A Note On Slavery and the Decision to Remove Lillian Gish’s Name by Bowling Green University’s Theatre

By

R.E. Prindle

 

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According to the article linked above Bowling Green University has discriminated against its alumna the great actress Lillian Gish by erasing her name from the campus theatre honoring her because some Black students objected to her appearance in D.W. Griffith’s great movie The Birth of a Nation for racist reasons.  The movie was one of the greatest cinematic achievements.  It dealt with the period of American history known as Reconstuction.  That period has been one of the most, if not the most, distorted periods in US history.

Reconstruction began when President Abraham Lincoln was murdered by Abolitionist fanatics because he wouldn’t treat Southern Whites as subhumans and submit them to subhuman and barbaric measures.  Instead he wished to treat the war as a misunderstanding and wished to reintegrate the South into the Union which he had so ardently and with so much bloodshed wished to preserve.

Having removed the President the fanatics did impose draconian measures on the Southern Whites which elevated the Blacks over them essentially making the Whites slaves and putting the Blacks’ foot on their neck.  This situation would have continued well beyond 1877 but for the reestablishment of sanity by President Hayes.

The criminal period of Reconstruction was well remembered by Southern Whites.  The most prominent voice of the Southern view of this history was the novelist Thomas W. Dixon Jr..  Today the Left and David Walsh, the writer of this article, condemn Dixon as a terrible racist.  For the Left the term racist is a catch all for anyone of whom they disapprove much like the old Conservative catch all, Communist.  The term racist should be treated by all reasonable people the same way.

Dixon was not a racist, he was a competent writer and capable historian.  He was an ardent anti-Communist after the 1917 Revolution when US Commies began the attacks to discredit all writers who refused to follow the Party line.  Twenty years of defamation later Thomas Dixon’s reputation was destroyed.

Hodding Carter in his history of Reconstruction of 1959 titled it The Angry Scar. And so it was and is.  Reconstruction did not end in 1877 it was merely interrupted.  It re-emerged after 1954 and the Supreme Court decision Brown vs. The Board of Education and continues ferociously today.

The movie Birth of a Nation was an attempt to heal that Angry Scar.  It attempted to present the real, the true, story of Reconstruction and the real reason for the creation of the first Ku Klux Klan.

There are those who, for whatever reason, wish to distort that history and complete the destruction of Southern Whites and, indeed, Conservatives in general, who they see as sub-human, that President Lincoln wished to prevent.  These people are now known as the Lunatic Left.  They are a racist bunch favoring Black Supremacy.

Thus, their condemnation of Lillian Gish on the insane charge that she accepted a role in the movie and then subsequently did not condemn it or Thomas Dixon, David Wark Griffith and The Birth of a Nation.  There is nothing to condemn in any of the three.  There is much to condemn in Communism and Communists and anyone who speaks well of it and them.

While we can never put the past behind us it is important to maintain a balanced view of what our ancestors endured to the best of their abilities.  Yes, slavery is a terrible thing, then and now, and the attitude is resurfacing on the Left.

Agricultural slavery which not only Negroes endured but also Whites, both worked cheek by jowl in the fields in the early days of Negro importations, was benign and even beneficial compared to the industrial slavery endured by workers in the North.

In addition, there was no slavery more horrid than that endured by English mine workers in nineteenth century England.  Yes, we should and must condemn slavery and curse the legacy not only of agricultural slavery but industrial slavery in all forms, whether endured by the Black race, the White race or any other race.

China, Hollywood

And The ‘Correct’ Point Of View

by

R.E. Prindle

 

A very interesting story about China and Hollywood appeared in the Wall Street Journal of today (4/19/17).  It confirms the continuing marginalization of the US and the threat to the survival of its Constitution.

It seems that Part 8 of Fast and Furious opened in China to 169 million compared to about 70 million in the US. (Inflated to 99 million in the reporting by including Canadian receipts, so China can now dwarf North America.  (US, Canada, Mexico).  Thus, implications go far beyond mere Box Office considerations.  China has now surpassed the US in screens adding 25 a day, that is, 25 a day! Chinese admissions are half the US so the Fast and Furious receipts could be doubled to 338 million.   China soon will have a bigger annual gross than North America with plenty of room to grow.

Anent political considerations the WSJ story makes two very revealing admissions:

Tensions between China and the White House have accelerated since the presidential election.  Mr. Xi is seeking to strike a contrast with President Donald Trump as a champion of globalism, and he appears eager to advance China’s narrative- both by pressuring Hollywood studios to portray the nation favorably and in the long term, by adopting Western filmmaking techniques for China’s own industry.

So, what kind of favorable portrayal do the Chinese insist upon, which is actually a form of censorship, because they won’t show US movies that might be critical.  For instance in a movie portraying the Trump, Xi, Kim Jong Un situation it would be necessary to show China as the moral and ‘correct’ champion with the US and Korea as squabbling brats.  Hollywood will have to accept an inferior position for the US.

Here Mr. Xi should horrify US Liberals and have them condemn him and China as Neo-Nazis.  Indeed, as Mr. Xi states:

We must make patriotism into the main melody of literature and art creation, guide the people to establish and hold correct views of history, views of the nation, views of the country, and views of culture, and strengthen their fortitude and resolve to be Chinese,” said Mr. Xi at the Beijing Forum on Literature and Art in October 2014.

 

So, there you have it, conditions no Liberal will tolerate in the US but are acceptable to them when imposed by China.  In pleasing the Chinese to retain access to the Chinese market Hollywood does violence to everything the US professes to believe as guaranteed by our Constitution.  In point of fact, as far as movies go Hollywood is now the tail and China is the dog.  The Hollywood tail is not going to be able to wag the Chinese dog.

In fact Hollywood’s relationship to the market now becomes like that of France, Germany or Japan to the US market.  i.e. foreign films.  China within perhaps as little as a year or two may produce more movies than the entire West let alone Hollywood.

The mass market in the US has then disappeared.  With the mass market gone the way is open for other cities than Hollywood to produce movies designed specifically for the US domestic market or US-European markets.  In any event Chinese control of ‘correct history, culture and mores’ must not be allowed to control US filmmaking.

As Mr. Xi’s comment indicates his notion of globalism is simply Chinese domination of the globe.  Foolish Americans if they allow that to happen.

Meryl Disses The Donald

Meryl Disses The Donald

 by your Hollywood reporter,

The Ronald

 

It looks like things are getting a little snippy here in Lalaland.  The reigning Queen Of Holllywood stepped up to the microphone to get her little statuette for a whole lifetime award from the Golden Globes.  Apparently Meryl (Streep, if you’ve been asleep forever Darlings) felt diminished by her award when her fellow Star of fifteen years as TVs The Apprentice translated his TV stardom into the real life time award of President of the United States.  Now that, Loved Ones,  is the award of awards unmatched by Meryl’s measly little statuette.

Perhaps in a fit of pique at being out-awarded the redoubtable Miss Meryl chose the moment to go all snide over the Donald.  Her remarks that would be considered hateful anywhere outside of Tinsel Town came across with a touch of the puerile.  Nevertheless they apparently touched home as The Donald using his weapon of choice, The Tweet, twittered poor Meryl into oblivion.

Don’t you just love these Star Wars?  Your Hollywood reporter sure does, Children.

A Review: Lion Feuchtwanger, Jud Suss, Book And Movie

 

A Review:  Lion Feuchtwanger, Jud Suss-book, Jew Suss-movie And The German Movies Jud Suss And The Rothschilds In The Context Of The Times.

by

R.E. Prindle

Lion Feuchtwanger 

This is a review of the novel Jew Suss by Lion Feuchtwanger.  The review will place Feuctwanger’s novel in the context of the times it was written, that is the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century with a view of the author’s intent.

 

 

While the novel is of great importance to the period in question perhaps the name Lion Feuchtwanger is unfamiliar to most.   As an historian, prior to reading Jud Suss I had seen the name mentioned frequently but I knew nothing further of him.  Feuchtwanger while not logorrhaeic wrote a corpus. Most of it is historical concerning the greatness of the Jews.  He wrote a trilogy- 1500 pages- around the character of Josephus and the Jewish-Roman war of the first and second centuries AD.

Perhaps it was the times and the Jewish propaganda machine that credits Feuchtwanger with the mantle of the greatest historical novelist.  He isn’t close to that or even a contender, he makes laborious reading at best.  As his reputation has disappeared that speaks for itself.  Nevertheless, Jud Suss was a best seller both in Germany and abroad.  My copy from the English reprint publisher Hutchinson bills itself as of the 158^th thousand.  One wonders.

The book was published in Germany in 1925.  It tells in a sort of fantasia of the career of Joseph Suss Oppenheimer who was the court Jew to the Duke Karl Alexander of Wurttemberg, the companion State of Bavaria in the South of Germany.  I am sure that few people today know anything of Suss Oppenheimer if they have even heard of him.  He is little known outside Germany while I have found no study of Suss in English.

 

Joseph Suss Oppenheimer

The book revived an interest in Germany so that it was notorious from 1925 to the German defeat in 1945.

Suss Oppenheimer was the man who reorganized Jewry in the eighteenth century giving them a sense of direction in the evolution of modern Europe.  The contrast between the emerging Jew of Suss and the traditional Jew as represented by a Rabbi Landauer is one of themes Feuchtwanger develops.    This theme applies to the contemporary Germany of the period.

