Howard Baskerville, Freedom Fighter

For your consideration, a man whom you've probably never heard of, Howard Baskerville. He was a graduate of Princeton and studied under Woodrow Wilson. He was also a Presbyterian missionary to Iran where he was a schoolteacher in the city of Tabriz. From an article in the Persian Mirror:

That said I was amazed to run across last year for the first time the story of Howard C. Baskerville on the internet. Ironically at just about the same time a dear friend of mine had returned to Azerbaijan for a visit for the first time in many years and discovered much to their surprise, that people were still talking about him there. Schools are still named after him there and his tomb is still there. This young man who had come over as a missionary teacher ended up organizing and training his Azeri students to fight with Sattar against the vigilanti war lord forces of the corrupt Mohammad Ali Shah and his Russian mercenaries during the Constitutional Revolution of 1906. This was rather like the magna carta of modern day Iran in which parliament tried to limit the excessive powers of the despotic monarchy. How many Americans even know about this struggle for democracy and representative government in Iran which is a freedom they hold so dear in America for themselves? And how many Americans know the name Baskerville?

Here is a picture of the bust of Baskerville proudly displayed at the Constitution House of Tabriz.

Howard Baskerville - Iranian Freedom Fighter

He died at the age of 24 fighting against the totalitarian Shah over 100 years ago, but segments of Iranian society still revere his name.

In 1950, a memorial tablet was placed on Baskerville’s grave, containing part of a verse by Aref Qazvini, the national poet of Iran, which read:

“Oh, thou, the revered defender of the freedom of men,
Brave leader and supporter of justice and equity,
Thou has given thy life for the felicity of Iran,
O, may thy name be eternal, may thy soul be blessed! “

Five days after his funeral in 1909, Baskerville’s parents, in Spicer, Minn., received a telegram:

“Persia much regrets honorable loss of your dear son in the cause of liberty and we give our parole that future Persia will always revere his name in her history like Lafayette and will respect his venerable tomb.

Sattar Khan and Jamani Ayoleti “

Sattar Khan later sent along Baskerville’s rifle, which he wrapped in a Persian flag.

I can only imagine that he rolled over in his grave and wept when the United States Government (not to be confused with America, which Baskerville represented) set up fake riots and a coup in 1953 in Operation AJAX. This was the first time the United States Government had forcibly ousted a democratically elected foreign leader. That's what we call a turning point in history - it set the precedent for the CIA to go in and overthrow any country that didn't tow the US Government line. What makes this so ironic is that they put a Shah, back into power. They even trained his personal goon squad, SAVAK to make the political opponents disappear. I can't help but think that this would stir up a lot of dissension within Iran. Every action creates an equal and opposite reaction, and a generation later (26 years) the breaking point had come. What was once a moderate Muslim nation had been driven into the arms of militant Islam to get some "justice". The joke was on them as the next leader and every leader of Iran since the Islamic Revolution has been a dictator with the Revolutionary Guard operating as their goon squad.

I just think it's totally wild that right now in Iran there is a bust commemorating one Christian missionary's zeal for freedom while in America, atheists are trying to get crosses snapped off of everything and children are perversely molested before getting on airplanes.

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Here's some more Iranian info.. the more you know, the more equipped you are to form intelligent opinions.

“When Mossadegh and Persia started basic reforms, we became alarmed. We united with the British to destroy him; we succeeded; and ever since, our name has not been an honored one in the Middle East.”
--US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas who had visited Iran before and after the coup



“For many Iranians, the coup demonstrated duplicity by the United States, which presented itself as a defender of freedom but did not hesitate to use underhanded methods to overthrow a democratically elected government to suit its own economic and strategic interests”
-- Agence France Presse June 4, 2009

Here's a little documentary that is chock full of demonstrable facts on the history of Iran, oil interests, and British/US involvement.


Part 1




Part 2



The Secret Government, a PBS documentary aired in 1987. This features the 1953 Iran coup. Warning: features uber-liberal Bill Moyers, but I can't find anything to disagree with in his commentary.





Attacking Iran? It's a really, really big country full of some really patriotic people.

"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people out to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government." Washington said "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible." - Washington Farewell address 1796

Forgotten History of Corporations

 Here is a lengthy, but timely excerpt from Charles Lindbergh, Sr. on the danger of corporations. It comes from his book Your Country At War out of a section entitled, Memorial to the Presidents, in which he addresses the past and present presidents of America and apprises them of our situation as it was in 1917. You may notice that not much has changed as the root problem was never remedied and has metastasized. I put in my own comments and links as I felt necessary to help educate you on forgotten history and apply it to our predicament today.

