity being "Israel of Bible Prophesy".

The Neo-British Empire is now "multi-culturalist" instead of white 
racist.  However, univeralism is the opposite of racist, not 
multi-cultural, ie. multi-racist.  LaRouche and others have pointed this out.

Thus, British Israel and other white racist identity creeds continue to 
play a role in Neo-British Empire mind control.  I don't think these 
doctrines have to be accepted literally by a large number of people to be 
influencial.  I dare say that most people are peripherally aware of the 
Gods Chosen concept of Israel/Identity and accept it in a "White Man's 
Burden" sense to explain and justify the persistent, remaining White 
domination of most of the world which is inherent in the NeoBritish 
Empire as it exists today.

This is how really effective social programming works.  Social organism 
building "memes" can be introduced at the fringe or periphery of society, 
but yet affect the entire mass.

Note that underground artists seem to be aware of this.  Thus, the 
constant outcry against their efforts to re-program the social organism 
with their hideously destructive work.

Have you investigated Richard Dawkin's work on "memes"?  See his Selfish 
Gene.  I think he errs in his ultra-reductionist philosophy, but still 
his ideas are useful fodder for thought.

On Sat, 5 Nov 1994, Steve Crocker wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> Thought you might be interested to see what I came up with 
> in the course of some library research on the question of
> Sovereign Citizen/Christian Identity links. Somewhat tenuous,
> but suggestive.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> The following is a set of notes made on the book Religion and the 
> Racist Right. The notes begin with the prehistory of Christian Identity
> as found in the "British Israel" movement - whose supporters believe
> that the Anglo-Americans comprise a key element of the House of Israel
> and are thus heirs to the God's promises to Israel as expressed in 
> Biblical prophecy. The discussion of Christian Identity proper in these
> notes is limited to the background leading up to the emergence of one 
> William Potter Gale, a founder of the Posse Comitatus. Gale is of 
> particular interest in the context of today's Patriot movement, as several
> prominent themes present today are found in his organizing (although 
> probably most rank and file Patriots today would be unaware of this 
> intellectual lineage). 
>  
> To quote from the book (pp. 207-208):
>  
> 
>  
> In addition to his activities as a Christian Identity preacher and 
> writer, Gale was instrumental in organizing two related political 
> organizations, the United States Christian Posse Association, one of 
> several Posse Comitatus groups; and the Committee of the States, 
> which sought to revive the governmental structure of the Articles of 
> Confederation. Gale began with the proposition that the Articles of 
> Confederation, which shaped the national government from 1781 until 
> 1789, remained in effect even after the adoption of the 
> Constitution. "These articles, being perpetual, remain in effect to 
> this day. They've never been altered, amended nor repealed. They 
> cannot be." Further, in Gale's mind, they were divine. "The source 
> of the Articles of Confederation for a Perpetual Union is the Holy 
> Bible....It contains God's laws for his people, for their nations 
> and their governments....The source is the Bible, otherwise known as 
> the common law." Gale's ideas had a number of elements. First they 
> incorporated a political fundamentalism not unlike his religious 
> fundamentalism, in the sense that he believed a complete, inerrant 
> account of American government could be derived from the literal 
> texts of charter documents. Second, since "Israel"/America was God's 
> chosen people, God had revealed to it the political truths necessary 
> for its governance. Third, this truth had been concealed or 
> misinterpreted by malovelent forces, so that a vast body of 
> Constitutional interpretation  had onscured the eternal verities of 
> the Articles of Confederation. These principles turnde out to have 
> considerable implications for the tax laws. 
>  
> Gale rejected the entire Internal Revenue Code as "a string of 
> unconstitutional abuses which attempt to require a citizen's consent 
> to the repudiation and violation of his God-given and Constitutional 
> rights." Gale drew from this the ominous inference that all 
> government officials who attempted to enforce the tax code should be 
> "removed from office," by the Posse Comitatus if necessary. Since 
> the loose governmental system of the Articles of Confederation was 
> deemed to still be in effect, Congress had overstepped its bounds in 
> taxing: "The states are sovereign in this Republic....By what 
> authority do they bring any citizen in for willful failure to file a 
> communist graduated income tax, when they, in fact, have no 
> jurisdiction over that sovereign citizen, who is a citizen of a 
> state and a county in a state." Gale then turned his attention to 
> reconstructing what he saw as the only valid governmental structure 
> for the United States. 
