No surprise if it's true re pirates

[unipax]

No surprise if it's true re pirates.

Probably some are just pirates period, but some of this article seems plausible.

Http://WWW.sfbayview.Com/2009/you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates/


(excerpt from the above link)


In 1991, the government of Somalia - in the Horn of Africa - collapsed. Its 9 million people have been teetering on starvation ever since - and many of the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country’s food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas.

Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died.

Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the U.N. Envoy to Somalia, tells me: “Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury - you name it.” Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian Mafia to “dispose” of cheaply. When I asked Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: “Nothing. There has been no cleanup, no compensation and no prevention.”

At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia’s seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish stocks by over-exploitation - and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300 million worth of tuna, shrimp, lobster and other sea life is being stolen every year by vast trawlers illegally sailing into Somalia’s unprotected seas.

The local fishermen have suddenly lost their livelihoods, and they are starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: “If nothing is done, there soon won’t be much fish left in our coastal waters.”

This is the context in which the men we are calling “pirates” have emerged. Everyone agrees they were ordinary Somalian fishermen who at first took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least wage a “tax” on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coast Guard of Somalia - and it’s not hard to see why.

In a surreal telephone interview, one of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali, said their motive was “to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters … We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits [to be] those who illegally fish and dump in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas.” William Scott would understand those words.

No, this doesn’t make hostage-taking justifiable, and yes, some are clearly just gangsters - especially those who have held up World Food Program supplies. But the “pirates” have the overwhelming support of the local population for a reason. The independent Somalian news site WardherNews conducted the best research we have into what ordinary Somalis are thinking - and it found 70 percent “strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defense of the country’s territorial waters.”

During the revolutionary war in America, George Washington and America’s founding fathers paid pirates to protect America’s territorial waters, because they had no navy or coast guard of their own. Most Americans supported them. Is this so different?

Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in our nuclear waste, and watch us snatch their fish to eat in restaurants in London and Paris and Rome? We didn’t act on those crimes - but when some of the fishermen responded by disrupting the transit corridor for 20 percent of the world’s oil supply, we begin to shriek about “evil.” If we really want to deal with piracy, we need to stop its root cause - our crimes - before we send in the gunboats to root out Somalia’s criminals.

The story of the 2009 war on piracy was best summarized by another pirate, who lived and died in the fourth century BC. He was captured and brought to Alexander the Great, who demanded to know “what he meant by keeping possession of the sea.” The pirate smiled and responded: “What you mean by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you, who do it with a great fleet, are called emperor.”

Once again, our great imperial fleets sail in today - but who is the robber?

[Norval]

There is always two sides to the coin. :)

[unipax]

There is always two sides to the coin. :)

yep

they are digging in to it at ppforum.
this item below and more at:
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=98734.msg584027;topicseen#msg58402 7



Quote from: donnay on April 09, 2009, 05:48:25 PM




Somali Pirates : An Excuse to Ratify LOST?

William F. Jasper | The New American
09 April 2009


Sooner or later it was bound to happen. Over the past several years, American ships and crews had evaded the rising tide of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. But on April 8, pirates off the coast of Somalia seized a U.S.-flagged container ship, the Maersk Alabama, with a crew of 20 Americans. However, the American seamen were unwilling to join the crews of 18 other ships who are being held for ransom by the Somali pirates. In what is believed to be an unprecedented action in the Somali pirates’ sphere of operations, the unarmed crew fought back and overpowered their attackers.

Although the details of the struggle are still sketchy, various news organizations have reported that the Americans used fire hoses and strength of numbers to overpower one or more of the pirates. The fight resulted in a standoff, with several pirates holding the ship’s captain, Richard Phillips of Underhill, Vermont, and the crew holding one of the pirates. The crew and pirates negotiated a deal that involved an exchange of prisoners and the pirates using one of the ship’s lifeboats to depart, since they had scuttled their speedboat when boarding the cargo ship. However, the pirates reneged on the deal and took Capt. Phillips hostage with them aboard the lifeboat.

The USS Bainbridge, a destroyer, arrived on the scene this morning, where the lifeboat with the pirates and Capt. Phillips is still floating near the Maersk Alabama. We hope this high seas drama ends with Capt. Phillips safely returned to his ship. But what to do about the escalating problem of piracy, not only around the Horn of Africa but in the busy Strait of Malacca and other troubled waters as well?

