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Common Ground

This article shows that there can be a common ground as to how these organizations/societies come to fruition, and that the inhabitant population can play an instrumental role in the downfall of said societies. It discusses their common origins, the way they commonly retaliate violently, their usage of religion as justification for their means, can all be interpreted as being a formula for secret societies, and that these issues are not confined solely to the past, and are still common in the present. This final notion reiterates the importance of addressing the influence of these societies - their influence is not a remnant of the past, but rather, a living token of the present.

What Drives Secret Societies?

To reference the Ward article once more, the false sense of obligation that is shared between the the Ku Klux Klan and Al Queda is what leads them to believe that they have a sense of purpose in the world, and that this purpose is to create a better world that they have deemed fit. This purpose, however, is what so often leads to the death and punishment of millions of others, and the potency of this obligation is something that has been severely undermined from the perspective of the American public, and truly, the world as a whole - this sense of obligation is what drives these societies and is what functions as a catalyst for the violent actions that these societies take on the pubic, or specifically, those that do not wish to conform to their erroneous ideals.

A great number of people continue to operate under the erroneous understanding that the world is now in a place in which secret societies hold no sort of influence or power in the modern world. They assume that any that remain in operation do not exert any degree of power or influence in any place throughout the world. These people, to put it rather blatantly, are wrong. Secret societies can and do exert massive amounts of influence in a number of places throughout the world.

Parallels..

There are numerous parallels between the Ku Klux Klan in the southern United States, and Al Qaeda throughout Iran and Afghanistan in the Middle East, as shown in “The Shared Trajectories of Al Qaeda and the Ku Klux Klan”, an article written by Thomas J. Ward. He begins by stating that they are both “supremacist and reactionary” organizations, which both met continued resistance in their respective areas after WW2 . Ward describes how states that were once Ku Klux Klan strongholds, now have people so adamantly opposed to them that they voted for President Obama in 2008. He then theorizes that an enlightened populace that no longer subscribes to the belief system of Al Qaeda in the Middle East may then uproot Al Qaeda in a similar fashion to the Ku Klux Klan was uprooted in a comparable fashion in a number of cities throughout the Southern United States. Ward consequently concludes that a long-term strategic response to Al Qaeda may be devised by comparing these parallels - he asserts that there is an overarching theme for the development of secret societies, and that the development and downfall of one may come to be an accurate representation of the downfall of another, completely unrelated secret society. In this case, there are a number of parallels that one is able to draw between the Ku Klux Klan and ISIS - two entirely different secret societies that originated in two completely different places of the world, and yet, fascinatingly similar.

Both of these organizations do what Ward calls “ [using] religion as an apologetic for violence in the modern world”, and felt that they had an obligation which was given to them by their respective religions to construct these regimes that we perceive so negatively. He cites the Ku Klux Klan as “[acknowledging] the majesty and supremacy of Jesus Christ” and that they will all measures necessary to preserve America’s “white identity” (Ward). He then compares this to a similar statement made by Osama Bin Laden where he “proffered a religiously based apologetic to encourage terrorist acts against the United States”. He references the similar origins between the two - both organizations came to fruition after a military conflict that resulted in an occupation by “the enemy”. They both rejected democratic pluralism (quoted as being “the need for democracy to protect minority views”), and were both willing to rush to a retaliation.

A political cartoon illustrating how secret organizations often work against everything that the United States attempts to stand for.

Food for Thought...

If the KKK can create such an influence fifty years later in a great number of cities throughout the United States, then it only seems reasonable to consequentially wonder what sort of changes will be caused by organizations like ISIS and the Taliban in the event that them and their spheres of influences are removed from the Middle East. It has become a generally accepted fact that the actions are done by these new age of secret societies are of a much worse magnitude than what the Ku Klux Klan has done, and that if the Ku Klux Klan can still be so prominent for another fifty years, then how prominent will the changes and disruptions caused by the Taliban be? It is rather interesting and a topic of curiosity that these societies can instigate such massive discrepancies in such a short period of time.

Statistics

In the early 1920’s, the Indiana Klan had a membership of over 250,000 members - over 30% of the state’s white male population. Those numbers are absolutely astounding, and if those ratios were more commonplace in other states, then the influence that the Klan could have potentially wielded is just ludicrous. In this particular state, their influence was significant enough to get someone elected to the United States Senate, which is not particularly a simple task. Then, to consider that their numbers throughout the entire nation totaled almost five million, and then considering that the population of the 1920’s was somewhere near 106.5 million, the potential power the Klan may have wielded in American politics is frightening.

Documentary detailing the history of the Ku Klux Klan. A racist far right extremist movement founded in 1866 which reached unprecedented popularity during th...

"Documentary detailing the history of the Ku Klux Klan. A racist far right extremist movement founded in 1866 which reached unprecedented popularity during the early part of the Jim Crow era in U.S.A. The Organization went on to gain international popularity and still exists today. Includes footage relating to the Ku Klux Klan involvement in the 'Freedom Riders' Civil Rights Protests & the Alabama Church Bombings.“ - good video detailing origins and the expansion of the popularity of the Ku Klux Klan.

How would they achieve their goal? What was the Klan’s purpose?

The Klu Klux Klan founded themselves with these very intentions - they desired to achieve that they viewed to be as a utopia by which they would become its protectors and they would rule what they perceived as just, and this has become a running theme throughout the new wave of secret societies that have been founded towards the latter half of the 20th century - their desire to achieve what they regard to be a “perfect world” has increased tremendously, to the point where they are willing to resort to extreme amounts of violence as means to secure their dream as a reality.

What’s their purpose? What do they want to achieve?

Secret societies are often formed with an ulterior motive - that is to say, they are often designed with a goal in mind, and a plan to execute said goal. The means that they use to justify their ends are often misconstrued opinions on popular ideals (very often, societies are formed with the intention of using religious means to justify their existence). The changes that these societies hope to instigate often entail significant changes in their own respective countries - they include a drastic reorganization of wealth and power, generally with members being those that reap the most benefits. Those who were not fortunate enough to include themselves were often found with a neglectable amount of influence leftover.

More 50,000 of the Ku Klux Klan gathered in the shadow of the Capitol’s dome for two parades in Washington DC in 1925 and 1926. The Ku Klux Klan, like various other right-winged political parties, experience a resurgence throughout the United States due to the burden of its involvement in World War 2.

Secret societies often are driven by political motivations, seeking to achieve and enact legislation that will yield progress towards achieving their over-arcing goal for society as a whole. People will very commonly associate secret societies with plots to instill a “new world order” throughout the governments of the world, and these exaggerations are exactly what have fostered an environment in which people feel that secret societies are the products of myth and folklore, and that they are therefore objects that deserve no regard or attention, even in the most minute of degrees. This is what has led people to erroneously believe that secret societies are not problems that plague current events, and that they hold no potential influence in the politics of the present day. Secret societies, however, can and do influence decisions on a wide basis

A Klan members hangs a noose outside of a car as an attempt to intimidate black voters and deter them from voting in 1939.

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