Think! ....Buffalo again?

Think!....Again from Buffalo? ‘Growing up in the Finger Lakes town of Painted Post offered few choices for the ambitious young Watson… Watson wanted to drive into commerce. He began peddling sewing machines and pianos on the road for a store in town… Quickly Watson learned that some sale positions offered a commission, that is a cut. He joined the building and loan association in Buffalo where he sold share up and down the populated roads of the city. Watson’s deal was straight commission. His manger was a slick and dapper operator who taught Watson how to smoothly sell stock in salons and how to always dress the role of the successful Gay ninties businessman. Nothing drives glibness like a commission only job. Watson excelled- and the feeling was invigorating. He loved to sell. In 1895 he bumped into John J Range the manger of the Buffalo office of one of the most rapacious companies of the day, the National Cash Register Company nicked named ‘The Cash’ NCR was the personal empire of the ruthless and belligerent tycoon, John Patterson….Range became a mentor to Watson. In now tine the Cash converted Watson into a youthful commercial mercenary…. Patterson took notice transferring Watson with his impressive skill to the undesirable Rochester office, one of the worst performing of NCR’s 160 branches… Patterson realized that Watson was good enough to go beyond simple sales. He was good enough to destroy the main competition in Rochester …Adopting the brutal, anything goes techniques of Patterson and Range, and adding a few devious tricks of his own, Watson began the systematic annihilation of Hallwood, its sales and its customer base…’intimidation squads’ would report to prospective clients with tall tales of infringement suits by NCR against Hallwood, falsely claiming that such suit would include anyone who purchased a Hallwood machine. The frightened customer would then be offered a NCR machine at a discount…. Patterson liked Watsons style. The NCR President would use frivolous libel and patent suits to drive his competition into submission… Patterson’s school for scoundrels was unparalleled in American business history. A Watson aide once testified that Patterson would scream for merciless destruction of all competitors…NCR salesmen wore dark suits, the corporation innovated a One Hundred Points Club... One day at a pep rally Watson scrawled the word THINK on a piece of paper. Patterson saw the note and ordered THINK signs distributed throughout the company... On 22 Feb 1912 Patterson and Watson were indicted for criminal conspiracy to restrain trade and construct a monopoly . Prosecutor called the conduct the most uncivilized business behavior ever seen… When Thomas Watson walked into Charles Flint’s fifth avaneue suit their respective reputations surrounded them like force field. Watson’s was national. Flint’s was international. Watson had manipulated mere men. Flint had catered to the destiny of nations…. P42- 49 IBM and The Holoacust Edwin Black Time Warner 2001 Thomas Watson was essentially The Successful All American boy- going on to become the internationally recognized – American Hero. Look for what ever reasons USA fought Germany in World War Two- the rhetoric that went to explain that- Lets at the outset ignore Germany because the genesis of this particular Holocaust Story- The Solutions Company that helped develop for it’s client – A Final solution for the Jewish Question: Well this is once again an upstate New York story, and we must never forget that or lose sight of that fact.- THINK! You see that illegitimate Jew- Austrian German Patriot could never ever have written his highly successful book Mein Kampf if earlier the mega successful American manufacture Henry Ford had not written his own book. And the ideas- The Eugenics- these ideas were being developed and discussed and enjoyed in Yale; Harvard; Columbia- New York and New England. They weren’t Hitler’s ideas at all- we must give credit where credit is due as to the climate in which the 20th century would begin to develop. So I am serious about this. I am not trying to annoy you. You see I know virtually nothing of the culture of upstate New York. I have no idea apart from a few scant pictures, a few documents- nothing … but it is likely that you as a reader do. What was the culture of your grand father, great grand father, ideas values, lives did your forbears live. If you Jewish- why did the Lower Manhattan Jews so suddenly and dramatically move to Brooklyn- How did they survive? Did any venture into the heartland of upstate New York? You do the thinking OK!

New York Pirates Too?

