Ghosts in the Machine: Eric May and Infiltration of the Peace Movement
- WEDNESDAY, 16 APRIL 2008 21:22
- DREAM'S END
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| Captain Eric May of “Ghost Troop” chats with Kay Lucas from the Crawford Peace House. |
Their agenda is to push neofascist themes among progressives and activists. Partly, this is because they are a bunch of fascists themselves, but also they seek to divide the anti-war movement and discredit many of its leaders and participants.
This spook network also specializes in misdirection, leading activists and organizations to focus on a small subset of the ruling class and not the deeply entrenched military/industrial complex itself or even our capitalist system. Usually, this subset is comprised of Jews, whether called “neocons” or “zionists” or “Israeli fifth columnists”. But it’s not always Jews. Sometimes it’s a shadowy group of Satanists or Illuminati high priests. Sometimes its aliens. Increasingly, in the conspiracy subculture, it’s all of the above
But with a group of cyber activists called “Ghost Troop“, it’s mostly about the Jews with a twist of Illuminati thrown in. Their mission: to spread the bullshit of their leader, former military intelligence officer Captain Eric May. Their particular brand of bullshit includes: warnings of impending nuclear false-flag terrorist attacks, “deciphering” of the Illuminati’s numerological code behind the dates chosen for events like 9/11 and, of course, spreading the “truth” about how the Jews run the U.S.
I’d written about Ghost Troop before, over at Rigorous Intuition, but came across them again when Googling “Beth Kennison”, the woman who was behind a series of emails and cryptic blog commentswhich seemed to tie into the Theresa Duncan story. If you aren’t familiar with the Duncan story, you can skip the next four paragraphs.
Google showed me that Kennison, a paralegal at the firm of Harper Gerlach in Jacksonville, Fl, was on the recipient list of one of Ghost Troop’s email newsletters. As “Eve”, Kennison (who has now gone back to using her maiden name of Geeslin), was primarily interested in alleged child trafficking networks and in the Johnny Gosch/Jeff Gannon disinformation campaign first begun at Democratic Underground. She also focused to a lesser extent on issues of electronic voting fraud. Intriguingly, the man who started the “Jeff Gannon is Johnny Gosch” myth at DU, Andy Stephenson, was best known as an activist against electronic voting fraud. We’ll have more to say about Stephenson, the Johnny Gosch story, electronic vote fraud and Stephenson’s alleged relationship with conspiracy con artist Delmart Vreeland in future posts. For now, suffice it to say that Stephenson skillfully introduced a variety of disinformation-laden conspiracy topics into a fairly mainstream forum at DU and in some cases into the mainstream media itself.
So to find Kennison on a “cc” list for Ghost Troop material was interesting but really didn’t prove much. They send email to all kinds of people. So to test how close that relationship might be, I posted a little bit about that email on our discussion forum, just to see what would happen. Within two hours, the post at the Ghost Troop newsgroup had been pulled, though another reference still remains.
One of “Eve’s” storylines was that an event was coming that would produce “widespread panic”. I don’t know where that storyline was going, ultimately, but she might have been picking up on one of May’s many warnings of impending nuclear attack. Luckily for all of us, Ghost Troop has managed to prevent all of them so far. We SALUTE YOU, sir.
When May started out, he was primarily concerned with what he thought was a coverup of the severity of U.S. losses at the “Battle of Baghdad” during the initial invasion. His reports initially sounded somewhat credible, though they grew increasingly unlikely with claims that the U.S. had detonated a neutron bomb in an attempt to salvage the situation. Then May began to come out of the closet with his Jew obsession.
When May started out, he was primarily concerned with what he thought was a coverup of the severity of U.S. losses at the “Battle of Baghdad” during the initial invasion. His reports initially sounded somewhat credible, though they grew increasingly unlikely with claims that the U.S. had detonated a neutron bomb in an attempt to salvage the situation. Then May began to come out of the closet with his Jew obsession.
My personal observation of the United States since 9/11 has convinced me that “American Jewry” — to use the term I read in Ha’aretz — is a fifth column invested in waging infowar against the American people with the dual aims of preventing understanding of the 9/11 attacks or anticipation of the “next 9/11″ attacks, which we in Ghost Troop term “911-2B.”
