MAGNES
10th June 2010, 10:01 PM
UK PAPERS FULL OF MASONIC SCANDALS INVOLVING POLICE CITY COUNCILS
The whole reason for the "brotherhood" is to rob you secretly,
even of your freedom, not just your money or contracts.
"masonic oaths" are not compatible with any position of authority.
Nor are they compatible to being good citizens in society.
Masons 'failing to register'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/1999/may/04/alantravis
Police officers and crown prosecutors face being forced by law to disclose their membership of the freemasons and other secret societies after attempts get them to register voluntarily have flopped.
Official figures show that only three out of the 43 police forces have so far set up internal registers for officers to declare their freemasonry. But in one of those three, Derbyshire, only one man has signed up as a mason out of a force of 1,700. The registers are to be open for public inspection and to be used to investigate allegations about masonic bias within the criminal justice system.
Evidence that freemasonry is still a problem emerged in a police corruption trial last month in which a former officer was jailed for attempting to abuse his masonic connections within the Met.
MPs told to declare links to Masons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/jun/12/uk.freedomofinformation1
MPs and peers should be forced to declare membership of secret societies such as the freemasons in line with police officers and judges, according to a Commons motion to be tabled tomorrow.
The motion will call on the Standards and Privileges Committee to include societies with a closed membership in its list of members interests. This would include Piccadilly gentlemen's clubs and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) as well as freemason's lodges.
An inside job
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2005/nov/19/careers.work5
Ex-mason James Todd wrote to a national newspaper to claim: "I do not know of a single mason who has not been prepared to accept preferential treatment derived from masonic membership." Many would be quick to deny it, he said, but they are likely to be in the lower order, unaware of what goes on higher up. They might not have realised they had gained advantages, he explained. "You could have been given a promotion because, as a mason, you would trust the word of a bent mason."
Tony Gosling, who has researched freemasonry, agrees. "In the lowest three degrees of masonry, there is a plethora of silly rituals that may or may not mean something. The point of these is surely to brainwash men into accepting bizarre subservience without questioning why they are doing it."
The Brotherhood - Stephen Knight's 1980s book purporting to expose the evils of masonry - concluded that while masons can get you a foot up the career ladder, they can also bring you tumbling down. Cross the masons at your peril is the message of one of Knight's sources, who says that because there are 5m masons worldwide - all of whom pledge to give each other support - they make up one of the most efficient private intelligence networks there is.
Secrets and ties
Tired of being 'mugged' by the media, the United Grand Lodge of England has appointed a PR agency to improve the image of freemasonry. But can the spin doctors allay suspicions that the secretive organisation is pulling strings in the police and judiciary?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2001/mar/21/marketingandpr.comment
Dewar is not a mason and says he prefers not to know what goes on at initiation ceremonies (sharp instruments placed against bared breasts, silken nooses placed around the heads of initiates). "I couldn't care a damn what the ceremony is," he says.
Others have been less willing to ignore the rituals that are an integral part of freemasonry. In 1996, in an article in this paper, Short attacked the penalties which he said initiates agreed to accept if they transgressed against a brother mason: "having my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by the root and buried in the sand of the sea at low water mark". And that, said Short, was only the penalty for "first-degree" masons, the so-called entered apprentices in their Persil-white aprons. Second-degree (or fellowcraft) transgressors faced having their hearts "torn from their breasts and fed to ravenous birds", while third-degree (or master mason) miscreants faced the ultimate penalty, being severed in two, their bowels burned to ashes, and those ashes "scattered over the face of the earth and wafted by the four winds of heaven."
Masons in turmoil as sacking at top shocks secret brotherhood
Members furious at being kept in the dark over unprecedented dismissal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/may/05/patrickbarkham.uknews2
It is the ultimate secret society, a fraternal organisation of influential men who attract almost as many conspiracy theories as members. But the brotherly bonds and code of silence that link 800,000 freemasons are under strain after the unprecedented dismissal of the chief executive of the United Grand Lodge of England.
The peak body for 10,000 masonic lodges was plunged into crisis after Robert Morrow, a former executive at NatWest bank, was hauled in front of a disciplinary hearing a day before the lodge's annual ceremony in London, attended by the Duke of Kent, the grand master of the United Grand Lodge of England. Ordinary members only realised Mr Morrow had not been reappointed to his £100,000-plus post when he failed to appear at the annual investiture ceremony at the historic Freemasons' Hall, the masonic headquarters in Covent Garden. Nor was he present at the lavish post-ceremony dinner in the nearby New Connaught Rooms. "It's a bit like going to Tesco's AGM and finding Sir Terry Leahy is not there," said one disgruntled mason.
According to one English mason, Mr Morrow was accused of manipulating the election by urging his British members to back a particular candidate in Spain, a charge which allegedly led to the grand master of Spain to write to the English lodge, condemning Mr Morrow's behaviour as "absolutely outrageous".
