Posted on 09/12/2006 10:51:48 PM PDT by dangus
The era of the free-masons.
Between 1937 and 1958, an amazing succession of publicly Masonic Supreme Court justices were appointed to the Supreme Court. Collectively, they radicalized American politics. Since their ascension, it can truly be said that every major socio-political change in America has been brought about by judicial, rather than legislative, means. They utterly dominated the Supreme Court during the Warren, Stone, and Vinson courts (1941-1969.) At times, as many as eight of the nine justice were Masonic.
The following is a listing of Masonic US Supreme Court justices appointed in the last 70 years. This is no conspiracy theory; all were very publicly Masonic. Allegations of covert Masonry (such as Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower) have been rejected for the purposes of this list.
Hugo Black (1937-1971)
S. F. Reed (1938-1957)
William Douglas (1939-1975)
Robert Jackson (1941-1954)
James Byrnes (1941-1942)
Wiley Rutledge (1943-1949)
Harold Burton (1945-1958)
Fred Vinson (1946-1953)
Tom C. Clark (1949-1967)
Sherman Minton (1949-1956)
Earl Warren (1953-1969)
John Marshall Harlan (1955-1971)
Potter Stewart (1958-1981)
Also, Thurgood Marshall (1968-1991) was a freemason.
Today, there are five (okay, four and a quarter) conservatives on the United States Supreme Court. Is it a coincidence that they are also the five members who cannot be freemasons?
Freemasons generally disdain Catholics, and Catholics may even incur excommunication by becoming Freemasons; all five are Catholic: Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Sam Alito. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not likely a freemason, nor is there credible evidence linking the other liberals to masonry.)
Unlike Roosevelt, Truman, and Johnson, John Kennedy was also not masonic. His appointments, Abe Fortas (1962-1965), and Byron White (1962-1993) were the only non-radical-leftists for several years on the court. Nixon, a Quaker, was also non-Masonic; Burger, while still liberal, was decidedly more moderate than his colleagues. Rehnquist was decidedly conservative. Unfortunately, the Senate blocked further conservatives, resulting in the selection of Lewis Powell, Jr.
Gerald Ford was a Freemason, and his selection, John Paul Stevens, while not publicly Masonic, continued the radical policies of prior freemasons. Was Stevens simply covertly Masonic? Sources alleging he was are not reliable, but his ties are definite.
Today, there are five (okay, four and a quarter) conservatives on the United States Supreme Court. Is it a coincidence that they are also the five members who cannot be freemasons?
Freemasons generally disdain Catholics, and Catholics may even incur excommunication by becoming Freemasons; all five non-liberals are Catholic: conservatives Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Sam Alito, and moderate Anthony Kennedy. (Clarence Thomas was not Catholic when he was appointed, but was Catholic previously and is currently Catholic.) All four solidly conservative justices have been linked to an anti-Masonic, Catholic group.
"When you can explain away the death and oppression in Mexico at the hands of Masonic leaders there, get back to me."
When you can explain away the death by burning and expulsion of my family from Spain the hands of the Roman Catholic Church because they dared to be born Jewish, get back to me.
MY POINT BEING: lots of GOOD organizations have BAD members.
Obviously, both were wrong.
As opposed to the death and oppression committed by the Spanish, to which the Church essentially turned a blind eye to?
Then, of course there's the death and oppression committed by the natives before Europeans arrived.
And similar acts are common there even today.
Dude! Mexico's always been like that!
"Dude! Mexico's always been like that!"
That, is true, too. What a cesspool.
What's with these whack-job haters of Masonry. They should get a life and grow up!
A pompous bunch of sniveling children!
LOL The Priests were cool & we'd visit with 'em. Course, we'd always holler to hear the echo as we went through the tunnel that separated the Nun's living quarters from the offices, which didn't endear us to any of the Nuns.
Pope John 23rd was hard on them. We had the neighbor lady come over to apologize for what she had said and done to us. We could tell every word was bitter bile to her.
My ex was raised a Roman Catholic & had done time as an alter boy. He could say crap about the Church & regularly did, but if I said a whisper he'd get all defensive & start lecturing me about the value of the Church's "discipline".
Condescending is the perfect way to describe many of the Roman Catholic kids where I grew up. If that didn't come from brain-washing, where would you think it came from?
Is it just me, or do you think they're still ticked off about it?
If the movie you referenced isn't THE DA VINCI CODE, what movie is it?
Freemasonry prohibits "Papists" (or even former "Papists") from advancing beyond the first few degrees.
LOL....perhaps.
Thanks for your explanation, but please refrain from using "cult", when/if you talk about Masons again.
European Masonry has always been political in nature. Over here, the Masons pretty much started the country, and then went back to playing cards and drinking beer without the womenfolk hanging about.
The famous lodge in Italy for example that was involved in all those monkeyshines.
I think it was called "P2" for "Propaganda Deuce," and it was a haven for unreconstructed fascists (and, no, I don't mean the "FASCIST!" yelled by the moonbats who think Loose Change is groundbreaking "speaking truth to power," I mean real, no-kidding, gosh-we-really-miss-Benito-Mussolini fascists).
But besides that I think the US bunch are a pretty harmless bunch that in fact do some good work.
They're getting older and older, though.
The local Masonic lodge was very helpful to me (a non-Mason) and my family after I was shot in the line of duty as a cop, and I contribute to things like the Shriners' Hospital and the like as a way of saying "thank you."
This is what I denied:
>> You got your info from wikipedia and a website about THE DA VINCI CODE? <<
I got absolutely none of my information from any website about The Da Vinci Code. Referencing a movie is not at all the same thing as getting my information from it.
Learn to read before making obnoxious comments like, "Read YOUR post.....obviously you have no idea what you write and post"
Problem: In years of posting on Free Republic, including 200 vanities avergaging over 1000 readers per post, I never mentionned the Masons before a couple of days ago.
Absolutely.
Lajos Kossuth, the great Hungarian patriot and freedom fighter, who was the Governor of Hungary during its all too short lived independence from Austria, was also a Mason.
And these examples of freedom loving patriots, is the genesis of the first and subsequent anti-Masonic Papal Bulls! As I said earlier on this thread, the anti-Masonic rhetoric, from the popes WAS ALWAYS POLITICAL, but couched in and overlaid with religious treatments!
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