As promised, we shall travel back to the past, few thousand years…
But in fact it is a much shorter journey, as it is enough to go
to see a piece of a bit over 2 meter high stone in the Musée du Louvre carved around 1750 BC
or better to say about 4000 years ago (and discovered in Suza at 1901 – just in
timeJ)
Just like in 1977, the Voyager was sent out to the outer
space in a silent hope, that someone will find it with the message of humanity,
the sixth king of Babylon, Hammurabi (Akkadian from Amorite) have left for us a
carved stone. This stone is a proof, that people 4.000 years ago were seeking
law and order. It also proves, that the ancient people created rules for their
every day life.
And the difference between the
Hammurabi’s code and the Voyager’s message is, that the code is useful in many
aspects until now. The Voyager’s message is nothing, but a nice self-advertisement…
By the way the vinyl type disc
sent to the outer space on Voyager would cause a problem to read for the
majority of our children even today, only one year after the Voyager left the
solar system and in about 20 years reproducing the content of such disk will be
more difficult, than to listen now the first recordings of Edison… I do not
want to criticise those, who created such a message; just it is another proof
of what is long lasting and what is not….
It took 3 years to translate
the Code of Hammurabi, hopefully in the outer space someone will manage to
translate our disc faster…
Among the 282 laws, most of you will recognise"an eye for an eye, a tooth for a
tooth” paragraph (sounds very brutal right?), but there is something
much more important happened in here.
The same stone recorded a fundamental rule:
The presumption
of innocence,
Sounds
the best in Latin “Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui
negat” (the burden of proof lies with who declares, not who
denies)
At the
same time the law suggests, that both the accused and
accuser have the opportunity to provide evidence.
Since
4.000 years this principle is kept during the times of peace in the civilised part of the World…
There is one more reason why we need to mention the Code of
Hammurabi…
It is in the meantime the first attempt to regulate the use (or restrict the abuse) of POWER among the citizens of
Babylonia…
Some people say, that love is the strongest drug…
Kipling says “words are the most powerful drug to humanity”. I disagree…
Kipling says “words are the most powerful drug to humanity”. I disagree…
The POWER is the most powerful drug known to humanity…
And since 4.000 years people
try to regulate it (I am sure much more before, but we can prove this from
4.000 years ago only)…
Do you know since when:
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Love is regulated?
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Words are regulated?
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Alcohol and drugs are regulated?
You can think of many things, but trust me; people try to
regulate the power, since the beginning of the Human race…
For now we shall quit for sometimes the great Akkadian, who
ruled Babylonia over 40 years and go a bit further in the history…
Since the Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code” book and film, the Templars
become a popular story…
We shall talk about Templars, but from a different point of
view….
They called themselves the Poor
Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Pauperes
commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici in Latin),
or known, as the Knights Templar,
the Order of the Temple (Ordre du
Temple or Templiers in French)
or simply as Templars…
Anyone remembers the lovely
movie serial with Roger Moore the “Simon Templar”? (But this has nothing to do
with our topics…)
So just imagine yourself at around 1100…
We are right in the middle of Islamic Golden Age.
Pope Gregory VII defines the
powers of Pope.
Henry the IV walks to Canossa;
The gunpowder is invented in China, however China itself is falling in
parts;
Pope Urban issues the Crusades to capture the Holy Land;
After the First Crusade around 1119 Hugues de Payens (a French noble)
and another 8 knights approach King Baldwin II of Jerusalem to protect the
pilgrims. They established their headquarters on the Temple Mount. Then for 9
years nothing significant happens…
In 1129 the Order was recognised and
confirmed by Pope Honorius II. In fact from this moment the story of Templars
start to be more known.
In 1139, even more power was given upon
the Order by Pope Innocent II, so the Knights Templar could pass freely
through any border, owed no
taxes, and were subject to no one's authority except that of the Pope. (hey,
our UN peacekeepers can only dream about such privilegesJ)
By today understanding we can call the
Templars, as a GLOBAL organisation.
