Foreigners, Freemasons and Nazis, my God!

Conspiracy writer Jim Marrs has published a new book, Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America. The bad guys trying to rule the world this time are (insert dramatic pause) the Nazis. But wait, not the WWII Nazis, but those who started building businesses in Europe while Germany was being rebuilt and those brought in by Project Paperclip and ended up as corporate tycoons embracing Nazi ideology by being…well. ..erm…corporate tycoons. The fact that scientists brought to America after the end of World War II to share their classified knowledge of top secret Nazi projects were far from loyal SS soldiers and were likely scheduled for execution so that the Allies would never knew how to build V2. rockets, does not enter the scene. Neither did the opposition they faced from war veterans who were repulsed by “working with the enemy.” It’s also downright insulting to Wernher von Braun, who created the Saturn V rocket and was one of the people who pushed the US government to see space as more than just a place from which to drop nuclear weapons on the Russians. .

The Fourth Reich essentially creates a definition of the wave of Nazism sufficient to become anything Marrs wants it to be and then uses it to attack people he doesn’t like by linking them to wars, authoritarian bills or laws, and inflammatory speeches. It might have made a stronger argument if it had focused on all the love Hitler received from powerful people around the world before he invaded Poland and the companies that used slave labor he provided to make Nazi war machines. But by focusing on scientists with very dubious loyalties to the Nazi party working in the Swiss Alps in last minute attempts to miraculously win the war at the last moment and people who were members of the Nazi party to survive Hitler’s oppression trying to make some brands to support their families undermines their basic premise. In short, the book is a long Ad Nazium.

And there’s one more thing that Marrs confused me with. With the evil neoconservatives, the Trilateralists, the Illuminati, the Freemasons, the Rothchilds, the Builderberg Group, the aliens, the energy companies hiding extraterrestrial things and now, the Nazi ghosts at the helm of the major global corporations fighting for control of the human race, how can any of these conspiracies function without being undermined by at least three or four others? At this point, all the evil forces trying to control us should be bumping into each other and unleashing an interstellar war for control of a little blue planet floating around an ordinary star in Nowhere, Milky Way.

Unless, of course, there’s a super conspiracy on top of all of this playing the other secret rulers and commanding fools on their final quest to do…something. I guess we’ll find out in the next book, right? After all, that’s why it’s so great to be a conspiracy writer. You always need to create a new layer of evil on top of the layers you’ve already laid down to explain the holes in your theories. That means more books, more sales, and another book in the works as soon as the ink dries on the first edition of your latest potboiler. If people object, accuse them of being sheep who have been brainwashed by the government-controlled media, or of being a government puppet to discredit you, the seeker of truth, in the same way as a politician who running for office would counter his enemies. Yeah, it’s good business being a conspiracy theorist…