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It appears that it is not only
American Christian Fundamentalism, given brand-name
recognition by the likes of John Ashcroft, Pat
Robertson and Jerry Falwell, which shows the
influence of religion on the administration of law
and justice at the highest levels.
On the same day he released the official report on
January 29th which determined that Dr. David Kelly
died of suicide, after presiding over a lengthy
inquiry which began last August into the
microbiologist’s death, Lord Brian Hutton was
profiled in the Church of England Newspaper. The
article identified him as being a member of the
Anglican congregation at Holy Trinity Brompton.
Aside from St. Paul’s Cathedral itself, it is
doubtful that any Anglican church would be more
readily recognized worldwide. Holy Trinity Brompton
is famous for being the birthplace of “The Alpha
Course,” authored by its pastor, The Rev. Nicky
Gumbel, a key figure in “The Holy Laughter
Movement”.
Since the late 1990’s, over 5,000 Alpha courses
have run annually in the United States, sponsored by
churches of many backgrounds, including Baptist,
Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Salvation Army,
Lutheran, Methodist, Assemblies of God, and Episcopal
denominations. About 1,000,000 people in American and
Canada have already participated, while overseas, the
material has been translated into several languages.
It was in the early 1980’s that Holy Trinity
Brompton first achieved notoriety in England, after
reports of people being lifted up in mid-air and
supernatually thrown against walls. These unusual
phenomena occurred during meetings featuring the
guest ministry of the late John Wimber, an American
specialist in church growth, who founded the Vineyard
Church, an ecumenical mini-denomination headquartered
in Anaheim, California. Wimber refined both his
techniques and his theories when he later taught a
controversial course called “Signs and
Wonders,” at the prestigious Fuller Theological
Seminary.
The manifestions in England, controversially ascribed
to the Holy Spirit, were enthusiastically welcomed by
Rev. Gumbel as a validation of his church’s new
level of spiritual advancement. Christian authors
Rev. John Mumford and Rev. David Pytches publicized
these events. Mumford and his wife Eleanor founded a
Vineyard Church in London, England. It was during
this time that Rev. Gumbel developed the first
version of “The Alpha Course” for his own
parishioners.
In January 1994, the Vineyard-affiliated Toronto
Airport Church, conveniently located adjacent to
Pearson International Airport, claimed to experience
Christian “renewal”. The same phenomena
witnessed at Holy Trinity Brompton were now regarded
as ‘a new thing’ in Canada, with the
addition of those in attendance slithering on the
floor like snakes, barking like dogs, and knocking
their heads against the walls. Now, however, visitors
from Rev. Gumbel’s congregation, where many
similar supernatural signs and wonders had been
witnessed ten years before, began to travel back and
forth to Toronto in order to bring back to Britain
the way to a deeper relationship with God, which they
claimed to receive through the power of a technique
which the Airport Church called “soaking
prayer”. A kind of cross-pollination seemed to
have occurred.
Thousands of thrill-seekers flew into Toronto to
attend the meetings, and by September 1995, it was
estimated that about 600,000 people, including
approximately 20,000 Christian leaders from virtually
every nation in the world, had arrived to “catch
the fire,” as the revival was called. Several
television news stories in Canada and abroad featured
the church, capturing on video a characteristic
involuntary abdominal spasm which afflicted many as a
souvenir of their experience. That same year it was
reported that 4,000 churches in the U.K. had joined
Holy Trinity Brompton in receiving what was described
by its adherents as a “transferable
anointing”: the “The Toronto
Blessing”.
Although details of Lord Hutton’s church
attendance cannot be obtained, it is probable the
events at Holy Trinity Brompton are well-known to
him. After the death of his wife in 2000, Hutton
married a widow at Holy Trinity Brompton, and the
couple today are well-known at the church in
London’s fashionable Belgravia district.
Lord Hutton is past president of the Northern Ireland
Association for Mental Health.
Born in Ulster in 1931, Lord Hutton took a first in
jurisprudence in 1953 at Balliol College, Oxford,
then returned to Northern Ireland to continue his
studies at Queen’s College, Belfast. He was
called to the Northern Ireland Bar in 1954, becoming
Junior Jounsel to the Attorney General in Belfast in
1969, a QC (Northern Ireland) in 1970, and a Senior
Crown Counsel in Ulster from 1973-79. He was a member
of the joint law enforcement commission of 1974. He
was appointed Judge of the High Court of Justice
(Northern Ireland), 1979-88; Lord Chief Justice of
Northern Ireland, 1988-97; and Lord of Appeal in
Ordinary, 1997-2004. In 1997, he became a Law Lord.