The LOST "Solution"

Our globalist-minded policy elites have the solution, of course: more empowerment of the United Nations. If you haven’t already heard of the LOST prescription for piracy, you soon will. Ratification of the UN Law Of the Sea Treaty (LOST, also called UNCLOS, for UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) is a “top priority” for the new Obama administration, according to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The push for ratifying LOST heretofore has relied largely on environmental propaganda: LOST is “essential” for global cooperation to save the whales, the seals, the polar bears, the penguins, the plankton, the icebergs … (pick the endangered critter or object de jour). However, the age-old scourge of piracy has always been a back-up argument. Articles 100-107 and Article 110 of the UN Law Of the Sea Treaty deal with piracy.

The administration of George W. Bush broke with past Republican opposition to LOST and strongly endorsed the convention, which would dangerously undermine national sovereignty and transfer vast new powers to the United Nations to control and/or regulate virtually all human activity on, over, or under the oceans, including the seabed, coastal areas, and inland waterways (rivers, streams, and lakes) that empty into the oceans.

Shortly before leaving office, the Bush State Department issued statements supporting UN peacekeeping and LOST as a remedies for the Somali pirate problem. In a December 17, 2008 “Fact Sheet” entitled “United States Actions on Somalia Piracy,” the Bush State Department declared:

The United States remains deeply concerned by the continuing threat of piracy in the Horn of Africa and its impact on commercial shipping … and overall stability in the region…. The United States believes that a proper United Nations supported peacekeeping mission is necessary to combat piracy in the Horn of Africa.

The document goes on to say:

The United States, along with the international community, continues to use the legal framework provided by international treaties for addressing piracy. The UN Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) gives authorities the power to arrest or deter pirates on the high seas.

And, furthermore:

The United States recognizes piracy is a symptom of the lack of stability, security, economic development, and rule of law on the ground. Addressing these deficits in Somalia. Therefore, the United States recognizes the need for the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping operation.

Then, on January 14, one week before handing over the reins of government to the new Obama administration, the Bush State Department issued a new fact sheet stating:

Pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1851, the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) was established on January 14, 2009 to facilitate discussion and coordination of actions among states and organizations to suppress piracy off the coast of Somalia. The CGPCS will report its progress periodically to the UN Security Council.

The Contact Group notes “with deep concern that piracy off the coast of Somalia grew significantly in 2008, and that attacks on shipping vessels can be expected to increase without enhanced international efforts.”

So, what will this UN Contact Group, of which the United States is a member, do about Somali piracy? Again, the State Department informs us:

As an international cooperation mechanism created pursuant to Security Council resolution 1851 to act as a point of contact between and among states, regional and international organizations on aspects of combating piracy and armed robbery at sea off Somalia’s coast, the CGPCS will inform the UN Security Council on a regular basis of the progress of its activities, including through providing relevant information to the UN Secretary General for possible incorporation into his periodic reports to the Council.

But here’s where it gets to the crux of the matter:

The CGPCS calls on state parties to implement their obligations under relevant treaties and applicable international law, including in particular the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea with respect to suppressing piracy.... [Emphasis added.]

How will LOST assist in “suppressing piracy”? It won’t. In fact, it will cripple any effective U.S. action by binding us down with “international law” — as defined and interpreted by anti-American forces in the UN and their allies in our media and our government.

Article 110 of LOST, for instance, states: “The right of hot pursuit ceases as soon as the ship pursued enters the territorial sea of its own State or of a third State.”

So, if the pirates slip their speedboats into the territorial waters of Somalia, Kenya, or Ethiopia, they’re home free. Their pirate bases are likewise protected.

Luckily, the infant U.S. republic was not burdened with the UN or LOST when the Barbary Pirates were the scourge of the Mediterranean. The great European sea powers — Britain, France, Spain, Holland, Portugal — paid tribute to the murderous brigands and slavers of Tripoli. So did America, until our new nation finally said, “Enough!” — and built its own navy and sent a force to deal with the villains. The intrepid exploits of Commodore Edward Prebel, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Consul William Eaton, Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon, and Captain William Bainbridge are legendary. Against incredible odds, and against difficulties far greater than those we face today from the Somali pirates, they triumphed — without sacrificing U.S. sovereignty and independence of action to a global authority.

Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, the most eminent naval hero of the time, praised Decatur’s raid on Tripoli as "the most bold and daring act of the age."

Pope Pius VII effusively praised Preble's attacks on the pirates, saying the American offensive "had done more for the cause of Christianity than the most powerful nations of Christendom have done for ages."

The inspiring story of America’s earliest experience in dealing with piracy on the high seas is brilliantly told by Thomas Jewett, in an online article entitled, “Terrorism In Early America: The U.S. Wages War Against The Barbary States to End International Blackmail and Terrorism.” The present generation of Americans should read this stirring and instructive chronicle of the good sense and heroism of our forebears in dealing with international criminals. The captain and crew of the Maersk Alabama appear to be imbued with some of the same sense and courage; they didn’t wait for a UN resolution or a LOST tribunal to tell them that it was OK to resist their captors. We need some of that good sense and courage in the halls of Congress, in the White House, and the State Department.