I don’t want this essay to be too disjointed but as the past is ever present in the present, for a proper understanding one has to meld the present with the past.  Feuchtwanger is well versed in Jewish history and lore.  He knows and understands the Jewish program.  In Jewish thinking the Jews are always distinct from and superior to the host people.  Thus, the Jew Suss Oppenheimer although essentially an employee of the Duke of Wurttemberg, Karl Alexander, he considers himself equal to and indeed preeminent over his employer.

At the end of the story when Suss has put the State into turmoil and the Duke lay dying Suss whispers into his ear, we could have been friends but you felt yourself preeminent when I was superior to you in every way.  Together what we may have accomplished with myself representing the aristocracy of money and you as the aristocrat of the soil.

Here Feuchtwanger gives away the Jewish conspiracy.  By commandeering the banking system they became not only equal to but superior to the landed nobility.  Who has money controls destiny.

Suss was the organizer of modern Jewry, he paved the way for the Rothschilds, ne Bauer, to be the near absolute lords of money beginning only a few year after Suss’ hanging.  Of course the Rothschild rise was made possible by the theft of the fortune of the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel during Napoleonic times.

As is common knowledge Nathan Rothschild was sent to England to exploit the textile manufacturing industry.  According to the current historian Niall Ferguson in his history of the Rothschilds using Rothschild archives, Nathan had a struggle to stay solvent resorting to a variety of devious practices including smuggling.  Then the Landgrave entrusted either his fortune or a large part of it to Mayer Rothschild the patriarch of the family who sent substantial sums to Nathan making him a banker and richest stock broker in the City.  From there within a very few years the Rothschilds became the lords of money gaining patents of nobility wherever they lived thus realizing Suss’ dream.  The Jews had become equal or superior to the European nobility.

In the interim between Suss’ and Feuchtwanger’s time the Jews had taken control of European and American currency through the Central banks, the Federal Reserve System in the United States.  Thus, as I interpret it in the sly conclusion of the Jew Suss Feuchtwanger  is celebrating what in 1926 looked like the triumph of the Jews over Germany and Euroamerica.  Essentially the Stateless Jews were the State from Russia across Europe to the United States.   Money had displaced both European nobility and statehood while Europe was in turmoil soon to be virtually destroyed by warfare.

Once again at the risk of confusing the issue it is necessary to go back in time again.  This time to 1666 in Europe.  As always the Jews were welcome nowhere by host countries.  In eleventh century Mesopotamia the Jews had been expelled.  The bulk of them migrated to Spain.  Then in the thirteenth century they were expelled from England, in the fourteenth century from France and in the fifteenth from Spain.  The Spanish migration had been to Africa, the Turkish Empire in the Middle East and increasingly into the Eastern European area that was to be called the Pale of Settlement.  They had been banned from the Muscovite land much earlier.  The German States now expelling them, letting them back in, banning again, etc.

In the seventeenth century in the extended Polish empire in the Ukraine where they made themselves pests the Ukrainians rebelled against the Poles and their Jewish allies causing mass destructions.  The Jews fled in numbers into Germany and Holland carrying their medieval vision of religion with them.  This was just prior to the career of Suss and the establishment of Court Jews.  Thus the German lands were in turmoil as the Jews struggled to establish themselves.

Becoming increasingly exasperated while blaming their woes on anti-Semitism rather than their own actions a Messiah arose in the seventeenth century Turkic states by the name of Sabbatai Zevi.  As the Jewish messiah is preeminently a military redeemer a great buzz of excitement was aroused amongst worldwide Jewry.  (The US does not yet figure in world politics).  Especially in Europe where the Jews were struggling to find a place.

History knows the Jews as violent brutal revolutionists, a people that nurses grievances and never forgets them.   Thus remembering the Amalekites, in the second century the Jews of Alexandria and Rhodes on a signal turned on their unsuspecting neighbors murdering about 250 K in each location committing horrid atrocities.  This set off a bloody reprisal in which Rome terminated the Jewish State.

Now in the seventeenth century just as European events were setting the Jews in turmoil Zevi’s messiahship was rising to a climax in 1666, that year was determined as the year of the redemption.  Thus as in Rhodes and Alexandria the Jews prepared to turn on their European neighbors murdering them wholesale, a genocide in hopes.  This is history and one suspects the history has survived into our times as well as Germany and Europe of the twenties and thirties.

The signal was to have been Zevi declaring the millennium in an audience with the Sultan in Turkey.  Instead of declaring himself the Messiah Zevi converted to Moslemism.  The revolution fizzled much to the dismay of the Jews.  Remember this occurred from say, 1660 to 1680.  Suss enjoyed his heyday in the four years from 1730-34 in the eighteenth century.  That is a mere fifty years from Zevi’s apostasy.  There must have living people who remembered those tumultuous times as Suss grew up.  Although Feuchtwanger doesn’t mention it, perhaps even his characters Isaac Landauer and the Rabbi Gabriel.

Nor were those intervening five decades years of repose for the Jews.  The disappointment caused a movement toward a whole reorganization of Judaism.  On the Western edge of the Pale the Jewish visionary the BaalShemTov created the Hasidic sect that challenged Rabbinic Judaism while a disciple of Zevi, Jacob Frank, created the freak sect of Frankists or Sabbatians whose belief system taught that the Millennium would never come until the Jews had indulged all their evil impulses thus clearing their psyches of nothing but good impulses thus preparing them to receive their redemption.

At the same time the Elders put their heads together to come up with a plan in which the people themselves would be their own messiah renouncing individual messiahs.  So that the above was the Jewish background in which Suss arose and flourished.  Feuchtwanger was aware of it as there are descriptive references to it.

So, now, Feuchtwanger wrote his story in 1921-2 and published it in 1925.  Things in the Jewish world had progressed.  As Feuchtwanger describes it in his novel Suss, Landauer and the Rabbi Gabriel have been working to get together the Jewish network from the four corners of Europe.  Suss represented the future of an open display of Jewish financial power while Landauer represent the traditional sub rosa power of money.  Rabbi Gabriel was a strange one.  He was a Jew who migrated to Holland where his prime identity lay but for his networking purposes he went in disguise as Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew.  He actively claimed to be several hundred years old and the actual Jew who insulted Jesus.  The disguise amused the gentiles gaining their tolerance as he moved from place to place organizing. 

At Suss’ death in 1734 it was only about fifty years to the proclamation of Jewish emancipation by the French Revolution.  It was in 1806 that Napoleon overran Hesse-Cassell that the Landgrave made the Bauer/Rothschilds by entrusting his wealth to them.  From then to the 1897 Jewish Zionist convention in Vienna was only another ninety years.  It was then but sixteen years to 1913.

According to the American Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver the Elders had determined that the years 1913-28 were to be the years of the redemption as the Jewish Revolution at which time the Jews would kill their European neighbors and unlike 115 and 1666 succeed.  Six years after the Vienna Zionist convention the first Russian Revolution was attempted but failed.  Out of the convention and the first Revolution came the document known as The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion that outlined the Revolution that would succeed in Russia in 1917.

As a result of the European War of 1914-18  Europe was totally devastated and in turmoil.  The war that had engulfed Europe from Russian to England had destroyed the flower of European manhood.  The aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe consumed even more.  Once in power in Russia as Dostoyevsky predicted the Jews began killing the Russians.  Of course historians speak of Russian activities against the Jews while ignoring Jewish crimes.

When the news of Jewish atrocities reached Western Europe they became alarmed.  The Manchester Morning Post published a book, The World’s Problem that sounded the alarm.  The Jews were prepared.  It took relatively small effort to discredit the Protocols while having their opponents discredited as anti-Semites.

However, even though the German Communist Revolution failed Jews had thoroughly infiltrated the government while controlling German and international banking and the press while obtaining a significant number of university posts.  The Weimar Republic is remembered by Jews as almost realizing the hopes of Joseph Suss Oppenheimer and it is that that Lion Feuchtwanger is celebrating in his novel.

Feuchtwanger, in the Jewish manner, took himself very very seriously.  He believed he was a great, perhaps the greatest novelist, while being at the same time a seer or prophet.  In an interview of 1930 he asserted positively that things were under control and there would be no revolution in Germany.  Of course, in 1933 he learned differently.   Just as the Wurttembergers had turned on Suss so in 1933 the Germans turned on the Jewish people.  In a way then, Feuchtwanger was a prophet.

In the novel as well as in history Suss assumed the role of the dark, even black, eminence of the Duke Karl Alexander.  All his counsels were evil while given on the basis of three for him and one for the Duke.  Like Colonel Parker and Elvis the great lion’s share of the money earned by Elvis went into the Colonel’s pocket and the remainder into Elvis’.  So with Suss.  When Wurttembergers remonstrated with him Suss haughtily informed them they couldn’t hang him higher than the gallows.  As it turned out they could.  They had a special seldom used gallows thirty feet higher than the usual gallows.  Plus Suss was shut into an iron cage in which his body was exposed to the elements for years.  He had ably earned that level of hatred by his actions.