New York Pirates Too? In our last post we introduced the idea of Profiling- a machine/computer view of the world that reduces individual people to becoming a number- A tag line in a program which then lacking humanity- allows the Holocausts past and future to take place dependent upon the irrational but totally Fixed Profiles created. But here I am attempting to break- And will probably fail in my attempt- To break the mold upon the assumption that the wealthiest- and richest people in New York history should be accorded because of that wealth and riches- Accorded the Status of ‘Sinless Perfection’-Profile. Thus some people see the successive John D Rockefellers as being saints because they attended church and had considerable influence in the direction of the development of American Christianity by the way they used their monies- And other people have a less worthy view of these men. In our first Pirate Post Captain Kydd lived on Wall Street and had a pew in the Lower Manhattan church that is there- Yet he hung as a Pirate! Look personally I Do Not Have An Opinion on Captain Kidd; John D Rockefeller; or the men I am writing about here. My standard of judgment is to have No Standard of Judgment- Why? Well two reasons: If I develop a standard of judgment I have effectively Profiled a person and I don’t want to do that because not judging I can endlessly find out more and more about a person and their society- so I leave things open. But the second reason is Legal. The Chief Judge of History- Yes a Jew- (And Adolf Hitler in the summing up of his 1924 court case makes a final appeal to him!)The Chief Judge has made a fundamental ruling found in Matthew chapter seven verse two- and St Paul and St James independently make similar rulings- And so we can tell exactly what is going to happen to USA Judicially simply by seeing what decisions USA has made in respect of things- And those decisions then set the standards against which …. Well I guess by now… We can say…. Standards applying which will see the certain cannot be avoidable destruction of Empire State! ‘A rival tabulator developed by another Census Bureau technician named James Powers would be utilized. Power’s machines were much faster than Hollerith devices. They enjoyed several automated advances over Hollerith and were vastly less expensive… But then in 1910 in an unbelievably arrogant maneuver, Hollerith actually tried to stop the United States from excising it’s constitutional mandated duty to conduct a census claiming that the Census Bureau was about to deploy new machinery that in some way infringed his patents… but the courts eventually ruled against Tabulating Machine Company. Hollerith had lost big… The next year a disillusioned embittered Hollerith simply sold out completely. Enter Charles Flint, a rugged individualist who at the edge of the nineteenth century epitomized the affluent adventure capitalist… Flint made millions trading commodities. Weapons were one of those commodities and Flint didn’t care who he sold them to…. He licensed the manufacture of the newly invented Wright Brothers areoplane to Kaiser Wilhelm to help launch German military aviation … indeed Flint would happily sell guns and naval vessels to both sides of a brutal war… Of Flint it is written, ‘Had anyone called him a merchant of death. Flint would have wondered what the fellow had in mind. Such was the nature of the Western World prior to the Great War’. Flint had also perfected an infamous business modality, the so called ‘Trust’. Trust s were the anti competitive industrial combinations that often secretly devoured competition and ultimately lead to a government crackdown….Newspapers of the day dubbed Flint the father of trusts. The title made him at once a glamorous legend (Like a Pirate) and the villain of his era…. The commercial extension of his ingenuity (Hollerith) and turbulent persona was now in the hands of a more skilled international manipulator, Charles Flint. Hollerith was willing to make millions, but only on his terms. Flint wanted millions- on any terms. Moreover Flint wanted CTR/IBM’s helm to be captained by a businessman, not a technocrat. For that he chose one of America’s up and coming business scoundrels. Thomas J Watson. P38-41 IBM and the Holocaust.

Final Solution- Comes from Buffalo?

