Illuminati, or, simply out of their minds?

On January 9, 2014, French President Francois Hollande made a statement regarding those who conducted the attack at Charlie Hebdo, a weekly newspaper known for ridiculing religion, including Islam and Muhammad.

I have only been able to track this back to Thomas Robert Lacovara-Stewart where he uploaded it to zeeklytv.com. He, or whomever the original source is, has generated an outlandish story about the French President, Hollande, claiming that that the Illuminati was behind the terror attack on the newspaper's office. France was concerned about the Illuminati back in the eighteenth century, since that organization was a major player in the French Revolution, where members turned against follow members, often removing their heads at the Guillotine. (See Proofs of a Conspiracy, by John Robison - probably the only authoritative source of information about the Illuminati) So, let's look at what President Hollande really said. In French, it reads"

"Ceux qui ont commis ces actes: Ces illumines, ces fanatiques n'ont rien a voir avec la religion of musulmane."

The video at zeeklytv has a voice stating that the President said that the Illuminati was behind the attack, proof positive. However, it is easy to jump to conclusions, without research. A simple Internet translation shows that "illumines", in French, interprets to illuminate or lights up, in English. However, in French, the term, as in the context of the speech, interprets, especially when used what the word "fanatiques", would be light-headed, crazy, out of their mind, or something suggestive of a lack of intelligent thought. If he wanted to speak of the Illuminati, he would have used the proper form of the noun, "illuminatis".

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I contacted a lady who speaks French fluently to interpret Hollande's statement into English, based upon the words and idioms that the French would apply to the statement. She also watched the zeeklytv video and provided the following translation, along with an observation, "The people that made this video are nuts and obsessed with the illuminatis. They need to find anything to put on their site." Here is the correct translation:

"Those who committed these acts; these out of their minds, these fanatic people have nothing to do with Islam"

Well, that's not very sinister. It simply addresses, rather politely, that the people who conducted the attack were, in his view, crazy fanatics. The reason I say "politely" is that if you read what Hollande said, he attempted to separate the acts of the Muslims, from Muslims, even though the perpetrators were Muslims. So, he stands by his politically correct Multiculturalism -- regardless of what his people have determined as a result of the attacks. Before we end the discussion on this subject, I think that there is something else that we should consider. What sources have credibility, and which ones do not? The Internet has created an environment in which anyone can be a videographer and claim to be an "investigative reporter", simply by calling themselves such. That doesn't make it so. However, as a friend learned recently, investigation requires more than grabbing something and going with it. It can take many hours, perhaps hundreds, to do proper research -- as opposed to regurgitating something that has already been "gurgitated" hundreds of times. Those might best be described as "Googlers" rather than researchers. So, let's look at just how I became aware of the Illuminati claim. Lacovara upload the video to zeeklytv on January 12: Ironically, there are some in the Alternate Media who are claiming that no one was killed in Paris, based upon their "review" of the "video evidence", showing that the first cop shot didn't bleed to the author's satisfaction. Others claiming that nobody died in the Kosher grocery store, an assertion also based upon "video evidence". The point is, there are many sources on the Internet that make claims as to their authenticity, yet those claims can only be as valid as the product that they produce. As Bertrand Russell said, "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves..." So, you must consider whether you wish to follow those fools, or find more reliable sources for your information.