So Feuchtwanger pointed the way to the anger of Germany in which having no other recourse the Germans set about systematically exterminating them.  A gallows high indeed.  But, remember, the years 1913-28 were the years of redemption.  Just as the Jews in the immediate years following 1918 slaughtered millions in Russia and Hungary and would have in Germany had the revolution succeeded so the Germans were in peril as a people and it had nothing to do with any holocaust.  In 1940 a Jew from Newark, New Jersey, Theodore Kaufmann published a book called Germany Must Die.  In it he proposed to castrate all German males, thus Germans would disappear within a generation.  Genocide in another word.   This notion of castration reappeared in FDR’s talk as it became evident that the Germans would be defeated.  The Jews then were no less guilty in intent than the Germans.

Having no territories or armies the Jewish offensive had to be asymmetrical, that is psychological warfare.  They had the gifted Sigmund Freud to guide them.  Sigmund Freud’s role in guiding the destiny of the Jewish Revolution is suppressed but as my studies advance he assumes a much more central role.

As part of the asymmetrical warfare propaganda, of course, took first place.  Psycho-analysis itself was controlled by the Jews, almost a closed club although it had to represent itself as a universal science.  A science is universal so that Judaism already active in all countries from the Soviet Union to the Americas enjoying the advantage of the Trojan Horse of Communism also thrust themselves into science as a Trojan Horse perverting scientific disciplines into subjective Jewish propaganda.

Already in control of the print media in the Pan-Judaic superstate of Europe and America either by direct ownership or psychological control through the charge of anti-Semitism it only remained to gain control of emerging technologies such as movies and radio.  This was easily accomplished, the theater and movies certainly began as Jewish monopolies which, at least in the US, all radio networks were in their control from the beginning.

Thus by the twenties the Jews were in a position to direct the social and intellectual mores of society.  One no longer hears mores discussed as they once were even though mores control society even more than laws.  For instance there was no law against criticizing Jews, one can’t be punished for criticizing Jews in Court while Jews have established as a more that criticism of Jews is an unforgivable social faux pas so that any individual will be ostracized by his own people, blacklisted, deprived of employment having his entire future ruined.  A penalty no Court could inflict.  People have lost careers amounting to tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars by the single accusation, that is accusation, no proof or trial required, and with no recourse to law.   Simple mechanics, street sweepers, had been rendered unemployable for life.

Using this immunity from criticism the Jews began an attack on the mores of the people of Pan-Judea.  They began defaming the heroes of the various cultures defaming them into ridiculous caricatures.  In the US the character of Thomas Jefferson, for instance, has been demolished, Washington also.  Having gotten the wedge in the whole of the American past has been reduced to one huge crime for which living White people are held wholly responsible and must be punished.

At the same time the media elevated insignificant Jews to positions of not only importance but extreme virtue.  It matters not that they were important out of all proportion in the slave trade or as slave owners.  They were Jews and all their crimes could be justified.

Thus when Feuchtwanger’s Jud Suss appeared in 1925 alert Germans immediately recognized its import, its attack on Germans and German mores.

While I am not familiar with the whole body of European Jewish writing it was also at this time that Emil Ludwig began writing derogatory biographies of Bismarck and Napoleon that drew the ire of European readers.  Feuchtwanger himself continued his sarcastic derogatory style in his next novel of 1930, Success, that ridiculed and mocked the society of his native Munich in much the same manner as Jud Suss.  He displayed  a contempt for European mores much as his contemporary Sigmund Freud was doing in his psychological treatises.  In films, the two Dr. Mabuse movies of Fritz Lang are worth noting.  I am unfamiliar with US and French efforts but in the US Gustavus Myers was turning out a long series of books denigrating American mores and customs from finance to the Supreme Court finally ending his career in 1942 with his History Of Bigotry In The United States.

So from the Soviet Union West to the Americas the asymmetrical war on the West was being very successfully waged.  The back of Western confidence and self-respect was broken.  In the great German book burning in which Jewish texts were destroyed Feuchtwanger’s earned prominence.

The war accelerated when the Nazis Party gained power in 1933.  Perhaps in support of that event Feuchtwanger began the movie script for Jud Suss that was released in that year in England under the title Jew Suss and in the US under the title Power.  Closely adhering to the book the movie was a vicious propaganda piece.

A number of propaganda movies celebrating Judaism in the lead up to the attempted Jewish seizure of power were such films as Erlich’s Magic Bullet, The Rothschilds, The Story Of Emile Zola and several B level anti-Nazi movies of the late thirties and early forties.  The chief irritant to the Nazis after Jud Suss was the US production of The Rothschilds.  While nearly everything noted here is currently available American The Rothschilds is not.  The movie apparently covered the Napoleonic period involving the Rothschild shipment of gold through France to aid Wellington in the Peninsular War.

When the Germans got around to answering these two propaganda films in the early forties with their own propaganda versions they were demeaned as, naturally, anti-Semitic.  The directors of the German Rothschild film covering the same events of the Jewish version was vilified after the war and the vilification continues to today.   The vilification of Veit Harlan, the director of this brilliant film, is carried to extremes although perhaps a tribute to his skill.

The Napoleonic episode is apparently still sensitive to the Rothschild family since the massive biography by Niall Ferguson only reaches to 1905 then pussy foots around the incident.  After pages of verbiage Ferguson refuses to come to any definite conclusion and he was given access to the family records and papers.

As these two films are key to Jewish the war I will attempt to deal with them in extenso.

The Jewish versions appeared first.  The Jew Suss was released simultaneously in England under that title and in the US titled Power.  The Rothschilds was released in the US under that name in 1934; whether it was distributed in England I don’t know but suspect so.  It must be remembered that the Jews declared war on Germany in 1933 so that these two films have to be seen as acts of war, part of an extensive ongoing campaign.  For instance in 1937 the Dreyfus Affair in France of the 1890s was revived in the US film The Life Of Emile Zola.  Zola was a French novelist who championed the cause of Dreyfus.  Alfred Dreyfus was a Jew serving as a French military officer.  He was tried and found guilty of spying.  He was certainly guilty although probably not for spying for the Germans.  Like Johnathan Pollard in the US he was turning documents over to his fellow Jews.  He spent a number of years on Devil’s Island until with the help of Zola his conviction was overturned.  The affair was a serious issue that convulsed France and apparently still does as Roman Polanski is scheduled to direct another film sometime soon.  Apparently along with slavery we should all feel guilty of the indignity that Dreyfus suffered even though he was guilty.

For the Germans the two most galling films were Jud Suss and the Rothschilds.  They answered the former in 1940 and the latter in 1943.  As films both are superior to the Jewish versions although my opinion will be objected to as anti-Semitic, but facts are facts.  The English-American Jew Suss was written by Feuchtwanger thus closely following the outline of his book.  The German film presents the story from the perspective of the Germans who were afflicted with Suss’ policies.

Both films follow the general outlines of Suss’ actions and policies.  There is no real conflict between the two versions.  In both, as well as in fact, the Duke Karl Alexander gave Suss what seems to be in our terms a Power of Attorney giving him the full authority of the Duke to do as he pleased.  His will was the Duke’s will.  Seems rather extraordinary that a ruler would give such a thing but there you have it.  It is an inexplicable action of the Duke.  One can even imagine it as his essential abdication.  Certainly the Power Of Attorney gave him the right to depose the Duke.

In any case the Money  Power as represented by Suss was placed in a superior position over the temporal power of the Duke.

After the Duke’s death this presented a legal problem for the Wurttembergers because in fact Suss was acting in the Duke’s name.  Thus Suss was absolved of all responsibility.  Unlike Feuchtwanger’s two versions, book and movie, in the German version the Wurttembergers were driven into open rebellion.  In the German version there is no indication that the Duke was murdered by Suss but the Duke had some strange degeneration losing his will.  He surrendered his own will to Suss while the Duke’s wife and his advisors all seem to have been accomplices of Suss.  Perhaps he was a master hypnotist or else how explain it.  At the end of the German version the Duke is a drunk who when confronted by the rebels flies into a rage and has a stroke or heart attack.  Goes apoplectic as they used to say.

With his death Suss’ Power of Attorney loses its validity.  He is arrested and tried.  As stated, legally he was acting as the will of the Duke having no personal responsibility.  It is interesting to note though that German soldiers under orders, therefore having no will of their own, were held responsible by the Jews for following orders in the camps.  The law is the law until it isn’t.

The German problem then is that they are bound by the rule of law and cannot violate it so as they ponder it appears that Suss must go free.

However there is a law on the books making it illegal for a Jews to have intercourse with a German girl.  While in the book and Feuchtwanger’s movie Suss had mingled with many German women including the Duke’s wife in the German version he violates the daughter of the Privy Counselor the girl then drowning herself.  The law is the law and the penalty is death.  The Privy Counselor gets his due back (law is not vengeance) by exacting the prescribed death penalty.

In Feuchtwanger’s versions Suss’ daughter committed suicide to escape the attentions of the Duke.  Thus the Germans neatly reverse the situation.

Now, the German version released in 1940 was roundly condemned by the Jews as ragingly anti-Semitic; this is strange as neither the Jewish or German versions contest the facts of Suss’ activities.  The Jews happily admit Suss’ crimes.

Both movies were released before there was a hint of a holocaust so one is at a loss to explain the Jewish sensitivity, especially so as in the US in 1940 the book The Germans Must Die by Theodore Kaufmann called for the genocide of Germans.  The Germans were thoroughly outraged by the book and its positive reception in the US causing Goebbels to exclaim that the Germans would see who died first.  Perhaps the seeds of the holocaust were planted in German minds at that time.