In fact, I’d like to thank Capt. May for his candor as we won’t need to waste time arguing about whether he means “Jews” when he says “zionists”. Here’s another one, but I think you get the point.
Captain May wrote:
Bush Names Jew as Attorney GeneralI have not been able to confirm this report, but it is certainly interesting. We know that Chertoff, who heads up Homeland Security, is a Jewish Zionist. We know that the neoconservative movement is, in large part, simply Zionism by another name. We know the Zionists in the US media were crucial to selling the 9/11 treason and the global war against Afghanistan and Iraq (and now Iran).
I have no problem with the United States electorate, asking strong questions about the loyalties of John F. Kennedy as he, a Catholic, ran for the presidency in 1960. I believe it’s only prudent to consider the current candidacy of Mitt Romney with a consideration of his status as a Mormon. Is it prejudiced, bigoted or unreasonable to have doubts, even fears about the appointment of so many Jews to positions prominence in the Bush administration — especially positions that will become crucial if Bush is to establish an outright tyranny through dictatorship?
A handy collection of more such garbage can be found here.
If Captain May did not consistently exaggerate stories of his own life and background, we’d have an emphatic “yes” to the question of whether May is someone with enough influence to worry us. Here’show he represents himself:
After my active duty military intelligence years, I started programs in Latin, Russian and Greek at a Houston Catholic school, Mount Carmel High, and received some public recognition. I was teacher of the year in 1991. Editors began to ask for and publish my education essays. This opened new doors for me, and I started publishing regular op-eds for the Houston Post and Houston Chronicle. My reserve unit sent me to public affairs school, and I became the division’s public affairs officer. After my Army and teaching days ended in the 1990s, I became an NBC editorial writer for a couple of years for Houston’s KPRC, as well as a ghost writer for some of the top political and industry leaders. I did a bit of writing for Ken Lay, and then there’s George W. Bush, since I interviewed with Karen Hughes, his media director, to become his speech writer back in 1996, when he was governor of Texas.
It gets worse than Ken Lay. Here’s some other experience he claims:
In 1995 I began a new civilian career as a freelance executive
speech writer for many prominent Houston companies: Texaco, Enron,
Compaq, Hill & Knowlton - you name ‘em. At the same time I was the
editorial writer for NBC affiliate KPRC-TV. I continue to publish op-eds
in the local and national media, mostly for clients, without my own
name. I am what is known in the info biz as a ghostwriter.
For those of you unfamiliar with them, Hill and Knowlton was the PR firm that “sold” the first Gulf War to the American people by, among other tactics, promoting an entirely fake story about Iraqi soldiers’ removing Kuwaiti babies from incubators.
Some of the above can be verified. May had several pieces published in the Houston Chronicle Outlook section. I talked to the editor of that section, Frank Michel, and he confirmed that May, who has referred to Michel as “his editor”, was one of a stable of unpaid local opinion writers used in Outlook. The only other thing Michel would say on the record is that to call Michel May’s “editor” in the sense of giving him assignments would be an exaggeration. Take this account as offered by May, for example:
On April 13, I wrote an op-ed “3/7 Cavalry, tragedy and travesty” for
Frank Michel, the associate editor of the Houston Chronicle, who had
been a colleague for more than ten years. He sealed it and put it in his
desk, with witnesses watching, because he knew that I knew what I was
writing about. He told his colleagues that the essay was history.
Michel suggests that a more accurate description would be to say that May sent him the article and Michel did not see enough evidence in the article to justify printing it but promised to hang onto it in case verification was forthcoming.
I contacted Hill & Knowlton’s Houston office by email but received no response. As to May’s involvement at the NBC affiliate in Houston, it appears he was on a committee which acted as a sort of “editorial review board” for General Manager, Steve Wasserman, who was one of the few people still doing editorials on TV news broadcasts. (I can’t find Wasserman…he’s no longer at KPRC).
But if it turned out that he had worked for Hill & Knowlton or big oil companies, then we would be right to wonder if he might STILL be working for them. As long as people are blaming Israel and Jews they might not be interested in how Big Oil or Haliburton fit into the picture.
