WEBVTT - Part Two: The Conspiracy to Begin All Conspiracies 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:06.200 M hmm, we're back. This is behind the bastard's part. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.360 We're not back, Sophie. Sophie gets started. We're not back. Okay, 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:17.480 abat my guest again, Mr Langston Kerman Langston, how are 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:22.360 you doing to day. I'm doing fantastic. I'm I'm excited 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:27.280 to to dig further into the horrors of anti Semitism 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.800 and and how it stretches across the world. It's fun, 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:33.960 it's it's it's good ship, you know. One of the 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:38.680 things that fun it's it's not fun or good ship, 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.640 it's a nightmare. Um. One of the things that's most 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:43.640 I guess ironic would be the term for me. It's 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.519 like the protocols of the Elder's Zion, right we just 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:47.600 talked about it's set up, is like the minutes of 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:53.320 a meeting about how to destroy Christianity basically, right. Um. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:55.920 When it comes to the Holocaust, one of the most 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.200 important documents we have for sort of because one of 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.560 the big questions of the hall Alocaust for historians for 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:05.000 years was was it planned ahead of time or did 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.120 it just sort of evolve out of out of the war, Right, Like, 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.560 how early was the Holocaust plan? When did they know 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.399 they were going to do this. How centralized was it 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.640 and how much personal responsibility did Hitler have right because 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.760 they they have a big meeting or did they just 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:21.640 sort of like come up with this on the fly. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.120 And they did have a big meeting, and we have 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.360 the minutes of that meeting. It's called the von Say Conference. 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:28.880 It was held in a house in the suburbs of 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.920 Berlin that I've been to. The house is a museum 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.120 now you can go see where Reinhard Hydrick and a 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.199 bunch of other assholes sat in a room and worked 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.000 out how are we going to do a holocaust? How 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.680 do we we We've tried all these methods of killing people. 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:43.840 Shooting them doesn't work because it's too expensive and it 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.440 sucks our soldiers heads up. We've tried gassing them in vans, 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.360 but it's not very efficient. We have so many more people, 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.640 what are we gonna do? Okay? And they they arrive 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.680 at the solution that they use. This is like two, 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:55.880 while the war in Russia is forty three. Maybe the 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.000 war in rushes at its height. So there is an 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:02.920 actual conspiratorial meeting eating that. We have the the minutes too. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:04.880 And again when I talked with the difference between a 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.960 real conspiracy and a fake one. That conspiracy has a 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.240 very clear beginning and a very clear ending. It doesn't 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.960 extend forward and backwards in time. A bunch of guys 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.519 met in a room and planned to commit mass murder 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.880 and then they did it. You know, it's not like, yeah, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.960 it this in a strange way, and I love that 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.000 I keep making hip hop references, but it's a similar 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.280 conspiracy theory sort of exists about the c I a 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:39.920 planning to to basically like create, uh destroy the black population. Yeah, 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:44.040 but not only crack, but also like by adding violence 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.400 into hip hop, they would like forced black people to 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.040 go to jail more often than sensequently, break down our communities. 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.800 And there's a belief that there was an actual like 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.440 meeting of the mind for like all the the the 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.560 music heads of every sort of come but he came 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.079 together and said, how can we add more violence into 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:07.760 hip hop? So these black people murder each other. There's 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.040 a lot like and like a lot of conspiration. There's 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:11.720 like a germ of reality in there, which is that 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.560 the CIA, it wasn't as direct as a lot of 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.200 people think, but the CIA actually absolutely supported the cocaine 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.320 trade that led to the crack trade in order to 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.520 launder money so that they could buy weapons for these 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.600 different groups that were like, it's a thing that happened. Absolutely. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.679 CIA has a huge part in the global cocaine trade. Um. 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.480 The idea that anyone would need to meet in order 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.120 to like insert violence into a part of American pop 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.520 culture is very funny to me that like, no, no, no, 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.800 The CIA definitely did it with but they weren't like, hey, 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.760 and now we can maybe we should add a beat 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:49.520 to this, maybe have a few fellas freestyled about it. 