Jud Suss then, was the reply to the English/American production of Jew Suss.  That left the equally galling movie from the German viewpoint of The Rothschilds to answer; this was done in 1943 when the Germans replied in kind dealing with the transport of gold to Wellington in Spain during the Peninsular War against Napoleon.  The event has been kept shrouded in mystery so the Jewish guilt must be enormous.

As noted the American film to which the Germans were responding is being kept off the market as of 10/12/16 so the only conclusion is that even by Jewish standards the incident is indefensible.  We will have to infer from the German film.

As there may be readers who are not familiar with the historical account it may be appropriate to give that briefly.

When Suss had organized the Jews into a functioning unit, the ‘united’ Jews continued to develop along with the emerging new money based economy of Europe.  Excluded from the old land based wealth the Jews were uniquely positioned to seize the money based economy.

As is shown in the German Rothschild film the peasantry and even the nobility had little familiarity with numbers and were easily bamboozled by fast talking Jews who had been usurers for centuries.  This is demonstrated in both the Jewish and German versions.

The French Revolution occurred forty-nine years after Suss’ death freeing the Jews from medieval restrictions; this was called the emancipation.  The Europeans expected the Jews to abandon their parochial ways and become one people with the Europeans.

As Feuchtwanger said the Jews expected to become a sovereign entity as the Lords of Cash.

There were hurdles before them but they were swept aside when Napoleon in 1806 annexed the German principality of Hesse-Cassell.  The Landgrave of Hesse-Cassell had amassed the largest fortune in Europe by renting out his male subjects as soldiers to other States.  In the book Suss’ advises Duke Karl to hire soldiers to suppress the Duke’s subjects.  These most likely would have come from Hesse-Cassell.

The Landgrave then used the receipts to loan money to the other States and people amassing mortgages all over Europe.  Napoleon wanted the money; to avoid his getting it the Landgrave enlisted the aid of his Court Jew, Mayer Rothschild ne Bauer who secreted the fortune.  Some believe the Landgrave entrusted the whole of his fortune to Rothschild.  Niall Ferguson in his history is ambiguous waltzing around the issue.

In the German movie the Landgrave entrusts Rothschild with 650K in negotiable bills.  Changing the issues from the Landgrave to the English Jew Montifiore Mayer sent them to his son Nathan who was stationed in England.

A few years earlier Mayer had sent his ‘five arrows’ of legend to various capitals: Nathan to England, James to Paris and the three others to Berlin, Vienna and Naples.

Nathan began in the textile business in Manchester which apparently was too hard for him so he resorted to the criminal means of smuggling and other subterfuges.  The smuggling experience would stand him in good stead.  Nathan had also positioned himself in the City.  The London district known as the City is equivalent to Wall Street in the US.

When Napoleon invaded Spain the English countered by sending Wellington and an army to Spain to counter the invasion.  Operating from England the provisioning of the army was difficult.  To fund Wellington it was necessary to send gold.  The sea route was considered too precarious so an overland route was deemed necessary.  Overland meant passing through Napoleon’s citadel of France.

England was short of gold but a shipment arrived from India that was sold at auction.  The English financiers were a sort of cartel so they expected to obtain the gold.  However with the 650K in paper securities from his father (according to the German film) Nathan was in a position to outbid the cartel which he did.

He then had the only gold available to send to Wellington.  He agreed to do this for a handsome fee.  Napoleon who was retreating from Russia was defeated and sent to Elbe.  From there he would soon return to France assemble an army and meet Wellington at Waterloo.

This was a second opportunity for the Rothschilds that far surpassed the gold purchase and its transport to Spain.  This stunt would be worth in excess of ten million pounds making the Rothschilds the wealthiest family in Europe while setting the stage for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The price of government securities in England would depend on the results of Waterloo.  A loss, stocks down, a win stocks up.  A window of opportunity would exist between the time of the outcome and the time the news reached England.  No phones, no telegraph, no internet.  Nathan Rothschild saw his chance to cheat the people of England and he took it.  He had his agents at Waterloo to record the outcome, some say he used passenger pigeons, some say not. In any event his agents got the news of Napoleon’s defeat to him first.   Nathan created a panic by circulating the story that Wellington had been defeated.  Then when prices were at their lowest, apparently fire sale prices, he bought as much as he could.  When the news of victory arrived it was too late for the cartel.   Nathan had become the richest man in England.

Perhaps that is why as of 11/5/16 the US version of the Rothschilds is unavailable.  The facts coincide with the German version too closely.  In any event if the US version is released you may be sure it will be heavily edited, quite unlike the original.

Of course the cry is that the German versions of both movies are anti-Semitic rather than historical.  At least in the case of the Rothschilds the facts are incontrovertible.  The smuggling of the gold through France was actually known by the French authorities at the time.  The police under the direction of Fouche were not fools.  Fouche himself is credited as being brilliant.  Nor are German historians fools.  They are more than competent.  Before the two world wars German universities were considered tops in the world.  German scholars stood out as the most brilliant stars in the firmament.  German music and literature was unsurpassed.

Beginning with the Weimar Republic and Jewish dominance standards slipped while German hatred in the West led by the Jews libeled everything Germans did.  The point being there is no reason to doubt the scholarship on which the German Rothschild film is based.  The Germans are speaking from intimate knowledge of the Jews as indeed the controversy from Suss to 1950 indicates.  You need only to read Jewish-German literature to see the contempt with which Jews treat the Germans.  But if you control the propaganda as the Jews do, black may be made white and vice versa.

Hitler in his Mein Kampf clearly delineates the problem.  As he wrote, that if he and the Volkists failed their heads would roll in the sand.  This prediction was proven in the years following the defeat.  The war did not end with the allied victory but continued to rage one sidedly over the prostrate Germany for at least five years.

During 1943 the year the German Rothschild was released the extermination of the Jews was reaching maximum efficiency.  Now, we must take the Jewish threat to exterminate the Germans through castration seriously.  Had FDR not died in ’45 before hostilities ceased it is quite possible he might have ordered such an action.  He was surrounded by Jewish advisors who certainly would have encouraged him most notably his Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., who had already usurped significant Executive powers not unlike Suss himself from the Duke.

To put the matter into perspective then, the German extermination of the Jews may be seen as a preemptive strike.  The Jews have always favored preemptive strikes.  So while in 1943 the Germans had the upper hand a short time later the Jews would gain the upper hand over a completely bombed over destroyed Germany flattened by tens of thousands of bomb raids.

Fortunately there were saner heads in Washington who were aghast at the lunacy of what was now the Morgenthau plan, Kaufmann having been forgotten.  Thus, when Truman replaced FDR Morgenthau found he could no longer give orders to him as he could FDR.  When Morgenthau haughtily told Truman the he would do what Morgenthau said or Morgenthau would quit Truman merely held his hand out to accept the resignation.  At that point a great deal of the Jewish influence prominent under FDR evaporated.

But the Jewish influence had been cultivated since 1933 and was so embedded that its actions persisted.  As is not too well known Bernard Baruch, an arch-Jewish villain in this period, had cultivated his acquaintance with Eisenhower from the days of the Bonus March in 1934.  Eisenhower revered Baruch saying he had sat at his feet for twenty-six years while considering him the wisest man he knew.  The influence was so incredibly effective that Eisenhower initially ordered the extermination of the surrendered German troops.  During the winter of 1946 one of the coldest on record he left entire German armies in the open with no cover and the scantiest of rations.  He ordered that any German civilian who tried to pass food through the fence be shot dead.

The allies also perpetrated enormous crimes against the German people.  The French and Americans turned hordes of African troops and American Negroes loose to rape German women at will, not unlike Mama Merkel and the Moslems today.  The French took tens of thousands of German troops as slave labor and worked them to death.

Perhaps you say the Germans did the same but even if they did were we, the children of light, that kind of people?  Well, yes we were although it was never reported in the papers.  I grew up believing Americans were sainted people who went into battle with a holy fervor bearing the banner of a righteous Lord before us.  I grew up believing no American soldier would commit an act of injustice or cruelty.  I was lied to.

The truth has taken decades to reach me.  I should have known better because as great or greater crimes have been committed on American soil by Americans.  I was raised to believe that Sherman’s March from Atlanta to the Sea was a great military feat.  The actions of General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley or the evacuation of half a dozen counties around Kansas City were never mentioned but all three were horrendous crimes.  General Grant’s demand for an unconditional surrender was just that, a turning over of American minds and bodies to do with as the North liked; hence the horrors of Reconstruction.  The Southern Whites were essentially reduced to slavery.  We are that kind of people.

Thus when Roosevelt demanded unconditional surrender from the Germans it was his intent to murder the entire nation if he chose;  we are that kind of people.

Despite Obama’s assurances to the contrary he himself has declared opposition to his rule to come from Domestic Terrorists, his acolyte, Hillary Clinton has disparaged dissidents as a Basket of Deplorables, really having no right to exist.  Sorry, Barry, we are that kind of people.  Opposition to them is irredeemably bad.  The Jew, Noel Ignatiev, and various Negro leaders have demanded the extermination of the White race; therefore setting the staging in place for the extermination of half of the White population.  We are that kind of people.  We’ve done it before.