Final Solution? The Boy from Buffalo Herman Hollerith invented IBM. Born 1860, Hollerith was the son of intellectual German parents who brought their proud and austere German heritage with them when they settled in Buffalo New York. Herman was only seven when his father a language teacher died in a riding accident …. Young Hollerith moved to New York city when at age fifteen he enrolled in the College of the City of New York. Except for spelling difficulties he immediately showed creative aptitude and at age nineteen graduated from Columbia School of mines with a degree in engineering boasting perfect 10.0 grades. In 1879Hollerith accepted the invitation of his Columbia professor to become an assistant in the US Census Bureau. In those days the census was little more than a head count devoid of information about an individual’s occupation, education or other traits because of the challenge of counting millions of Americans…. Because of the Post civil War population had grown so swiftly, perhaps doubling since the last census, experts predicted spending more than a decade to count the 1890 census; in other words the next 1900 census would be underway before the results of the previous one was complete…. Inventive Hollerith began to think about a solution, French looms, simple music boxes, piano players used punched holes on rolls or cards to automate rote activity. About a year later Hollerith was struck with this idea when he saw a train conductor punch tickets in a special pattern to record physical characteristic such as height, hair, color, size of nose and clothing – a sort of punched photograph. Other conductors could read the code and then catch people reusing the ticket of the original passenger…. Soon Hollerith found that his system could count more than people. It could rapidly perform the most tedious accounting functions for any enterprise… most importantly the system not only counted it produced analysis… When the US Census Bureau sponsored a contest seeking the best automated counting device for its 1890 census, it was no surprise when the Hollerith design won… After the 1890 Census, Hollerith became an overnight tabulation hero. His statistical feat caught the attention of the general scientific world . His system had saved the Census Bureau some $5million or about a third of its budget…. Now an army of census takers could ask 235 questions… suddenly government could profile its own population. P32-34 IBM and the Holocaust –Edwin Black 2001. As I write this there is a terrorist event happening in a nearby nation similar to our one. Hence when that event unfolded our own authorities immediately responded. They raised the threat level and immediately went into preprogramed action so watching the authorities we were able to understand the nature of their thinking- how they plan and act in a crisis. With this sort of behavior from authorities we can get some insight into their Profiling ; Threat levels; Persons of interest; Metadata -inter connections; Cell phone location or similar tracking devices- With our spy agencies having too large budgets and too much technology – and the unwillingness to take Humit- (human intelligence– actually asking people what they are doing in life and why;) What motivates them? And thus again we witness these embarrassing Key Stone Cop style events outplayed on the TV news as Authorities use inaccurate profiling and technology to come again to unusual and –wrong conclusions sometimes with deadly results for innocent people. Society upset…. But years ago I gave the book I am now quoting from away… and was wondering where it was never expecting to see it again- And now it has turned up unexpectedly so lets see where it is going. Can we say here that the European Holocausts which saw well over 12 million die –Bloodlands- Well they are looking at a- New York- Empire State Story? The Boy from Buffalo? True Story!

End of the line?

