Potential Skull And Bones FITE - and are they the most powerful secret society now?

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On the way in to work I was listening to Democracy Now and I had no idea that Kerry was also a member of Skull And Bones. If he gets the nomination, this would make the first time in US history that the presidential election is between two Bonesmen.

Anyway, there wasn't a thread on Skull And Bones, so here we go. Basically their membership roster reads like a who's who of the American investment banking and intelligence community. For more background info, check out this book and this site.

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

We must send our Harvard operative to bust this up. The campaign of Perry for Pervertdent starts HERE.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/greatseal/illuminati.jpg

oo-ee-oo.

Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

clubs are always lame.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe it's not so bad if Kerry gets the nomination.

It will jam the collective mental circuits of paranoid America, who will then be ripe for re-programming by us rationals.

Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

do they let women in now? The NY Post was making a deal out of one of the Bush twins not getting tapped to join.

teeny (teeny), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I've spent time with Bohemian Club members and have been to their headquarters - guess what? No Chicks. These guys hang out and put on plays and play all the female parts themselves. BORING.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

do they let women in now? The NY Post was making a deal out of one of the Bush twins not getting tapped to join.

According to the Democracy Now interview (there's a stream available on their site. link upthread), they do allow women in. Apparently it was very controversial and that Bush I was against it.

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

my debauched short-wave radio owning friend Joe said, two weeks before the Iowa caucus, that Kerry would be the next President because the Skull and Bones people have had it with Bush.

lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

hell, i'm against it!

aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

haha excellent conspiracy theory LK!

teeny (teeny), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The hell with the Priory of Sion, my mum's book club should be debating this lot! My mum was at Yale, I wonder if she joined. If she had... would I even know?!?!? (cue spooky music)

the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: yale's secret clubs v. princeton's eating clubs (which are SO SECRET THAT THERE'S NO WEBPAGE FER THEIR MEMBERSHIPS!)

Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, Yale definitely has the best Club in NYC.

the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but it's when the Bohemian Club members KEEP playing the female part late into the night that must remain secrect...

Kissinger is apparently way into watersports, by the way.

andy, Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

*makes note*

teeny (teeny), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Are these like lame collegiate versions of the Freemasons then?

Kate my friends and I went drinking in the Freemasons Arms over Christmas and got them to invite us to their lock-in and made friends with them got them to give us and everything. But then it all went a bit wrong when my friend decided to take offence at something one of them said and it almost developed into a full-on FITE. If I stop posting for a while, avenge my death.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

According to my mum, to be invited to join the S&B, you have to come from "old money" and your father and grandfather have to have gone to Yale, and you have to be good at sports. So there you have it. Whether or not watersports are included, I don't know.

x-post, Matt, the Freemasons Arms is GRATE!!! Joe and I went there just before Xmas, and some actual FREEMASONS came in. This was confirmed by the Freemason tourguide! (not actually a mason.)

the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

C'mon - more creepy paranoid shit now, please!

Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

how about they all stand naked around a pizza, jerk off and the last s&boner who cums has to eat the jerk-off pie?

Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

well that explains iraq.

teeny (teeny), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

So it was all founded by OPIUM MAGNATES?!?!? Bwah hah hah hah hah! "Just say no" indeed!

the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i was wondering if the Freemasons are like the M*rm*ns and if you bitch about them online they come after you

stevem (blueski), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I was drinking with Freemasons AND Mormons that night!

Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

They've got better things to do with their time. You know, like running the country and controlling things.

the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

the jerk-off pie is for the frats where the plebes go to school.

Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

It's weird actually, that whole part of Covent Garden is owned by Freemasons. I only know this because my friend whose birthday it was got absolutely wankered, shot his mouth off and let us all know he was a member, and taught me how to do The Handshake, which obviously I will be trying out at my next job interview.

Apparently they only perform Charitable Acts these days, and also there are supposedly lots of them living in that huge sinister looking temple type thing.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

If stop posting avenge death etc.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

HOW DO I GET TO LIVE IN THE BIG HUGE SINISTER LOOKING TEMPLE TYPE THING?!?!? I WANT TO LIVE THERE, IT IS SO COOL INSIDE!!!!!

Damn, I want to be a Freemason.

the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

they all listen to Bauhaus and Christian Death, smoke clove cigarettes, and dress in black!

Gothbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I'm there, then.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

WITH YER TASTES IN MUSIC, YOU'D FIT RIGHT IN

Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

But I hate all that goth stuff! Er...

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the masons haze their pledges by making them listen to nothing but the mission uk's neverland, over and over and over ...

Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Hm, that's actually a grim but appropriate torture test.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

they all listen to Bauhaus and Christian Death, smoke clove cigarettes, and dress in black!

And spank each other on the bottom with huge wooden paddles.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate, one of the bar staff (not a Freemason) told me that they watch it some days and nobody ever goes in, nobody ever goes out - a bit like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory or the MI6 building in Vauxhall.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

There *are* other doors than that big one at the front opposite the pub. In fact, that isn't even the main entrance.

the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?

stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Why is it that anyone who works close to Freemasons invariably has loads and loads of theories about them, yet is never actually a Freemason?

Do they theorise because they DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW or are they propegating the wacky lies to divert from their successful ruse that they are not actually Freemasons?

I felt like I was killing a puppy when I had to tell my mum's book group last night that the Priory of Sion was actually a 20th century Hoax.

the river fleet, Friday, 23 January 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Freemasonry has nothing to do with skull and bones et al. FWIW.

If you think that college secret societies are paranoid creepy bullshit then you have obviously never attended a large university, especially not one down south. Those membership requirements listed above seem pretty familiar.