Mr. Presidents, you will recall that the National Monetary Commission had previously been created. This, of course, was a mere sham, for already the Money Trust knew what it wanted and proposed to get it, and finally did. The National Monetary Commission was a “just make believe” to deceive Us. It was ridiculous to send those men at great public expense to Europe to study finance to frame a bill for Congress to pass. Europe has not been economically successful. That was not it at all. The whole scheme had been planned long before. One of the greatest of you, President Lincoln, had warned those of you who followed in succession, and warned the people as well during the Civil War, in the following language:

“Yes, we may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing the close, but I see in the future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before in the midst of the war.”

(This is not my endorsement of Mr. Lincoln - but he sure did accurately observe how things were to go down in the corruption/big money arena)

Yes, Mr. Presidents, the above quotation from Lincoln’s letter to Mr. Elkins, of Illinois,became quite well known at the time as well as other of Lincoln’s statements to the same effect. Those were the ad monitions of one of the world’s greatest of the great— came from the lips and the pen of the one of you who piloted us through the dark days of the Civil War. He knew whereof he spoke and wrote, for the evidences were already clear as to what the corporations sought and the means they used to deceive the people.
The corporations referred to by Lincoln have indeed grown mighty, even more so than could have been dreamed of at that time, and they now seek to commercialize patriotism, by having us look at it through their eyes. The thing that Lincoln said would happen has happened, and it is up to us now to correct it, not only in honor of the great President who made the statement, not only in honor of the heroes who then fought for and won the liberty of all, and not only in honor of the people who supported them, most of whom have passed to the great beyond; not only in their combined honor, but, as a duty to America, the one nation to which the world should look to redeem its people everywhere from industrial bondage.

USA! USA! USA! oh, excuse me, I just can't get enough of nationalism, er  patriotism. In fact, I have American flag T-shirts, bedspreads, shower curtains, napkin holders, mousepads, etc. Actually, I don't, but millions of people do even though according to US Code, you're not supposed to. But in this paragraph, commercializing patriotism doesn't mean merchandising the flag, although it helps. It mean that the very meaning of the word has changed and the thought behind the world. American Patriotism is changed from defending the principles of liberty and self-determination to supporting anything the US Government is doing. The US Government is never wrong and always wants to do what is "best" for us, including all of our thinking, lulling us into an apathetic slumber.

Rep. Lindbergh now lays on the Jefferson quotes:

Mr. Presidents, you and we as well—even the great Lincoln among you—had an earlier notice from one of you. It was by another of the greatest of the great— Thomas Jefferson.
We quote from him as well:

“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of the moneyed corporations, which
dare already to challenge our Government to trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws
of our country.”—From Jefferson’s letter to George Logan, November, 1816.

Again: “Banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies.”—From
Jefferson’s letter to John Tyler, one of you, 1816.

Again: “Spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but
swindling futurity on a large scale.” —Jefferson

Again: “The banks have the regulation of the safety valves of our fortunes and they
condense and exploit them at their will.” —Jefferson’s letter to John Adams, one of you,
November, 1819.

Remember that the Federal Reserve is a PRIVATE entity controlled by persons unknown, but we're starting to figure it out.

Again: “It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of
avaricious adventurers, who instead, of employing their capital, if any they have, in
manufacturies, commerce, and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to burden all
the interchanges of property with their swindling profits which are the price of no useful
industry of theirs.”—from letter by Jefferson to Dr. Thomas Cooper, 1814.

Again: “We are completely saddled and bridled, and the bank is so firmly mounted on us
that we must go where they ill guide.”—From letter by Jefferson to James Monroe, one
of you.

Again: “All eyes are opening to the rights of man. The general spread of science has
already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been
born with saddles on their ‘jacks, nor a favored few booted and spurred ready to ride
them legitimately by the grace of God.”—From Jefferson’s writings.

When you follow the money up, it all winds up in the hands of a very few. For those of you who are conservatives, your automatic Pavlovian training will make you think that anyone who makes a statement like that is a Marxist/Commie/Socialist. I know that because that's where I was but a year or so ago. We're not talking millionaires, we're talking super-duper billionaires, whose fake interest is compounding thousands of dollars every second. We're talking about people who are so intertwined with the government-corporate-nonprofit foundation complex, that you can't tell where their interests begin and end. What we're witnessing is the same phenomenon Rep. Lindbergh is describing in detail in this book. Except that we are viewing the end of a great, great big con passed down from generation to generation. Seriously, just check out the grandfathers of those in the wealth bracket I'm describing and you will find Lindbergh giving their grandfathers heck in 1917.