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:54.440 We could really break down there. Uh what if we 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.720 added a beat to this? It is not a thing 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:01.640 the CIA ever sat down and asked themselves. They asked themselves, 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.080 how can we get these planes of cocaine into the 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.680 country so that we can buy more missiles for our 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.560 friends in order to let the massacre poor people in 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:14.960 Latin America? Um, which is more or less the actual story. Yeah, yeah, 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.800 I mean we'll do we'll we'll do episodes on that 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.920 at some point. It's a great story, um, because there's 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.520 a couple of um, former d E agents and stuff 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.040 who turned and who wrote about like being ordered not 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.520 to arrest to let planes in. Like there's one of 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:32.880 the more consistent things you find is that wind conspiracy 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:38.440 theories are true. It's because somebody talked. Almost always someone 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.239 talks yea, and though times when it's not true, they've 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.800 never gotten anybody to talk because there is no one 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.480 to talk about the ship. Yeah, that's kind of where 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.080 I land on a lot of stuff where it's like, 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.240 we know the CIA had a lot of involvement in 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.640 the fucking cocaine trade because a bunch of dudes talked 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.840 about it, like documented evidence to right, Like we got 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.240 snitches and stuff. There were people who like believed in 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:03.880 something when they got into the c I A or 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:05.480 the I think it's mostly d E A guys, but 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.560 who believed in something and then like realized what they 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.440 were doing and they wrote about it and anyway, we'll 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.200 talk about this at some point. This was too much 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.920 of a digression, although we are talking about Columbia, so 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.599 I guess it's appropriate that we talked about cocaine because 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.400 we're talking about conspiracies in Colombia and there have been 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:28.240 a lot. Colombia is a real conspiracy place. Um, you 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.920 want to do a conspiracy. That's that's one of your 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:36.920 top countries to go to. Um unfortunately. Uh so. Yeah, 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.840 when most people who know about the Protocols think about 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.400 like the consequences of the spread of this conspiracy theory, 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.839 they think about the Holocaust, and for good fucking reason. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.200 But the Protocols left a trail of bodies wherever they spread, 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.400 and they didn't always do it in the way you 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.120 would expect. The way it the Protocols led to death 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.359 wasn't always it leads to pogroms against Jewish people. It 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.039 was a lot weirder than that in some cases. And 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.680 today we're going to talk about the spread of the 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.560 Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Colombia because it 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:09.200 both kind of explains this specific example gives my examples 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:10.880 of how it spread in other parts of the world, 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.239 but also the kind of unexpected impacts that the spread 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.080 of this conspiracy theory could have in a country. The 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.680 Protocols first made it to Latin America in the wake 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.440 of World War One, during the first Great diaspora for 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.920 the infamous conspiracy theory. The vector of infection was the 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.040 Catholic clergy, most of whom were sent to Central or 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.640 South America from parts of Europe, where the Protocols had 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.640 been spreading for more than twenty years. In Colombia, the 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.640 Protocols entered through members of an elite Jesuit order who 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.719 kept close ties with their brothers across the ocean. The 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.919 first Spanish language translation of the Protocols was printed in 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.400 Leipzig in nineteen twenty seven, but the version that actually 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.440 spread most widely in Latin America was a French translation 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.800 spread by a journal that had been established by an 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:59.600 Augustinian friar, titled The Review of International Secret Societies. This yeah, 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.440 so this friar has like a magazine dedicated to secret 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.560 societies that he does on like the side. This is 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.320 this guy's hobby. It had been established in nineteen o 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:13.000 nine to investigate the Freemasons and other secret societies. And 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:17.360 today very few people talk about the Freemasons. That conspiracy. 