This next information may seem off topic, but it really isn't. Secret societies and public societies that keep secrets both exist to hide something.
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As I was researching the Shriners I finally understood something that has been bugging me for close to 30 years. It is the organization The Ancient Order of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha, Nebraska.
(That's Nebraska spelled backwards. )
I first heard about the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben while reading about the Franklin Child Sex Scandal in Omaha, Nebraska. This scandal broke when it was dicovered that boys from Boys Town in Omaha were being snuck into the White House after dark. The investigation revealed much more. Nebraska State Senator John DeCamp looked into it and wrote a book. Other people looking into it ended up dead.
The Franklin Cover Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, And Murder In Nebraska : John W. DeCamp : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Franklin Coverup Scandal The Child sex ring that reached Bush/Reagan Whitehouse
Here's the gist of the story. The DeCamp book is a great read if you would like details.
Boys Town was founded by Catholic priest Father Edward Flanagan in 1917 to care for and give vocational training to orphaned and wayward young men. He would specifically seek out troubled and criminal youth to give them a fresh start. There is a strong possibility that Father Flanagan was a good man with no bad intentions towards these children and young men. But it was technically a Catholic organization. The Church would have assigned a number of priests there as Boys Town grew. The odds are pretty high that a pedophile priest would end up there. In fact, the pedos probably did everything they could to get assigned to the large and secluded group of troubled youth with few family attachments.
In the 1980's (and earlier, although there is no documentation) some of the young men from Boys Town were being groomed to be homosexual sex partners. They would be snuck out of Boys Town and taken to have sex with older men. Sometimes they would be taken over state lines or to politicians in Washington DC. When the older boys weren't being trafficked, they hung out on a rail outside a restaurant near the police station and sold themselves openly. When girls were requested by the pedophile clients they would be taken out of local foster homes and trafficked both locally and across state lines.
This ring was managed by a man named Lawrence King who ran a local bank called Franklin Savings and Loan. He was a favorite of the Republican party and had sung the National Anthem at Republican conventions. He freely embezzled from the bank to lead a lavish lifestyle which included plane rides to Washington DC with boys and girls in tow. He got busted because lobbyist Craig Spence was sloppy on his end in DC. This led to an investigation which was pretty quickly steered away from the child trafficking. Instead, the Feds focused on the $40 million missing from Franklin Savings and Loan. King got his hand slapped, Spence "committed suicide" and essentially no other perpetrators suffered. The court tore apart the exploited child victims (young adults at the time of the trial) and ended up sending the victims to jail because the prosecutor had to portray them as liars to protect the elite.
Of course there was a media blackout about the whole scandal. We only know because DeCamp wrote his book. Congressman Barney Frank was busted the following year for allowing his homosexual lover to run a male and female prostitution ring out of Frank's apartment. Frank was reprimanded by Congress but suffered no major consequences. This was related to the Franklin scandal, but the old media blackout makes connections difficult.
Lawrence King got away with his activities because of his political connections and because the whole town of Omaha was a cesspool of the elite. They had pedos/protectors at every level of society - police, judges, lawyers, city leaders, merchants, educators, doctors, social workers, etc. Neither the exploited children nor the pedophiles got caught or arrested in the area of Omaha. Because heads were turned the other way. I'm sure Boys Town was a major money maker for the Church. They could hire out the boys as day laborers or factory workers. They had many small industries on campus as it was supposed to be a training facility. And of course the Church's favorite side-hustle...child sexual abuse.
DeCamp tried to determine the specific elites in Omaha that were serviced by the pedo ring. He of course ran into brick walls and secrecy. He did determine that the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben were a common thread. Once I started looking into the Knights, I found so many other fraternal organizations that it has taken an extra week to post this. And all the other groups will need their own post.
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Omaha, Nebraska, was settled in 1854 and incorporated in 1857. It was a larger pre-existing city in the midwest, across the river from Council Bluffs, Iowa. It was in Indian Territory until 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act stole the land for the USA. These Resetters were a group of investors from Council Bluffs. They would have been sneaking back and forth across the river for years before that to plunder and plan their renovations. They may even have been able to start excavations and renovations before 1854. It's part of the narrative that people had staked claims there before it was opened to settlement.
I found this document that has the Resetters' names, when we need them.
Omaha Illustrated
Here's a couple examples of old Omaha buildings.:
Omaha becomes a very prosperous city quite quickly, with a lot of wealthy men who ran the city. Early on the money was made as a transportation and trade hub and in meat packing. Today billionaire Warren Buffet has his company Berkshire Hathaway there. I guess he feels safe and protected. Omaha is headquarters for Union Pacific Railroads, which tells me that the area was a pre-existing railroad hub that just had to be dug out. No wonder it became a transportation center so quick. It is also an indication that this was a larger pre-existing city, probably a regional capital.
