[Desdemona]

Then, Obama told the bankers, “I am the only thing between you and the pitchforks”

Never mind that the majority of us live in cities and pitchforks are not exactly common in garages anymore.

But, to the point of the post - yes, the Templars were framed, more or less, in a political move and it should not be surprising to anyone who knows history of that time halfway decently that they would have brought the Shroud from Constantinople. It's as plausible as anything else.

[tiki]

Then, Obama told the bankers, “I am the only thing between you and the pitchforks” I hadn't heard this quote from 0bama before but just the other day we were at a rate hike meeting before the Public Services board and one of the lawyer type guys was telling us how they were looking at structuring the rate so that heavy users and business paid more and when we asked how they could justify that anti-business, anti-wealth stance his example was that if 10 big businesses were angry it was a lot less scary than 450K people coming at you with pitchforks. I guess he has the talking points.