On May 24-25, 2010, an activist friend and
myself, through a rare confluence of events, were invited to attend undercover
an exclusive fundraiser at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Seattle for the traditional conservative/libertarian
liberal arts-oriented Hillsdale
College in Hillsdale, Michigan, 90 miles west of Detroit.
Hillsdale has consistently been ranked one of the
best small liberal-arts colleges in the US, noted
for its focus on classical studies, belief in reason and freedom of the mind,
affordability and its refusal to take any government monies since its founding
in the mid-nineteenth century, when it -- like its sister school in neighboring
Ohio on the other, liberal end of the political
spectrum, Oberlin College-- championed the
abolition
of slavery and other cutting-edge movements for freedom during that
earlier time.
Through its fund-raising appeals for tax-sheltered
individual loans to be profitably invested rather than outright gifts to the
school, Hillsdale has acquired a
disproportionately sized endowment of $500 million -- half a billion dollars! --
a figure comparable to some of the much larger public universities
in America and throughout the world.
Since Hillsdale so very proud of its traditionally
conservative/libertarian celebration of
American freedom and patriotism, we were perplexed at its choice of keynote
speakers during the opening session on Monday evening and the closing session on
Tuesday afternoon: former key George W. Bush
presidential advisor, Karl "Bush's Brain" Rove, responsible for some of
the most reprehensible actions perpetrated by that reprehensible administration;
and former Senator/corporate economist/academic Phil
Gramm of Texas, who, along with Clinton-era
Treasury Secretary/Former Harvard University President
Lawrence Summers, was responsible for repealing the financially
protective Glass-Steagall Act in the mid-1990s, thus paving the road to our
nation's present financial ruin.
We were also perplexed about what possible
interest these big-time New World Order operatives could have in this small midwestern college. Rove was the after-dinner speaker on Monday evening. One's intuitive
impression was that Rove was folksily concealing his mendacity behind
patriotic platitudes, polarizing summaries of staged Demopublican political
conflict and red herring issues, as well as the monotonous recitation of
statistics from political polls, demonstrating the reverse parallel of the
statement, "Figures lie."
No light emanated from this man, other than that
which glinted from his high-domed, bald pate and glasses; he seemed quite at
home living in his own very black shadow, which seemed subtly to fill the room
without being perceived by most of those in attendance.
Many of those at the banquet -- many Hillsdale
alumni-- seemed to idolize Rove, crowding around him to get their pictures taken
with him at the end of the evening. The couple next to us with whom we had
conversed at dinner seemed quite offended when we, as well as our hostess, pointedly
remained seated and silent during the general standing ovation at the end of
Rove's pedestrian panegyric. This response caused us to question the success of
Hillsdale's mission to instill rational thought and discernment in its patriotic
graduates.
Former Sen. Phil Gramm was not as smooth as Rove in his
mendacity. Gramm concluded the event, following the college's president,
Dr. Larry Arnn, and supposed top Wall Street prophet
Brian Westbury, whose function seemed to be to paste happy buttons on
what seemed to us a very dark economic hair shirt.
Gramm's body and spoken language betrayed
conflict within himself, indicating that there might be some shred of
much-suppressed decency still present in one who had long ago gone over to the
dark side and could now never come back alive. He sighed and wrung his hands
throughout his remarks, while bending over slightly at the waist, giving the
impression of a repentent Uriah Heap.
With four of his remarks, Gramm perhaps
deliberately divulged to any who had ears to hear the real reason that he and
Rove had bothered to give their attention and presence to Hillsdale's
fund-raising event:
1) Gramm revealed that the day before,
he had been in the "City of London," discussing derivatives trading. The City of
London is an independent city state located in the center of London, England, and the seat of the Rothschild's global banking
empire;
2) He also revealed that he had been
doing so as an agent of the United Bank of Switzerland (UBS), the largest of the
Rothschild-affiliated banks in Europe, now being investigated by several US and other
nations' government agencies for money laundering and financial
fraud;
3) He mentioned that he, as a
credentialed economist, was now acting as a financial consultant for Hillsdale
College concerning institutional investments of its individual
funders' loans;
4) Gramm also mentioned Hillsdale's unusually large
investment pool of half a billion dollars as being well-suited for
large institutional investments -- possibly including the derivatives trading that he had been discussing in the
City of London the day before.
Sitting in the audience, I had the ears to hear, even though in this I
may have been alone. The two reasons that such high-level New World Order operatives would be
interested in little but lucrative Hillsdale College would
be:
1) Its half-billion dollar
tax-sheltered, loan-derived endowment could be invested in derivatives and other
unstable, exotic
financial instruments, yielding them and their bankster
compatriots
swift profits and the
school a swift fiscal and physical demise;
2) The demise of this school would
eliminate one more independent higher educational institution dedicated to freedom of
thought and critical thinking so inimical to the goals of those who would enslave the
American people and all of the people of the
world.
I would therefore appeal to those who have any relationship to, and
concern for, the future of Hillsdale college to contact its administration
concerning the ethics and wisdom of retaining former Sen. Phil Gramm as a
financial adviser, and someone like Karl Rove as an
after-dinner keynote speaker -- both extolling the glory of America's freedom
which they throughout their careers have worked tirelessly to destroy -- and
the wisdom and ethics of investing its loan-based funders' monies in volatile
corporate investment instruments that could prove the destruction of not only Hillsdale College but their own financial and personal
security.