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WITHNAIL AND I writer/director Bruce Robinson has spent the better part of two decades researching a long book on Jack the Ripper. The book was published last week and has attracted a great deal of press attention, some of it linked below. As with other authors on the topic, Robinson believes he has unmasked the true identity of the killer, and he argues his case in a densely written volume of nearly a thousand pages that outlines a detailed government and masonic conspiracy. Robinson appears to be a sincere, dedicated and well-intentioned researcher - a friend of mine who closely follows JFK assassination research mentioned Robinson's book to me this week, is reading it now and says that he finds it compelling. Amazon links and various reviews and interviews with Robinson are below. I'll probably read this after I finish Talbot's Dulles biography, and will post thoughts about it in this thread once I've done so.
The reviews at the Amazon UK link are more helpful than the ones on the US site.
Bruce Robinson's THEY ALL LOVE JACK: BUSTING JACK THE RIPPER
Amazon US link
http://www.amazon.com/They-All-Love-Jack...+love+jack
Amazon UK link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/They-All-Love-Ja...the+ripper
Reviews and Interviews
THE TELEGRAPH 4/5
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to...on-review/
THE GUARDIAN - "..a huge establishment cover-up... a bloody good read"
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oc...withnail-i
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD -
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/jack...k511h.html
THE IRISH TIMES - "..exhaustively researched, immensely entertaining.."
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/...-1.2394456
THE INDEPENDENT
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entert...86668.html
GQ MAGAZINE
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/art...e-robinson
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Anthony Thorne Wrote:WITHNAIL AND I writer/director Bruce Robinson has spent the better part of two decades researching a long book on Jack the Ripper. The book was published last week and has attracted a great deal of press attention, some of it linked below. As with other authors on the topic, Robinson believes he has unmasked the true identity of the killer, and he argues his case in a densely written volume of nearly a thousand pages that outlines a detailed government and masonic conspiracy. Robinson appears to be a sincere, dedicated and well-intentioned researcher - a friend of mine who closely follows JFK assassination research mentioned Robinson's book to me this week, is reading it now and says that he finds it compelling. Amazon links and various reviews and interviews with Robinson are below. I'll probably read this after I finish Talbot's Dulles biography, and will post thoughts about it in this thread once I've done so.
The reviews at the Amazon UK link are more helpful than the ones on the US site.
Bruce Robinson's THEY ALL LOVE JACK: BUSTING JACK THE RIPPER
Amazon US link
http://www.amazon.com/They-All-Love-Jack...+love+jack
Amazon UK link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/They-All-Love-Ja...the+ripper
Reviews and Interviews
THE TELEGRAPH 4/5
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to...on-review/
THE GUARDIAN - "..a huge establishment cover-up... a bloody good read"
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oc...withnail-i
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD -
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/jack...k511h.html
THE IRISH TIMES - "..exhaustively researched, immensely entertaining.."
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/...-1.2394456
THE INDEPENDENT
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entert...86668.html
GQ MAGAZINE
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/art...e-robinson
I'll be interested in reading your thoughts once you have read the book, Anthony.
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I spent a pretty small amount of time looking into Jack The Ripper and the masonic aspect seemed blindingly obvious to me. I might well give this book a read.
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I'm a third of the way through this book now, and it's exceptional. The masonic aspect is featured heavily, and the establishment cover-up of the Ripper's links to the Freemasons is the foundation of the book, laid out with facts, names, and ascerbic analysis that is completely convincing. This is an important book. I'll post more when I've finished it.
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Bruce Robinson reading an excerpt from the book:
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.â€
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I finished reading the book a few days ago. It is very good - very angry, moving and affecting in parts - and the general consensus among other critics (and folks on a couple of the prominent 'Ripperology' forums such as Casebook.org) is that it is unlike any other book on Jack the Ripper. The scope is much wider and the portrait Robinson paints of corruption throughout the era is a frightening one. He spends a couple of hundred pages examining the figures involved in the investigation, shows their widespread links to elite Freemason groups, and methodically breaks down the mechanics of a cover-up. It's really not just a Ripper book, it's additionally a very well written and convincing study on conspiracy in general. It's informative about the era, but I also took its depiction of the establishment working to protect itself from an honest enquiry to be prescient about current events. The Daily Mail in the UK took the time to craft a detailed hit-piece on the volume, which should tell you something.
Robinson makes a strong case for his suspect, and carefully points out where events and evidence rule out the various other Ripper suspects discussed elsewhere. Much of his analysis is ingenious, and he makes a lot of observations - new to me - that are obvious in retrospect. I'm hesitant to write a long list of all the good points I found in the book, as it would take a 2000 word piece to do the work justice. I'll simply say for now that I recommend everyone on this forum should take the chance to read it.
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“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.â€
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I'm part way through reading this book, and what a spanking good read it is too. The author harangues and sets about the Freemasons with true belief in their vileness. Because they are present at every stage of the Ripper story, then and also today (still guiding unwary souls - including your truly - from the right path) and because at the higher levels they were - and are - foul.
It is my considered view that Freemasonry is responsible for the continujg cover up of the paedophile story that has haunted the UK these past several years - but which seems now to have been put to bed with the deaths of Lewds Leon Brittan and Janner (and others) - who had they been put on trial might well have spilled the beans and consequently pulled away the dressing from the festering wound that is the British Establishment.
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David do you think the dead men themselves were Masons? That the whole thing is a Masonic thing? Or that there are Masons also involved generally as well as non Masons so they want to cover it all up if one of theirs is involved some where in the chain?
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Magda Hassan Wrote:David do you think the dead men themselves were Masons? That the whole thing is a Masonic thing? Or that there are Masons also involved generally as well as non Masons so they want to cover it all up if one of theirs is involved some where in the chain?
I do.
The English disease as Idi Amin once accurately described it.
Paedophilia, buggery and murder in excelsis!
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge. Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
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