Monday, January 02, 2006

Winston Churchill Revised

Winnie, one of the Anglo-elite's favorite historical characters, is lauded as "The master statesman who stood alone against fascism and renewed the world's faith in the superiority of democracy." Had he not been designated frontman for WWII by the Brit's ruling class he would likely have spent his days gaining weight, indulging dangerously in his hat fetish, and clearing brush in the English countryside; living off family trusts, enjoying life as a gentleman, a pedigree of lesser nobility.

Churchill was grandson of New Yorker Leonard Jerome, an American stock market speculator, entrepreneur (brought organized horseracing to NY), railroad man, lawyer, and majority shareholder in the New York Times. Grandpa Jerome once used gattling guns against striking employees and (for conspiracy fans) was a close friend of August Belmont, (nee Schoenberg), the American representative of the Rothschild banking family. Jerome's daughter Jennie married Lord Randolph Churchill, giving Winston his aristocratic British blood.

Before WWII Winston Churchill was a soldier, Anglo-Boer war journalist, a politician with many enemies, an MP (equivalent to our congresspersons). After Anglo bankers and corporations completed financing their next enemy (1930s Hitler), Churchill was selected prime minister, 1940-45. Like GWB, he could also be blamed if history insisted. Strangely, as appreciative as the world was, Churchill lost the prime ministership two months after Germany's surrender. But history was kind to Churchill. I suppose at the time it was a great honor to have "Fat Man," the bomb named after Winston, dropped on Nagasaki.

GW echoed Churchill in his 2004 SOTU as he called on a nation that has come "through tragedy, and trial, and war" not to "falter and leave our work unfinished." Rumsfeld raised the ghost of Churchill many times in the run up to the Iraq War, telling an audience of marines in California August 2002 that : "Leadership in the right direction finds followers and supporters." He said it was more important to do the right thing than to have everyone in agreement with you, "even though at the outset it may seem lonesome." Rummy told his audience about the skepticism faced by Winston Churchill in the years before WWII, how there was not " ... unanimity. There were all kinds of diplomats running around, holding meetings with Hitler. There were people saying, 'Don't do anything, he'll stop. He won't do anything terrible." Recently, conservative pundits dragged out Churchill's dirty word "appeasers" to swear at anti-war folks.

There was a lot of Winstonese going around in 2002 to March 2003. Churchill is credited with being "the first to recognize that Hitler was a danger." Oh my. You'd think the American businessmen and bankers investing in and supplying Hitler's machine would have noticed first. Eventually GWB may be credited with recognizing Saddam was a danger, with renewing "the world's faith in the superiority of democracy."

In June 1954, Churchill stated to journalists in the United States that "I am a Zionist, let me make that clear. I was one of the original ones after the Balfour Declaration and I have worked faithfully for it." The JewishPost wrote Churchill was "perhaps the last romantic Zionist Gentile. Or perhaps the last romantic Zionist." American pols today aren't making it as clear but they do seem to be romancing it faithfully.

Churchill was Ghandi's jailer during WWII. but racist bigot isn't the Churchill evoked by American conservatives when imitating the Fat Man. Churchill once called Ghandi a nauseating, seditious lawyer posing as a "... fakir (imposter) striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceregal Palace."

While the ruling class is occasionally forced to allow little brown subjects a genuine hero, the biggest phony creations are from their own. Remember – the winners write the history. Churchill is a good example, or the more recent worship of Reagan, who did nothing more than survive the ruling elites dead president psyop.

But Churchill, a foppish Brit was the potential fall guy if the war's hideousness and aftermath did not go well. It's understandable why the Churchill ghost was raised so often in the run up to Iraq war; it's elitespeak for the tentative promise of history's glory if the conquest goes as planned. If the ruling class has their way, and they usually do, I think we need look no further than Churchill to see how kind history will be to our own foppish GWB in 50 years. Wouldn't that make you wanna chew brass tacks?

4 comments:

Kate-A said...

Thanks Rosetta.

Anonymous said...

Chew brass tacks? I'll be long gone in 50 years, but if GWB is remembered with any more reverence than Bozo the Clown, I'll chew right through my brass coffin.

Anonymous said...

Gawd knows, we still have our legends, myths, and heroes, but there is no way the current sow's ear will ever be turned into a silk historical figure. We not only have magnitudes of increased media and information, but also we will see, instead of B & W photos and radio broadcasts, the clarity of the situation through parody and satire (as well as Kate's straight talk). Humor is a potent weapon, and respect is not a given in modern (sic) times.

Anonymous said...

Gandhi was indeed half faker (I presume that's what Winnie meant; 'fakir' means holy man). He had to be, by his own admission in his autobiography. Leadership of teeming and disorganised millions needed some hamming, some consistent brand image management, some costumery, some posturing - all of which were foreign to his nature. His principles were genuine.

Pl. note the correct spelling of his name

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