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Summary: Rulers of Evil: UseLESS "Knowledge"
Review: The Jesuits run this country?!? And, according to one reviewer (with the poor spelling and the "PhD"), THAT'S why we have a priest/pedophilia problem?!? [Sigh]. Listen, instead of this pamphlet, read "The Secret Architecture of Our Nations Capital: The Freemasons and the Building of Washington, DC", a dense, information-packed piece of research that reflects all of the ten years the author poured into the meticulously documented work. Incontrovertibly, it offers PROOF VISIBLE TODAY for who founded this country (and not just it's capital), and not a trace of visible evidence exists that the founders were even mildly interested in the intellectual property of the likes of the Jesuits or ANY Catholic intellectuals. [In fact, whenever the Vatican tried to offer a piece of cut stone for the construction of the Washington Monument, along side a great many other countries, the denizens of DC hurled it into the Potomac.] This country was OPENLY antagonistic towards the Catholic Church, as every pre-schooler knows, and understandably so: the left-leaning doctrinaires on the back of our two-dollar bills thought the essential problem with the Old Country (which ever one that was) was the Catholic undercurrent that "kept" man in the Dark Ages and suspicious of Reason and Science and Intellectualism, the trinitarian gods of the Enlightenment. But who doesn't know this? The other reviewers of this book, apparently.
The author claims his family came into this country via Savannah--then he should know, as does every Georgian with at least an eighth-grade education [that's when you take Georgia History], that Oglethorpe, GA's founding pater, barred Catholics from settling in "his" colony, and, even if in the succeeding years the number of Catholics coming into GA (Savannah especially) made the law a dead letter, the colony--and eventual state--retained traces of it's anti-Catholic past.
But perhaps I'm wasting my time: The author of RULERS and its fawning reviewers have their "conspiracy", and in print, too, which means that it's "true".
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Summary: Should be no stars. . .
Review: . . .for this ridiculous (even for "conspiracy theorists") exercise in American nativism. The editorial review which compared this book to "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" was right on target.Frankly, the publisher ought to be ashamed.
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Summary: The people who gave one star are ignoramouses
Review: . . .people actually believe this stuff? Mr. Saussy should have stuck to songwriting! It seems to be his forte, whereas he certainly cannot make the same claim for either American history, Church history, or theology. With this book, it seems clear that the nativism evident in the United States during the 19th century is, sadly, alive and well. Catholics in the American colonies prior to the Revolution were not exactly regarded as first-class citizens, especially in New England. Even in Maryland, founded as a haven for Catholics, Catholics were stripped of the franchise as soon as they were outnumbered by Anglicans. There was exactly ONE Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independance -- Charles Carroll of Carrollton -- and the author of the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson, held extremely negative attitudes toward the Catholic Church. In reality, the Congregationalist Calvinists, the Evangelical wing of the Church of England, and the Masonic Lodge exercised far more power during colonial times (and the 19th century as well for that matter) than the Catholic Church EVER has throughout the entire history of America. As far as the "mark of Cain"? Lurid speculation based on bias with no supporting evidence. This book is embarassing to the literate. Negative stars.
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Summary: Come on, now. . .
Review: . . .people actually believe this stuff? Mr. Saussy should have stuck to songwriting! It seems to be his forte, whereas he certainly cannot make the same claim for either American history, Church history, or theology. With this book, it seems clear that the nativism evident in the United States during the 19th century is, sadly, alive and well. Catholics in the American colonies prior to the Revolution were not exactly regarded as first-class citizens, especially in New England. Even in Maryland, founded as a haven for Catholics, Catholics were stripped of the franchise as soon as they were outnumbered by Anglicans. There was exactly ONE Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independance -- Charles Carroll of Carrollton -- and the author of the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson, held extremely negative attitudes toward the Catholic Church. In reality, the Congregationalist Calvinists, the Evangelical wing of the Church of England, and the Masonic Lodge exercised far more power during colonial times (and the 19th century as well for that matter) than the Catholic Church EVER has throughout the entire history of America. As far as the "mark of Cain"? Lurid speculation based on bias with no supporting evidence. This book is embarassing to the literate. Negative stars.
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Summary: It's a dreadful shame. . .
Review: . . .that educated Americans have not out-grown this stuff. Mr. Saussy has a great deal of credit to his name. He was highly regarded in his field, and excelled at what he did (songwriting). But this attempt is pathetic at best. Regardless of whether one is Protestant or Catholic, any good historian can poke holes in what I will graciously call Mr. Saussy's "theory" without breaking a sweat. As far as "conspiracy theories" go, this one is weak -- at best. Negative stars. Don't waste your valuable time.
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Summary: It's a dreadful shame. . .
Review: . . .that educated Americans have not out-grown this stuff. Mr. Saussy has a great deal of credit to his name. He was highly regarded in his field, and excelled at what he did (songwriting). But this attempt is pathetic at best. Regardless of whether one is Protestant or Catholic, any good historian can poke holes in what I will graciously call Mr. Saussy's "theory" without breaking a sweat. As far as "conspiracy theories" go, this one is weak -- at best. Negative stars. Don't waste your valuable time.
