Did "Get Smart" Predict Scott Wolter's Land Claim Theory?

5/13/2013

I have been called for jury duty beginning today and running through this week. As a result my posts will be sporadic and dependent upon whether I'm selected to serve. I will do my best to keep everyone updated, but the courthouse does not have wi-fi and cell service is spotty.

While I wait to find out my fate, I thought I'd share this amusing bit I saw on TV this weekend. I was watching reruns of Get Smart on ME-TV, and they're up to the end of season five. In the episode "Hello Columbus, Goodbye America" (S05E24, May 1, 1970), a document discovered in Genoa, Italy proves that Christopher Columbus claimed the continental United States as his own personal property. As a result, his last lineal descendant and legitimate heir becomes the owner of the United States. He flies to Washington to claim his patrimony when KAOS kidnaps him and tries to get him to sign over control of America to the evil organization. In the end, the Columbus heir gives America back to the U.S. government to stop KAOS from trying to kill him.

Does that sound familiar? If you're a fan of the History/H2 family of documentaries, it sure does! Scott Wolter told viewers in both The Holy Grail in America (2009) and America Unearthed (S01E09 "Motive for Murder") that (a) the Sinclair family and the Knights Templar positioned the Kensington Rune Stone at the headwaters of the Mississippi River in order to claim most of North America for the Jesus Bloodline Grail Kings and (b) the existence of "Welsh Indians" meant that U.S. sovereignty was in question because America might in fact belong to the Welsh. (It does not.)

The Get Smart episode was essentially Scott Wolter's fever-dream. I wonder if he dreams of a Sinclair heir riding into Washington at the head of a Templar-Freemason honor guard to take control of America in the name of Jesus, the Goddess, and the sacred feminine. The Stars and Stripes come down and over the Capitol dome will fly the hooked X.

20 Comments

Gunn link

5/13/2013 08:17:39 am

"Get Smart" was great humor. I used to watch it regularly as a young teenager. Humor can be a useful medicine, and I still try to watch some Three Stooges once in a while.

As you may know by now, Jason, I'm not a Scott Wolter supporter, but I believe he helped gather together possibly very important coincidental evidences relating to the Kensington Runestone. I'm not talking about Sinclairs and bloodlines; I'm referring to stoneholes, carvings and other items that suggest a medieval Scandinavian presence within the same general area of the KRS (SD and MN, primarily). In some regards, he has undoubtedly helped along the cause of the KRS by generating interest.

I am sad for him when I see "Jesus, Templar, Bloodline, Sinclair, etc., thrown at him, because this is where he went needlessly wrong, and he's still catching plenty of grief over it. I'm sad, too, that he seems to have misrepresented the meaning of the hooked X, and swallowed the Dan Brown mischief. If only he had stayed within reason.

I suppose time will tell how much good and/or damage he has done to the Kensington Runestone's story and image. Partly through this blog, I have changed some of my own previous thoughts on matters of the Templars and Sinclairs, yet I still believe wholeheartedly in the authenticity of the runestone itself, and in the impressive collection of seemingly related medieval evidences up here. (We should have a discussion about stoneholes some time.)

By the way, I first heard about Barry Fell a few years ago, and I saw that he and some his followers were claiming the sailing vessel from Copper Harbor was thousands of years old, even though the carving is obviously medieval Scandinavian, down to all details. The carving can be seen at my website:

www.hallmarkemporium.com/discoveries

Gunn

5/14/2013 05:54:28 am

Jason, I can attest to the fact that many folks are coming to your blog. I had a spike up to 175 page-views yesterday since re-posting my website. Impressionable minds are being influenced towards the notion that the KRS may be genuine--now even more so since Dr. Richard Nielsen in 2012 revealed possible provenance for its dating method, when compared to a Greenland "acceptable" runestone. People who claim it is positively a hoax will be left with egg on their faces, I believe. I guess egg on faces sounds better than nooses around necks...no twisting into imagined threats.

The Kensington Runestone has not been proven to be a hoax, and there is a possibility that St. Clairs knew about it back in medieval times. Nobody has proved otherwise. Innocent speculation is everybody's enjoyment, so "mean, nasty people" (borrowed from Ted Turner) shouldn't be trying to turn this blog into a firing squad.

Straightforwardness is acceptable, but not cruelty. Hunting history should be a joy, not a burden. Keeping things light is keeping things friendly. I don't wish to be unfriendly, nor do I wish to defend myself against cruel people who already have their minds made up. This works both ways. The KRS has not been proven to be a hoax, rather, scientific provenance is moving the other way. Be ready to be surprised!

Religious hope? No, accumulated evidence. Speaking of Jury Duty, the verdict is not yet in, which is why I've stated before that the KRS, so far, has the best chance of upsetting the traditional "Columbus" viewpoint.

Jason Colavito link

5/14/2013 06:26:08 am

There is no "'traditional' Columbus viewpoint," at least not since the discovery of L'anse-aux-Meadows half a century ago. We know the Vikings were in North America around 1000 CE, so even if genuine the KRS, at best, represents only a minor sidelight in the story of European exploration of America.

