We're still living in the Crazy Years

I won't even pretend to understand (or care, for that matter) what this woman's real issue with Freemasonry is, but it's a hoot to read.

In a single email reprinted on a blog where she rants about the Masonic conspiracy against her, she invokes the late conspiracy nut William Cooper, Catholic priests, her "mafia lawyer," Hitler, the Thule Society, George Washington, the Rockefellers, the Illuminati, the IRS, the NSA, P2, ritual murder initiations, the U.N. flag, Shriner fezzes, 9/11, the Magna Carta, the Bohemian Grove, the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Islamic purge of Christians in 80 A.D., native Americans, and... then closes with a list of Bible verses.

Enjoy!

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Camera-toting flying monkeys annoy Canadian Freemasons

A group of flying monkeys, led by a paranoid videographer who calls himself "Weaving Spider," descended on a Masonic meeting in Toronto, Canada, recently. Two brothers outside the meeting tried to answer their questions about Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, and Masonic symbols.

Bro. Chris Garlington, who pointed me to these videos, said "I don't know how I would handle it if I got waylaid by a camera toting gaggle of conspiracy geeks like this. I have to say I think he did ok.... I would have maybe told more jokes and asked them to buy tickets to a fishfry."

The Canadian brothers did do a good job of maintaining their cool, even though they were unprepared to be discussing Pike and the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite, they being Canadian.

How would you have reacted and responded to the camera jockeys' rants and questions?





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Eight miles high: A stoner rants against Freemasonry

Just when I think I've read all the anti-Masonic rants ever written, along comes a new one to brighten up my day.

This one has the standard "Freemasons control the world and the Illuminati control the Masons" silliness, but it takes a bizarre turn by saying that Freemasons control the world's illegal drug trade, for all drugs except marijuana.

What makes this rant unique is that it's written by a self-admitted stoner. The piece reads as if it was written by someone flying eight miles high. Twisted in with the usual Skull and Bones eye in the triangle on the dollar bill hysteria are revelations about the writer's left-handed father and personal tragedies and health issues, related through a grassy haze. He's sure that Masons "have no love in their hearts" and are the "manipulating string-pullers" of the world.

It's funny. It's strange. And it's sad.

Warning: The writer is fond of four-letter words.

Read it on MySpace.

Image: The reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States, suitable for coloring, courtesy the U.S. Government Printing Office. Get your crayons out.

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Paranoid anti-Mason conspiracy nut shoots neighbor to death

A paranoid anti-Mason in Milwaukee, Wisconsin shot and killed his neighbor last week, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.

The victim, Mark A. Wright, was a "god-fearing man who went to church every Sunday," a member of his church told reporters. There is no mention of whether Wright was a Freemason.

A second story from the same newspaper reported that the alleged killer

Rene Stermole decided some time ago that Wright was not only a terrorist in touch with Libyan despot Moammar Gadhafi, but also was tied in with Mafia members, biker gangs, El Rukn street gangsters from Chicago and various other figures out to do him harm. Stermole had worried for many years that his shadowy enemies would come after him and guarded himself accordingly: They threatened to attack his wife, so he never married, and they used Wright to stalk him, so he got a digital camera to document it, he told police.

Stermole has been associated with the anti-Masonic website TheForbiddenKnowledge.com for the past ten years.

Apparently Stermole is a Christian believer in "end-times" prophecy, and blames all sorts of bogeymen for the world's woes. His website indicates he suffers from major paranoia, and lists as "partners" FreemasonryWatch.org, Illuminati-News.com, and a group called Wake Up America. His site includes a link to audio files by the late paranoid conspiracy theorist / UFO nut William Cooper, author of Behold a Pale Horse.

Stermole himself apparently has written a 13-chapter book titled "America's Subversion: The Enemy Within, which can be found here.

On this page you'll find his diatribe against Bro. Ed King of MasonicInfo.com. Stermole begins his rant by saying "Ed King's website is full of lies and deceit. He fails miserably in disproving Freemasonry is Satanic to the core." Here's a link to Bro. Ed's mocking, giggling article "exposing" Stermole's anti-Masonic website Bible Defense.

Image: Sonny Rene Stermole

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'Freemasons rule the world!': Feed me something new

Making Freemasons the bad guys in fiction is nothing new. The anti-mason conspiracy websites do it every day.

But it's being taken to a new height (or new depth) by three Canadian writers who are peddling their screenplay The Establishment online.

Like I said, nothing new. Anybody could have whipped this up in their kitchen.

Recipe:

Mix together:

• Gary Allen's early 1970's conspiracy classic None Dare Call It Conspiracy
• The dumbest anti-Mason web page you can find
• A vague memory of the 1960's TV program Run for Your Life and a rounded teaspoon of the original The Fugitive TV series
• A random episode of 24
• A shadowy government organization — sprinkle in a popular flavor from Millennium, The X-Files, Nowhere Man, The Prisoner, or maybe Boss Hogg's goons on the Dukes of Hazzard
• Character names that Dan Brown would be proud of
• A period-piece introduction a la National Treasure

Stir in for color:

• Middle East turmoil
• Terrorism in Washington, D.C.
• Detectives Nick and Nora Charles from The Thin Man series, but make them reporters

Blend at high speed with Howard Beale's "hijacking of the airwaves" in 1976's classic Network.

Bake on the Internet using the Eye in the Pyramid from the back of a dollar bill at 400 degrees for a few months, to see if anyone will actually take a bite.

Result: A bland, tasteless chowder that tells us what The Simpsons have already spelled out with Alpha-Bits in a bowl of milk: Freemasons rule the world!

Invest now! It will probably be a hit. Americans love a movie where something blows up.

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