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.360 You you can find bits and pieces of it here 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.880 and there, but like it's not it's not in the 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.480 mainstream of conspiracies anymore. You can you like you dig 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.000 it off to queue it on. You'll find people talking 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.240 about fucking Freemasons and stuff, but it's not the front rank. 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.320 But back in the early night or the early nineteen hundreds, 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.120 the Freemasons were again like the big fucking thing to 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.000 be obsessed with, and the Catholic Church had actually had 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.680 a whole bug up its ass about Freemasonry for centuries. Um. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.880 They believed it was dangerously anti Christian. It was because 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:50.960 Freemasons were like social organizations of rich people, and they 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.040 did exert a lot of soft power because all it's 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:54.680 the same like school and bones. All these rich people 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.200 are hanging out together, they're making plans and they're not. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.480 It's not a thing the Catholic Church has any p stuff, right. 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.360 The Catholic Church is a big gang, right, it's a 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.400 mop and they don't they don't like that. There's all 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.240 these that like that. That's their issue with the Freemasons. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:15.560 Lings infamously don't like other gangs. Uh, that's what's happening here. Um. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.720 So basically, some weird friar with a side hustle ranting 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.200 about Freemason's helped ignite a wave of anti Semitism in 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.320 Colombia that led to the deaths of spoilers a couple 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.280 hundred thousand people. So, yeah, it's some good ship. It 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:33.440 is it is not some good ship. I should I 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.640 should get it, I should get another go to phrase, 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.440 um yeah, and I'm gonna quote now from a write 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:42.080 up by historian Thomas Williford about the Catholic Church's attitude 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:47.160 towards Freemasons. The popes were convinced that some dark conspiracy 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.760 organized by the Masons was driving the faithful away from 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.920 the Universal Church truth in order to bring about the 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.880 collapse of the church. The claim of an international Masonic 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.400 cabal resonated in all Catholic countries, including Spain and its 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.160 former colonies in Latin America, UH, where Masons were an 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.559 important presence in politics. In Colombia, a string of Liberal 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.640 Party presidents who implemented anti clerical policies in the mid 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.920 nineteenth century were practicing Freemasons. So in Colombia the Left 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.040 takes power for a while, they pass laws restricting the 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.080 power of the Catholic Church. A bunch of these guys 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.000 are Masons. The Catholic Church is like, this is part 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:24.439 of the conspiracy. It's great. So these super Catholic Jesuit 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.880 weirdos were already obsessed with Freemasons. Then World War One 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.920 hits and the whole world, their world, the European world 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.319 seems to be in free fall. Communists are burning churches 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.719 and killing priests in the midst of all that. This 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.040 Friar Repent prints a translation of the Protocols of the 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.600 Elders of Zion that seems to explain everything because the 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.800 Protocols we had mentioned this last episode of should have 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.160 The Freemasons are in and a bunch, and the idea 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.000 is that the Jews are pulling the strings of the 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.640 Freemason's right. That's one of the groups that the Jews 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.840 control as part of their conspiracy. Pre existing beliefs about 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.320 Freemasonry were actually how the Protocols managed to in fact, 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.880 most of the communities they took off in early on. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.280 This is why grand conspiracy theories like Q and on 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.800 are more successful than more syncretic they are. If you've 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.720 got this core conspiracy theory about a bunch of child molesters, 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.160 but you can rope in anti vaccine conspiracies, you can 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.880 bring in the JFK assassination aliens, you can integrate all 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.520 those things into the broader conspiracy theory. You get a 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.720 bunch of additional vectors through which you can infect people 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:29.040 so I'm in. Maybe I'm anti vax and that's how 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.559 I first come across quan On propaganda and it sucks 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.360 me in. Or I'm obsessed with the jfk assassination, I 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.520 come across some video about how that ties into q 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.719 and On. That's what pulls me in. It makes it 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:46.559 more effective for everybody out there. That means, uh, embracing 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.560 the groups that you otherwise weren't necessarily aiming for the 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.400 first time. You wrote the ship exactly. And the way 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.199 