Christopher Randolph

5/14/2013 07:53:39 am

"Impressionable minds are being influenced towards the notion that the KRS may be genuine..."

Who could argue with that phrasing?

Gunn

5/14/2013 09:25:22 am

Jason says: "...even if genuine the KRS, at best, represents only a minor sidelight in the story of European exploration of America."

Well, there is a difference between initial European exploration in North America, and the same in America. If you were Canadian, I'd better understand your viewpoint. Conversely, since I reside in what I think is a "medieval-rich" environment up here in MN, I am admittedly biased toward thinking that proven exploration up here in 1362 would be more than a sidelight. Perspective is everything.

Now, imagine if a new runestone were found, and after frowns and whispers, the message was broadcast far and wide: one of the explorers was named "Colavito," not Scandinavian, as with the other listed names. If an imaginary Zeno or two, why not just one imaginary nobleman from Italy named Colavito? The window is open until closed or bars are put on it. Perspective matters. Some fancy the names of noblemen and noblewomen. (Sinclair/St. Clair are such names.)

Jason, your picture is getting better and better. The two-year run left you looking just a bit like a tired deer in headlights, the one yesterday was an improvement, but you still looked kind of hypnotized. The new one with the glasses looks much better, but I agree that you could enhance your Mohawk (bear grease?) and maybe even wear a bold, dangly earing in your right ear. I, myself, can look very fierce when doing this. Maybe visitors will even give you more up-front respect. If some of them don't respect you, maybe a few will fear you...not all that bad for someone into the "horror" genre. Go fore it! Do you want to look like an Italian-Mandan, or not?

Jason Colavito link

5/14/2013 10:05:06 am

It's not a Mohawk. I'm just going bald and there is more hair in the center than on the sides.

Christopher Randolph

5/14/2013 03:20:13 pm

"since I reside in what I think is a "medieval-rich" environment up here in MN"

Really? A hoax 'runestone' and a few holes in rocks that no one else has connected to Vikings is "rich?"

This is what actual Viking sites look like:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/dig_reports_01.shtml

Note the wide variety of artifacts, garbage dumps, boat remains, human skeletal remains, etc.

Apparently only when Europeans visit the future United States do they leave none of that behind.

Gunn

5/13/2013 10:36:42 am

Steve St. Clair,

If I may attempt to drag you back into the arena with a grain of possible truth, I think the Rosslyn Chapel of William Sinclair fame is currently perhaps your best Sinclair connection to a KnightsTemplar pre-Columbus journey to America, or at least to some knowledge of a journey to America.

William Sinclair would have had extensive family knowledge going back at least a mere hundred years, which could have included knowledge of earlier exploration into America, including St. Clair/Sinclair exploration. It is not out of the possibility that William Sinclair even may have known about Scandinavian exploration into medieval Minnesota and South Dakota, besides exploration on the East Coast.

The Rossyn Chapel is a grain of truth. Corn?
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Short version; extensive additional information at Wiki site.)

Rosslyn Chapel

Location

Roslin, Midlothian

Country

Scotland

Denomination

Scottish Episcopal Church

Previous denomination

Catholic

Website

www.rosslynchapel.org.uk

History

Dedication

Saint Matthew

Rosslyn Chapel, properly named the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew, was founded on a small hill above Roslin Glen as a Catholic collegiate church (with between four and six ordained canons and two boy choristers) in the mid-15th century. Rosslyn Chapel and the nearby Roslin Castle are located at the village of Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland.

The chapel was founded by William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (also spelled "Sainteclaire/Saintclair/Sinclair/St. Clair") of the Sinclair family, a noble family descended in part from Norman knights from the commune of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte in northern France, using the standard designs the medieval architects made available to him. Rosslyn Chapel is the third Sinclair place of worship at Roslin, the first being in Roslin Castle and the second (whose crumbling buttresses can still be seen today) in what is now Roslin Cemetery.[1]

The purpose of the college was to celebrate the Divine Office throughout the day and night and also to celebrate Holy Mass for all the faithful departed, including the deceased members of the Sinclair family. During this period the rich heritage of plainsong (a single melodic line) or polyphony (vocal harmony) would be used to enrich the singing of the liturgy. An endowment was made that would pay for the upkeep of the priests and choristers in perpetuity and they also had parochial responsibilities.

After the Scottish Reformation (1560) Roman Catholic worship in the chapel was brought to an end, although the Sinclair family continued to be Roman Catholics until the early 18th century. From that time the chapel was closed to public worship until 1861 when it was opened again as a place of worship according to the rites of the Scottish Episcopal Church.

In later years the chapel has featured in speculative theories regarding Freemasonry and the Knights Templar.

Tom

5/13/2013 12:22:13 pm

Wow, a photo update! Is there any chance of taking a photo everyday to create an ongoing time lapse video of all the premature aging and hair loss covering these alternative theories is causing you?

Jason Colavito link

5/13/2013 12:43:43 pm

Fat chance! Actually, old glasses broke and I had to get new frames, which I finally got the other day after the lenses came in from backorder. The results are different enough that I thought I'd update the photo. I'm not entirely happy with how it came out (I take a terrible photo!), so I'll keep playing with it to see if I can get one that looks better. The last one was good for two years.