The whole reason for the "brotherhood" is to rob you secretly,
even of your freedom, not just your money or contracts.
"masonic oaths" are not compatible with any position of authority.
Nor are they compatible to being good citizens in society.
Masons 'failing to register'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/1999/may/04/alantravis
Police officers and crown prosecutors face being forced by law to disclose their membership of the freemasons and other secret societies after attempts get them to register voluntarily have flopped.
Official figures show that only three out of the 43 police forces have so far set up internal registers for officers to declare their freemasonry. But in one of those three, Derbyshire, only one man has signed up as a mason out of a force of 1,700. The registers are to be open for public inspection and to be used to investigate allegations about masonic bias within the criminal justice system.
Evidence that freemasonry is still a problem emerged in a police corruption trial last month in which a former officer was jailed for attempting to abuse his masonic connections within the Met.
MPs told to declare links to Masons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/jun/12/uk.freedomofinformation1
MPs and peers should be forced to declare membership of secret societies such as the freemasons in line with police officers and judges, according to a Commons motion to be tabled tomorrow.
The motion will call on the Standards and Privileges Committee to include societies with a closed membership in its list of members interests. This would include Piccadilly gentlemen's clubs and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) as well as freemason's lodges.
An inside job
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2005/nov/19/careers.work5
Ex-mason James Todd wrote to a national newspaper to claim: "I do not know of a single mason who has not been prepared to accept preferential treatment derived from masonic membership." Many would be quick to deny it, he said, but they are likely to be in the lower order, unaware of what goes on higher up. They might not have realised they had gained advantages, he explained. "You could have been given a promotion because, as a mason, you would trust the word of a bent mason."
Tony Gosling, who has researched freemasonry, agrees. "In the lowest three degrees of masonry, there is a plethora of silly rituals that may or may not mean something. The point of these is surely to brainwash men into accepting bizarre subservience without questioning why they are doing it."
The Brotherhood - Stephen Knight's 1980s book purporting to expose the evils of masonry - concluded that while masons can get you a foot up the career ladder, they can also bring you tumbling down. Cross the masons at your peril is the message of one of Knight's sources, who says that because there are 5m masons worldwide - all of whom pledge to give each other support - they make up one of the most efficient private intelligence networks there is.
Secrets and ties
Tired of being 'mugged' by the media, the United Grand Lodge of England has appointed a PR agency to improve the image of freemasonry. But can the spin doctors allay suspicions that the secretive organisation is pulling strings in the police and judiciary?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2001/mar/21/marketingandpr.comment
Dewar is not a mason and says he prefers not to know what goes on at initiation ceremonies (sharp instruments placed against bared breasts, silken nooses placed around the heads of initiates). "I couldn't care a damn what the ceremony is," he says.
Others have been less willing to ignore the rituals that are an integral part of freemasonry. In 1996, in an article in this paper, Short attacked the penalties which he said initiates agreed to accept if they transgressed against a brother mason: "having my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by the root and buried in the sand of the sea at low water mark". And that, said Short, was only the penalty for "first-degree" masons, the so-called entered apprentices in their Persil-white aprons. Second-degree (or fellowcraft) transgressors faced having their hearts "torn from their breasts and fed to ravenous birds", while third-degree (or master mason) miscreants faced the ultimate penalty, being severed in two, their bowels burned to ashes, and those ashes "scattered over the face of the earth and wafted by the four winds of heaven."
Masons in turmoil as sacking at top shocks secret brotherhood
Members furious at being kept in the dark over unprecedented dismissal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/may/05/patrickbarkham.uknews2
It is the ultimate secret society, a fraternal organisation of influential men who attract almost as many conspiracy theories as members. But the brotherly bonds and code of silence that link 800,000 freemasons are under strain after the unprecedented dismissal of the chief executive of the United Grand Lodge of England.
The peak body for 10,000 masonic lodges was plunged into crisis after Robert Morrow, a former executive at NatWest bank, was hauled in front of a disciplinary hearing a day before the lodge's annual ceremony in London, attended by the Duke of Kent, the grand master of the United Grand Lodge of England. Ordinary members only realised Mr Morrow had not been reappointed to his £100,000-plus post when he failed to appear at the annual investiture ceremony at the historic Freemasons' Hall, the masonic headquarters in Covent Garden. Nor was he present at the lavish post-ceremony dinner in the nearby New Connaught Rooms. "It's a bit like going to Tesco's AGM and finding Sir Terry Leahy is not there," said one disgruntled mason.
According to one English mason, Mr Morrow was accused of manipulating the election by urging his British members to back a particular candidate in Spain, a charge which allegedly led to the grand master of Spain to write to the English lodge, condemning Mr Morrow's behaviour as "absolutely outrageous".