that the protocols do that is you've got all these 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.319 guys who for centuries, a lot of these Catholics have 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:01.240 believed in a Freemason and a Masonic conspiracy, and the 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.440 protocol say, hey, the Jews are behind that. And Catholics 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.280 already not great on Jews, you know, like there there 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.800 were some problems there beforehand. But this is how a 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.520 lot of like clergy get infected by the Protocols of 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.800 the Elders of Zion. Now, the Vatican's official stance in 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.320 this period was that Jewish people were souls to be 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.560 saved um, but the Church supported and endorsed members of 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.240 the clergy who spread myths about the blood pass over 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.360 which we talked about in the last episode. Um Anti 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.679 Semitic Catholics could point to Pope Pious the Ninth, who 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:35.079 in eighteen seventy three claimed that the Synagogue of Satan 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.280 was drawn from Masonic sects. And Pious was talking about 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.040 the Masons, but he described them as a synagogue of 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.760 the devil. So you can see this whole tying Jewish 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.679 people to the to the Mason's. It didn't start with 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.240 the with the protocols, but that was like the most 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.000 best organized way it was put together. Do you think 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.880 he used synagogue just on accident or was that also 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.240 intentional of my being like you know, I I also 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.000 don't funk with this group, by the way, but yeah, 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.120 I think it was because for a lot of specially 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.960 popes in those Eric synagogue is like synonym for a 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.760 bad place, you know, it's the bad religion, you know, 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.920 other than Protestantism, which is also the bad room Quarrelsome people, 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.040 these these Catholics, like pork. It's the other bad meat 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:22.400 that they don't care for. So a significant minority of 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.800 Catholics had been ranting about a Judeo Massonic anti Christian 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:29.040 conspiracy for decades. By the time the Protocols hit Latin America, 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.800 one of the first Jesuits in Colombia to really dig 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.240 into spreading anti Semitic garbage was a Spanish Jesuit named 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.319 his sus Maria Ruano. Writing a bulletin for the local 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.480 faithful in July of nineteen twenty two, he urged good 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.400 Catholics to pray for the conversion of the Jews, and 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.560 then went on to explain at length how since the 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:50.040 French Revolution, the Jews had controlled the economies of Europe 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.360 as well as all leading newspapers. Following this, he made 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.760 one of the first direct references to the Protocols in 0:12:55.840 --> 0:13:00.440 Latin American history. Quote years later, when the abominable Protocols 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.160 of the Wise Men of Israel were known around the 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.640 world on the occasion of the Zionist Congress of eighteen 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.640 ninety seven, reflective historians, moralists, and patriots have not ceased 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.520 giving shouts aboutrage. They say that the plan of hegemony 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.679 and universal conquest dripped by the Jews is already manifest. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.120 Is one of the first times you see the Protocols 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:21.080 referenced in Latin America. Now, nineteen twenty two was a 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.559 little early for this kind of rhetoric to spread, especially 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.120 in Colombia, which had very few Jewish people, not super 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.600 successful drumming up race hatred against the Jews because there's 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:30.800 not a lot of them. They don't have a deep 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.200 history in the country. Right, it's sucking Colombia, you know. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.280 It's a lot of people being like, what is a Jews? Yeah? 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:37.880 What are you? What are you? What are you talking about. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.640 By the early nineteen thirties, the situation in the country 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.560 had changed. In the early twenties, the economy was great, 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:47.959 and this is another reason why this conspiracy doesn't take off. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.320 Then people are making a lot of money, Exports are 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.760 trending steadily upward. Things are doing well in Colombia. Then 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.760 in the thirties, the Great Depression hits, right, and Colombia 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.640 gets sucked by it the way everyone does. And as 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.280 a result to the Great Depression, the labor movement explode. 