Here's an article with pictures of North Omaha mansions. One of the most intricate ones was torn down after only 25 years...yeah, right.
A History of Mansions and Estates in North Omaha
So, there were lots of buildings to explain. Of course there were the routine choices of government buildings, libraries, train station, hotels, banks, schools and colleges, hospitals, sanitoriums, churches, synagogues, etc. But they had more buildings to deal with than average, since it was a capital city.
As I laid out in a previous reply, I feel these secret fraternal organizations were established to give an excuse for the existence of certain buildings. The more buildings to be explained, the more secret fraternal organizations had to be present in the town. I found more than I expected to when I started researching it. The next post will be about these organizations, and get back to the purpose of the thread. I will address the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben in both posts.
The Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben were reportedly founded in 1895 by the Omaha Commercial Club to keep the Nebraska state fair in Omaha. Many cities were developing their own festivals and parades around this time. The founders of Ak-Sar-Ben wanted to model it after Mardi Gras in New Orleans and went to New Orleans to buy costumes and floats. They would dress in costumes, march in the parade, and crown a king and queen to rule their domain of Quivera. They would also put on performances to help raise money for their activities. This led them to build a racetrack and indoor arena they called the Coliseum.
I can't find information about whether there were Masons that were also Ak-Sar-Ben. At first I wondered if this group was formed by men who couldn't get into the Masons. Now I believe that they were probably mostly Masons, but also some non-Masons like Jews. This was a local level group to further the interests of the local robber barons. The members were prominent businessmen, and membership quickly grew. I think that this organization was formed too late to obtain a pre-existing building. They were formed after seeing the tax benefits the other organizations gained. This is their original hall, later the Aksarben Ballroom:
I feel that the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben were an early form of organized crime. Like the Mafia but not Italian. They built a horse racing track and were one of the only places to legally gamble in the Midwest for many years. The Coliseum would be used for overflow gambling, concerts and events, cattle auctions, ice skating, hockey and the Coronation of the King and Queen of Quivera. They also bought a toll bridge over the Missouri River.
They ended up changing locations when minorities moved in. The original neighborhood is still referred to as Aksarben Village. They continue on to this day as a philanthropic nonprofit. They are said to be secretive about their private ceremonies. DeCamp mentioned them and pictured them for a reason, but he was unable or unwilling to go into details on the connection between the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben and a pedophile ring that reached to the White House. He was a Nebraska State Senator for years and he would know exactly what the Knights were capable of.
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As I was researching the Shriners I finally understood something that has been bugging me for close to 30 years. It is the organization The Ancient Order of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha, Nebraska.
(That's Nebraska spelled backwards. )
I first heard about the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben while reading about the Franklin Child Sex Scandal in Omaha, Nebraska. This scandal broke when it was dicovered that boys from Boys Town in Omaha were being snuck into the White House after dark. The investigation revealed much more. Nebraska State Senator John DeCamp looked into it and wrote a book. Other people looking into it ended up dead.
The Franklin Cover Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, And Murder In Nebraska : John W. DeCamp : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Franklin Coverup Scandal The Child sex ring that reached Bush/Reagan Whitehouse
Here's the gist of the story. The DeCamp book is a great read if you would like details.
Boys Town was founded by Catholic priest Father Edward Flanagan in 1917 to care for and give vocational training to orphaned and wayward young men. He would specifically seek out troubled and criminal youth to give them a fresh start. There is a strong possibility that Father Flanagan was a good man with no bad intentions towards these children and young men. But it was technically a Catholic organization. The Church would have assigned a number of priests there as Boys Town grew. The odds are pretty high that a pedophile priest would end up there. In fact, the pedos probably did everything they could to get assigned to the large and secluded group of troubled youth with few family attachments.
In the 1980's (and earlier, although there is no documentation) some of the young men from Boys Town were being groomed to be homosexual sex partners. They would be snuck out of Boys Town and taken to have sex with older men. Sometimes they would be taken over state lines or to politicians in Washington DC. When the older boys weren't being trafficked, they hung out on a rail outside a restaurant near the police station and sold themselves openly. When girls were requested by the pedophile clients they would be taken out of local foster homes and trafficked both locally and across state lines.
This ring was managed by a man named Lawrence King who ran a local bank called Franklin Savings and Loan. He was a favorite of the Republican party and had sung the National Anthem at Republican conventions. He freely embezzled from the bank to lead a lavish lifestyle which included plane rides to Washington DC with boys and girls in tow. He got busted because lobbyist Craig Spence was sloppy on his end in DC. This led to an investigation which was pretty quickly steered away from the child trafficking. Instead, the Feds focused on the $40 million missing from Franklin Savings and Loan. King got his hand slapped, Spence "committed suicide" and essentially no other perpetrators suffered. The court tore apart the exploited child victims (young adults at the time of the trial) and ended up sending the victims to jail because the prosecutor had to portray them as liars to protect the elite.