[Norval]

The complete idiocy of anyone that thinks that any government on this planet today is going to render justice is beyond reasoning. What a waste of typing about it even.

As a captain of a vessel and as a live aboard boater, I have fought with legalities and government for the very right to live on a boat in these waters. Now, with this so-called homeland security crap, even our freedom of unrestricted movement on these waters are in jeopardy. Why in hell would anybody look to these governments anymore that are imbued with so many legalities that justice can never be achieved? That also just happens to be a bet tactic by the way. :lol:

My advise is to skip all the little guys, I mean, WTF you going to do about it anyway, and find out about the good guys that won the Sol System War.

[unipax]

The complete idiocy of anyone that thinks that any government on this planet today is going to render justice is beyond reasoning. What a waste of typing about it even.

As a captain of a vessel and as a live aboard boater I have fought with legalities and government for the very right to live on a boat in these waters. Now with this so called homeland security crap even our freedom of unrestricted movement on these waters are in jeopardy. Why in hell would anybody look to these governments anymore that are imbued with so many legalities that justice can never be achieved? That also just happens to be a bet tactic by the way. :lol:

My advise is to skip all the little guys, I mean, WTF you going to do about it anyway, and find out about the good guys that won the Sol System War.

There was a war?

Just kidding, j/k

[Norval]

Hell, just put a squad of well armed soldiers aboard each ship as needed and take em off at the other end of the "pirate" waters. :lol:

[unipax]

Hell, just put a squad of well armed soldiers aboard each ship as needed and take em off at the other end of the "pirate" waters. :lol:

American mariners are now considering it, now that americans have been hit, according to some Sweeney guy a rep of some mariner org, on radio with Noory.

Many callers questioned WTF....no navy seal action ?

I wonder why not blockade / patrol coastline and intercept.

Maybe the "Somali Pirates : An Excuse to Ratify LOST?" poster haas the right idea.

This whole thing is being managed with agenda.

[sokpuppet]

Many callers questioned WTF....no navy seal action ?



Right!, now you've got me going.

I don't have TV and so I never 'see' the "images" of any of the news. I just hear about things and THINK......

When I first heard about pirates demanding ransoms, a few months ago, I suspected a sham. I've become suspicious about ALL "events" in the news, especially the big ones. Mombay?, special forces. 7/7?, special forces. 9/11?, special forces, and on and on and on!. So, I hear about huge ships being held by "pirates", I think, YEA RIGHT!

Ok, these Somali fishermen have got names and supporters. So did all the other patsies of history.

You-know, I'd even go a stage further. We pretty well know that massive amounts of black project money have been raised via very large scale operations in drugs etc. My understanding of the top military people is that they are total crooks. I wouldn't be the slightest bit shocked to discover that they sit around the 'mess' scheming up heists.

It might go a bit like this:

"Hey George, we're down on the cashflow these past year or two since the revue at the Pentagon and we're still not really up to speed with the Afghany poppies yet either. We ought to do a few pot-boilers. I mean we've got all the skills and talent at our fingertips, right? Let's do a few 'arm-twisters' for cash."

George; "That's crazy talk. How much cash is a ****ing hijacking going to raise?"

First voice; "seriously George, what's the biggest thing we can grab that's not wired-up. ****in ships George ships. Those Lloyds names will crap themselves and shit money everywhere. The companies only need an excuse to give us the cash anyway."...........

etc, etc.....


I don't trust anything they tell us any more.

[unipax]

Well, they shot the pirates after all.

Nonetheless I agree !00% in general about what we are told about most everything.

Speaking of black ops...the day before 911. Rumsfeld reported that some trillions of defense money were missing.

I've heard they have something about putting some things in public view, for some reason.

Didnt the taliban squash the poppy fields in Afghanistan, and double cross Bush about the pipeline?
The poppies are back big time and the oil is flowing thru the pipe.

[Norval]

I'm with you Sokpuppet,
Haven't watched the TV for many years. I do scan the web here and there for certain kinds of news, but the usual news is what THEY want you to accept and think, their way. :lol:

[Zenbuoy]

Somali Pirates Hijack ISS



Message relayed to Boat Commander

[zorgon]

... find out about the good guys that won the Sol System War.

Well if the Good Guys won the war... where is the ticker tape parade?

:tank:

[Norval]

What?!?! You missed it?