John R

5/14/2013 04:20:45 am

Heh, your mohawk still needs a little trim. :<)

Clint Knapp

5/13/2013 05:26:14 pm

From 1991 to 1994 ABC aired a show by Jim Henson Productions called Dinosaurs. Dinosaurs was a standard American sitcom format show about a family of dinosaurs named... the Sinclairs!

Though the Sinclairs lived roughly in Pangaea in the year 60,000,000 BC (how's that for misdating?), their dysfunctional family lifestyle was an obvious social commentary on the American life of the 90s. Their little family unit was even a decidedly mixed-race home of several different dinosaur breeds including Megalosaurus, Stegosaurus, Hypsilophodon, and Protosaurus.

Fast forward to 1916. Harry Sinclair founds the Sinclair Oil Corporation, an American company which in the Chicago World's Fair of 1933-1934 sponsored a prominent dinosaur exhibit to promote the link between oil and the Age of the Dinosaurs. This was so successful they eventually made their mascot a green Brontosaurus which can still be seen today on gas stations across the country.

Why do I mention this? Well, consider. From these two pieces of information alone we can determine that the Sinclair family originated with intelligent reptilians living in roughly the American portion of Pangaea 60,000,000 years ago- ergo they were here even before the Paleoindians who only arrived on this continent 20,000 years ago. We can also plainly see they are oil magnates, sucking up the remains (the Holy Grail bloodline itself!) of their own ancestors to fuel vehicles throughout the country. Therefore, Henry Sinclair's infamous voyage was nothing more than the return of the Sinclair bloodline to their original ancestral home and they have been spreading their reptilian agenda through our gas tanks for nearly 100 years.

Making all this up? Yes. Any less plausible than the current storyline? I leave you to decide.

Christopher Randolph

5/13/2013 07:21:08 pm

So clearly Jesus was in fact a descendant of the Sinclairs, and not the other way 'round. Lucky fellow.

Very funny post and great catch on the reference.

Through most of this the pop culture reference in my head has been John Sinclair:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinclair_%28poet%29

Something tells me giving him control of the US is not what Wolter had in mind, No doubt "Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa" could be interpreted to mean something in Aramaic.

B L

5/15/2013 02:17:01 am

The final proof?....the Sinclair oil dinosaur logo appears on the lead Tucson Artifacts that were central to a recent America Unearthed episode.

Clint Knapp

5/16/2013 09:23:43 am

The smoking gun which will bring down the non-Sinclair tyrants for certain!

Prove us wrong!

Christopher Randolph

5/13/2013 07:35:27 pm

Five days of potential jury duty is brutal. We do it in one; you're either picked for a jury that day or free to go. You're sent to court rooms multiple times over the course of that day when not picked. We have much the same "dull bingo" system, albeit with about a thousand people in the room.

Generally admitting to any form of college education in these parts during voir dire gets one bounced from a jury pool for any particular case. I believe I've been to jury duty seven times, so I've been in about 21 voir dire situations and was picked once, for a small civil case. It seems most lawyers prefer having people sent to prison or freed or awarded damages or not based in a lack of demonstrated ability to process textual information. This is exactly the sort of thing that makes me bounce off of walls when I see the 'alternative history' approach to logic in shows like AU and AA.

It's all fun and games until Uncle Bob goes to prison because "Might he not have killed Aunt Mary with a kitchen knife?" or "You can't prove he didn't." Or, conversely, we're still looking for "the Real Killers" to cite an infamous trial...

There was a recent Cracked column pointing out that it's gotten harder to convict people for murder in cases without DNA evidence, because CSI-type shows make everyone expect that every murderer leaves DNA evidence on every surface, and if the prosecutor doesn't admit same as evidence, well...

Keith

5/14/2013 03:00:38 am

I am counting the seconds until someone replies to this citing the "DNA evidence" Steve St Clair has been researching, because it seems on the surface like such a good counterpoint. Hell, they'd be using your own analogy against you.
But Steve admits there is no genetic evidence for a Templar / Sinclair bloodline, or a Jesus / Sinclair bloodline.
The other "DNA evidence" offered was a particular DNA marker found in a current Sinclair descendent, which somehow proves the legitimacy of a lineage chart from the 40s with no known primary sources. This chart contains the same lineage as an alternative history book called "The God-kings of Europe" which cites a 5th Century religious text as evidence to trace that same lineage back to the historical Jesus.
This is not convincing stuff.

UncleRon

5/15/2013 04:16:17 pm

Jason, when I first encountered your site I thought it was Kevin Spacey looking at me (no offence; he's one of my favorite actors). You look a bit happier and more relaxed in the new photo. Perhaps a result of getting the new book published?
UR

Gunn

5/16/2013 03:35:08 am

With the plaid shirt, Jason now presents a kind of a unique, Mohican-lumberjack look, almost French...with standard issue 21st Century safety goggles firmly in place!

I'm back out to the field today. Yeah!