True end of Empire State Taking a train ride from 42nd Street Time Square Manhattan New York to the end of the line so to speak departing in 1932 you can end up as the endlessly running defining stage show suggests at Buffalo –shoes nicely shined on the overnight sleeper to as newly married see the Niagara falls in the morning. Or a less clichéd more adventurous historically aware journey can take you also by train to Montauk. Both destinations are Indian territory and by far the more important of the two is Buffalo because train travel- especially freight cars to New Jersey is the powerhouse of the Empire State link to the wealth of the Great Lakes and effectively despite European bravado the upstate New York Indian tribes holding the vital Albany to Buffalo tribal land dictated which of the four aspiring powers –Germany; Netherlands; France or Great Britain would be the winner in North America with only a technical difficulty in respect of British Navy ships sinking of their own accord allowing a poorly led rag tag army of Yankee rebels to gain an ill defined independence from the host European powers. Thus compared to Buffalo and beyond that the fastest and most successful iron age industrial town in human history- Detroit! – Compared to that the train ride out to the end of the line- Even going past East Hampton- well ….. Montauk? Why bother? Which for the East Hampton elite some with solid continuous coming up to 400 year blood lines in the Empire State- Well they would agree- Don’t Ever Come Out Here- OK! Because as a new comer to this North American society- Well… you don’t and never will belong! (And God knows how the son of an African exchange student has gotten to become President- What in God’s Name is going on in Empire State?) So apart from pictures of towering snow banks and harrowing stories of survival or death in Buffalo- the early snows of Thanksgiving 2014; Or an equally bleak closed down empty beach with the rollers coming in from the exposed North Atlantic-what if anything could we learn from taking these trips to the end of empire state? Well that entirely depends upon how as journalist or historians or both we work through the information we glean and gather the impressions we are taking in. As fully fledged Marxist Economic historians we can sit beside the road –Highway 27 any place, nowhere in particular and in the course of 24 hours watch with fascination truck movements. With a Harvard MBA approach building up very quickly an in depth understanding of where the food and other goods coming into this elite community comes from; How much economic activity is being generated locally and by the end of the day- by the end of the week- by the end of the month- pretty much understand what would cause people to starve to death in East Hampton amidst their accumulated wealth, or how quickly vital water and power supply could be cut off in classic True End of Empire State style- Or for whom in the community- having sorted the essentials of living- New York burning would be for them pretty much – Well we Bonachers just kept on living in that time. That Marxist Economic understanding would tell the watcher who the real elite are. Sustainability is not about having a 10 acre lifestyle block with a six car garage attached to a dwelling. Sustainability is firstly about having a dependable year round water supply sorted out. Then having healthy productive land and food being grown from that land appropriate to the needs of the community. Then it is about staying warm in winter so there needs to be wood for burning and wood fired cooking stoves, and beyond that some useful other economic activity for playing a useful role in the community…. And then and only then can the world go to hell as Great Babylon Burns. Buffalo will continue because geologically it is on a rip in North America which allows transport one way or another to the Atlantic and with that connection- World Trade and manufacturing associated with that flow of goods. Hampton is a nice place- an Indian- becoming then European village in a healthy and attractive location –fishing farming a good place to live. Empire State?