Mr. Presidents, the last statement above from the great Jefferson stands out with prominence when we take into account that now, more than a century later, we have been completely “saddled” and special privilege, forever, if we permit t, “booted and spurred,” is actually riding us—sticking the “spurs” as deep as they can into our “flanks”—not, however, by the grace of God, but by the acts of the Congresses of the United States.

Our own tyranny was voted on by our democratically elected body. From the rise of all the Federal Agencies of the 1970s to NAFTA and GATT  to the Patriot Act of 2001 to who knows what all, it was all legitimately rubber-stamped in the farce that is our government.

Layers of the Onion

I was inspired by this lecture I found over at Trestin Meacham via Classic Liberal. It is Antony Sutton laying it out how the monopolists used the ideology of socialism to captivate the markets of the east.

Here are the best lines:

The battle for American independence can only be won with facts.

To eliminate freedom, one must first eliminate widespread knowledge of the truth.

According to Sutton, there are three levels of history knowledge. Remember that history repeats itself and if you don't know the past correctly, how can you predict the future?

Level 1

Level 1 is the Establishment version history. As I've highlighted on this site, all of the textbook publishers in this country are run by just a few companies, all of which are somehow interlocked with the CFR and other Establishment organizations. For instance, just ask anyone why the United States went into WW1. Those under the age of 40 will just look at you confused, trying to place when WW1 was. Those who are older might be able to recall that the Lusitania was sunk. But almost no one will be able to tell you the fishy business associated with the sinking and WW1 in general. The fact that her escort ships were no where to be found at the time of the attack, the fact that the British had broken German code and should have known where every U-boat was. Not to mention the immense amount of money that was made in WW1 and documented by the most decorated marine in history, General Smedley Butler who famously said War is a Racket. Ok, WW1 is just one example, but when you get into the old newspaper articles and government files, you begin to realize that what you were taught in your state-approved textbook and on the History channel doesn't reflect with what  really happened.

Level 2

This next level doesn't get to the real nitty gritty, but is based on the government info that you have been "permitted" to view. Keep in mind that our government has 16 million classified government documents that you drones are not worthy to read from last year alone. A lot of the JFK conspiracy theories fall into this category says Dr. Sutton. You know that there is something that is not quite right about the official line, but you can't put your finger on it. I would say that a growing number of people are in this category.

Level 3

This level operates on base documentary evidence such as internal government documents, transcripts of congressional committees, and military records. The problem is that many of these are classified for 75 years. Don't you think that's a little excessive? Who's going to get us now? And many of the documents that are released will have all the names and pertinent info blacked out. Like Angolan Task Force chief and CIA agent John Stockwell said, if the Soviet Union were to disappear, new enemies would be created to justify this massive bureaucracy. I've been focusing my attention on this 1910-1920 time frame because as you move up in history, it gets a lot more complicated. 

These collectivists (I won't say liberals or "conservatives" because they have representatives in both camps) have a nightmare of a majority or large enough minority figuring out their con. They hide Level 3 truth under Level 2 truth. They have those "who really killed JFK" specials on the History channel and the like to keep the curious entertained and hope that it satisfies their suspicions.Their first hope is that you don't ever go past Level 1 and will dutifully follow every fad you are fed in your public media and education consumption. The public schools are designed so that the masses will have the attention span of a gnat and those collectivists bank on your stupidity.

This is a challenge to all people everywhere to become Level 3 aware. We have to make the "true truth" widespread in order for our freedom to remain secure. Talking to people about Level 3 history will get you called names like conspiracy theorist. But anyone who uses that term as a pejorative hasn't picked up a history book or read past the first book of the Bible, because they're full of conspiracies. Can you imagine going to people of Shechem and telling them that Jacob's sons were planning (conspiring) to kill them after their circumcision? Would you be mocked? Take any event of history in the planning stages and pretend you tried to tell someone about and you would be branded a conspiracy theorist. Let's try being people who theorize what the true reality of our past and present situation actually is. Our government is shrouded in secrecy and has a track record for repeated lying, and not believing what they say makes you smart, not a nut.


Check out my X-files section to get started on your quest, intrepid Level 3 adventurer!