Yet who knows how much of his resume is true? However, there is one thing we do know for sure, and that is that his claim of friendship with former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar, Chase Untermeyer, is quite real. In fact, here’s a picture of May and Untermeyer from November of last year.
You can see all of his pics here.
Why do I worry about Chase Untermeyer? Have a look at his bio (Actually, it’s his obituary which is a little odd since he is still alive. He wrote it himself.) He’s a solid Bush loyalist, at least as far as Bush Sr. is concerned. In fact, he has served as George Bush’s right hand man in many ways. He accompanied him on almost 100 foreign trips when Bush was V.P. and became Bush’s director of personnel when Bush was elected President. All that is very odd, because in addition to Jews, May is very strong in his condemnation of the administration of Bush Jr., even beyond their helplessness in the face of “Zionazi” power. And yet, May not only is friends with Untermeyer, he publishes their email exchanges and even calls Untermeyer the “chaplain” of Ghost Troop.
It gets a bit more worrying.
(Untermeyer) continued in this role as an Assistant to the President in the White House through August 1991, when he became director of the Voice of America, the overseas broadcasting arm of the U.S. Government. In addition, he oversaw Worldnet, a 24-hour/day television service (not the worldnetdaily webzine), and Radio and TV Marti, which broadcast entirely to Cuba.
In other words, under the only former CIA director to become President, Untermeyer was manning the heart of the U.S. propaganda apparatus. Recall, too, if you will, that it was Ray McGovern who provided the daily intelligence briefings to Bush Sr., whom he called a “Mensch.”
Admittedly, Untermeyer’s VOA involvement was some time ago. His most recent assignment was as ambassador to Qatar from 2004 until December of last year. Qatar would have some importance to the U.S., I think, as it is a Middle Eastern country friendly to the U.S., and the location of Al Jazeera, the Middle East news service.
But ambassadors to foreign countries are appointed by the President. And in 2004, Bush Jr. was President of the United States. So why is Untermeyer allowing his name to be used repeatedly in association with activities of Ghost Troop? A quick Google on “Eric May” + Untermeyer will show you what I mean.
One possible explanation is that Untermeyer simply took May under his wing for some reason and overlooks the “eccentricities”. But given how May constantly uses Untermeyer’s name to validate his own status and credibility, I find it hard to believe that this prominent Republican has not asked May to stop. As of right now, a Google search on “Chase Untermeyer” starts returning hits involving Eric May by the third entry. Untermeyer has to know.
Speaking of eccentricities, in our May photo gallery, we also see the good captain with two other men of interest. One is Shahid M. Allah, who posts regularly at the Ghost Troop forum.
Shahid Allah is an author and a member of the Nation of Islam. Since the Nation is comprised of African-Americans, many on the left shy away from calling them fascists. I, however, do not. I understand that the game is rigged and that authentic, progressive African-American leaders have a hard time getting the kind of media exposure that Minister Farrakhan gets, but that doesn’t change what the Nation is all about.
And below his picture we find May with Dr. Fredrick Toben, a Holocaust denier and founder of theAdelaide Institute.
You won’t get to read Toben at his best, however, as the Adelaide Institute has this notice at the top:
Please be advised that owing to a legal dispute with Australia’s powerful-hyperactive Jewish lobby, Executive
Council of Australian Jewry, and its former president, Mr Jeremy Jones, all new material
placed on the website will be submitted to court for clarification purposes.
Fredrick Töben, 28 February 2008.
Never fear, though. You can follow the links on his site and grab all the Jew hate you need, including a link to Ghost Troop, of course.
But do they matter, this Ghost Troop? After all, most of the interviews and articles by May tend to be taken most seriously within the more overtly rightwing conspiracy community. But I think the answer to that question is most easily answered by looking at May’s relationship to the Crawford Peace House and what would become “Camp Casey”, the 2005 anti-war campaign by Cindy Sheehan in honor of her son who was killed in action in Iraq.
