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FearTheReaper

FearTheReaper

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

JUN 19, 2007 10:42 PM



Skull and Bones is an elite Yale University society that was founded in 1832. At the time, it was based on secret student societies that were popular in Germany. Each year 15 students are selected to become members of the secret society, where it is said they learn a “commitment to each other, to the community and to public service.” They also apparently partake in weird rituals that border on being retarded.

Many powerful men are members of the Skull and Bones society, including presidents, cabinet officers, spies, Supreme Court justices and business leaders. Conspiracy theorists almost lost their minds during the 2004 presidential elections because both John Kerry and George W. Bush are members. George’s father, George H.W. Bush is a member, as was his father, Prescott Bush. It was Prescott Bush and two other bonesmen who are rumored to have stolen the bones of American Indian leader Geronimo and brought them to Yale, where they are stored in the Skull and Bones "tomb." (It's a fucking clubhouse)

Geronimo was an Apache leader who fought the United States government for over 25 years. He eventually surrendered in 1886. He died in 1909 of pneumonia and was buried in an Apache Indian POW cemetery at Fort Sill.

In 1918, Prescott Bush and two other bonesmen were serving as Army volunteers at Fort Sill during World War I. They dug up Geronimo's grave, took his skull, some bones and his silver bridle and brought the collection to the Yale campus. The skull is now supposed to be used in rituals, including their initiation, during which members kiss the skull. They seem to have forgotten that the skull used to belong to a person who has a family.

Now Geronimo’s grandson, Harlyn Geronimo, of Mescalero, N.M., wants to prove the skull and bones that were purported spirited from the Indian leader's burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to a stone tomb that serves as the club's headquarters are in fact those of his great-grandfather.


Harlyn would like to bring his grandfather’s skull back to Geronimo’s birthplace and bury it.

"He died as a prisoner of war, and he is still a prisoner of war because his remains were not returned to his homeland," said Harlyn Geronimo, 59. "Presently, we are looking for a proper consecrated burial."


Or to put it another way: A warrior who fought bravely for his people had his bones dug up by rich white guys who now use his skull as a prop in their queer Harry Potter rituals. Time to stop acting like four-year-olds and let the hero have a proper burial.

Harlyn Geronimo even sent President Bush a letter last year asking for his help in getting back his grandpa’s skull. For some reason, Bush did not respond. John Fryar, a retired Bureau of Indian Affairs special agent in antiquities, has an interesting take on the stealing of the bones.

"To ignore a request like this for the return of human remains is totally uncalled for. Look at our guys going to Vietnam to recover remains. It's the same thing," he said.


Pretty much. But I’m not giving up Charlie’s femur. I use it to initiate my cats into our, uh, society.

Harlyn Geronimo expects the fight to get his grandfather’s bones returned to be a long one but he’s going to stick it out.

BlastProcessing

BlastProcessing

USA
OLD SKOOL

JUN 21, 2007 09:22 AM

Arwen

Arwen

United Kingdom
November 2004

JUN 21, 2007 09:25 AM

I much prefer the notion of the Life and Death Brigade.

Quirky

Quirky

Birmingham, AL
October 2005

JUN 21, 2007 09:34 AM

This story is in need of links.

abracadabra

abracadabra

Seattle, WA
April 2004

JUN 21, 2007 10:32 AM

Prescott Bush also helped fund the Nazi rise to power..scary family

triskadekafobic

triskadekafobic

Germany
April 2006

JUN 21, 2007 10:33 AM



that took me a second, but I think it's a fair deal, eye for eye, or skeleton for skeleton as it were

thatoneguy23

thatoneguy23

Ewa Beach, HI
October 2005

JUN 21, 2007 10:35 AM



Oh, everyone grab their gravediggin' boots!!!! We'z havin' a party!

DevilsReject

DevilsReject

Cleveland, OH
February 2007

JUN 21, 2007 10:37 AM

FearTheReaper said:
Or to put it another way: A warrior who fought bravely for his people had his bones dug up by rich white guys who now use his skull as a prop in their queer Harry Potter rituals. Time to stop acting like four-year-olds and let the hero have a proper burial.




i just wanted to quote this. I lol'ed, simply because it's so true and funny.

erasmas

erasmas

Campbell, CA
September 2006

JUN 21, 2007 10:42 AM

Its easy to believe that generations of Bushes have stolen and kept a dear relative's bones, but if Kerry was a member too, doesn't that mean he had just as much opportunity to return the bones? That could have been a great political campaign platform way back when.

"I only kissed the bones."

Cockzombie

Cockzombie

San Diego, CA
July 2006

JUN 21, 2007 10:47 AM

It seems like if govenor Richardson wants to bolster hisl numbers he would get involved. Seems like he needs a little help in the polls

Trahern

Trahern

United Kingdom
March 2003

JUN 21, 2007 11:21 AM

I protest. Harry Potter is a fun story involving magic. This shit began long before Harry Potter existed, it's not funny, and not at all magical.

