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