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(The Elkhorn Manifesto) 

SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA:

The Real Reason the Government Won't Debate
Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Re-legalization

An Open Letter to All Americans
By R. William Davis 

Documented Evidence of a Secret Business and Political Alliance
Between the U.S. "Establishment" and the Nazis -
Before, During and After World War II - up to the Present. 



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PREFACE 

Before the Gatewood Galbraith ( http://www.ka.net/usinc/ )for Governor
Campaign in 1991, few Kentuckians knew that the plant that the federal
government had demonized for over 50 years as "Marijuana - Assassin of
Youth," was, in fact, Cannabis Hemp, the most traded commodity in the
world until the mid-1800s, and our state's number one crop, industry,
and most important source of revenue, for over 150 years. 

Today, thanks to the efforts of pioneer hemp researchers and public
advocates such as Galbraith, Jack Fraizer, Jack Herer, Chris Conrad, Ed
Rosenthal, Don Wirtshafter and others, the federal government's
unjustifiable suppression of our state's right to develop our most
valuable and versatile natural resource, is facing increasing opposition
from an informed public. Hemp is now recognized as  the number one
agriculturally renewable raw material in the world, and perhaps the only
crop / industry which can guarantee us industrial and economic
independence from the trans-national corporations. 

"Shadow of the Swastika" is a follow-up to my earlier work, "Cannabis
Hemp: the Invisible Prohibition Revealed," which I wrote and published
in support of the Galbraith Campaign. Since publication of that booklet,
there has been growing public acceptance of the evidence that Marijuana
Prohibition was created in 1937, not to protect society from the "evils
of the drug Marijuana," as the Federal government claimed, but as an act
of deliberate economic and industrial sabotage against the re-emerging
Industrial Hemp Industry. 

Previous investigations by hemp researchers have been limited to the
suppression of free-market competition from the hemp industry, and
focused on the activities of three prominent members of America's
corporate, industrial and banking establishment during the mid- to
late-1930s: 


WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, the newspaper and magazine tycoon.

     The expected rebirth of cannabis hemp as a less expensive source of
     pulp for paper meant his millions of acres of prime timberland, and
     investment in wood pulp papermaking equipment, would soon be worth
     much less.  In the 1920s, about the same time as the equipment was
     developed to economically mass-produce raw hemp into pulp and fiber
     for paper, he began the "Reefer Madness" hoax in his newspaper and
     magazine publications.


ANDREW MELLON, founder of the Gulf Oil Corporation.

     He knew that cannabis hemp was an alternative industrial raw
     material for the production of thousands of products, including
     fuel and plastics, which, if allowed to compete in the free-market,
     would threaten the future profits of the oil companies.  As
     Secretary of the Treasury he created the Federal Bureau of
     Narcotics, and appointed his own future nephew-in-law, Harry
     Anslinger, as director.  Anslinger would later use the sensational,
     and totally fabricated, articles published by Hearst, to push the
     Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 through Congress, which successfully
     destroyed the rebirth of the cannabis hemp industry.
     A prominent member of one Congressional subcommittee who voted in
     favor of this bill was Joseph Guffey of Pennsylvania, an oil tycoon
     and former business partner of Andrew Mellon in the Spindletop oil
     fields in Texas.

THE DU PONT CHEMICAL CORPORATION,

     which owned the patents on synthetic petrochemicals and industrial
     processes that promised billions of dollars in future profits from
     the sale of wood pulp paper, lead additives for gasoline, synthetic
     fibers and plastics, if hemp could be suppressed.  At the time, du
     Pont family influence in both government and the private sector was
     unmatched, according to historians and journalists.

This publication, however, reveals documented historical evidence that
the suppression of the hemp industry was only one key part of a much
larger conspiracy in the 1930s, not only by the three corporate
interests named above, but by many others, as well. 

Congressional records, FBI reports and investigations by the Justice
Department, during the 1930s and 1940s, have already documented evidence
of this wider plot. A list of the corporations named include Du Pont,
Standard Oil, and General Motors, all of which were proven to be
conspiring with Nazi industrial cartels to eliminate competition
world-wide and divide among themselves the Earth's industrial resources
and commercial markets, for profitable exploitation. 

This conspiracy succeeded. It is now obvious that this lack of serious
competition in the industrial raw materials market caused our present -
and totally contrived - addiction to petrochemicals. Its success is
directly responsible for the most troubling problems we now face in the
1990s; serious damage to our environment, concentration of economic and
political power into fewer and fewer hands, and the weakening of the
rights of individuals and states to determine their own futures. 

It is more and more evident that, given the historical record, the
structure of the New World Order is being built upon the Foundation of
Marijuana Prohibition, and only the relegalization of free-market hemp
competition can save us.

R. William Davis
July 4, 1996
Louisville, Kentucky



