Likeness of the Patriots

[The Mad Jackyl]

I found these pictures at a forum I go to and it immediately struck me as very much like the pictures of the original Patriots as shown in MGS3. For those unaware, the centerpiece on the table in both pictures is representative of the Yale Skull and Bones club, the selective secretive society that has boasted such powerful members as Supreme Court Justices, John Kerry, members of the Rockefeller family and U.S. Presidents William Howard Taft (in office 1909-1913), George Bush, Sr. (pictured just to left of the clock, top picture) and current President George W. Bush.

Characteristics of Skull and Bones society include Masonic-inspired rituals, highly selective membership, lifelong secrecy of all members in regards to activities and purpose and a nickname system based off of Roman mythology.

Could the basis for the Patriots be inspired by such an exclusive group as the Skull and Bones? I'd say likely. Other such groups include Scroll and Key and the anti-Skull and Bones 'Wolf's Head'.

[Black Snake]

I remember a topic like this. I remember a link to a Wikipedia page about a Skull and Crossbones group, but my memory is really shady about it...

[I'm Shake.]

Fascinating, I'm def looking up more info on those guys.

Nice find.

[A.G.]

Looking at those pics... just about everyone in them looks like someone I would go about stuffing into a locker.

[TheBrotherOfLight]

The Patriots I believe are inspired to great length by some conspiracy about The Wise Men or what they are called. Here is something from a document I found about them.

"The "Wise Men" were key members of the Council on
Foreign Relations. There were twelve members including
the first six from Government positions thus Majority
Twelve. This group was made up over the years of the top
officers and directors of the Council on Foreign
Relations and later the Trilateral Commission. Gordon
Dean, George Bush, and Zbigniew Brzezinski were among
them. The most important and influential of the "Wise
Men" who served on Majestic-12 were John McCloy, Robert
Lovett, Averell Harriman, Charles Bohlen, George Kennan,
and Dean Acheson. It is significant that President
Eisenhower as well as the first six Majestic-12 members
from the Government were also members of the Council on
Foreign Relations. However, not all the "Wise Men"
attended Harvard or Yale and not all of them were chosen
from the "Skull and Bones" or "Scroll and Key" membership
during their college years. [{Research indicates that
various members were chosen on an ongoing basis by
invitation based upon merit and was not confined to those
who had attended only Harvard or Yale}] Further
information regarding this can be obtained from the book
"The Wise Men" by Walter Issacson and Even Thomas, Simon
and Schuster, New York.

A chosen few were later initiated into the Jason
Society. They are all members of the Council on Foreign
Relations and at that time were known as the "Eastern
Establishment." The Jason Society is alive and well today
but has expanded to include members of the Trilateral
Commission as well. The Trilateralists' existed secretly
several years before 1973. The name of the Trilateral
Commission was taken from the alien flag known as the
"Trilateral Insignia." See Exhibit 10A The Jason
Society."