According to the article from the Iconoclast Eric May had known Kay Lucas and of the Crawford Peace House since 2003. Here’s an exchange between Lucas and May:
CAPT. MAY: I’m info-war and she is peace. But she is a Ghost Troop sergeant, and has been since I brought Ghost Troop to Crawford three years ago.LUCAS: I understand about information, and I understand about manipulating and controlling it.CAPT. MAY: You know this, if we hadn’t run the Ghost Troop mission, they would have popped 911-2B (May’s code for the next 9/11 style attack - DE) for sure.LUCAS: But the thing is, is that what you are doing is saving lives, not taking lives, but using the tactics of the military, especially the information part of the military. To me it’s a wonderful use of taking that program and using it in a peaceful way. (May is often predicting imminent nuclear terrorist events and when they don’t happen he takes credit for stopping them -DE).
So May had been around the Peace House since 2003 and even made Lucas a “Sergeant”. He was there at Camp Casey and again a year later in 2006 for the Iconoclast interview. Whatever his motivation, he had targeted the place to receive his special brand of “wisdom”. Given how George Bush has a ranch he frequents in Crawford, is it really that farfetched to assume he might have been ASSIGNED to infiltrate the Peace House and Camp Casey?
If you recall, Sheehan took a significant public relations hit when an email she wrote to ABC’s Nightline was released in August of 2005, in which Sheehan claimed her son had died in a war fought for Israel. The timing was perfect…coinciding with the rise to media prominence of Camp Casey. Immediately after the release of the email, Sheehan denied having said any such thing, and claimed the portion about Israel had been added by the person who forwarded the email to Nightline. But her rightwing critics had a field day, and the community of anti-war activists who don’t subscribe to notions of secret Israeli control of the U.S. were confused and divided about Sheehan.
We will have a very close look at Sheehan in the next post. Unfortunately, it seems she really did write those divisive words, as another copy had been sent to a small discussion board at the same time as the original. But it’s not as simple as that. First of all, it seems unlikely to me that the Israeli control theories are something she came up with on her own. With Eric May hanging around in the early days, and Ray McGovern sliming himself all over her later on, it’s clear that people with an agenda to steer her toward the blame Israel meme attached themselves to her. They were helpful, I’m sure, appearing to provide stolid, real world perspectives amid all those crazy peace activists. And people like McGovern and May assumed the authority of “insiders”. I mean, if Israel does control the U.S., surely a CIA honcho like McGovern would know about it, right?
McGovern and Sheehan, with Medea Benjamin (in pink) and David Swanson (in green) at a “Don’t Attack Iran” protest on May 18 , 2006 as found on this site. Somebody please write Benjamin and Swanson and tell them McGovern is CIA.
In addition, the discussion board she sent the email to, and the person who forwarded the email to Nightline are shrouded in mystery. As we’ll see, soon after the email was released, people associated with that board began spamming hundreds of newsgroups and blogs with comments about Sheehan and her statements about Israel. In short, even though it appears she did write those words (though who knows, really?) it appears also that she was set up. The manipulation of Sheehan continued after that time, until recently she “retired” from activism altogether. The woman who ledone of the most media-friendly and broad-based anti-war efforts has been totally neutralized. (Note: actually, Sheehan is running for Congress against Nancy Pelosi. One could argue that this suggests she has not been neutralized. Of course, one could argue that it is further evidence of having been neutralized. If she mounts a serious campaign, then it might be a victory of sorts, but if she is yet another protest candidate who gets 2% of the vote, I’m not sure it will do more good than harm. And she’s still putting out the kind of Israel rhetoric that got her into hot water in the first place. Here she is defending the remarks of Obama’s pastor. )
I can’t say what role Ghost Troop had in the Sheehan saga, only that May was around the scene and preaching the same message that ultimately trapped Sheehan. But this is how it works. Assuming that Sheehan was not particularly experienced in political activism, it would be pretty easy for her to begin trusting those who come along with experience, status or “insider” perspectives. And that’s what May is all about. “Listen to me. I’ve been in the military. I still have military contacts. I know what’s really going down!”
I also can’t say how much influence May has had on the wider anti-war movement. But the themes he constantly discusses are floating around all over the internet and generally mucking up its usefulness for those tyring to sort out the truth for themselves. So next time you read a warning about an impending nuclear attack or see a discussion of the numerological significance of 9-1-1, you should be open to the possibility that you are actually seeing evidence of ghosts…..
Source: Dream's End
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