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.440 So suddenly there's all these protests in the street, there's 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.080 these giant strikes, people are starving. What we said, whenever 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.320 there's a lot of unrest and change in a short 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.040 period of time, people start to go to conspiracies to 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.320 explain it all. Sure, the protocol started making more and 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:20.280 more frequent appearances in Jesuit publications and in sermons. By 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.800 the early nineteen thirties, there was significant documentation proving the 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.480 protocols were a forgery. When I talked about last episode 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.080 about how it was plagiarized from a piece of plagiarism 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.120 that was known at the time, people were aware of this, 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:36.040 but in what would become a common justification, Colombian Jesuits 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.880 argued that it didn't matter whether or not the protocols 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.080 were a forgery. And I'm gonna quote from a write 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.320 up in one of their magazines in nineteen thirty two, 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.040 an idea occurs to us that we cannot hide from 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.920 the reader, separating the question of authenticity, in other words, 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.320 determining whether or not these are the true minutes of 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.480 the eighteen ninety seven Zionist Congress of Basil. No one 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.560 can deny the frightening veracity of the protocols due to 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:03.440 their prodigious, almost prophetic exactitude, which saturates all of its pages. So, yeah, 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:07.200 maybe it's a forgery, but it's it seems like the 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.240 things we already it's right, you know, like you can 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:14.160 tell it's right. Yeah, exactly exactly. We couldn't agree more. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:18.160 It's it's completely made up. It's Milannia. Trump's still in 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:23.240 Michelle's speech. It's like, yeah, we're still It's the alternative 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.920 facts thing is that, like, yeah, maybe it's not literally true, 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.960 but it's right. You know, this is what's happening. Even 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.560 if this document is fake, it accurately describes what I 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.680 know was happening because I'm a racist. Things continue to 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.360 ramp up throughout the thirties. The Spanish Civil War, which 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.720 is with its attendant massacres of priests and nuns by anarchists, 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.600 fuel Jesuit claims that a vast anti Christian conspiracy existed. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.840 Colombian newspapers tended to cover the violence in Spain with 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.880 what Thomas Williford describes as an it can happen here attitude. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.200 In nineteen thirty seven, inspired by the Spanish Civil War, 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.760 a Bogata publishing house issued the first Colombian edition of 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:02.080 the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The late nineteen 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:06.000 thirties and forties also saw intensifying violence between Colombian liberals 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.760 and conservatives. Again, political order in Columbia is starting to 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.440 break apart at this time. By nineteen forty two, the 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.280 Liberals were ascendant and the head of the Conservative Party, 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.800 a guy named Laureano Gomez, decided to launch an anti 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.480 Masonic crusade, claiming that the Masons were using the Liberals 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.360 as a vehicle for the Jews to take control of Colombia. 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.080 Gomez had a right wing party newspaper that he edited 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.360 start printing up a booklet which he claimed to be 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:35.080 a secret account of Masonic rituals and secrets. Thomas Williford 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.560 writes quote. It also claimed that Colombian Liberals were part 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:42.240 of a worldwide Judeo Masonic conspiracy, especially in their attempts 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.360 to control public instruction. A series of government and political 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.080 documents were cited at length to make this point. Along 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:52.280 quote from a publication supposedly called Revisted Judeo Masonica Masonic 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:57.040 jew Magazine described diabolic instructions to pervert women in schools 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:01.560 through gymnastic exercises and revealing clothing. It was rather pornographic 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:03.760 reading for a pamphlet which also stated that it should 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.080 be like a second Catechism in the home. So he 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.000 publishes this booklet that is purporting to have excerpts from 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.199 a magazine that doesn't exist called Masonic jew Magazine. Is 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.160 this like the conspiracy has a magazine that they call 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.520 the and it. Part of the thing is like these 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:23.040 guys are conservative, right, they're doing too much stretching. They're there, 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:27.399 women are doing gymnastics. It's the Jews, you know. Jewish 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:32.920 people are known for gymnastics. That the gymnastics on us. Yes, 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.040 so obviously, like all of the stuff we're talking about, 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.520 this is nonsense. But the propagandic campaign was a wild success. 