Besides the powers they got, they were absolutely
multi national, they were the first bankers of the Middle Age, they had an
extremely well organised devoted and trained army up to 20.000 people and they
had their own reliable and by that time extremely effective information routes,
channels and sources. (It
happened once, that 500 of these guys led by King Baldvin, managed to defeat a 25.000 force of
Saladin right in the middle of the desert… Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria happened to be the best military man of his time and he also used
professional soldiers against the Templars..)
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Ideology
(religion);
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Military power;
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Financial power;
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Political power;
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Information and
scientific knowledge;
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Control over
“international” trade;
At 1300 the Templars made their last
attempt to get back the Holy Land – with no success. This means, that their
original purpose of founding (helping the pilgrims on the Holy Land) did not
exist anymore. However they still represented an enormous military, financial
and ideological force and intended to establish an independent state in South
France (Languedoc) or in Cyprus.
Philippe IV, King of France saw his
opportunity – deeply in debt against Templars, he took his chance to get rid of
them… (a practice used often in the history – if you cannot pay your creditor,
you better kill him…)
He secretly ordered to capture hundreds
of Templars and ordered the inquisition to force fake confessions from them.
Yes,
this is still the time of inquisition,
no mistake… So one of the basic laws the “presumption of innocence” was
abandoned and confessions forced by inquisition were enough to sentence
people…. (And by the way, later the investigators ordered by Pope, could not
find any real crime or wrongdoing)
“Several significant changes in legal
procedures had been made by 1230 that affected later trials, especially those
of the Templars. No longer did a witness need fear reprisals if his accusations
were proved untrue. Instead, a new system relying on the testimony of
witnesses, judicial latitudes and the institutional procedure began to dominate criminal trials in most of Europe.” (Edward Peters, Inquisition (Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press, 1989)
Why this is important for us?
We were talking about GLOBALISATION – this is not a new
idea – from Alexander the Great, through Julius Caesar, Chinggis Khan, Napoleon,
or the Templars, the idea to unite the World (for various reasons) is not new.
In fact the Templars
represent the first example, when a
multi national organisation had the power, but did not want to take effective
power directly into their hands and to rule. None of the members of the
Order (including the master) had (or in other words, by their own rules also
could not have) any ambition for any personal wealth or specific power. They
were actively participating in Western European politics, however they remained
by their original principles. The Templars served the GOD – in other words, the
GLOBAL interests…
Still they could not
escape their destruction.
Seemingly the
national interests proved to be the stronger force….
Our other subject is
the question of POWER.
The main reason for
the French King to destroy the Templars was to regain his POWER. (He not only
executed the Templars, but also intended to confiscate all their belongings –
not personal ones, as they had none, but the belongings of the Order)
For this reason he
was ready to use any kind of means. The behaviour of Philippe is a classic
example of the ABUSE of the POWER;
And here we come to
the next point, which you should remember as we shall discuss it in details
later. The constant struggle between the NATIONAL and GLOBAL interests and the
ABUSE of the POWER.
As a prologue, the last Grand Master, Jacques
de Molay confessed to the inquisition under torture all the charges against him.
He was publicly burned at 1314…
However tens of thousands of Templars
remained alive, either were protected in their own country (like Portugal), or
joined other nations (like Switzerland) and numerous legends will keep them
alive forever regardless to the fact, whether they managed to dig out something from the ruins of the Temple of Solomon or not.
If I did not make you too much tired, let
me follow with another story….
I switched on my TV few days ago and
saw Monsieur Dominique Strauss-Kahn… (Another
French guy!!!)
Here you can follow the whole
interview…
http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/09/cnn-exclusive-dominique-strauss-kahn-talks-europe-european-banking-and-the-infamous-perp-walk/
He looks much better, than 2 years ago.
Definitely better…
First of all I do not trust any
politician – including Dominique… And please, listen to me – never trust any
politician!