Following the Hutton Inquiry, he announced his
official retirement.
Britain has been condemned internationally for human
rights abuses in Northern Ireland during the years of
Lord Hutton’s career as both government
prosecutor and member of the judiciary, a period
known as ‘The Troubles’. It was an era of
shocking violence, and the British authorities used
torture as an interrogation tool. In 1978, Hutton
represented the British Government before the
European Court of Human Rights, defending it against
a ruling that it abused and maltreated detainees.
Lord Hutton represented British soldiers at the
Widgery Inquiry. It was in April 1972 that the former
brigadier Lord Widgery published his now notorious
report into the killing of 14 unarmed civil rights
demonstrators by British paratroopers in Northern
Ireland three months earlier, on what became known as
“Bloody Sunday.” Lord Widgery cleared the
soldiers of blame, insisting, in defiance of a mass
of evidence, that they had only opened fire after
coming under attack. The Widgery Report was so widely
seen as a flagrant establishment whitewash, and
continues to be such a focus of nationalist anger,
that a quarter of a century later Tony Blair felt
compelled to set up another “Bloody Sunday”
inquiry under Lord Saville.
Hutton again became headline news in connection with
the 1999 “Pinochet Affair”. Another senior
judge, Lord Hoffman, had contributed to the decision
to arrest and extradite the notorious former dictator
of Chile during his visit to Britain. As a Law Lord,
Hutton led a right-wing attack on Lord Hoffman, on
the excuse that Hoffman’s links to the human
rights group Amnesty International invalidated
Pinochet’s arrest. If Lord Hoffman’s ruling
were not overturned, Lord Hutton said, “Public
confidence in the integrity of the administration of
justice would be shaken.”
More recently in 2002, Hutton was one of four Law
Lords who participated in the ruling that David
Shayler, the former MI5 agent, should be denied his
application to use as his defence that he had been
acting in ‘the public interest’ by
revealing secrets. Shayler was prosecuted under the
Official Secrets Act after passing documents in 1997
to the newspaper “Mail On Sunday,” exposing
the fact that the British Security Service had
investigated Labour Party ministers Jack Straw,
Harriet Harmon, and Peter Mandelson for political
reasons. He was sentenced to six months in jail.
Adding to the many questions about Lord Hutton’s
past performance is the conjecture that he is a
Freemason. In 1997, Tony Blair’s election
manifesto promised that his government would compile
a register of Freemasons in public life. In February
1998 Blair’s new government (in a policy issued
by then Home Secretary Jack Straw) required all new
appointments to the judiciary, police, legally
qualified staff of the Crown Prosecution Service, and
probation and prison services, to declare membership
in Masonic organizations. Existing government
employees in those categories were encouraged to
voluntarily announce such membership. Few have come
forward.
If Lord Hutton is indeed a Mason, he is still not
legally required to make a public admission of the
fact, and he has made no statement on the subject to
date.
Masonic affiliations are said to be common amongst
Ulster’s judiciary. Hutton’s successor as
Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland in 1997, Sir
Robert Carswell, has been investigated as a possible
Freemason and member of the related semi-masonic
Orange Order. On January 13, 1997, the following
exchange took place in the House of Commons, one year
prior to the requirement for public disclosure of
Masonic affiliations:
Mr. McNamara: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary,
Lord Chancellor’s Department, if the next Lord
Chief Justice of Northern Ireland is or has been a
member of (a) the Masonic Order, (b) the Orange Order
and (c) other societies membership of which must be
declared. [10545]
Mr. Streeter: Judicial appointments are made on
professional and personal merit. The Lord Chancellor
does not require candidates for, or holders of,
judicial office to declare membership of any lawful
organisation.
The Ministry of Defence has also been associated with
a high degree of Masonic involvement. Best-selling
British historian Anthony Beevor was reportedly told
by a leading Freemason in 1991 that all thirteen
members of the Army Management Board were Masons. The
Board comprises a mix of politicians and top Army
officers. It exercises authority over all forms of
appointments, ranking, and promotion in the British
Army.
The Hutton Inquiry formally received into evidence
information about a police action called
“Operation Mason.” This was the name
assigned by the Thames Valley Police
(TVP) to a project described on a listing as:
“TVP Tactical Support Major Incident Policy
Book.” The interesting aspect to this document
is the time noted for commencement of police
activity, namely 1430 (2:30 p.m.) on July 17, 2003,
the date of Dr. Kelly’s disappearance. This
appears to be one hour before Dr. Kelly reportedly
left his house for his daily afternoon walk. The
record closes at 930 (9:30 a.m.) on July 18, 2003,
close to the time when Dr. Kelly’s body was
discovered in the woods. The actual contents of this
“policy book” have not been made public.
