so John Wayne and George Washington were moonies eh??? it's better to be thought a fool in silence... than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
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.
LOLOLOLOL. Go with that, see who you can sell it to.
i certainly am.
"Your claims that "basically all the founders of the United States" were Masons is about as loopy as claiming to have constructed the Great Pyramids."
You are either an liar or an idiot (or maybe an idiotic liar).
Just starting from 1776 and working forward without any serious research:
George Washington
Ben Franklin
Paul Revere
Ethan Allen
John Hancock
Capt. Henry Williams (battle of Lexington)
John Paul Jones (father of US Navy)
James Otis (no taxation without represenation)
Bennington Wentworth (led Vermont into the Revolution)
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
Major General Henry Knox (Washington's Secretary of War, Ft. Knox)
John Adams
Benjamin Rush
Robert Morris
John Witherspoon
George Wythe
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Richard Henry Lee
Masonic signers of Constitution whose names you probably don't know (not repeating those who happend to be listed above):
Elbridge Gerry,
William Hooper,
Richard Stockton,
Matthew Thornton,
Baron Von Steuben
George Walton
William Whipple
Roger Sherman
Josiah Bartlett
Philip Livingston
Joseph Hewes
Robert Treat Paine affiliation
Thomas McKean Samuel McKean
John Penn
Lyman Hall
William Ellery
Thomas Nelson, Jr
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Samuel Huntington
From the 1800's to the Civil War we have guys like:
Lewis& Clark,
Daniel Boone,
Davey Crocket,
William B. Travis, Sam Houston (almost half of the men who died in the Alamo were masons --- the Gonzales Mounted Voluneers consisting of the Gonzales Lodge)
Then from Civil War on:
Daniel Butterfield (Union General --- wrote "taps"),
Mark Twain,
Sam Colt
and hundreds of others.
And that's just what I felt like typing today.
LBJ wasn't a KING and no, he didn't personally handpick the early astronauts, based on who was and who wasn't a brother Mason. There you go again, with your KOOKBERGER conspiracy theories.
I mentioned Colt and Gatling. I also listed many other famous Masons, who had added greatly to American and even world history.
You totally ignored my grand list of those who were instrumental in winning WW II.....FDR, Sir Winston Churchill, Generals Omar Bradley, Mark Clark, Douglas Macarthur, Georege Marshall, and Edward Rickenbacker. Hitler hated and persecuted Masons....and he lost.
Because of your sicko, and yes, paranoid animus against Masons and this really stupid conspiracy thread, I posted a whole lot of Masons, in specified grouping, so that if you wanted to write some more conspiracy fantasies ( which you just did, re the astronaut and LBJ...LOL ), you wouldn't have to go hunt for more names. LOL
You get know, around here, by what you post; now, you have to live with the fact that you posted this thread. Take it like a man and stop being a baby!
Good for you! :-)
Have you ever seen any evidence that Hamilton was a Mason?
But for Ben Franklin's masonic connections with Lafeyette, the War would have been lost.
A well-documented fact, and, indeed, the source of the anti-masonic movement, because when Lafeyette toured America, the masonic salutes to Lafeyette provoked much distrust and indignation.
This anti-masonic movement printed many a long-disproven lie and slander, several of which you have regurgitated here.
"You totally ignored my grand list of those who were instrumental in winning WW II....."
Don't forget Audie Murphy and Chesty Fuller (one of those may be WWI).
Well it is certainly suspicious since Job's Daughters all got killed.
"No, we won't ever get through to the anti-Masonic posters, but when WE post accurate, historical facts, others will read our posts and that way, see what IS the truth and what is just rabid ravings. :-)"
Yes, and thank you.
"Freemasonry prohibits "Papists" (or even former "Papists") from advancing beyond the first few degrees."
Utterly false.
so John Wayne and George Washington were moonies eh??? it's better to be thought a fool in silence... than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
You must have gotten your lists confused most of those listed as signers of the Constitution were not.
Presidents: James Monroe ( 1758 - 1831 ), Andrew Jackson ( 1767 - 1845 ), James K. Polk ( 1795 -1849 ), James Buchanan ( 1791 - 1868 ), Andrew Johnson ( 1808 -1875 ), James A. Garfield ( 1831 -1881 ), William McKinley ( 1843 - 1901 ), Theodore Roosevelt ( 1868 - 1919 ), William H. Taft ( 1857 -1930 ), Warren G. Harding ( 1865 - 1923 ).
That's ten, TEN presidents, who were Masons, prior to FDR's presidency and all after the Revolution, but YOU claim that there were NO MASONS between Washington and FDR! Keep on posting and show just HOW ill educated you are, as we all laugh our socks off AT you.
You want to talk about Masons on the Supreme court? Okay.........John Marshall was a Mason and the CHIEF JUSTICE of the SC, from 1801-1835 and it was he, who made the SC the final authority on questions of constitutionality.
John Philip Sousa was a Mason. You do know who he was, don't you? :-)
Most of the great heroes at the Alamo and those who were also responsible for Texas joining the union and making Texas great, were.....MASONS : Austin, Travis, Crockett, Houston.
Would you like the names of other famous Masons, who, though NOT members of the American political class, certainly DID marvelous things for America and its populace? I'd be more than happy to keep on educating you. :-)
Don't bother....you'll be more than "sorry", should you go after those groups!
Who told you that? Source, please.
HORSEFEATHERS!
Many, yes. I've acknowledged many were since the start of the thread. Over and over again. But you keep making the idiotic assertion that essentially all were. And that's where y'all look like fools
A former Mason turned fundie Protestant.
Sorry: DECLARATION of Independence
Just a mind-flip.
Call Toyatas "Hondas" too, for some reason.
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