>  
> Gale's ideal polity revolved around two types of organizations, the 
> Committee of the States and an enforcement body variously termed the 
> Posse Comitatus and the Unorganized Militia. The committee was 
> mentioned in the Articles of Confederation as a group appointed by 
> Congress to manage the nation's affairs when Congress was not in 
> session. Gale, however, regarded it as a kind of superlegislature 
> capable of overruling an errant Congress. Consequently, on July 4, 
> 1984, largely at his instigation, a group of right-wing activists 
> met at his California ranch to sign a "Compact," subsequently filed 
> with the county recorder, reestablishing the "Committee of States in 
> Congress," that is themselves. They quickly concluded that the 
> Congress in Washington, D.C., had overstepped its authority, 
> particularly by taxation, and was in consequence "indicted."For this 
> purpose the Compact contained a provision called the Caveat: "Any 
> interference or attempt to interfere with the functions and 
> activities of this Committee of the States or its delegates by any 
> person or agency of government shall resuult in the death penalty 
> being imposed upon conviction by said Committee sitting as the 
> Congress of the United States. The enforcement of the penalties in 
> theory devolved upon what Gale sometimes referred to as the Posse 
> and sometimes as the Unorganized Militia (of which he was the chief 
> of staff), consisting of the males in a community between fifteen 
> and forty-five.
>  
> 
>  
> To what extent Gale originated these concepts, and to what extent he
> merely synthesized ideas already currrent within the circles in which 
> he moved is not dealt with by this source, but would be an interesting 
> investigation to pursue. 
>  
>  
> RELIGION AND THE RACIST RIGHT
> Michael Barkun
> 1994 University of Chapel Hill Press 
> New York/London
>  
> (Note sections do not necessarily follow Barkun's chapters)
>  
> I. British Israelism
>  
> John Wilson
> Lectures on Our Israelitish Origins (1840)
> Britain=Ephraim (heir to Joseph's birthright)
> Teutonism
> Jews acquired "cures of the gentiles" via intermariage - must be redeemed 
> via accepting Christ. 
>  
> Edward Hine
> (claimed influence from Wilson)
> lectures/publishes beginning 1869
> Anti-Teutonic (Germany=Assyria)
> Pro-Jewish
> America=Manasseh (Ephraim's brother)
>  
> Edward Wheeler Bird
> Retired civil servant
> Metropolitan Anglo-Israel Israel Association
> Banner of Israel magazine
>  
> II. Pyramidology (taken up by the British Israelites)
>  
> John Taylor 
> The Great Pyramid (1859)
>  
> C. Piazzi Smyth
> (Royal Astronomer of Scotland)
>  
> David Davidson
> The Great Pyramid: Its Divine Message
>  
> British Israelism peaks in England in the 1920's with about 5,000 
> members, including numerous aristocrats and high military officers.
>  
>  
> III. British Israelism in America
>  
> Joseph Wild - Pastor of Union Congregational Church (Brooklyn)
> Preaches British Israelism beginning 1876
>  
> M.M. Eshelman (Kansas)
> Two Sticks; or, the Lost Tribes of Israel Discovered (1887)
>  
> C.A.L. Totten 
> Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Yale's
> Sheffield Scientific School. Lieutenant of Artillery.
>  
> Edward Hine (see above) visits America from 1884-1888,
> visits Totten for several weeks, undertakes an extensive
> cross-country lecture tour in U.S. and Canada. 
>  
> Frank Sanford (Maine)
> Student of Totten. Founds Shiloh Bible School. (about 1895)
>  
> In 1900 Charles Fox Pelham of Tokeka, Kansas studies for 
> a month under Sanford and accompanies him on an evangilization 
> campaigh in Winnipeg. Pelham then returns to Kansas and founds 
> the Pentacostal movement. 
>  
> J. H. Allen, an Illinois Methodist moves to Missouri in 1879 and 
> helps found the Church of God (Holiness) in 1883. Author of 
> "Judah's Secptre and Joseph's Birthright".
