SO, I had breakfast this morning with a friend of mine at the local non-corporate caffeination station, and during the course of our discourse about crack-potteries various, one of the local gasoline-fume sniffing Nooristas occupying an adjacent table proceeded, unsolicited mind you, to enlighten us a la Alex Jones with “facts” that were beyond dispute and proof of the Satanic Conspiracy of Masonic New World Order-hood.
I am a firm believer in the right to free speech, and, I suppose, since my discussion was happening in a public venue I don’t get to bark about privacy concerns. However, the appalling lack of civic politeness and civility to which we have devolved really irritates me. Neither I, nor my friend actively sought out this mono-brow’s input, yet he eagerly dove into a private discussion and tossed around Jones-Nuri “facts” with the condescension of a zealot.
Now, for the record, I have an extensive history background and my life’s hobby has been military history. Having said that let me make this ABUNDANTLY clear:
Contrary to this interloper's avowel,
Pierre Charles L'Enfant was a military engineer, trained at the Louvre. He was part of the French contingent that came over with Lafayette to aid the 13 colonies in their civil war with the Britannic motherland. When he designed Washington DC, he designed it to be militarily defensible. There are NO hidden Satanic-Masonic-New World Order symbols contained within the design any more than there is a “Face” on Mars.
These so-called “symbols” are the result of “matrixing” by paranoid, delusional, conspiratorial nutcases (think Hoaxland, Jones & Nuri). The actual reason for the layout of main streets and thoroughfares and the arrangement of the “circles” is that each circle was designed to be a defensive redoubt in time of conflict and those long, wide streets are designed to be artillery “kill zones”. The street angles are based on the technology of the time and the maximum effective overlapping field of fire using the artillery available. They are NOT hidden pentagrams, invocations to Satan, stargates or portals, fun though these things might be to pretend. They are killing zones, plain and simple.
Work on the city was unfinished and the redoubts were NOT used in the 1812 war when we abandoned and the British burnt Washington DC in retaliation for the American forces burning the Canadian Parliament buildings in York, Canada (now Toronto).
They WERE however used during the Civil War, and for their intended purpose—defense of the Capitol. A cursory search of Civil War photos in the Library of Congress will show defensible redoubts, armed with artillery in those same “circles” that are purported to be nodes or anchor points of pentacles or whatever, REGARDLESS of what one reads online, one’s toaster whispers or one or hears on C2C to the contrary.
OK…now that I have got that off my chest, THANK YOU! Any questions?
**M**
