NEWS: Skulls and Bones and a Grave Digging Bush

POLITICS: Skulls and Bones and a Grave Digging Bush

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.

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

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.

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.

Problem solved?

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

This story is in need of links.

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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.

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.

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.

I'll get better.

Stop it. You'll spoil the magic.

I think I love yu

*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.

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Keep telling yourself that.

Man, what a bunch of grave-robbing dicks.

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

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

^^ lol! Winner!

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.