The slaughter of Germans by the allies and Soviets in the East, US, Brits and French in the West was incredible, far exceeding any German war crimes.  The post-war assault was led by the Jews.  While a small percentage of the allied peoples, the so-called war crimes trials were staffed disproportionately with Jews.  Even though the Jews first declared war against the Germans, and even though the Jews first called for the extermination of the Germans backed by the full power of the Soviet Union and the US, France and England, as in WWI the Germans were declared the aggressor nation.

Even though the Jews were murdering their so-called British allies throughout the Middle East at the exact same time the war crimes trials were held, even though the Jews in the US sent out teams of man-hunters to track down innocent men and women they deemed anti-Semites in an extra-legal manner the Jews called themselves the victims.

Even though the Jews were punishing Germans they set their man-hunters to punish the US for the ‘crime against humanity’ of not demanding a cessation of hostilities until the entire Jewish population of Europe had been removed from the hostilities to the safety of the US.  Their determination to exterminate Whites today is based on this perceived injustice.

As unremitting as ever the Jews deeply resented the German version of the Jud Suss movie.  The key Germans were tried and found guilty, some committed suicide, some were hanged outright, somewhat reminiscently of Suss, while some were subjected to cruel and unusual punishments.  The children of the German leaders were treated like animals deprived of all humanity, they were not allowed education or the right to live their lives.

Over the decades Jewish man-hunters tracked down totally insignificant German soldiers to be imprisoned or killed by judicial murders.  The man-hunters violated all international law and the rights of countries such as Argentina professing themselves to be a holy people above human laws.

Veit Harlan, the director of the superb film Jud Suss was deprived of work and hounded from pillar to post.  He had committed no crime for which he could be tried or convicted.  The movie Jud Suss was a historical film based on real incidents, in its general outline it differed in no substantial way from the Jews’ own version.  History is history and cannot be denied.  The Jewish version lauded Suss as a great Jewish hero; the German version condemned him as a great criminal.  There was no anti-Semitism so -called.

The Jews merely consider it a crime to criticize them in any way.  It is time for the dead past to bury its dead.  It is time for the Jews to leave their so-called grievances behind.  There are no innocents.  The Jews are their own problem.  They merit no special handling.

Sony, Kim Jong-Un And The Hollywood Sewer

Sony, Kim Jong-Un And The Hollywood Sewer

by

R.E. Prindle

 

Pat Buchanan recently complained about the sewer culture of the US.  The culture has now gotten absolutely disgusting.  Within the week I have been so sickened by the sewage coming out of Hollywood that I have lost all interest in movies and television.  I don’t like pornography disguised as entertainment.

Thus when I read of the dictator of North Korea’s hijacking and exposure of the corruption of Sony-Hollywood I was of two minds.  Ambivalence deluxe.  Of course I deplore the Communist politics of North Korea but they have less of an immediate effect on my life than the Liberal corruption of Hollywood.  Let us ask:  Which is the greater evil?

I do not hold Sony Corp. responsible as their control over Sony-Hollywood executives and employees is tenuous at best.  Sony-Japan executives may not have had a clear idea of the movie in question- The Interview.  The movie will not now be shown so ignore it.

The movie as described is an invitation to assassinate Kim.  The US response cannot be directed at North Korea alone or Kim Jung-Un as he is justly angry, perhaps considering the film as an offensive act of the Obama administration; what other response could he have made that would have been listened to?  The nitwit Liberals in Hollywood have to learn what going too far means.  Can the tail really wag the dog?  They are the ones who should be punished, not North Korea or Sony.  After all, some hapless Negro who posted a comment that a cop should be shot on his front porch in front of his family for every Negro criminal killed while resisting arrest was fired from his job, so why shouldn’t the Hollywood Liberals be disciplined for the same offense against Kim Jong-Un?  What does globalism mean anyway?

Nor is this a matter of freedom of speech that Liberals don’t respect anyway.  Nor was the hapless Negro’s comment.  While movies may be entertaining they are also psychological tools that be using suggestion can and will influence future events.

Perhaps even the release of all those Sony-Hollywood executives’ emails may be beneficial.  Let no disaster go unused.  Perhaps this crisis can be used to loosen the logjam of so-called offensive or ‘hate’ speech.  Let’s get those offensive speech laws off the books.  If you don’t like what you see in the mirror it is not the mirror’s fault.  Smashing the mirror won’t change anything.

The hijacking is a regrettable crime possibly partly justified by the offence, but it requires no direct action by the Obama administration.  Learn a lesson and make Hollywood improve their manners.  Clean out that garbage producing sewer.  Do it Now.

Chaps. 3,4,5: Marianne Faithfull: The Faerie Queene Of The Sixties

I, Dynamo

Cosmic Clouds Flung Across The Horizon

Chaps 3,4,5: Marianne Faithfull: The Faerie Queene Of The Sixties

December 15, 2012

Marianne Faithfull: The Faerie Queene Of The Sixties

 

by

 

R.E. Prindle

 

Chaps. 3, 4, 5

Marianne In Leather 

 

Chapter 3
 

Of all the performers of the Rock era Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney have been the most successful while I would give the nod of most successful to Jagger. One must admire the way he learned the ropes and then used them to strangle others as he had been strangled. Mick in his own way was the Midnight Rambler and the Street Fighting Man. Don’t think I blame him; you either rule or are ruled. But, one does have to live with the reputation one creates.

Mick began cultivating his image from the beginning. As this story concerns Mick’s relationship to Marianne I will concentrate on aspects of their sexuality. Andrew Loog Oldham made a movie of the Stones’ January 1905 Irish tour. Unfortunately he sold the rights to it along with the Stones 1963-70 master recordings to Allen Klein along with, by the way, the first Marianne Faithfull masters. Klein then became the Stones’ manager.

 

The movie disappeared into Klein’s archives to surface in November 2012 when the Klein estate released it to DVD. It can now be purchased, as I did. The DVD features both the Abkco edit and Oldham’s original Director’s Cut.

 

Mainly a concert film it also features group member interviews and Richards and Jagger cutting up. While they were horsing around they appear to improvise a song with the lyric: I’d rather be with the boys than here with a stupid girl like you.

 

While Jagger has always cultivated an ambiguous image he has also announced a record of having had sex with four thousand or more different girls. That’s only eighty per annum over fifty years so I imagine that shows an admirable restraint. Yet, at the same time Mick has always been misogynistic while always seeking to emasculate or squash his closer women under his thumb. In fact Mick probably has a domination or emasculation complex. He may have rather been with the boys but in his competition with them he sought to emasculate or squash them too. One of the favorite forms of emasculation and domination is to take other men’s women from them.

 

Thus when he took Jerry Hall from Bryan Ferry he quipped he had to do it to save her from going through life as Jerry Ferry. One winces when one reads of Eric Clapton begging Mick not to take Carla Bruni from him. Mick even took one of Eric’s temps, Catherine James from him.

 

Mick And Chrissie

 

When Mick first enters the scene for Andrew Oldham he is in an alley fighting it out with Chrissie Shrimpton, the model Jean Shrimpton’s younger sister. If one reads more deeply into that situation it shows a very cruel sadistic streak in Mick, quite shameful in a celebrity of Mick’s first magnitude of brightness.

 

Chrissie began the relationship as a strong willed girl battered by and battering Mick. In that day before the change in sexual mores girls weren’t quite so sexually open so Chrissie didn’t want her parents to know she was shacking up with Mick. They insisted to Mick that they not. As a humiliation tactic to break the girl down he let it be known to her parents that in his eyes she was little more than a common whore and she and they should see it that way too as he was in fact shacking with her.

 

Gradually the monster beat her down, completely destroying her self-respect then, more than publicly, he broadcast his triumph on records and over the radio with such songs as Stupid Girl and Under My Thumb which their whole circle knew referred to her. Dylan would later use the same tactic against Edie Sedgwick when he wrote Like A Rolling Stone to break her down.

Both Chrissie and her parents believed Mick and she were to marry but having crushed her beneath his thumb, as it were, with a toss of his curly locks Mick sneeringly walked away adding insult to injury. Cruel in this instance it became psychotic with repeated use.

Years after word got back to Mick that Chrissie had a bundle of his letters, and, now this is unforgivable, without a word to her he immediately set his attorneys on her threatening an expensive law suit while demanding she return his letters. Even though Chrissie had not intended to publish them, still shaking this long after Mick’s brutal treatment, Chrissie without delay forwarded her letters from Mick to him. Shameful.

 

Mick And Marianne

 

Mick then turned his attentions to the Guinevere, the Ophelia, the Faerie Queene of pop music, our Marianne. While I’m sure Mick was somewhat enamored with Marianne I’m also sure he had a couple ulterior motives. Marianne was married to John Dunbar at the time while living with Mick so Mick had the pleasure of emasculating and humiliating Dunbar.
 

At the same time I’m sure he was envious of Marianne’s fame which was probably greater than his at the time. No room in the spotlight for two. He couldn’t stand that Marianne was getting even more press than himself. Thus he undertook to destroy her career. In the process he emasculated her and humiliated her to an astounding degree.