Just kidding, :lol:

That is yet to come. After the final little battle here on earth takes place and we don't have these pesky bad ETs around to spoil the party. Oh, and the bad governments and neighbors won't be around either. WHEEEEEEE and Yippie. :party:

[₣яэđĸĊ]

Why in hell would anybody look to these governments anymore that are imbued with so many legalities that justice can never be achieved?

"Government's solution to every problem, is always, more government." - Me, about 4 yrs ago

[unipax]

Has some interesting points about history of Piracy


You Are Being Lied to About Pirates

By Johann Hari

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22399.htm

April 12, 2009 "Huffington Post" --- Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy - backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China - is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the pirates onto land, into one of the most broken countries on earth. But behind the arrr-me-hearties oddness of this tale, there is an untold scandal. The people our governments are labeling as "one of the great menace of our times" have an extraordinary story to tell -- and some justice on their side.

Pirates have never been quite who we think they are. In the "golden age of piracy" - from 1650 to 1730 - the idea of the pirate as the senseless, savage thief that lingers today was created by the British government in a great propaganda-heave. Many ordinary people believed it was false: pirates were often rescued from the gallows by supportive crowds. Why? What did they see that we can't? In his book Villains of All nations, the historian Marcus Rediker pores through the evidence to find out. If you became a merchant or navy sailor then - plucked from the docks of London's East End, young and hungry - you ended up in a floating wooden Hell. You worked all hours on a cramped, half-starved ship, and if you slacked off for a second, the all-powerful captain would whip you with the Cat O' Nine Tails. If you slacked consistently, you could be thrown overboard. And at the end of months or years of this, you were often cheated of your wages.

Pirates were the first people to rebel against this world. They mutinied against their tyrannical captains - and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively. They shared their bounty out in what Rediker calls "one of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the eighteenth century." They even took in escaped African slaves and lived with them as equals. The pirates showed "quite clearly - and subversively - that ships did not have to be run in the brutal and oppressive ways of the merchant service and the Royal navy." This is why they were popular, despite being unproductive thieves.

The words of one pirate from that lost age - a young British man called William Scott - should echo into this new age of piracy. Just before he was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, he said: "What I did was to keep me from perishing. I was forced to go a-pirating to live." In 1991, the government of Somalia - in the Horn of Africa - collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since - and many of the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas.

Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: "Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury - you name it." Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply. When I asked Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: "Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention."

At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish-stocks by over-exploitation - and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300m worth of tuna, shrimp, lobster and other sea-life is being stolen every year by vast trawlers illegally sailing into Somalia's unprotected seas. The local fishermen have suddenly lost their livelihoods, and they are starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: "If nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in our coastal waters."

This is the context in which the men we are calling "pirates" have emerged. Everyone agrees they were ordinary Somalian fishermen who at first took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least wage a 'tax' on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia - and it's not hard to see why. In a surreal telephone interview, one of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali, said their motive was "to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters... We don't consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits [to be] those who illegally fish and dump in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas." William Scott would understand those words.

No, this doesn't make hostage-taking justifiable, and yes, some are clearly just gangsters - especially those who have held up World Food Programme supplies. But the "pirates" have the overwhelming support of the local population for a reason. The independent Somalian news-site WardherNews conducted the best research we have into what ordinary Somalis are thinking - and it found 70 percent "strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defence of the country's territorial waters." During the revolutionary war in America, George Washington and America's founding fathers paid pirates to protect America's territorial waters, because they had no navy or coastguard of their own. Most Americans supported them. Is this so different?

Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in our nuclear waste, and watch us snatch their fish to eat in restaurants in London and Paris and Rome? We didn't act on those crimes - but when some of the fishermen responded by disrupting the transit-corridor for 20 percent of the world's oil supply, we begin to shriek about "evil." If we really want to deal with piracy, we need to stop its root cause - our crimes - before we send in the gun-boats to root out Somalia's criminals.

The story of the 2009 war on piracy was best summarised by another pirate, who lived and died in the fourth century BC. He was captured and brought to Alexander the Great, who demanded to know "what he meant by keeping possession of the sea." The pirate smiled, and responded: "What you mean by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you, who do it with a great fleet, are called emperor." Once again, our great imperial fleets sail in today - but who is the robber?

POSTSCRIPT: Some commenters seem bemused by the fact that both toxic dumping and the theft of fish are happening in the same place - wouldn't this make the fish contaminated? In fact, Somalia's coastline is vast, stretching to 3300km. Imagine how easy it would be - without any coastguard or army - to steal fish from Florida and dump nuclear waste on California, and you get the idea. These events are happening in different places - but with the same horrible effect: death for the locals, and stirred-up piracy. There's no contradiction.

