Michael Moriarty, who used to play Ben Stone on Law & Order, has morphed into a decidedly eccentric political figure in Vancouver (5-year old Salon article), and his latest editorial for Enter Stage Right riffs on the Da Vinci Code, the Trojan War, and Red China:
The first Grand Master of the Priory of Sion was Jean de Gisor in
1188 A.D. His successors were mostly French until the undisputed
creative supremacy of the Italian Renaissance replaced French
leadership with artists like Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo Da Vinci.
France regained control of this intellectual supremacy movement, which
then crossed the English Channel and was briefly led by Isaac Newton.
Paris again reclaimed authority under Jean Cocteau's veritable papacy,
which ended with his death in 1963.
Paris. What a name for
a city. Paris was the singular cause for the fall of Troy in ancient
Greece. This son of Priam and Hecuba, King and Queen of Troy, had
slipped into Athens, stolen Helen, wife of Agamemnon, and carried her
back home to Troy. Because of that, the Greeks and the Trojans warred,
battled and slaughtered one another for over 10 years. The Greeks won
eventually. Under the cunning advice of Odysseus, better known under
the Roman name Ulysses, the legendary Trojan Horse was built and
presented as a gift from the Greeks to the Trojans. Inside the horse
were Greek soldiers who, once inside the gates of Troy, erupted from
within the wooden beast and conquered the fabled city.
Paris.
The future of the human race can almost be charted by names alone. The
poetic underpinning of all communication, no matter what the language,
carries Jungian symbolism that, when examined closely enough,
determines the fate of millions.
The city of Paris was
the birthplace of an anti-Judeo-Christian ideology, but it wasn't until
the advent of Da Vinci that the ultimate Anti-Christ was found.
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...
Beijing said if it detects even the slightest movement within our
atomic missile system, it will rain atomic bombs on us. It won't matter
by 2012. By then, should a Chinese missile even lift one foot out of
its silo, our own missiles will be released and reach our targets
before the Chinese atomic salvo reaches theirs. God willing, SDI will
take out at least a third of their incoming. The world, the entire
human race, of course, will be rooting for us. There'll be no doubt
about that. Why? Because we'll be watching the Red Chinese Trojan Horse
bring all of Europe to its knees.
Whew!