 

Marianne and Mick were playing with psychologies in a very destructive manner. The events I am going to describe did incalculable damage to their psyches while altering the direction of their subsequent lives dramatically, especially Marianne’s. Of course, few people seem to realize they have a psychology or how it was formed, what expectations they devised. Those hopes and dreams were more especially dashed when they turned to drugs. That was certainly the case with Marianne.

 

I don’t know how seriously Marianne took her Medieval interest and reading but she was influenced by her Arthurian studies. Like the most or possibly rest of the generation she was also influenced quite heavily by Alice In Wonderland and Peter Pan, probably both books and movies.

 

The key for the generation in Peter Pan was his refusal to grow up or accept adulthood. It was quite fashionable at the time to pretend that you would always be young, keep in contact with your ‘inner child.’ I was a victim of the psychosis myself.

 

At any rate Marianne was influenced by all three. Thus, when she and Mick met she quizzed him extensively on his knowledge of King Arthur to see how much he knew as though that litmus test would seal his fate. Mick passed and Marianne moved in still married to John Dunbar. Thus her life clashed with her Catholic upbringing. At first Marianne had royalties coming in from her records enabling her to maintain a certain independence but gradually the royalty checks decreased making Marianne financially dependent on Mick.

 

At the same time Mick was under no obligations to Marianne and observed none. How this clashed with Marianne’s Arthurian expectations in an atmosphere of Peter Pan and Alice she doesn’t go into but there must have been a severe disappointment as Mick treated her as a mere possession.

 

While in California he was the object of desire for all the groupies including the doyenne Miss Pamela- Pamela Des Barres nee Miller- of Frank Zappa’s girl group the GTOs (Girls Totally Ornery or else in reference to the hottest car of the period, the GTO). Miss Pamela as well as the rest of the California groupies studied to come up with better and better more outrageous sexual thrills with which to astonish the boys in the band which easily surpassed the imaginations of the boys in the band including Mick's.

 

Mick returned home and demanded of Marianne that she perform these tricks which astonished Marianne no less than Mick had been astonished. However she believed the tricks degrading. Marianne quite rightly refused to perform them.

 

But the repertoire of the boys in the band kept expanding so that the home girls were led to view new horizons. Group sex and that sort of thing became the norm.

 

As with all loosely knit movements or phenomena this sort of reputation brought more and more of the sado-masochistic libertine drug oriented element, gradually forcing out the less inclined to sexual erotica just as bad money drives out good money. Rock and Roll became progressively more degenerate from 1964-65 on until it was disgraceful to be associated with it.

Mick and the Stones were leaders of this degeneration whether the Stones embraced sexual sado-masochism personally their public persona was based on it making them leading corruptors of youth and society in general. They did as much or more to change the sexual mores of the present as anyone. Their LP cover for Black and Blue was the apex of this very sado-masochistic misogynistic persona. The cover caused me all kinds of trouble in running my record store.

 

As one presents oneself so must one be.

 

Chapter 4

 

The Redlands Bust.

 

Many psychologically devastating events happened to Marianne in the years from 1967-70. It is very difficult from this perspective to evaluate some of them. One can’t tell how Marianne’s renunciation of her career affected her mind. After all in 1964-65 and 66 she went from  being just another teenager to superb success far beyond her expectations financially, while becoming the female idol of  England and a phenom in the US- ultimately the Faerie Queen of rock and roll. That’s really only two short years until the Redlands bust.

 

In those two years she passed through several sexual transmogrifications. She went from virgin to the most outre of sexual practices. It's all very well to say that this was her decision but as Paul McCartney said of his own experience in Miles’ biography it was impossible for him to resist peer pressure, especially in the use of drugs. He was ‘forced’ to try heroin even though he was dead set against.

 

So peer pressure on Marianne and any young girl to be sexual ‘free spirits’ was impossible to resist unless you were prepared to accept group rejection. The same with drugs that couldn’t be resisted so that when depression set in she ended up addicted to the greatest depression drug available- heroin. It was up to Mick to give what protection he could. Regardless of current sexual nonsense it us up to the man to guide his woman.

 

Now, the era began in relatively clean-cut innocence . It was never quite so white bread as it is depicted, trying to escape the sleaziness, even then, was no easy matter. Then as the decade wore on it all got worse, then it got disgusting. First pot, pills and amphetamines, then LSD that came on like a hurricane. LSD more than anything else conditioned you for cocaine that came in at the end of the decade, at least on the West Coast where I was.  Remember that there was no national consensus in the US.

 In 1964 or so when the ‘counter-culture’ hit in the Bay Area it was a very local manifestation not shared by the East Coast the Mid-West or even for that matter LA. LA was never hip in the way the Bay Area was. While the Beatles are credited with introducing long hair, when the Charlatans came down from Virginia City they had hair and they must have been growing it long before the Mop Tops showed up.

 

The West Coast could not tolerate New York groups. Mafia outfits like the Rascals nee Young Rascals and Vanilla Fudge made the West Coast puke. There really wasn’t any place for The Velvet Underground either. Of course the British groups that had their own sound that really couldn’t compete with that of say, The Doors, an LA group. The LA groups being more commercially oriented pretty much shoved the Bay Area groups aside, although there were a couple of real successes. I don’t include freak groups like the Grateful Dead, commercial successes. Cults are cults.

 

But to the point, boy, LSD. Owsley Stanley kept the West supplied and how. By the time of Altamont and Stonewall the atmosphere was really foul. And then it got worse still.

 

About the time of the Redlands bust society and the police were losing their patience. Kesey and Leary had them terrified. The drug thing kept growing. When one says that marijuana was generational it is true only to the extent that a significant minority of the generation smoked it. The hippies were only a small and despised part of the generation but they, we, made a lot of noise and got a lot of notice. Without the radio, rock and corrupt record companies the Movement probably wouldn’t have broken the bounds of Bohemia. But, the time was ripe for the Bohemian conquest of America. That was led from New York, principally by Andy Warhol.

 

The records made the Bohemian life seem very glamorous. Thus the cops focused on groups, where actually the greatest drug activity was located and the propaganda the strongest. As the groups began to make good and even big, very big, money they were the natural prey of the drug dealers. And don’t underestimate the role of LSD. The groups also chose to flaunt their drug use- ‘I’ve got to be free to put anything into my body and life I want to’, disdaining the law, the police and actually common decency. This was the case with the Stones and it’s the flaunting, not the use, that got them in trouble.

 

In 1967 they naturally were set up. Brian Jones in an interview, barroom chat actually, with News Of The World reporters boasted of his drug use. The journalists then attributed the statements to Mick, whether from ignorance or design I leave to your imagination.

 

When Mick read the article he was indignant. As I said, while Mick and the rockers thought they were big because of records, radio and TV they were actually socially marginal and not particularly appreciated. Musicians get no respect outside their own circle.

 

Rather than evaluate his situation, considered that he was doing drugs and everyone knew it thus making him an obvious target, he foolishly brought suit against the newspaper. You don’t have to be brilliant to know News Of The World wasn’t going to let that one fly. Hey! Hey! What’d I say! Mick was sleeping or dreaming.

 

The police wanted to get England’s bad boys anyway. There may or may not have been collusion between the News Of The World and the police but the way the raid was conducted indicates there was.

 

Shortly before the bust some guy named Schneiderman drops from the sky with a brief case reportedly filled with whatever you required. Mick, Marianne and Keith and a couple others, I will mention in the next section, were having an LSD weekend at Keith’s house, the Redlands. Schneiderman insinuated himself into the party with his briefcase while probably being in the employ of the News informed them and they in turn notified the police.

 

For Schneiderman allegedly having a briefcase full of drugs there were remarkably few drugs in evidence at the bust. Jagger was booked only for possession of four pep pills bought legally in Italy, while Keith had no drug charges at all except for being charged with ‘knowingly’ providing a place where pot was smoked. Robert Fraser actually had heroin jacks of his own on him but Schneiderman produced nothing from his briefcase and indeed no drugs were visible in it when the police required him to open it. No drugs were seen only packaging that were assumed to contain drugs by the Bohemians. In any event he hopped the first flight to elsewhere.

 

While Marianne had no drugs concealed on her person her situation was the most tragic of all. The Faerie Queen would lose her official status.

 

When the cops came calling the crowd was of course flipped out on LSD but then that was always the danger; the cops would come calling when you’re least prepared to deal with them. Come on, this was just one of the hazards of using illegal substances. And naturally, you tend to be flippant, wise cracking and mocking. Very bad behavior in such a situation when maximum seriousness is the order of the moment. It’s not like everyone didn’t live in fear of being busted. They used to call it deep paranoia.

 

Marianne whose clothes had become wet from walking in the rain laid them out to dry dressing in nothing more than some sort of rug wrapped around her. Well, what is one to think of a nude woman amongst a bunch of men; what is this Dejeuner Sur L’herbe redux? Even if two thirds of them were screaming fairies as they were, how is one to know that and what to think?

It was said that Marianne let her wrap slip giving the coppers an eyeful. Of course the cops were square and the gang was hip but squares outnumber hips by a very large margin while as Roger Miller sings: Squares make the world go round. And a good thing too. Roger said that hips have too much water for their land; this was a gathering of pretty watery people. Oh, OK, my people, but folks you have to be realistic. That’s what hip means in my book.