But there are some basic questions and
topics we need to think about…
The main candidate of the Socialist
Party for the French presidential elections was Dominique…
He is a charismatic personality by all
means. Very well trained and well experienced, with proven work and leadership record,
worldwide known and accepted… And for sure accepted by his countryman as well.
Finally, he was ruling an organisation, which is one of the main financial
institutions of the World, and as such, he was sitting on the main source of
economic intelligence worldwide…
Definitely it was of interest of
several people, institutions and even countries to put him aside…
Dominique was most probably set up. Not
by an accident… But at one point his right to “the presumption of innocence” was violated for sure…. Nearly 4000
years after Hammurabi’s Code… Interesting right?
Once you
have some time – just try to compare him to Monsieur Hollande… Oh lala!!!! The
next choice of the French people with all the respect is a nice guy, who did
not worked a single second in the real life, but made a spectacular advance in
the Socialist Party of France…. Good choice my French friends! You have chosen
a singer instead of a general… The consequence will be all yours!
And here come some topics of our main
interest from Dominique in the TV interview:
He said: “Well, I think most of them (European Leaders) don’t really understand what
globalization is. They have been educated, trained, they have, had a political
life in one country- in only one country- and they don’t realize that Europe is
not that big, it is a small part of the world. And the problem is, to solve the
European problem, in the globalization, not against the globalization, against
the globalization.”
With this question I would like to deal
later, a bit more in details as it is really important. For some this is
boring, for others sounds interesting – for me challenging… In the interview
Dominique was very kind to the European leaders… As in fact only very few of
them were trained at all, but on this matter we shall come back from another post.
Just remember the main topic of this
blog (are we in
war? What do you think? Yes or not???)….
Dominique mentioned one more important
issue, which we will also discuss very much in details…
COMPETITIVENESS…
Here it comes from Dominique…
“Well, you have to work on the
competitiveness. The history is too long to be said today, but a country, like
France, like UK, like Germany also, has lived for a century or more on the fact
that they keep the technology for themselves, leave the rest of the world. And
that’s over.”
Jacques
de Molay and Dominique the two French man, think about them….
For Dominique the only difference is, that the NYPD did not beat him to half dead, as it happened at 2012 October to Ehud Halevy in a community center… (http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/oct/15/2-nypd-officers-investigated-assaulting-man-community-center/)
Hey Dominique, you are a lucky guy!!!!!!
Dominique said one more interesting sentence during the interview:
“I wasn’t thinking anything. It happened,
something happened, which is a private thing and I still say what happens in a room is a private thing
unless the prosecutors find something to tell you that you are going to be
charged for something and they have proof of that..”
Hey Man! Dominique, your memory is so short! To your good friend Bill also something was repeatedly happening in the Oval Office! And he managed to settle the story not only with Hillary, but also with this naughty Congress! (The only consequence, which Bill got, is a bypass - few years later… Hey Monica the heart breaker , what you were doing under that table???)
Monsieur Dominique, your main mistake is, that you did not ask your other friend, Barack to give the key of his office for a bit of hihi haha:-)) under the resolute desk, (While he is walking the presidential dog)… As in the US the Oval Office in the White House seems to be a more private place, than a hotel room in NY… Heh, what a mistake…
I do really hope, that everyone learned their lesson, so your successor, the charming Christine can always ask a favour from the First Lady. Just she needs to make sure, that the dog is walking Barack or he is playing golf at the time of hihi haha:-)))
And I am still wondering:
Is this still the time of inquisition?
Ohh no!!!! (or may be???)
I might took too much of your time….
We shall follow up this topic with some
further examples, in a hope, that we can slowly close to our main goal, of
making some more deep analysis of the current economic wars and hopefully to
give some hopes for the hopeless:-)…
I also plan in the next blog to touch some
MORAL ISSUES, which are very important from our point of view…
I am sure most of you have seen or at least
heard about Jose Mujica.
This old man told many things, but I want you to
think further about some of his words… And as usual, we shall try to talk about this question
from “another aspect”…
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