Johann Hari is a writer for the Independent newspaper

[unipax]

http://www.legendarytimesbooks.com/product.php?productid=590

Templar Pirates, The - The Secret Aliance to Build the New Jerusalem



When the Vatican condemned the Order of the Temple in 1312, many of those who escaped took to the sea. Their immediate objective was to take revenge on the Church. Recent discoveries confirm that ships of the Templar fleet that went missing at La Rochelle later reappeared - first in the Mediterranean and later in the Atlantic and the Caribbean - to menace the Church’s maritime commerce. These Templar vessels often flew the famed Jolly Roger, which took its name from King Roger II of Sicily, a famed Templar who, during a public spat with the Pope in 1127, was the first to fly this flag.



Opportunistic buccaneers were quick to see that vast wealth could be gained in pursuing the Templars’ harassment of the Pope’s interests on the high seas, and they spread a reign of terror across the shipping lanes of the New World. Some unaffiliated pirates, in admiration of the Templar egalitarian ideals, even formed their own secret societies, and together with the Templars were part of the ferment that gave rise to independence movements in France and the New World and contributed to the growth of Freemasonry.

The Templar Pirates is the story of the birth and actual conduct of piracy on the seas of the New World and of the vast influence the Templars had on their constituents, and, by their wealth, on the governments of nations old and new.

Shows that the pirates of legend originated with the Knights Templar’s secret navy.

Reveals the Templars’ secret objective to establish a new universal order based on spirituality, wisdom, and individualism - the New Jerusalem.

Examines the secret history of the Templars’ influence in international politics.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Order of the Temple and Piracy

Part 1 - BANDITS AND KNIGHTS

Chapter 1:
The Dawn of Piracy
Imaginary Corsairs
Ancient Precursors
Boardings in the Aegean Sea
The Irony of Pompeius
The Vikings are Coming!
The Normans Who Founded Russia
The Normans in Europe

Chapter 2:
The Mystery of the Order of the Temple
The Temple According to History
The Templars’ Rise to Power
Persecution and Dispersion of the Order
The Lost Fleet of La Rochelle

Part 2 - THE GOLDEN AGE OF PIRACY

Chapter 3:
The Temple and the Pirates
Pirates in the Mediterranean
The Thwarted Revenge of the Temple
Moors on the Coast
American Booty
The French Buccaneers
Huguenots and Templars
The Corsairs of the English Empire
Francis Drake, the Queen’s Corsair
Henry Morgan, the Invincible Pirate
William Kidd, the Scourge of the Indies
The Terrible Edward Teach, or “Blackbeard”
Bartholomew Roberts, the Fortunate
“Calico Jack” and the Pirate Women
The Secret Presence of the Temple
The Templar Son of the Virgin Queen

Chapter 4:
The British Empire and the Privateers
The Vilification of the Corsairs
Sir Walter Raleigh and the Treasure of El Dorado
His Majesty’s Informers
Under the Veil of the Royal Society

Part 3 - THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLE AND FREEMASONRY

Chapter 5:
The Secret Lodge of the Stoneworkers
The Era of the Cathedrals
The Mythical Origins of Freemasonry
The British Connection
The Remarkable Rosslyn Chapel
The Illustrious Invisible College
Butting Heads with the Church

Part 4 - THE TEMPLARS IN AMERICA

Chapter 6:
Voyages of Antiquity
The Megalithic Navigators
Solomon and the Phoenician Mariners
A Well-Known New World
The Route of the Codfish

Chapter 7:
The Templars’ Transatlantic Voyage
The Secret of Oak Island
“Zeno’s Narrative”
A Well-Hidden Treasure

Chapter 8:
The Mystery of Christopher Columbus
Kings and Navigators
A Happy Marriage
A Time of Setbacks
Columbus and the Promised Land
The Queen’s Jewels
The Return of the Templars

Chapter 9:
In Search of New Arcadia
The Templar Port
The Voyage to Arcadia
Death in the Caribbean
The Signs of the Temple

Chapter 10:
Arcadia in Canada
The Navigators of the Order of Malta
The Knights of the Most Holy Sacrament
Mary Magdalene and the Black Virgin

Chapter 11
Pirates and Freemasons in American Independence
A Free Land for the “New Jerusalem”
Freemasonry and the Thirteen Colonies
The Privateers and the Revolution
The Liberators and the Masonic Lodges
Lafayette: Hero of Two Revolutions
Masons and Revolutionaries in South America
The Mysterious Retreat of Freemasonry
Freemasonry versus Slavery

Conclusion
Index