 

And then someone probably at News Of The World concocted the story that Marianne had a Mars bar slipped between her legs and that Mick was grazing away at it. Preposterous, wouldn’t you think? Boy, now that was a blow that will getcha and you’ll be down for a long time too. As might be expected Marianne was devastated. Boy, that opened a lot of anfractuosities in her brain. A hit like two trains running in opposite directions at top speed on the same tracks over a two hundred foot high trestle. That’s a big crash and a long way to tumble, buddy.

 

It ended any hope Marianne may have had of appearing on a stage. Can you imagine stepping up to the microphone and being showered with Mars bars. Oh no, no,no, better to board a rocket ship for…oops…Mars.

 

Marianne and Mick may have thought they were handling it well but the bile and psycho-somatic reactions entering the sub-conscious aren’t so easily dismissed. This horror was merely added to their childhood fixations.

 

In the turmoil of the months succeeding this mind wrenching event fixations would only worsen. Of course the intent of the establishment was not so much to succeed in jailing them but making an example of them while hopefully destroying their careers. The bust should have been career destroying but for the generational gap. When a teacher chastises a student the other students smirk but don’t disown him. After busting Mick and Keith the establishment then went after the more fragile Brian Jones, the guy who got this whole thing rolling by shooting off his mouth. If the three could have been jailed they wouldn’t subsequently have been allowed to enter the US or so it seemed. No one could have forecast the incredible changes that were about to occur that essentially placed the Stones above the law.

 

Chapter 5

 

Enter Donald Cammell And His Movie Performance

 

One reads many amusing reasons for the incredible social disintegration of the sixties. One of the most preposterous to come to my attention is the notion that it was caused by lead poisoning.. There’s a hobby horse for you. While I couldn’t rule it out I think lead poisoning would be among the most obscure of reasons. No, the sixties was no more an aberration than was Hitler’s Germany; like the latter it was the result of long historical development, a part of psychological history.

 

If one reads a good deal with the purpose of understanding the historical background of the sixties things begin to take form. Then if one tries to make one’s intellect rise and float over the information gleaned from that reading patterns will form, a map of the past will appear. Then of course one notes nodes and axons, connections that require further reading and rereading what’s already been read so that a fair approximation of what happened can be more or less confidently stated. Much of it will be subterranean history that doesn’t make it to the history books.

 

Such is the psycho-sexual mind set that began to develop oh, say, about from 1890 on which a key node from 1900 to 1920. Western understanding of the human mind developed fairly rapidly from the mid-eighteenth century rapidly gaining momentum after say 1860 and the spectacular doing at Paris’ Salpetriere mental hospital under the tutelage of the amazing Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot.

 

While his investigations were of a psycho-sexual nature they were not perceived as such except perhaps by a transient student by the name of Sigmund Freud. Sometime after Charcot’s studies toward the nineties people calling themselves sexologists, sex therapists and sex magicians began to appear.

 

Along with Freud who might be called a sex therapist two leading figures slightly earlier than he were the German Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902) and the Englishman Havelock Ellis (1859-1939). In the academic scientific or pseudo-scientific manner all three made their contributions although Freud managed to incorporate their discoveries or understandings into his system acquiring preeminence in the field.

 

Goerg Groddeck and Wilhelm Reich, two of Freud’s disciples also gained prominence in the sex therapist field.

 

On the religious or supernatural side the most prominent and influential of the sex magicians was the so-called Magus Aleister Crowley and his organization of the Golden Dawn.

 

With the exception of Krafft-Ebing all were out to overturn European sexual mores, designated disparagingly as Victorian. Of course there was never a time when men and women didn’t behave sexually because…well, how could they? The real goal then was to disturb prevailing sexual mores and replace them with sexual license. This essentially came to fruition in the 1960s when the influence of Freud and Crowley were at their peak. The two principal cultural nodes of the US, New York and Los Angeles, were flooded with European Jewish émigrés of the Freudian school while Aleister Crowley had established himself and his Golden Dawn in Los Angeles.

 

The corrosive sexual mores of Freud and Crowley were aided and abetted by the rise of the equally corrosive drug use and, of course, ‘lead poisoning.’

 

Our next object then is to discover who Donald Cammel might be.

 

Searching For Donald

Donald Cammell 

 

Cammell is the central figure in this little drama so we will begin with him although even though the Stones biographers don’t delve into these other characters they are integral to the social scene of Mick, Marianne and Keith. It appears that Brian Jones, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts served a peripherals to Mick primarily and Mick and Keith secondarily. Oldham tried to make himself a third but apparently was incompatible or other interests pulled him in a different direction. By ‘67 he would be out of the picture.

 

In Marianne’s biography she makes it sound like Cammell was a stranger to the group while actually he was well known to Bob Fraser, and Chrissie Gibbs who were at the Redlands bust and quite familiar with Mick, Keith and Marianne. They all knew each other before the movie began to be filmed.

 

Cammell was older than the other three being contemporary with the first generation of rockers; he was born in 1934 in Scotland. He came from a well to do family immersed in the occult; his father actually knew Aleister Crowley and wrote a biography of him. One may then assume that his father was something of a sex magician as Marianne’s father was a sexologist. It was impossible to escape Freudian influences from at least 1920 through the fifties. So some reference to repression and the unconscious is inevitable.

 

Cammell’s father was likely familiar with Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis with its emphasis on psychotic sexual practices. All the sexologists and magicians immersed themselves in bizarre sexual practices. If a reader counters that all sex is legitimate it shows how perverted he or she is. No argument from me, we know where each other stands.

 

As Cammell was born in ‘34, in ‘44 he would have been 10 and 20 in 1954. Thus he would have been aware of the war between the ages of 4, 5, 6, or so and 10 but perhaps in a muddled and uncomprehending manner but in ‘44 and ‘45 he would have been aware enough to partially comprehend. Certainly when the Big Baby turned Hiroshima to ashes in August of ‘45 something would have registered affecting his mind and outlook.

 

I was 7 in ‘45 and while I have a clear remembrance of VE Day I don’t have any recollection at all of the Bomb or if I do it had little or no significance to me. I have never had a horror of the A-bomb.

 

Obviously something other than lead poisoning affected the psyches of the crop of kids from ‘33-’34 to 1942-43. It may have had something to do with the total destruction of the world capped by the Bomb. What a terrific exclamation mark to the end of hostilities. What Cammell’s reaction to this destruction was isn’t clear to me while it probably wasn’t clear to himself.

 

After the war he experienced rationing during the whole of his teen years. He was probably less affected than others as he became prosperous in his teens on his own as a painter. He was successful as a portrait painter. From the pictures I’ve seen he was more than talented while possibly possessing genius. His mind already exhibited an extreme darkness with sexual confusion easily perceived.

 

Much of the following information comes from web sites such as the fabulous Another Nickel In The Machine that records the history of London, Sam Umland’s 60X50 and many others. I have not read Umland’s biography of Cammell as yet.

 

Cammell divorced his first wife and then married a very successful model, the American Deborah Dixon, moving to Paris where they both lived. Cammell apparently was supported by his wife.

 

Bored with painting, not unlike Andy Warhol, he began to take an interest in film. There is nothing like a movie to exhibit one’s sexual fantasies in real life; indeed a movie is a record of the unconscious. Cammell and Dixon were sexually compatible taking an interest in anything remotely copulatory. Cammell’s first few attempts at filmmaking were not successful or, at least, lacked box office magic.

 

Along with his lack of interest in painting and his attraction to the movies Cammell gravitated toward the pop world of rock and roll seeking out Jagger. Where was a sexual degenerate to turn? The bad boys of Rock, the Rolling Stones, Mick, Keith and Marianne at least. He found Mick and Marianne’s talked about sexual escapades irresistible. He was undoubtedly attracted by Mick’s dope legend also. Mick claims not to have been an excessive user of drugs, which may be true, but I doubt there was anyone at the time who didn’t think he was a heroin addict and druggie par excellence.

 

As an artist Cammell was acquainted with Bob Fraser and that pop art crowd. Both he and Fraser were known to the infamous crime lords, the Kray Brothers. The Krays, of course, were homosexuals as was Fraser and Gibbs. Mick’s legend is that he is bi-sexual, at least, so there is no reason that he wasn’t sexually involved with the bunch in some manner.

 

Cammell and Fraser also knew the Satanist and sex magician, the American experimental film maker, Kenneth Anger, as did Mick and Marianne. Fraser introduced Anger to the underground film crowd.

 

In addition Anita Pallenberg knew Cammell from her pre-Brian Jones, Keith Richard days. She was shown the script in the south of France the year before filming began. So, unless I have seriously misread Marianne’s first auto-biography, Cammell didn’t just show up one day with a movie proposal; it was actually old home week.

 

Cammell did go on to make an additional three or four movies of which I have seen two, Demon Seed and Wild Side. The last movie has escaped my vigilance so far. Wild Side is a virtual remake or variation of Performance. Demon Seed that I will review in an addendum to Chapter 5 is actually a great movie handling a major sci-fi theme to perfection.

 

Just prior to the beginning of filming in 1968 Mick impregnated Marianne. This is 1968 and if Marianne hadn’t been on the Pill she would have had a number of children now in addition to Nicholas her child by John Dunbar. The question then is why she allowed herself to get pregnant at this time.  She was still married to Dunbar so one must think he must have suffered humiliation and emasculation to have another man impregnate his wife. Perhaps Mick’s emasculation genes or maybe just a drug haze.