>  
> A.A. Beauchamp. Becomes publicist for movement after Totten's
> death. Publishes Watchman of Israel magazine beginning in 1918. 
> Converts to Christian Science in 1924. Joins schismatic "Christian
> Science Parent Church" which includes many British Israelites.
>  
> Ruben Sawyer. Pastor of East Side Christian Church in Portland,
> Oregon. Lectures throughout Pacific Northwest & western Canada, 
> including Vancouver. Helps found British-Israel World Federation
> and attends the first federation congress (London, 1920). Organizes
> on behalf of Oregon KKK from 1921-1924. Speaks before the Portland
> B'Nai B'Rith (no date given). The group's president writes "your
> reception and the enthusiastic greeting which the members accorded 
> you upon the completion of your address was a physical evidence of 
> how much your auditors enjoyed your remarks." 
>  
> His conversion from philo-semitism to antisemitism appears rather
> abrupt:
>  
> July 1921:
>  
> "The world fears a Jewish peril, and the Jews fear a renewal of their
>  worldwide persecution. A satisfactory solution of the problem ... may 
> be found in God's plan, "declared from the beginning", "In his days
> Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely." Fear of a Jewish 
> peril is but the result of the dim impression being made on the minds
> of men as Jehovah reveals something of His great purpose of making Israel
> known as that people of influence and power through whom He will restore
> Judah and bless all the nations of men.
>  
> 1922:
>  
> "Jews are either bolshevists, undermining our government, or are shylocks,
> in finance or commerce who gain control and command of Christians as
> borrowers or employers. It is repugnant to a true American to be bossed
> by a sheenie. And in some parts of America, the Kikes are so thick that a
> white man can hardly find room to walk on the sidewalk. And where they are 
> so thick, it is bolshevism they are talking, bolshevism and revolution."
>  
>  
> Howard B. Rand. Born 1889 in Haverhill Mass. to a British Israelite
> family. Bachelor of laws 1913 from University of Maine. Sponsors talk
> by Canadian British-Israelite William Pascoe Goard in 1927. Organizes
> as the American representative of the British Israel World Federation 
> beginning in 1928. Founds the Anglo-Saxon Federation on America in 
> Detroit in 1930, which rapidly spreads nationwide, especially in 
> Oregon and California. Affiliates with the Totten Memorial trust in
> 1931, which gives his organization important financial support. Begins
> weekly radio program in Los Angeles. 
>  
> William J. Cameron. Born Hamilton Ontario, 1878. Edited Henry Ford's 
> Dearborn Independent which published Ford's "The International Jew"
> (including an edition of the "Protocols"). Served on executive committee 
> of the Anglo-Saxon Federation. In 1931 collaborated with Rand on a 
> special issue of the Bulletin of the Anglo-Saxon Federation sent to
> a mailing list of 30,000 "Key Men" obtained from right-wing patriotic 
> organizer Fred R. Marvin. 
>  
> IV. Christian Identity
>  
> At this point in Barkun's book, the narrative becomes dispersed to 
> the point that we can no longer trace the lineage of British Israel
> and Christian Identity through the activities of a small number of 
> influential figures. Instead, we are given the story of an influential
> British Israel group based in Vancouver, as it spreads its influence 
> down the West Coast of the U.S. We are told "...the Vancouver group
> appears to have contained some figures whose anti-Semitism was unusually
> open and intense." By 1937 the Vancouver group had withdrawn from the
> Dominion-wide Canadian group based in Toronto, and was no longer 
> recognized by the parent group in London. A series of key organizing 
> conferences was held during the 1937-1947 period. The first was held 
> in Seattle and was called the "Convention of the Anglo-Saxon Association 
> of North America." Howard Rand and Ruben Sawyer (see above) both attended,
> and Rand's West Coast affiliate passed a formal resolution endorsing
> fraternal relations with the Vancouver group. Subsequent meetings were 
> held in Vancouver (1939-40), Portland (1041-43), and Los Angeles (1945-47).
