Whitecrow Borderland

Bush/Kerry: Skull and Bones. (11/13/2004).

While not necessarily true, there are statements floating around that George W. Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush, broke into Geronimo’s tomb at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1918, and stole his skull. The skull, and other burial items, were taken to New Haven, Connecticut, to Yale University, were they were placed in The Tomb—the windowless building on the campus that is the home of Skull and Bones, an elitist and highly secretive society that has supplied the US Federal government and numerous major corporations with many power brokers since the end of World War I. The skull was kept in a glass case next to a picture of Geronimo in the lobby of the clubhouse where any number of people reported seeing it. A number of sources claim the skull was used in ceremonial rituals enacted by the members of the secret society. Material making these kinds of claims is easily found on the Internet. Credible or incredible is a reasonable question one can ask. I cannot say for sure whether any of this is true but it seems odd that such a group, such an organization, would make a false claim carrying with it a potentially embarrassing accusation that its members, then and now, are little more than grave-robbers, nothing more than white elitists who are guilty of desecrating native American burial sites. George W. Bush and John Kerry are both members of Skull and Bones; so, from the point-of-view of this native American voter the American people in 2004 were given a choice between electing Grave-Robber A or Grave-Robber B as their next President.

For Skull and Bones, if its members have an agenda, the 2004 election was a win-win situation. For the American people, with or without the society’s agenda, it was a lose-lose situation except for those people who see nothing wrong with the desecration of native American burial sites, for people who support grave-robbing as a white American value. Rituals are interesting activities. I can imagine, of course, that whatever the Yalies do with Geronimo’s skull it is probably some sort of sophomoric nonsense they believe gives them the power of the dead warrior’s spirit. The problem with that belief is that what some fool believes about the nature of reality does nothing to change what is true. Having faith, for instance, that God actually exists as a force outside human hope or imagination, that God exists as something other than an idea, does not convert that delusion into a credible description of the real world. No amount of faith, no strength of belief, can make a false vision of the world the way things actually are. What the members of Skull and Bones do not know about the nature of native American belief systems is that the desecration of the grave site of any of our people kills the spirit of that person and forever prevents it from returning to the world of the living. The spirit force of Geronimo, if those fools actually stole his skull, is eternally dead and irredeemable. Using such a thing in any kind of ritual, no matter how foolish and absurd the ritual is, destroys the spirit of that person as surely as the spirit of Geronimo was destroyed by the thieves who stole it from his grave site.

Of course, I am fully aware of the fact that most white people in the Americas cannot find anything wrong with the notion that eliminating Geronimo’s spirit from life, from returning to the world, can be considered anything other than a positive value. Getting rid of native Americans has always been the top priority of people of foreign descent in the hemisphere; hence, loosing this or that spirit cannot possibly cause them any harm. What such attitudes overlook is the fact that every spirit is necessary to the health and prosperity of the natural world. As this spirit or that is eliminated, the world itself sinks more and more deeply into decline. Eventually, if enough spirits are destroyed, the world itself will die. This is not an issue of faith, not a matter of belief, but is simply a matter of fact.

For me to say precisely what happens to a person who engages in the activity of using the desecrated skull of anyone in a ceremonial ritual is quite impossible since I have never done so myself and know of no one among the people of the Americas who have ever done so either. Such an act is literally unthinkable. What I do know, what I can surmise, is that the instant George W. Bush’s grandfather desecrated Geronimo’s grave the council of elders became aware of the crime and marked him and his descendants for a suitable retribution. When our current President, when John Kerry and all other members of Skull and Bones did whatever they do with the skull, they petitioned the council to take whatever action was appropriate to bring justice to the evil-doers. My thinking on the matter runs to the notion that spirit is given up for spirit taken; that is, when Geronimo’s spirit died the void created in the universe for his absence was balanced by the loss of whatever passes for spirit among the desecrators. They are now as empty of life as Geronimo has become at their hands. At the same time, of course, that void was filled by the voice of the one Bush and others recognize as God. Bush, in his fashion, became “God’s” Messiah the day he enacted the ritual that involved the skull.

To say he is lost is only to say what is most obvious about him. Look at his eyes when he appears in public. If you can see anything behind them, you have much better vision than I do; or rather, you are able to see with as much delusion as he projects in his public speech when he appears before the people. I see nothing there at all except a profound absence. Not that I lament (the passing of Geronimo’s spirit certainly) the fate of anyone who has touched his skull since it was taken from Oklahoma. Those who have done so deserve what they get. Bush got the Presidency, surely the fulfillment of his heart’s desire, but if ever there was a wished-for thing that is destined to come back to haunt its possessor, the Presidency in George W. Bush’s hands is certainly that thing. If his actions came back against him alone and affected no one else, there would be little cause for alarm. The sad fact, however, is that an entire nation is destined to share in the results of his desecration. The fact that he has carried white America’s war against tribal people, the war native Americans have endured for the last five hundred years at the hands of Christian bigots, into the heartland of Islam, onto a world stage, has grown the danger America faces from a few mostly powerless tribes at home to more than a billion people of color worldwide. Call them terrorists, demonize them as much as possible, belittle them as savages, but look into the eyes of an enemy that has not relented already for 1400 years in their struggle to resist the spread of Christianity into their tribal homelands. That is the legacy of Bush’s desecration. Fighting that war, even forever, is white America’s only future.