 

At any rate Marianne was exiled to Ireland while filming was going on. One can only imagine the anxiety she felt separated from her lover in her condition. One doesn’t have to imagine; she suffered a miscarriage.

 

Point Blank

John Boorman 

 The Movie

 

In 1967 the English director John Boorman had filmed a movie that took
Cammell’s mind by storm. The movie was Point Blank starring Lee Marvin as the protagonist Walker. Cammell recommended that all the cast see the movie and bear it in mind. It might be advantageous to review the movie here.

 

Point Blank was only Boorman’s second effort. Unsuccessful on release it has apparently become a cult classic. His movie is obviously a dream sequence or nightmare. Nothing is real. This is indicated by the hero’s name of Walker. He has only one name, no first. No one even knows what his first name could be. The name seemed significant to me but I hadn’t a clue as to what it could mean. Well, you know, when the student is ready the teacher will appear. While writing this piece I was also reading Denis Machail’s 1941 biography of J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan. There on page 190 was the explanation of Walker. Barrie had written a play titled Walker, London. That was a telegraphic address.

 

Two impudent jokes in one the second even more mysterious then as it is now. For the word ‘Walker’ is still in the dictionary- “interjection (slang) expressing incredulity and suspicion of being hoaxed” but when was it last used? Not during the present century, one would say; yet before that there was a time when it was the very crystalization of Cockney humor. “Walker!” you said, to show that you could never be caught with chaff. It was the standard answer to the attempted leg pull. It was also one of those blessed with that which any comedian could bring down the house.

So now the viewer knows he is being hoaxed and suspends belief. The plot involves Lee Marvin as Walker who takes part in a heist then is shot by partner who runs off with Walker’s share or 93,000 and adding insult to injury Walker’s wife. The rest of the story involves Walker trying to retrieve his money, forget the wife. The story is told through a series of frustrations to a paranoid Walker. So, we have a dream study of a frustrated paranoid hoax.

 

The opening and closing settings are the same. The walking or exercise area inside Alcatraz prison. The joke seemingly being that one walks around and around, never getting anywhere while returning to the same place. Cry “Walker” and then start laughing like a Cockney at the joke.

 

Alcatraz, the Rock, is of course a small island in the middle of San Francisco Bay between the Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge. Established in 1934 it was closed in 1963, so the filming was done in a closed facility and before the Indians occupied the island claiming it as their heritage. The filming was done, then, in vacated premises.

 

As a dream story it concerns the psychic life of Walker. It’s all going on inside his head. The prison, castle or house represents the psychic  self so that Walker lives a bleak, barren, paranoid inner life.

 

A helicopter lands in the enclosure, picks up a package and leaves a bundle of money. Walker and his pal Mal (mal, French for bad) kill the messenger while robbing him. Walker is then examining an empty cell signifying his empty life when Mal with Walker’s wife looking on puts a couple bullets in him leaving him for dead while appropriating Walker’s share of the money and his wife. Thus we have some basic paranoia that, of course, might possibly be true. As his wife would say later, Walker just kind of left her cold.

 

Left for dead Walker somehow recovers while being compelled to take the only way off the island available to him- swim for it. Another grim joke as legend has it that no one who tried ever succeeded.

 

The rest of the story concerns surmounting treachery and double crosses Walker encounters in trying to recover his money. He finds his wife, abandons her and takes up with her sister. While he seems a little obsessive-compulsive in the matter, the money in fact represents his lost identity, purpose in life or masculinity. The recovery of the money is central to his personality.

As in the Cockney joke whenever he shows up people exclaim “Walker!” If you’re in on the joke it might be funny. Angie Dickenson makes up the sex interest as Chris as there is no love interest. Just a four letter word in this movie. The three kingpins Walker must knock down are Carter, Brewster and Fairfax. Ironically Carter and Brewster are disposed of by their own team when Walker’s paranoia protects him while the others take the hit meant for him.

The actual climax takes place in Brewster’s house when Walker and Chris have spent the night together, the only consummated sex in the movie. As Walker is walking out the door Chris asks does Walker know what her last name is. Walker doesn’t know and neither do we. Walker counters, seemingly weakly, does she know his first name. Either check mate or an uproarious joke to Cockneys. But as Walker in joke is a hoax or a put on then it doesn’t matter anyway. Dreams are like that, they follow a different logic than the waking mind.

 

The denouement returns to the opening at Alcatraz but now Walker is more canny staying out of sight. The drop is made, Brewster calls to him to come get the money. But, as when Walker was supposed to get the money from Carter, after he survived the assassination attempt, the bundle proved to be waste paper, Walker’s paranoia saves him again. A shot rings out and Brewster takes a long walk off a short pier never to return again. Now enter Fairfax who is the head man and the assassin who shot Carter and Brewster and would have shot Walker. Fairfax shouts Walker several times that in another century would have brought the house down.

Walker’s paranoia prevents him from taking what might be money in the bundle but is probably waste paper so that as the bundle of funny paper represents his ego he is left stranded in the haunted empty house of Alcatraz representing his mind for one presumes the rest of his life.

 

The movie was a box office failure, except for the happy few like Cammell but holds up well as a psychological thriller. That is what Cammell saw. So, now, he’s basing his own movie ‘Performance’ directly on Point Blank.

 

Performance

 

He gathers together essentially the ‘gang’ to make his movie. Even Deborah Dixon took part. He already knew and was friends with James Fox as was apparently Mick, cast as the criminal Chas. Cammell had known Anita Pallenberg in Paris where it is said she formed a brief menage a trois with Cammel and Deborah. Chrissie Gibbs was the set designer…Mick was an old friend, a few outsiders and he had his movie.

 

Mick sent Marianne to Ireland for the duration. Keith who was shacking with Anita was so unhappy about Cammell’s pairing Anita with Mick that he found it impossible to visit the set. Instead he brooded outside in his car sending Bob Fraser in to keep tabs until Cammell banned him from the set.

 

I can’t be sure that Cammell understood the Cockney meaning of Walker but he so admired the character that he based Mick’s role on Walker giving Mick the single name of Turner. No first. Turner is also meant to be significant. A turner is a sort of acrobat. The word could also be used in the sense of changeling, or perhaps in the homosexual sense or turning a man gay. Turner does turn Chas. from a tough guy to a passive fairy, his sort of changeling. Turner changes the tough hoods into faggots. Probably then that is the meaning of the name. So maybe Cammell was in on the Walker joke.

 

As the movie is permeated by sex magic and sex as a sort of therapy the influence of Krafft-Ebing, Ellis, Freud and especially Aleister Crowley is very apparent. Kenneth Anger was around at the time while being known to all the participants thus reinforcing the Crowley connection.

 

All the sex therapists were concerned with aberrant sexual practices that the movie concentrates on. Cammell elaborates the sexual implications of Boorman’s Point Blank, while the decaying mansion obviously represent Cammell’s mind. In the end the sex therapy or magick doesn’t seem to work as Turner turns suicidal obsessed with a death wish.

 

Boorman’s crime angle comes in through Chas. In order for Fox to appear authentic Cammell actually required him to live the criminal life under the tutelage of a mobster, even to the extent of taking part in actual crimes. Of course, madness is a theme of the movie but even madness can go too far.

 

Chas. has offended the criminal chief, based on the Kray Bros., who has commanded a man to track Chas. down. When he is located he is summoned to his execution. Turner says: Don’t leave me, take me where you’re going. Chas. says ‘You don’t want to go where I’m going. Turner: Yes I do. Chas. then blows Turner’s head off, gets into the car and the car drives off as he looks out the window we see Turners face. Thus the turning or change is complete as each becomes the other.

 

The version now available for purchase or rental is apparently much different from the original. While even the available version is violent and pornographic the original must have anticipated the current pornographic output of Hollywood . While I wouldn’t call Performance tame almost every movie you see today is as or more explicit. At any rate the movie has no redeeming moral value. If you want porn plain and simple, there it is.

 

The legend has it that the movie changed the lives of the participants. Perhaps so, but perhaps not. Michele Breton was already a lost child and stayed lost. Anita, no stranger to drugs moved into intense familiarity. James Fox, who was criminally mistreated by Cammell, gave up movies for ten years but he says he was already fed up with the seedy side of movie making so perhaps Performance just capped it. Keith, god, what can you say? Who was going to keep him from drugs? If Cammell was already inclined toward suicide he topped himself off in 1996 finally taking Keith’s advice.

 

But, now, Mick and Marianne. Mick was advised to play himself but Marianne wisely overruled that advice perhaps saving Mick’s sanity but still leaving him off balance. Marianne advised him to adopt some of the fey characteristics of Brian Jones' character along with some of Keith’s tough stance. Not too difficult as that is the way Mick already appeared but it permanently shifted his personality in that skew. Nevertheless Mick has always remained supremely functional.

 

As to Marianne, how did she relate to Mick’s rejection of her by sending her to Ireland and the subsequent miscarriage of her child. That is a lot of psychological battering. I think that it is certain that as 1968 progressed she was already in a depression and sinking rapidly. While she was able to hold on for another year or so, by 1969 she would be spinning out of control as further events tested the strength of her mind.

 

Chapter 6 follows.

 

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