Links between American and British intelligence
services and church groups have been investigated by
journalists Anton Chaitkin and the late Jim Keith.
Mr. Keith documented the Naval Intelligence
background of Jim Jones prior to the Jonestown
tragedy in Guyana, which has been called a CIA
mind-control program ‘gone wrong’. Mr.
Chaitkin has explored the infiltration of the
Pentecostal Movement in America and South Africa by
British intelligence, going back to the beginning of
the 20th century. Christian apologists Tim and
Barbara Aho have researched the Christian
affiliations of death squad groups in Central America
and have identified intelligence operatives involved
in these covert operations going back over 30 years.
It has been conjectured that the reason for this
activity in Latin America was to enable U.S.,
British, and Israeli intelligence agencies to study
and then fine-tune techniques for effective national
destabilization work, using new religious movements
particularly of the “signs and wonders”
type.
Widely publicized in the 1980’s, for example,
were the massacres in Guatemala of thousands of
indigenous civilians of Mayan ancestry. During the
previous decade a protracted civil war had been
funded by the CIA and the United Fruit Company. A
successful military coup in 1982 installed Gen.
Efrain Rios Montt as President. Montt was an early
Christian convert when the Church of the Word
(“El Verbo”) was planted in Guatemala by
California missionaries of an organization which
became known as Gospel Outreach, who came to supply
humanitarian aid to the country following the
devastating 1976 earthquake.
Montt directed a Leadership Training School of 1,000
members as an elder in Verbo Ministries. Upon his
taking power, he was supported throughout the
1980’s by Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Jimmy
Swaggart, and Loren Cunningham of Youth With A
Mission.
In June 1982, Amnesty International issued a report
entitled: “Massive Extrajudicial Execution in
Rural Areas Under the Government of General Efrain
Rios Montt,” detailing a “partial listing
of massacres,” totalling more than sixty. More
than a thousand Mayan communities were abandoned or
destroyed, and it is estimated that tens of thousands
died in brutal genocidal sweeps conducted by
Montt’s army. According to the Covert Action
Bulletin, the State of Israel provided substantial
financial aid to Guatemala between 1977 and 1986, and
Israeli intelligence recruited members to assist
agents in espionage and torture from Gen.
Montt’s Verbo Church, which had grown to
represent 250 congregations across the countryside.
The most well-known contemporary proponent of both
“church growth” and the “Third Wave
Wovement,” now embraced by evangelicals and
charismatics alike as a genuine visitation of the
Holy Spirit in the modern age, is C. Peter Wagner, a
former friend and colleague of the late John Wimber
at California’s Fuller Theological Seminary.
What is not widely known is Wagner’s extensive
missionary background in Bolivia from 1954 to 1970. A
CIABASE report on Bolivia states: “Between
October 1966-68 Amnesty International reported
between 3,000 and 8,000 people killed by death
squads.” Bolivia was also used as a resettlement
location for Southeast Asian refugees who fought for
the CIA before and during the Viet Nam War.
A blueprint for American policy in Latin America was
published in 1980 by the Council for Inter-American
Security (CIS), originally titled:
“Inter-American Relations, Shield of the New
Order and Sword of the U.S. Ascent to World
Power.” This paper, which became known as the
“Santa Fe Document” was analyzed by Burn
Fouchereau in his book “The Sect Mafia,” in
which he stated that the report set forth plans to
create religious sects on a worldwide scale, with a
mission to corrupt the collective conscience of
Christians to willingly accept a free market agenda
for the financial advantage of global corporations.
According to this strategy, evangelical organizations
such as Rios Montt’s Church of the Word would be
used as fronts for the CIA to “take charge of
the initiative of ideological struggle” through
religious phenomena, i.e. psychological warfare
operations for inculcating the desired ideology, and
that Christian groups resisting this influence would
be neutralized through ‘divide and conquer’
programs. “The experience acquired in Viet Nam,
thanks to the work done in population control, was
exported to Latin America, and particularly to
Guatemala, by numerous agents of A.I.D., and of other
U.S. services. Certain sects were created by
psychological warfare specialists and entrusted with
control of the political forum and control of
conscience.”