Of course there was a media blackout about the whole scandal. We only know because DeCamp wrote his book. Congressman Barney Frank was busted the following year for allowing his homosexual lover to run a male and female prostitution ring out of Frank's apartment. Frank was reprimanded by Congress but suffered no major consequences. This was related to the Franklin scandal, but the old media blackout makes connections difficult.
Lawrence King got away with his activities because of his political connections and because the whole town of Omaha was a cesspool of the elite. They had pedos/protectors at every level of society - police, judges, lawyers, city leaders, merchants, educators, doctors, social workers, etc. Neither the exploited children nor the pedophiles got caught or arrested in the area of Omaha. Because heads were turned the other way. I'm sure Boys Town was a major money maker for the Church. They could hire out the boys as day laborers or factory workers. They had many small industries on campus as it was supposed to be a training facility. And of course the Church's favorite side-hustle...child sexual abuse.
DeCamp tried to determine the specific elites in Omaha that were serviced by the pedo ring. He of course ran into brick walls and secrecy. He did determine that the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben were a common thread. Once I started looking into the Knights, I found so many other fraternal organizations that it has taken an extra week to post this. And all the other groups will need their own post.
-----------
Omaha, Nebraska, was settled in 1854 and incorporated in 1857. It was a larger pre-existing city in the midwest, across the river from Council Bluffs, Iowa. It was in Indian Territory until 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act stole the land for the USA. These Resetters were a group of investors from Council Bluffs. They would have been sneaking back and forth across the river for years before that to plunder and plan their renovations. They may even have been able to start excavations and renovations before 1854. It's part of the narrative that people had staked claims there before it was opened to settlement.
I found this document that has the Resetters' names, when we need them.
Omaha Illustrated
Here's a couple examples of old Omaha buildings.:
Omaha becomes a very prosperous city quite quickly, with a lot of wealthy men who ran the city. Early on the money was made as a transportation and trade hub and in meat packing. Today billionaire Warren Buffet has his company Berkshire Hathaway there. I guess he feels safe and protected. Omaha is headquarters for Union Pacific Railroads, which tells me that the area was a pre-existing railroad hub that just had to be dug out. No wonder it became a transportation center so quick. It is also an indication that this was a larger pre-existing city, probably a regional capital.
Here's an article with pictures of North Omaha mansions. One of the most intricate ones was torn down after only 25 years...yeah, right.
A History of Mansions and Estates in North Omaha
So, there were lots of buildings to explain. Of course there were the routine choices of government buildings, libraries, train station, hotels, banks, schools and colleges, hospitals, sanitoriums, churches, synagogues, etc. But they had more buildings to deal with than average, since it was a capital city.
As I laid out in a previous reply, I feel these secret fraternal organizations were established to give an excuse for the existence of certain buildings. The more buildings to be explained, the more secret fraternal organizations had to be present in the town. I found more than I expected to when I started researching it. The next post will be about these organizations, and get back to the purpose of the thread. I will address the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben in both posts.
The Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben were reportedly founded in 1895 by the Omaha Commercial Club to keep the Nebraska state fair in Omaha. Many cities were developing their own festivals and parades around this time. The founders of Ak-Sar-Ben wanted to model it after Mardi Gras in New Orleans and went to New Orleans to buy costumes and floats. They would dress in costumes, march in the parade, and crown a king and queen to rule their domain of Quivera. They would also put on performances to help raise money for their activities. This led them to build a racetrack and indoor arena they called the Coliseum.
I can't find information about whether there were Masons that were also Ak-Sar-Ben. At first I wondered if this group was formed by men who couldn't get into the Masons. Now I believe that they were probably mostly Masons, but also some non-Masons like Jews. This was a local level group to further the interests of the local robber barons. The members were prominent businessmen, and membership quickly grew. I think that this organization was formed too late to obtain a pre-existing building. They were formed after seeing the tax benefits the other organizations gained. This is their original hall, later the Aksarben Ballroom:
I feel that the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben were an early form of organized crime. Like the Mafia but not Italian. They built a horse racing track and were one of the only places to legally gamble in the Midwest for many years. The Coliseum would be used for overflow gambling, concerts and events, cattle auctions, ice skating, hockey and the Coronation of the King and Queen of Quivera. They also bought a toll bridge over the Missouri River.
They ended up changing locations when minorities moved in. The original neighborhood is still referred to as Aksarben Village. They continue on to this day as a philanthropic nonprofit. They are said to be secretive about their private ceremonies. DeCamp mentioned them and pictured them for a reason, but he was unable or unwilling to go into details on the connection between the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben and a pedophile ring that reached to the White House. He was a Nebraska State Senator for years and he would know exactly what the Knights were capable of.
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