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:44.320 It welded militant conservatives with Catholic clergy in a unified 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:48.440 front against this Judeo Masonic liberal conspiracy. When a liberal 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.320 president was elected in August of nineteen forty two, Go 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:55.680 Messes magazine did not even acknowledge his inauguration, instead publishing 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.320 more anti Semitic propaganda. Now, this was the same period 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.439 where the holocaus Us was ramping up in Europe and 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.119 Gomez's party newspaper actually reported on the early stages of 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:09.200 the extermination, publishing an article about eighteen thousand French Jews 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:13.440 being detained, sterilized, and deported. This was in the same 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:17.119 issue where a priest father Diaz editorialized, it got about 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:21.840 the struggle against Jewish Bolsheviks. The obvious contradiction between hysterical 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.159 rants about an all powerful Jewish conspiracy and the reality 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.359 of Jewish Jewish impression under the Nazis did not seem 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.840 to strike anyone in the Colombian right wing as being 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:35.960 a little bit inconsistent. Four days later, Loriano Gomez would 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.240 go on to give the most anti Semitic speech of 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.080 his career, defending a bill that would have denied Masonic 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.000 lodges the right to exist in Columbia as corporate entities. 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.960 His speech defending the bill was an unhinged conspiracist rant, 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.320 explaining how the Jews had manipulated the Colombian middle class 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:55.080 through freemasonry while controlling the working poor through communism. He 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.840 claimed that his time working as Colombia's ambassador to Berlin 0:18:57.920 --> 0:18:59.760 had made it clear to him how toxic the Jews 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.679 were a society. He claimed, the lesson of history is 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.200 that when the Jewish phenomenon presents itself, there are only 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.439 two solutions, handing the nation over to this Jews or 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:13.840 expelling them. Oh boy, yeah. Now. Gomez did not succeed 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.679 in passing his bill, but he succeeded in welding the 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:21.960 Colombian Conservative Party into a unified conspiracist block, blaming all 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.040 of their electoral defeats on an alliance of Jews and 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:29.440 Freemasons who were manipulating liberals and communists. His most fanatical 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:33.640 supporters were the middle class, small business owners, priests, and professionals. Again, 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.240 none of this sounds familiar. A right wing party refusing 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.840 to acknowledge that they lose an election, turning to conspiracy theories, 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:43.200 the middle class backing them in order to explain economic downturns. 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.040 None of this has ever happened since. Thank god, can 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:52.520 you imagine we've learned our lessons now. Columbia never had 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.840 the kind of widespread anti Semitic programs seen in Europe, 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:59.320 but the charged and often violent rhetoric pushed by Gomez 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.720 succeed did in making any kind of compromise between left 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.600 and right impossible. If the other side were literally the 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:10.520 puppets of a genocidal conspiracy to eliminate Christendom, collaboration was impossible. 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:13.680 This became a problem when the right finally made its 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:15.479 way back to power. And I'm going to quote from 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.920 a rite up on the website the International Relations here. 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.400 After nineteen forty six, traditional party competition had broken down 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:26.240 in Columbia. Mariano Aspina Perez, the newly elected president, and 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:28.880 his Conservative Party government, used the police and the army 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.919 to repress the Liberal Party. The Liberals then responded by 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:35.080 arming peasants to fight back against the government. This created 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.679 pressures within civil and political society, and violence began on 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:42.160 a small scale. It didn't stay small. The next several 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.360 years of Colombian history are known widely as La Violencia, 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:47.720 which I don't think I need to translate. It would 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:50.560 be too much to blame the protocols or Gomez for 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:53.560 all of this, but they and the conspiracism he fueled 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.720 had a major impact on how La Violencia played out. 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:00.719 As Thomas Williford writes, when the Violencia again in earnest 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.679 in nineteen forty six, it was they The Conservatives, believing 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.679 that the Liberals were part of a worldwide anti Christian plot, 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:09.359 would encourage or even take part in the massacres of 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:13.600 Liberal civilians throughout the countryside. Although Lavi Aalencia would quickly 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:17.879 take on unforeseen socio economic aspects, the discursive structure that 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:21.120 provided the pretext for militants to commit murder was already 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:24.360 in place by nineteen forty two. After the Conservatives won 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:27.920 the nineteen forty six presidential election against a divided Liberal party, 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:31.280 they sought to guarantee a conservative majority around the country, 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:34.680 as the Liberals had done fifteen years earlier. However, this time, 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:37.520