psychoceramics: Summary - Texe Marrs latest newsletter

[Bruce Ediger <b--@c--.net>]

I just received Texe Marrs' monthly newsletter, "FLASHPOINT", in the
US postal mail.

The cover article is a weird rant titled "Devil Companies, Devil Products,
Devil Logos?".  In this rant, Texe draws together a number of modern
corporate logos in an attempt to bolster his "Project L.U.C.I.D."
theme.  That is, Satan is the head of the NSA, and a number of mega-
corporations are aiding the NSA in taking over the world.

Among the logos cited as proof of Satanic Affiliation:

Lucent Technologies (nee' Bell Labs) crayony, new-age circle.  Insiders
call it the "Flaming Asshole".  Scott Adams parodied it as the "Brown Ring
of Quality".  Texe thinks it's a fiery red circle.  He goes on to cast
doubt on the "Lucent" name, and claims that Lucent's "Inferno" technology
is further proof of Satanic Influence.

Apple's rainbow once-bitten fruit.  Texe sez: "To many occult insiders,
this signifies that the eating of the forbidden fruit (symbolically,
the apple) by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden was a *good* thing."
Texe claims that Microsoft's new part ownership of Apple is part of the
conspiracy.  This is the only thing he's obviously correct about, though.

Proctor & Gamble's Old Man in the Moon.  Great Googly Moogly, don't these
fundies get tired of thumping this particular tub?

The CBS TV network's all-seeing eye and AOL's stylized swirly O-in-an-A
are obviously Illuminati-inspired eyes in pyramids.

Intel's "Intel Inside" logo "suspiciously resembles" the Great Worm
Ouroboros, the snake swallowing its tail.

The Saturn automobile logo, far from being an abstract representation of
the fabled Ringed Planet, is actually "suspiciously like crossed horns".

Texe suggests that Nabisco's logo, imprinted on every child's favorite
Oreo brand sandwich cookie, is a Masonic phallic symbol of fertility.

The Shell Oil logo is the shell upon which the pagan goddess Aphrodite
arose from the foam.  Texaco's logo is some variant on the "Egyptian
Tau Cross".  This last one seems the most a-historical.  Tau-crosses
may in fact have been what the Romans used as implements of toture
around 35 AD.

If you look really, really hard at Walt Disney's sloppy signature logo
you can make out 3 sloppy 6s*.  666!  The Mark of the Beast!  But which
beast?  Donald, Mickey or Goofy?  Or maybe Pluto, named after the Greek
Lord of the Underworld!

In a sidebar, Texe offers a $7 videotape expose on the hidden teachings
of British Zionism, and the conspiratorial plot against Princess Diana.
British Zionism?  Isn't that some kind of LaRouchian thing?  And what
about that little incident where all the British Jews were killed
in York in the 1100s?  How Zionistic can the place be?

Texe concludes this month's near-gibberish experience with an "Investigative
Report" on the proposed (HR 1865) "Office of Religious Persecution Mon-
itoring".  HR 1865 *must* be Satanic, since Chuck Colson, James Dobson
and Bev LaHaye are supporting it.  I mean, after all, Bev and Tim LaHaye
claim that it's OK to have oral sex under the aegis of Holy Matrimony.

Texe is so bizarre.  It seems that no weird idea is too tired or too
strange to espouse.   He's a bit like a Sola Scriptura McElwaine.
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* - I think they are:
	The 'W' in "Walt", the circle dotting the 'i' of "Disney",
	and the final 'y' of "Disney".