Pastor John Arnott of the Toronto Airport Church has
revealed that it was a visit to Argentina in late
1993, to visit Claudio Freidzon, pastor of King of
Kings Church in a suburb of Buenos Aires, which
refreshed him spiritually and brought his ministry
into new level of anointing. This, he claims, led
directly to the “Toronto Blessing”
phenomena which began in January 1994. At the time,
Arnott was affiliated with John Wimber and the
Vineyard Church in California. The Argentine sect,
the Divine Universal Church, has been identified by
Professor J. Garcia-Ruiz of the Department of
Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Paris
as another beneficiary of the largesse of Pat
Robertson, as well as having received funds from the
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and from
Worldvision.
The murderous upheaval in Northern Ireland which took
place in the 1970’s occurred simultanously with
the havoc wrought in Central America. It is to be
hoped that other researchers will have success in
probing intelligence links to Christian figures
either on the Protestant or Catholic side of the
conflict. It should be born in mind that members of
the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church would be
highly susceptible targets of blackmail in situations
where pedophile activity had been detected. This sort
of blackmail is widely used to recruit undercover
staff for clandestine operations.
Infiltration of churches and parachurch organizations
goes back at least as far as World War II. According
to the “Torbitt document” (by William
Torbitt, pseud., in discussing the conspiracy to
assassinate President Kennedy), it is stated that J.
Edgar Hoover’s friend and agent, Carl McIntire,
a Fundamentalist pastor from Collingwood, New Jersey,
organized an espionage and intelligence unit under
the cover name “American Council of Christian
Churches” (ACCC), which placed operatives posing
as ministers and missionaries throughout the United
States and most Latin American countries. Albert
Osborne, alias John Howard Bowen, alias J. H. Owen,
under the personal direction of J. Edgar Hoover from
1943 to 1964, described himself as an itinerant
preacher, member of the First Baptist Church of
Laredo, Texas, and missionary for ACCC, while
supervising a team of highly trained professional
marksmen based in Mexico and used by espionage
agencies of the U.S. and other countries all over the
world for political assassinations. During those
years Mr. Osborne was believed to operate a
charitable school for 25 to 30 boys in Pueblo,
Mexico.
As American Secretary for the Foreign Relations
Department of the ACCC, noted Christian author and
teacher Dr. Francis Schaeffer took several European
trips during the war years 1942-45, and then moved
with his family to Switzerland in 1948. Schaeffer
founded a Christian resource and retreat center named
L’Abri outside of Lausanne in 1955, which
attracted visitors from all over the world, reaching
its peak of popularity in the volatile 1960’s
and 1970’s.
The British connection to efforts to develop an
ersatz spiritual base for the growing manipulation of
societies goes back to the work of Col. Sir Vivian
Gabriel, a British Air Commission attache in
Washington during World War II, who established a
group called
International Christian Leadership. In the
1960’s, the president of International Christian
Leadership’s British branch was Ernest Williams,
who was both a member of the directing staff of the
British Admiralty and a member of the Archbishop of
Canterbury’s Commission on Evangelism. He worked
closely with Harald Bredesen, a British intelligence
operative who went on to personally mentor Pat
Robertson in the United States.
In 1978 an important global meeting at Canterbury was
held under Queen Elizabeth’s Archbishop Donald
Coggan, for the purpose of launching a crusade to
spread the practice of Charismatic “Gifts of the
Spirit” around the world under the guidance of
the Anglican Church. Leading a group of American
Charismatics who attended the meeting was Gen. Ralph
E. Haines, Jr., the former vice chief of staff of the
U.S. Army 1967-8. Haines had been in charge of a
counterinsurgency military takeover program called
“Operation Garden Plot,” prepared in the
event black ghetto riots and anti-war demonstrations
required the implementation of martial law in
America. No longer on active duty, Gen. Haines had
been in close association with Harald Bredesen since
1971.
Another British group active in Charismatic
fellowships, particularly in African war zones, is
Christian Solidarity International (CSI), headed by
Baroness Caroline Cox, whose reports from the Sudan
have led many in the American government to
contemplate military action in that country.
When faulty intelligence regarding chemical
‘weapons of mass destruction’ prompted
President Clinton to bomb a Sudanese aspirin factory
a few years ago, the embarrassing mistake only mildly
dampened the enthusiasm of the clique supporting such
a venture. Profiled in the Pentecostal U.S. magazine
“Charisma” in August 1997, Baroness Cox
said that she and many CSI board members enjoy
“the sort of robust and very expressive forms of
worship” at the “charismatic end of the
church spectrum.”