Hampton- Her reputation

Hampton- Her Reputation? ‘It was the same Clayton Morey who had been Evan Frankel’s bête noire on the town planning board. Frankel long gone, but now Morey had Jerry Della Femina after him. After all these years. Morey had consolidated power as one of the most influential men in the village, in terms of how it looked. He has served fourty five years of cumulative time as chairman or member of the myriad of different appeals, zoning, and design boards….(In larger New York history the all time most powerful individual shaping the flow of transport and parks was Robert Moses coming to power as an official with the La Guardia administration p297-303 ‘Imperial City’ G Moorhouse 1989) Jerry described him as ‘the guy in charge of beauty. He tells people what’s beautiful and what’s not. If he doesn’t think it is beautiful they can’t have it. This is a powerful post. He can make people squirm. He can keep them from opening a store and making a living. He can hold up their lives for months’. What pissed of Jerry most was the ‘Coney Island’ remark. ‘Coney Island’ is a code word among the Old East Hampton crowd. It meant and outsider, the ethnic, the newly rich. The ‘Coney Island’ remark especially burned Jerry…. When the village administration first ordered Jerry to remove the pumpkins from the triangle of glass in front of the Red Horse Market in Oct Jerry said, ‘No, I will not remove them Pumpkins are not signs’… East Hampton Justice Court appointed a special prosecutor, Scott Allen of a Brentwood Long Island law firm that handled village zoning cases to pursue the pumpkin matter….they extended their arms and the officer fastened the steel bracelets lightly around the men’s wrists. Then Jerry and David were led out a back door into the parking lot, where a police car was waiting to take them to the court house… for a moment it seemed so surreal that he wanted to laugh. But in another instance it stopped being funny. David Silver’s nine year old daughter, Annie who was watching from the sidelines with her mother began to sob. Silver had promised her that despite what he frineds said at school that he was not going to jail… Ironic as it might seem in light of present day East Hampton litigious culture, between 1650 and 1665, the first fifteen years of the town’s existence, slander was the most single most common law suit in East Hampton. Sociologists say that societies in formation sometimes use slander lawsuits to establish pecking order and status among themselves. Perhaps that is why almost every adult member of the thirty five or so families in town were involved in a slander suit… But the slander lawsuits didn’t reach their apotheosis until Goody Garlick was nealy burned alive for being a witch. P273-277, 81-82 Philistines at the Hedgerow Steven Gaines Hodder New York `1998 –Excerpts quote without permission for review of an excellent must read book- With thanks. Most important of all American literature is the book by the alcoholic author published in 1956 and running to over twelve million well read copies since- Peyton Place and while not set in East Hampton in that immediate pre WW2 setting –faithfully reproduces the genuine tensions and cultures of small town New England of which New York State and New Jersey is part thence spreading out to embrace the rest of small town America and the world. And in fact as reported somewhere in the text of this book I have been studying- one of the village elders of East Hampton claims some situation is ‘Peyton Place’ illustrating that every educated person in that community was in the 60s and 70s aware of the massive double standards and hidden evil underling the Pretense End of Empire State. Now as a theologian and bible translator I get involved in utter obtuse and obscure yet vital to Christian religion fights such as with St Paul against Jude and St Peter ignoring and casting aside the Hebrew text of the Book of Enoch; And going to the heart of that first century struggle do not accept the way that St Barnabas translates into Greek and quotes a well known passage from Isaiah chapter one about the sacrifice animals being in some way unacceptable to God- His opinion. I guess –and not wanting to take sides as being a translator I must be impartial and let an author say what he is saying…. I go with Ben Adam in being as much as possible a humanist to the point of ignoring the possibility of demons, Satan, angels etc. as not relevant to the world of Adam/Earth and ignore ‘Replacement’. Hence the Salem Witch trials and the same intense phase in the establishment of East Hampton both in the religious 17th Century East Hampton Court and faithfully re-enacted in the late secular 20th Century in the same judicial venue fighting mainly over planning rules this time around… theologically I reject the Ultimate- Supreme Court approach to law of an utterly mythical American Declaration and Constitution- And playing God when it comes to calling someone evil. But what I grab hold of and see as the wisest thing which our author has observed amongst the trashy gossip about Martha Stewart or late coming Miss Goldberg is this eternal struggle of people living for a time in some place- To establish Eternal ownership on that land. Ertz- Territory –Homeland for the Jews- Reputation. Pray with me as we close this review of the Steven Gaines –Hodders 1998 book ‘Philistines at the Hedgerow’ Passion and Property in the Hampton’s. Eternal Jew - for some of us a mythical religious concept and for others of us a real person with whom we consult in respect of our Jewishness and religion and life here on earth- We regardless of whether or not we have spoken to you consciously before- Do now ask you in the context of East Hampton for us a picture of The End of Empire State- Ask you to confirm if we – our family lines are now so deep –sixteen going on twenty generations in North America or coming from Indian tribes where the generations are into the hundreds- We ask you if by faith we surviving in what so ever will come in the future can confidently continue as a Bonacher or similar in the place where we have been planted as a family. Or failing that we now ask you as Jews for a sign. Something as big and not able to be missed as Super Storm Sandy- largest metrological event in the history of the North Atlantic coming ashore on this fragile coastline- Something which enables us consulting the Hebrew text of our ancient books to know the time has come to avoid now since the release and callous response to the Senate Report into the conduct of the CIA and spy agencies- Is it is now for us unsafe to remain here and it is time to go to land you have promised us? Or as a third group of those praying this… Not having a 400 year attachment to this land. Not having a known about Jewish bloodline. We ask simply that you will help us to live despite the pressures of the Pretense of daily life in our Empire State- that maybe catching here a glimpse of The End of Empire State- We will in little baby steps begin as a little child to trust you and do intuitive things we wouldn’t normally do so that little by little we will become vital parts of humanities largest Isaiah 60 Exodus New York. Amen

Who gets to keep the Hamptons?