I am unsurprised at the Kerry revelation and what's worse is I don't care. I honestly can not spare another minute of my life thinking about this horseshit and frankly whoever runs this country is so out of my scope I'm wondering why I even bother. Every single nominee is a jackass and a snake and I wouldn't want to spend more than a minute in the same room with any of them. Thank you NPR.

Can you tell I haven't had any caffeine yet?

TOMBOT, Friday, 23 January 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Freemasonry has nothing to do with Skull and Bones? So it's just coincidence that S&B was formed by a group of highly influential Masons, right around the time of a major US Masonic scare?

the river fleet, Friday, 23 January 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

How secret of a society are they really?
I'm far more worried about the Shriners.

Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Friday, 23 January 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like the fezzes.

Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 23 January 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

now the Shriners! Man, they are the modern day Knights of Templar and they scare me!

the river fleet, Friday, 23 January 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

If you think that college secret societies are paranoid creepy bullshit then you have obviously never attended a large university, especially not one down south.

It's obvious? Maybe it's just a matter of not having money or a dick.

Or being one.

Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 23 January 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Do not watch the movie The Skulls...unless it's on cable, and you can't sleep, and you have absolutely positively nothing better to do.

(I saw it for free at a screening, and still feel duped.)

j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 23 January 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...
The Vanity Fair piece on S&B is boring. Kerry took it too seriously, Bush just joined because of Daddy, they don't lay in a coffin and masturbate, yawn.

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Instead they get laid in a coffin, THEN they masturbate.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...
I just think it's fundamentally wrong to have a secret society in a democracy. Especially when the democracy is being contested by two members of a said society who refuse to comment on its mission (which can be interpreted as being virulently anti-democratic). That's the issue.

Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

the only thing that bugs me about them is the whole stealing Geronimo's bones thing.

hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely it's just -- apart from the obvious run-of-mill exclusivity and networking with other soon-to-be bigshots -- mostly a venue for "important" kids to do all their weird collegiate shit without other people knowing?

nabiscothingy, Sunday, 22 August 2004 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

When I am 50 we'll have a presidential candidate from a real fraternity (and political attack ads going "I remember ... we were so stoned ... I passed out on the couch ... I remember telling him, don't you dare ... Only later did I find the pictures of him ... with his balls in my mouth ... I still feel violated, to this very day ... When the chips were down, he betrayed me ... Who's to say he won't betray America?")

nabiscothingy, Sunday, 22 August 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...
So Bonesmen might be fucking the skull of Geronimo after all...

One of the Bush family's most macabre crimes is squirming in the light again, thanks to an 88-year-old letter discovered in the bowels of Yale University.

In 1918, Prescott Bush reportedly raided the actual grave of Apache warrior Geronimo.

The Indian hero was buried at the Apache Indian Prisoner of War Cemetery.

Bush, like his son George and grandson George W. after him -- along with a substantial percentage of America's political, corporate and media elite -- was a member of "The Order" known as Skull and Bones.

Stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, during World War I with other Bonesmen, young Prescott and his gang dug up the gravesite of the legendary Indian fighter and took the bones back to the Order's headquarters at Yale.

...

Ever since the grave was raided, Apache survivors have been horrified by the stories of what happened to their warrior's remains.

Skull and Bones has long been the "finishing school" for the Bush men -- along with other elites such as John Kerry, John Negroponte, William Howard Taft and dozens of congressmen and senators along with heads of the major corporations, the GOP and U.S. Treasury. Only 15 new seniors are "tapped" each year and then subjected to brutal hazing and bizarre rituals designed to make the Bonesmen both intensely loyal to the Order and subject to sexual blackmail.

One long-rumored ritual requires the new Bonesman -- known in the Order as a "knight" -- to do something obscene to Geronimo's skull. Using the actual human remains of a beloved American Indian historical figure for a secret society's hazing rituals shows just how the Skull and Bones men see the world they are trained to control.

Today the grave-robbing story has been verified by the wire services and cable news channels, after Yale Alumni Magazine published the details of the damning letter in the new issue.

"For decades, it has been the most controversial and sordid of all the mysteries surrounding Yale's best-known secret society. The story was widely rumored but, despite the efforts of reporters and historians and the public complaints of Apache leaders in the 1980s, never verified," the Yale magazine reported.

"A former senior editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine has now discovered the only known contemporary evidence: a reference in private correspondence from one senior Bonesman to another."

The letter reads, in part: "The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club & the K -- t [Knight] Haffner, is now safe inside the T -- [Tomb] together with his well worn femurs[,] bit & saddle horn."

LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Still, how cool would it be to say you fucked Geronimo's skull?

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to think I'm an open minded guy but... I dunno... maybe Bush's skull.
Even better - while he's still using it!

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Still, how cool would it be to say you fucked Geronimo's skull?

Not very?

Dan (YMMV) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Today the grave-robbing story has been verified by the wire services and cable news channels

great sourcing there!

s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

OBVIOUS JOKE ALERT LEVEL RED

"Even better - while he's still using it!"

And when would that be?

OBVIOUS JOKE ALERT LEVEL GREEN - YOU MAY RETURN TO YOUR HOMES

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

s1ocki, the text is copied over from sploid.com, and there is actually a lot of hyperlinks distributed for the text. here's the link behind the phrase "cable news channels" -- a CNN.com reprint of a AP story:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/09/geronimo.bones.ap/index.html

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

distributed for == distributed throughout, bah

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

seventeen years pass...

"In 2020, Skull and Bones had its first entirely nonwhite class... Many of the Societies now have only one or two students each year who aren’t from historically marginalized groups." @rosehorowitch on students' politics vs. their own staggering privilege. https://t.co/GZhGAZxQPV

— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) January 11, 2024

jaymc, Thursday, 11 January 2024 19:04 (two years ago)


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