> The end result was a strong network of British Israel/Christian Identity 
> activists stretching from Vancouver to Los Angeles, with a marked 
> anti-Semitic flavor provided by a prolific "stream of apocalyptic and 
> anti-Semitic materials"  originating within the Vancouver circles. One 
> of the authors of this material is identified as C.F. Parker, whose 
> father, J.W. Parker, was an early member of the Vancouver group and who,
> himself, had studied at the "British-Israel teachers training college"
> in London. 
>  
> The focus then turns to Los Angeles, which already had a significant
> population of non-traditional religious believers, including the 
> Pentacostalists founded by Charles Parham (see above). Rand's organization
> had a California chapter by 1930, headquartered in Los Angeles. By the 
> 1940's an evangelist from Victoria, BC named Clem Davies was active in LA.
> He had been active in the KKK during the 1920's, and is thought to have 
> been a sympathizer to William Dudley Pelly's "Silver Shirts", as well
> as the British fascists. 
>  
> We then see a major figure emerging in the Los Angeles area during
> the early fifties. This was the former Huey Long aide and notorious 
> anti-semite populist Gerald L.K. Smith. Smith appears not to have 
> himself believed in Christian Identity theology, as evidenced by his 
> preaching, but nevertheless made opportunistic use of these networks 
> for his organizing efforts to the extent that Barkun considers him 
> *the* central Christian Identity politician of the period. 
>  
> Smith's circles included the following significant figures:
>  
>  
>  
> Conrad Gaard - Based in Washington state, he played only a 
> marginal part in Smith's networks. Significant for presenting
> the first "sustained written presentation of Identity views".
>  
> Ellsworth Perkins - Allied with the Dixiecrats and the State's
> Rights Democratic party (which nominated Strom THurmond). Broke 
> with Smith and wrote in 1949 a book "The Biggest Hypocrite in
> America: Gerald L. K. Smith Unmasked". 
>  
> Bertrand Comparet - Born in San Diego about 1900. Educated at 
> Stanford and practiced law. Served as deputy DA for San Diego
> County, and as San Diego deputy city attorney. Legal advisor
> to Wesley Swift's California Anti-Communist League. Published an
> Identity pamphlet series "Your Heritage". 
>  
> Wesley Swift - "More than anybody else, Wesley Swift was responsible
> for popularizing Christian Identity in right-wing circles by combining
> British Israelism, a demonic anti-Semitism, and political extremism."
> Active in Smith's Christian Nationalist Crusade. Swift appears to have 
> been the mentor of William Potter Gale.
>  
>  
> V. William Potter Gale. 
>  
> The opening quote of these notes tells much about Gale's eventual 
> political views as a Posse Comatatus organizer. An important reference 
> to obtain would be Cheri Seymour's book "The Committee of the States" 
> which is based on much personal interview material. 
>  
> Gale served in the Army, made Lt. Colonel at 27 and served on Douglas
> MacArthur's staff. He helped organize guerilla forces in the Phillipines.
> He retired at 33 in 1950 due to injuries. He tells several inconsistent
> stories of his conversion to Christian Identity around 1956, including
> one version which has him ordained at that time as an Episcopalian 
> minister. He founded the Christian Defense League at some undetermined 
> point between 1957 and 1962, to which he claims to have recruited Swift
> and Comparet. 
>  
> The leftist journalist William W. Turner quotes an "infiltrator" within 
> the CDL as follows: "I was the security agent for the CDL national director. 
> I guarded the security building and the files therein, the files which 
> extended through most every state in the union. Members of the Klan, 
> members of all other extremist groups who joined in to help make the 
> Christian Defense League the central reporting group, for all these 
> organizations. The very sister and co-worker in this, of the CDL on the 
> West Coast, is the National States Rights Party."
>  
> Turner also claims links between CDL networks, the Minutemen, the 
> American Nazi Party, and the circles around New Orleans ex-FBI agent 
> Guy Bannister, whose anti-Castro activities figured in Jim Garrison's
> probe of the JFK assasination. (William W. Turner, Power on the Right, 
> Ramparts Press, 1971.)
>  
> Gale helped organize the Posse Comitatus in the 1970's, along with 
> Henry "Mike" Beach. Convicted on tax charges in 1987, he died less
> than a year later in prison. 
>