It may be significant that John Wimber of the
Vineyard, a group whose name became synonymous with
very expressive forms of worship, held the first
meeting of the small church where he first assumed
the position of pastor in a rented Masonic hall. An
original member of his congregation has recalled that
he told the people repeatedly that he was interested
in their activities as “an experiment”. By
1980, at a historic Mother’s Day service in
Anaheim, California, Wimber’s brand of
‘power evangelism’ was characterized by
uncontrollable shaking, people collapsing in the
aisles, and “drunkenness in the Spirit”.
Many years later the Holy Laughter Movement was
popularized by evangelist Rodney Howard-Browne, known
as “God’s Bartender.”
It may also be significant that a Vineyard Church,
located in an upscale mall near Columbine High
School, allegedly had a very active outreach to youth
in the area, prior to the tragic shootings on campus
which garnered worldwide attention. Researchers have
faced a tangled assortment of eyewitness accounts
plainly irreconciliable with official findings. The
term “cover-up” was used recently in a
meeting held for parents of the deceased teens, which
presented masses of previously withheld evidence.
The missing link in this far-reaching story is the
scientific data which would explain what forms of
hypnotism and suggestion have been utilized in all
these events, and surely such effects could have been
enhanced in recent years by remote electrical
stimulation of the brain, as well as by designer
drugs distributed by intelligence agencies since the
1960’s, both for human experimentation and for
financial gain. Counterfeit expressions of Christian
worship and joy can fool many, as the high ratings of
televangelists prove. But this is now the stuff of
deliberate social engineering, turning human beings
into guinea pigs whose lives are cheap.
Those of us in non-compromised Christian work have
weathered criticism for many years regarding the
paradox between Christian love, as displayed in the
New Testament, and centuries of bloodshed down to
modern times, with countless crimes against humanity
committed in the name of God. But many realize today
that the source of the ongoing carnage has always
been in the political arena, using religion as a
shield, or a scapegoat.
Most recently, investigations into the history of
violence in Northern Ireland have revealed instances
of covert operations undertaken by British
intelligence, for which both Protestant and Catholic
factions have taken the blame. And yet the terrible
killings in Northern Ireland have been used over and
over again to attempt to deny any legitimate value to
Christian faith and practice Perhaps this was
regarded by the perpetrators as a desirable plus.
On Sunday, Lord Brian Hutton will likely be found
sitting in church at Holy Trinity Brompton. It is to
be remembered with what poignant solemnity he began
the Hutton Inquiry by calling for a respectful minute
of silence, in memory of the dead Dr. David Kelly.
However, better Lord Hutton had remained silent, than
to have committed himself publicly in releasing a
final report which bears so little resemblance to the
true circumstances of Dr. Kelly’s final moments
of life on this earth.
“And there shall be, like people, like
priest…” (Hosea 4:9).
Given his background as an advocate for mental
health, civil rights, and law and order, Lord Hutton
is probably regarded by his fellow parishioners as a
credit to Holy Trinity Brompton and their renowned
pastor, The Rev. Nicky Gumbel. And both Vineyard and
Toronto Blessing groups have made several trips over
the past decade to Lord Hutton’s native Ulster,
with the stated goal of seeking peace and bringing
Christian Renewal to Northern Ireland.
We do not know how effective those ministry teams
have been, nor what they were really sent to achieve.
But we can speculate that the overall end result of
the many efforts to extend covert political control,
using ‘religious experiences’ as a tool and
a mask, will ultimately fulfill the words of the
Apostle Paul, who spoke of “the unrighteousness
in them that perish; because they received not the
love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for
this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that
they shall believe a lie” (2nd Thess. 2:10-11).
The time is coming, I believe, when each one of us
will inevitably come to the place where we will have
to search our consciences, to answer two questions
posed long ago in the Gospels, where Jesus asked:
“Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry
day and night unto him?... Nevertheless when the Son
of man cometh, shall he find faith on the
earth?” (Luke 18:17-18).
Sources:
Jim Keith, “Mass Control: Engineering Human
Consciousness” (IllumiNet Press, 1999)
“British Subversion of America: The Militias and
Pentecostalism” by Anton Chaitkin
www.larouchepub.com/other/1997/ahc.html
“Fruit of the Jesus Revolution,”
http://watch.pair.com/antipas.html#fruit
“Nomenclature of An Assassination Cabal” by
William Torbitt (pseud.)
www.parascope.com/articles/1196/torbitt.htm
Material by Jim Carrey,
www.freemasonrywatch.org/operation_mason.html
Results of Google Searches, Lord Brian Hutton
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