From Steamshovel Press #10:

Quigley Live

by Len Bracken

In casting a secret ballot, one casts a ballot for secrets. Like people involved in crime, those who use the ballot box are afraid that their acts will become known, or afraid to authorize a government to act in their name. The secret ballot is a way to avoid responsibility in much the same way that a well-kept secret protects a criminal. And if one is to believe the secret of Carroll Quigley's The Anglo-American Establishment - the strange tale of the semi-secret Rhodes-Milner Group by the late Georgetown University professor and Bill Clinton mentor - democracy is nothing more than a tool of control for global market planning. Secret ballots, secret societies and secrets in general strike me as laughably childish in light of the fact that, eventually, everything becomes known. The world-wide money cartel described by Quigley was even referred to as "Milner's Kindergarten." Most of us are as curious as children when we see the smoke and hear the whispers - we want to discover the secret. Quigley says as much in reference to what provoked his study of the French Revolution of 1789: "I always had the eyes of a child." According to the Washington Post Clinton has evoked Quigley lectures as "the rhetorical foundation for his political philosophy" as if they were an enchanted childhood memory revolving around the American dream like his trip to the White House to meet JFK. In speeches made a decade after Clinton was at Georgetown, Quigley sounds nothing like the convinced imbecile who would have him say "America is the greatest country in the history of the world." Here's Quigley speaking for himself: "Secrecy in government exists for only one reason: to prevent the American people from knowing what's going on. It is nonsense to believe that anything our government does is not known to the Russians at about the moment it happens." The To read the rest of this article and the others listed on the contents page of Steamshovel Press #10, order the back issue. $5 post paid from Steamshovel Press, POB 23715, St. Louis, MO 63121 Steamshovel Press Home Page