Who inherits the Hamptons? ‘they found the artist and his wife not South of Highway 27 ….but in a ramshackle farmhouse a few miles north of the town in a place called Springs- population then (1949) 360 – a section literally and figuratively on the other side of the railroad tracks, or ‘below the bridge’ as the townsfolk would say. Springs was backwoods of town, deep country undisturbed fields, thick woods, gorgeous ponds with green saltwater meadows. It was a closed community culturally as well as socially isolated from East Hampton, with bloodlines so intertwined that natives even had their own derisive nickname, Bonackers, East Hampton’s equivalent of the hillbillies. In present day East Hampton they are simply known as ‘Bubs’. Bonackers are mostly descendants fo Lion Gardiner’s less well to do employees, the Bennets and Kings and lesters, who unlike Goody Garlick and her husband couldn’t afford to build houses in town when they moved to the mainland 400 years ago. They wound up in a patch of rich land about three miles square between Accabonac Creek and Louse Point. Fifteen generations of Bonackers have lived on this land, untouched by good fortune and the spoils of the Summer Colony. The subsisted as dirt poor small time farmers and fishermen. The most financially productive Springs had ever been was during the Prohibition, when the nooks and crannies of it’s water front made it a favorite destination for rumrunners. It had one saloon, Jungle Pete’s and one grocery, Springs General Store. It didn’t even have a fire department until 1965; when one newcomer asked what to do in case of a fire, the Bubs solution was ‘Don’t have a fire’. You can tell True Bonackers in East Hampton because of their distinctive Bonac dialect, an accent of English and speech patterns whose roots can be traced back to Dorset, England. It’s extravagated Yankee twang, such as saying ‘yit’ for ‘yet’ and repeating words twice, twice; ‘Yes yes’ (I’ve got that-Ed) or adding syllables, like ‘hayat’ for ‘hat’. Bonackers were apt not to be ‘long in themouth’ with summer strangers, whose presence sometimes turned their little neck of the woods ‘catty wumper’ instead of ‘finest kind’, the way they liked things. Strangers were ‘from away’ ….they appeared for a season or two and then faded away from memory.’ P118-119 Philistines in the Hedgerow S Gaines Hodder New York 1998. Sure when it comes to a comprehensive overview of South Hampton, West Hampton, North Hampton or East Hampton- The Hamptons of Long Island New York anthropologically and even historically the most fascinating enduring and endearing of all are the True Bonackers. Regardless of engineered fashion and land values –Land lust of Homosexuals; Jews; Business people- or in the case of the father of all that Alan Schneider- Jewish Homosexual Real Estate Agent… And yes inspite of Mossad trying to protect Spielberg or the over the top antics of Perlman at the Kosher- The Creeks… In the end the approaching Holocaust – And yes history is full of them and for New York Jews No Exception Will Be Made- Enduring in the Hamptons are and will be forever –True Bonackers! How do I know this? Well actually The Eternal Jew told me- The King of the Jews- or at least he died for being that! He said ‘The meek Bonackers shall inherit The Hamptons’- and I guess we can include in that some Long Island Indians as well getting their land back. Look the amazing thing about this is that people will survive- get given all the wealth of this place merely because of their distinctive speech! About 20 years ago PBS or it could have been BBC did a program on American English and found that in these communities 400 year old English is frozen in time- Word selection, dialect, thought patterns unaffected by the culture around them. Therefore no matter what happens in this Very End of Empire State - The meek inherit (And on that my Editor has just asked me about our Senior Pastor Peter of City Impact Church with the big black Chevy with number plate ‘1 PM 1’) So while dumb Jews and other fellow travelers either go into Holocaust or take the Hebrew Bible seriously and return to the Promised Land- And the deserving rich get slaughtered and some because of what has happened in USA get selected to be slaves…. True Bonackers get the Hamptons! Good Eh! And finally- my Editor says now I’m just raving- Well out of my depth in Bronze Age Pictorial Hebrew the three letters Sh, L, M have one meaning in the Hebrew Prophets- Payback! Hey read the Hebrew and see if I am right OK! Shalom paul.

