Ron Paul’s weird theories about secret conspiracties by international bureaucrats to overthrow American democracy within the United States using a highway, of all things, certainly are kooky. However, even Ron Paul’s kooky conspiracy theories are outdone by those that are promoted by the political allies of Mike Huckabee.
Christian preacher John Hagee has claimed that there is a secret conspiracy afoot within the European Union to establish a “a one-world government, a one-world currency and a one-world religion” that will be led Satan himself. Hagee doesn’t think that such a conspiracy will be realized far into a mythical future. Rather, Hagee believes that the conspiracy will be put into action in the near future. Furthermore, Hagee thinks that American foreign policy should be changed in order to confront the satanic conspiracy in Europe.
For John Hagee to have these weird satanic conspiracy theories would be one thing, if he were on the periphery of power in America. Unfortunately, Hagee is not on the periphery of power at all. Hagee is a top political ally of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
When Mike Huckabee calls John Hagee “one of the great Christian leaders of our nation”, Huckabee is declaring that foreign policy based on conspiracy theories about satanic influence on the European Union are just the ticket for the USA. Remember that Mike Huckabee is running for President on the basis of his own status as a Christian leader. Thus John Hagee’s eccentric ramblings about Satan’s impact on American foreign policy can be seen as at the core of Mike Huckabee’s plan for the White House, if he should win it.
(Sources: American Prospect, May 21, 2006; Reuters, December 24, 2007)