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Summary: A wonderful book for Catholic and non Catholic alike to read
Review: A fascinating, fact filled book on the history of the Jesuits and their remarkable influence in the founding of our government and its operation right up to present time. An amazing work revealing the clandestine activities of the Society of Jesus that helps clear away why the world runs in many of the heretofore unexplainable ways that it does. Not a polemic or exploitation, it is simply a revelation of what is, and therefore, is "must reading" for all educated readers, Catholic and non Catholic alike. One of my Catholic family said it best, "All American Catholics need to read RULERS OF EVIL so they can bring pressure to bear". Like other, recent books, HITLER'S POPE, PAPAL SINS, UNDER HIS VERY WINDOWS, VICARS OF CHRIST, as well as the Pope's own Lenten Apology a year ago last Easter, an array of enlightenment of this sort can only lead us to a better, more reconciliatory world. Read RULERS OF EVIL, tell your most intelligent friends about it. You'll be glad you did!
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Summary: Logically distorted and rambling
Review: A supposed expose of conspiratorial corruption that ran reign over the founding of the United States and holds sway over it still, this is a major disappointment. Saussy claims to have discovered the "facts" presented in this book during ten years on the lam from federal authorities for a crime he didn't commit. Pretty convincing credentials for the author of an anti-U.S. conspiracy book. He admits that he failed to pay taxes because of a difference in understanding with the government over tax law. His credentials as a hero, however, suffered a fatal flaw when he fled the authorities rather than present his arguments in court. The government prosecutor in his tax case was a Jesuit priest and, from there, Saussy builds his weak case that the Catholic Church, via its Jesuit institutions, conspiratorially has taken over the Western world (United States included). To appeal to readers loyal to the U.S. conspiratorial camp, he even drops the names of Waco, Texas and the New World Order awkwardly into his text. Disappointingly, his text is often disjointed as he struggles to maintain a coherent line of thought throughout the book. Even when the text is coherent and proceeds logically, the author's reasoning is so flawed as to create major gaps in his theory. Most of his theory is built upon undocumented meetings between historical figures who may have passed within a hundred miles or so of each other. His U.S. connection between the Catholic Church and the American founding fathers relies incredibly upon the falsified death and reappearance in America of the elderly "Black Pope" Lorenzo Ricci. Ricci's U.S. appearance relies upon questionable reports of strangers in government meetings. Only the most weak-minded will accept this as something more than silly supposition. As presented here, the history of the Catholic Church and the history of revolutionary America are interesting and scattered with amusing little-known anecdotes (that may or may not be true). But few of the vital points in Saussy's theory are bolstered by legitimate documentation in the bibliography. Many of his quotes seem to be red herrings designed to bolster his credibility. But, taken as a whole, not even those can save Saussy in this book. In the book, Saussy does convince me of the Catholic Church's past corruption. But to claim that the Church was basically built around the adoption of old Rome's mythology-based belief system is a low blow. I don't know what Saussy wished to achieve with the publication of this book, but I sincerely question his closing statement that he wants to promote Christlike love and reconciliation.
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Summary: Most Important American History Book Since 'Albion's Seed'
Review: After reading 'Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America', I thought I knew most everything there was to know about the intellectual origins of the United States. But Saussy's book is a true revelation. Gore Vidal once commented that the minutes of the Constitutional Convention was as enlightening as a board meeting of JP Morgan. And it always seemed uncanny---to me, anyway---that a group of provincial, Protestant country squires could create such world changing documents as the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights. I believe Saussy proves his case that our Founding Fathers had help from the best educated minds in the world at the time (and perhaps at the present too). Anywho, this book is not anti-Catholic. Unless, of course, you think changing 13 Protestant theocracies into a unified egalitarian democracy is anti-Catholic. Personally, I suspect the Jebbies are behind the 'Elders of Zion', "Mein Kampf' and much of the left-Hegelian literature that leads up to 'Das Kapital', Katie Couric, and Debbie Solomon of the 'New York Times', but hey, that does that make one a Huguenot or member of the Orange Society? Let us bury the sword of Saint Bartholomew, the muzzle of the great gun of Athlone. Jebbies must learn to love others as they love themselves. Holding grudges is not the way to live.
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Summary: Good on the history, lacking on the argument
Review: Although it is hard for the average person to accept the theories of this book in reference to the aide in the creation of the United States and other Western events, the book lays out the 'other side' of history that many historians acknowledge but which does not make it into the history books. The knowledge of history and the backing up of facts in this book is very good,but the arguments are very lacking. The problem with the arguments are that you can sense an underlying distaste of the government by the author which somewhat lends to bias. He makes good historical theories, but from his expereince vs. the US Goverment, he tends to indulge his 'hatred' in his offerings. Although the flaw in logic of the arguments, I would still recommened this book based on the historical research which many people in the world are not privy to.
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