Witches are reputed to have a minimal degree of intelligence, for a start.

Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

JUN 21, 2007 11:26 AM

Trahern said:
I protest. Harry Potter is a fun story involving magic. This shit began long before Harry Potter existed, it's not funny, and not at all magical.

Witches are reputed to have a minimal degree of intelligence, for a start.


surreal

Quirky

Quirky

Birmingham, AL
October 2005

JUN 21, 2007 11:33 AM

Zarth said:

Trahern said:
I protest. Harry Potter is a fun story involving magic. This shit began long before Harry Potter existed, it's not funny, and not at all magical.

Witches are reputed to have a minimal degree of intelligence, for a start.


surreal



I concur. Hanging around various pagan general stores has proven to me that a lot of witches/wiccans/whatever lack the higher functions of the brain.

jtemperance

jtemperance

Chicago, IL
January 2004

JUN 21, 2007 11:35 AM

_Poptard_ said:


I concur. Hanging around various pagan general stores has proven to me that a lot of witches/wiccans/whatever lack the higher functions of the brain.



Don't say that out loud, man. You'll turn into a newt.

Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

JUN 21, 2007 11:36 AM

_Poptard_ said:

Zarth said:

Trahern said:
I protest. Harry Potter is a fun story involving magic. This shit began long before Harry Potter existed, it's not funny, and not at all magical.

Witches are reputed to have a minimal degree of intelligence, for a start.


surreal


I concur. Hanging around various pagan general stores has proven to me that a lot of witches/wiccans/whatever lack the higher functions of the brain.


Well, there's that. There's also a full-grown man having a tizzy over the phrase "queer Harry Potter rituals" (as if there were any other kind) in an article about Geronimo's bones.

Quirky

Quirky

Birmingham, AL
October 2005

JUN 21, 2007 11:50 AM

jtemperance said:

_Poptard_ said:


I concur. Hanging around various pagan general stores has proven to me that a lot of witches/wiccans/whatever lack the higher functions of the brain.



Don't say that out loud, man. You'll turn into a newt.



I'll get better.

Chainlink

Chainlink

Key West, FL
August 2005

JUN 21, 2007 01:17 PM

Zarth said:

_Poptard_ said:

Zarth said:

Trahern said:
I protest. Harry Potter is a fun story involving magic. This shit began long before Harry Potter existed, it's not funny, and not at all magical.

Witches are reputed to have a minimal degree of intelligence, for a start.


surreal


I concur. Hanging around various pagan general stores has proven to me that a lot of witches/wiccans/whatever lack the higher functions of the brain.


Well, there's that. There's also a full-grown man having a tizzy over the phrase "queer Harry Potter rituals" (as if there were any other kind) in an article about Geronimo's bones.



Stop it. You'll spoil the magic.

Taban

Taban

Oklahoma City, OK
September 2005

JUN 21, 2007 01:34 PM

_Poptard_ said:

jtemperance said:

_Poptard_ said:


I concur. Hanging around various pagan general stores has proven to me that a lot of witches/wiccans/whatever lack the higher functions of the brain.



Don't say that out loud, man. You'll turn into a newt.



I'll get better.



I think I love yu

Trahern

Trahern

United Kingdom
March 2003

JUN 21, 2007 01:44 PM

*overly-pompous British accent* I do not get into a tizzy, what.

Perhaps I should have added a smiley at the end of my post. My humour is frequently too damn subtle to get across when it's merely read.

...

tongue

Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

JUN 21, 2007 01:45 PM

Trahern said:
*overly-pompous British accent* I do not get into a tizzy, what.

Perhaps I should have added a smiley at the end of my post. My humour is frequently too damn subtle to get across when it's merely read.

...

tongue


Keep telling yourself that.

Rafi

Rafi

Santa Monica, CA
January 2003

JUN 21, 2007 02:05 PM

Man, what a bunch of grave-robbing dicks. skull

FearTheReaper

FearTheReaper

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

JUN 21, 2007 02:35 PM

_Poptard_ said:
This story is in need of links.



Why can't you just trust people? What happened to you as a kid that you can't trust?

Rory_B_Bellows

Rory_B_Bellows

Dallas, TX
April 2007

JUN 21, 2007 03:53 PM

"Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end up in digging up a corpse?"

_Jordan_

_Jordan_

San Diego, CA
February 2007

JUN 21, 2007 04:20 PM

^^ lol! Winner!

darkcharge

darkcharge

Portland, OR
June 2006

JUN 21, 2007 04:44 PM

Stealling Geronimos bones is one of the lesser evils that the Skull and Bones have done over the last 100 years. Thay have done much much worse.

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