| "The Baratarian pirates also offered | | | | also a minister plenipotentiary and |
| their services. Even though an American | | | | became the special contact with the |
| naval force had destroyed their base on | | | | Royal Court of Britain shortly |
| Grand Terre Island in September, the | | | | thereafter. This is the kind of role |
| Baratarians rejected British overtures | | | | that many spies and double or triple |
| to side with them. (6) {Other accounts | | | | agents who are far more than mere |
| make it clear the men were willing to go | | | | bureaucrats are involved with. It is the |
| it alone or against the Americans and | | | | supranational paladin position of the |
| yet Lafitte convinced them to support | | | | highest sort and much like Henry |
| the American cause. I see this as part | | | | Kissinger has been for the Rothschild |
| of the French Masonic or Merovingian | | | | Rockefellers you could say. Here is the |
| Priory plan that included Napoleon. | | | | research on this matter from another |
| Lafitte and Joseph Napoleon later tried | | | | source. |
| to break Napoleon out of St. Helena. I | | | | "Rufus King |
| think Lafitte was their agent and played | | | | Minister Plenipotentiary |
| any role or side to support their cause | | | | New York May 20, 1796 Jul 27, 1796 |
| first and foremost. They wanted the US | | | | Presented recall on or shortly before |
| to become a real force in the world. | | | | May 16, 1803 Commissioned to the court |
| Their counterparts in England had | | | | of His Britannic Majesty."(9) |
| declared French Masonry was without a | | | | Jim Allison ranks Rufus King as the |
| soul. They had formally declared them to | | | | fifth most important founding father of |
| be any number of silly things. It | | | | the United States but he notes Jefferson |
| continues to some extent to the present. | | | | was away in France as Ambassador during |
| I shall address this more as I proceed | | | | many of the events he deemed of import |
| but suffice it to say that at some level | | | | in his ranking system. Jefferson ranked |
| we have an inner sanctum of people who | | | | only 19th as a result and number one on |
| are playing both sides for fools.} | | | | his list is James Madison who I think |
| Instead they pleaded with American | | | | was actually Jefferson's underling or |
| officials to accept their services. | | | | student as was James Monroe. The behind |
| According to one observer, 'this | | | | the scenes power and deals made with |
| transition from piracy to Patriotism' | | | | international financiers including the |
| was due to the influence of Edward | | | | King of England and his family. The |
| Livingston. The pirates had promised | | | | Rothschild/De Medicis are where the real |
| Livingston $20,000 if he could secure | | | | power existed. (10) The King's family |
| their acquittal on charges of violating | | | | had a relationship with Nathan |
| the trade laws,..." (7) | | | | Rothschild who made an enormous fortune |
| This is an enormous amount of money and | | | | for the Rothschilds at the occasion of |
| it might well be just a small part of | | | | The Battle of Waterloo. It is freely |
| what changed hands or was funneled to | | | | admitted that this sly deed was in fact |
| various officials by Lafitte. Livingston | | | | the source of a great fortune for the |
| had lost most of his wealth in New York | | | | Rothschilds in their official family |
| City before coming to New Orleans in a | | | | biographies and you can be sure that |
| situation said to involve someone | | | | many people including Lords and Ladies |
| fleecing him when he had Yellow Fever. | | | | galore lost their shirts just like when |
| He was no longer without the clout money | | | | Old Joe Kennedy had no money in the |
| brings. The whole Louisiana Purchase and | | | | market on the day of the crash. Here is |
| most of the Central Western United | | | | something about Monroe which illustrates |
| States was sold for $15,000,000. This | | | | the nature of the deals and deal-makers |
| brief note on that will tell you how | | | | and who they were in touch with |
| important Livingston had been. | | | | including England and Spain. |
| "President Jefferson wanted to make sure | | | | "On the 18th of April Monroe was further |
| that the US could use the Mississippi | | | | commissioned as the regular minister to |
| River for commerce, so he had the | | | | Great Britain. He joined Livingston in |
| American ambassador to France, Robert | | | | Paris on the 12th of April, after the |
| Livingston, and a special envoy, James | | | | negotiations were well under way; and |
| Monroe (who would later be president), | | | | the two ministers, on finding Napoleon |
| negotiate to buy the port of New | | | | willing to dispose of the entire |
| Orleans. This would allow the US access | | | | province of Louisiana, decided to exceed |
| between the Gulf of Mexico and the | | | | their instructions and effect its |
| Mississippi River. They were very | | | | purchase. Accordingly, on the 30th of |
| surprised when the French offered to | | | | April, they signed a treaty and two |
| sell the entire Louisiana Territory for | | | | conventions, whereby France sold |
| 15 million dollars. The purchase was | | | | Louisiana to the United States. In July |
| completed on April 30, 1803." (8) | | | | 1803 Monroe left Paris and entered upon |
| But we might well wonder about many | | | | his duties in London; and in the autumn |
| things related to this purchase as I | | | | of 1804 he proceeded to Madrid to assist |
| have already intimated. It turns out | | | | Pinckney in his efforts to secure the |
| that my own ancestor Rufus King was the | | | | definition of the Louisiana boundaries |
| Ambassador to England until shortly | | | | and the acquisition of the Floridas. |
| AFTER this purchase was made. But he was | | | | |