Fun Westword article about our own Denver International Airport, the cloud of conspiracy theories that have circled around it since its construction, and how many of them center on the murals by Leo Tanguma.
Weidner explains that some high-level factions in Masonic society may be using the murals to alert the general population to the earth-shattering political and environmental changes in store for 2012. Either that, or those factions are amazingly arrogant. Because for Weidner and other conspiracy experts, the symbolism is as explicit as a manifesto.
One mural features three women in coffins surrounded by endangered animals, including a Quetzal bird, named after the Mayan god Quetzalcoatl, in a glass cage — an “extinction message,” Weidner says. The next panel shows children of the world gathered around a “gigantic psychedelic plant of some kind. And they’re all extolling that all the races are going to live together in a world of peace.”
“It’s like the one-world government bylaws,” says Noory.
But the peace doesn’t last. Another mural depicts a Gestapo-like figure “knifing the dove of peace with his bayonet,” surrounded by crushed cities and starving citizens. Considered in the context of other curiosities captured in his documentary, Weidner concludes that these DIA murals reveal that 2012 will be a time of intense military oppression.
Oooooh … spooooky …
And I can’t skip over this part:
Former BBC media personality David Icke, for example, has written twenty books in his quest to prove that the world is controlled by an elite group of reptilian aliens known as the Babylonian Brotherhood, whose ranks include George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth II, the Jews and Kris Kristofferson. In various writings, lectures and interviews, he has long argued that DIA is one of many home bases for the otherworldly creatures, a fact revealed in the lizard/alien-faced military figure shown in Tanguma’s murals.
“Denver is scheduled to be the Western headquarters of the US New World Order during martial law take over,” Icke wrote in his 1999 book, The Biggest Secret. “Other contacts who have been underground at the Denver Airport claim that there are large numbers of human slaves, many of them children, working there under the control of the reptilians.”
On the other end of the conspiracy spectrum is anti-vaccination activist Dr. Len Horowitz, who believes that global viruses such as AIDS, Ebola, West Nile, tuberculosis and SARS are actually population-control plots engineered by the government. The former dentist from Florida does not speak about 2012 or reptiles — in fact, he sees Icke’s Jewish alien lizards as a Masonic plot to divert observers from the true earthly enemies: remnants of the Third Reich. He even used the mural’s sword-wielding military figure as the front cover of his 2001 book, Death in the Air.
“The Nazi alien symbolizes the Nazi-fascist links between contemporary population controllers and the military-medical-petrochemical-pharmaceutical cartel largely accountable for Hitler’s rise to power,” Horowitz explained in a 2003 interview with BookWire. A YouTube video dated last fall shows him standing before a podium as he deconstructs photos of the murals projected onto a large screen. He points to Tanguma’s work as an “expression of the devil-doers’ confidence” in their plan to generate mass genocide of undesirable populations through air-based chemical warfare. The wispy rainbow that extends between the two adjacent murals is a stand-in for lethal toxins sprayed into the atmosphere, he tells the audience, “and as a result, you have dying people, mostly ethnic populations.”
Evangelical Christians have also found messages in the murals. In a 2003 newsletter, biblical research group Cephas Ministry included photos of the murals, along with the caution that they referred to bio-warfare, 9/11 and paganism. “They are frightening to Christians as well as American citizenry since one speaks of death to Christianity as we know it,” the newsletter noted. Another grainy YouTube video shows a speaker alleging that the murals indicate that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has built a concentration camp below the airport to systematically murder the “people that Lucifer hates.”
Many of these Internet speculators believe that DIA is linked via underground tunnels to nearby conspiratorial hotbeds such as NORAD and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. But some also believe that the conspiracy stretches from the airport to controversial Colorado tragedies such as Columbine. (A few even posit that those students may have been consumed by aliens.) One 1998 article posted on www.konformist.com managed to connect the DIA conspiracy to JonBenét and the Denver Broncos.
The funny thing is, a regular venue for hearing about this sort of thing is that crazy Coast to Coast late-night radio show … which I only listen to … when returning from business trips … driving home from DIA.
No matter how I slice it … I keep finding myself … reporting from the center of the conspiracy. Bwah-ha-ha!
What does Leo Tanguma say about the murals?
He’s interviews in the article. From what I recall:
1. He was asked to do one mural, but did two.
2. He painted a lot of kids he knew into the pictures.
3. He’d been given some instructions on what to paint, but he did the painting.
4. There’s no hidden Masonic / UFO / NWO / EIEIO message in them.
But, then … that’s just what you’d expect him to say, right?
Waaaal, the tunnels would make it much more convenient for getting to and from Stargate Command, so of course I do believe they exist.
I do like the casual assertion that the tunnels stretch (casually) to Cheyenne Mountain (probably about 100 miles away), etc. Riiiiiiight …
So how will WE write it? How shall it read when we look back on December 21, 2012? We certainly have the elements in place to destroy ourselves. The planet has experienced cataclysmic events in its history – polar shifts, ice ages, etc. No one really knows. What the Mayan’s meant with their End-Count calendar will always be up for speculation. It fires the imagination, for sure. SOooo let’s write it like we want it. That is what Chris Fenwick did in the #1 Visionary Novel: “the 100th human.” You choose…
I’m willing to leave the advertisement up, just because it’s fitting. And amusing.