A Pirate from Wall Street visits The Hamptons

A Pirate from Wall street visits the Hamptons ‘Finally he came to another unique claim of Gardiner’s Island, the spot where Captain Kydd buried treasure in 1699. John Gardiner, Lion Gardiner’s grandson, was roused from his bed on night by Captain William Kydd and forced to watch as his men buried gold and jewels on the island. John Gardiner was a huge man, called The Powerful One by the Montauks. He knew Kidd before that night. Kidd wasn’t a pirate at all (So why do you change the spelling?-Ed Well when he is a pretend Pirate I give his name Pirate Treatment) But a well known businessman who owned a fine house in Wall Street and a pew in Trinity Church. He had gone into the ugly but perfectly legal business of (Selling worthless stocks and bonds-Ed) of bounty hunter of the seas. He had a letter of marque from the Crown permitting him to raid ships of French and African privateers on the high seas, then to bring the spoils back to London to divvy them up with his backers. In 1699, after one particularly good score- a ship carrying the dowry of the sultan of Madagascar- Kydd was on his way home to London when he heard that he had been declared a pirate by his partners. He decided instead of returning home to London to certain trouble, he would set out for Boston, where he could clear his name. On the way it occurred to him that it might be prudent to hide the treasure until the matter was settled and stumbling on Gardiner’s Island….he thought it was the perfect place to hide it. He woke John in the middle of the night and forced him to witness the burying of fifty eight rubies, several sacks of gold bars and silver…kydd warned that ‘If I come back for this treasure and it’s not here. I’ll have your head or the head of your sons’ p86 Philistines at the Hedgerow Steven Gaines 1998. Historians are supposed to explain history rather than creating the kind of mythology we would expect from the Jewish film maker Stephen Spielberg.- childrens fantasy pirate stories…. But Philip Shoto does a much better job of attempting to explain the utterly complex struggles between European powers in the 17th century which came off the back of religious wars but here in the Atlantic it was about intercepting and capturing the ships carrying valuable goods from American and African colonial territories- the three way trade of which the America’s and New York as a World Trade Organizer was becoming the critical part. However the most important thing to learn here is that utterly respectable- or maybe Wantabe Respectable New York was where increasingly this kind of activity was being hosted and so we have this eternal question in the Hamptons. If some ‘Businessman’ turns up from Wall Street or some other city location having made his money –God alone knows how- Should we automatically assume they are a ‘Pirate’ and no I am not as an historian being stupid. Let me give you a more recent example to consider from the late 1930s and early 1940s when New York businessmen such as Prescott Bush were actively supporting the rise of Hitler’s Germany. And like all good New York- Wall Street Pirate Stories this one concerns to goode ship ‘Walter Teagle’ who was at that time well known and respected for being the Chairman of New York’s Standard Oil. Now the ship sunk! The greater shock and sadness being in the name and reputation of Walter Teagle rather than those unfortunate crew who drowned in the event. But why did the ship sink? Well in the early years of the 1940s many ships were being sunk in the Atlantic by German U Boats- And the Walter Teagle being a Standard Oil ship was carrying vital supplies of fuel…. For the German Navy U Boats while of interest in respect of the bombing of London at that time- helpfully as well Standard Oil was supplying a vital fuel mixture allowing those bombers to fly…. The pirate profits all returning to USA where some of those monies were going to train theological students with aspiration for the peaceful rule of our Lord Jesus Christ. Peace on earth! Am I being too hard on Standard Oil’s support for Hitler’s Germany based out of New York? (Trading with the Enemy Charles Higham 1983) Or a worse situation developing whereby we –Think- IBM supplied computers were being used by Germany to organize a successful Holocaust of Jews. (IBM and the Holocaust 2001) Can we have some respectability when it comes to celebrating New York business success… Or is this 1699 Pirate Story typical for visitors to the Hamptons?