[Tfug] Semi-off-topic...a good quote of mine made the AZ Star...

[eric christian]

Jim March schrieb:
> Eric, you're an idiot.  OK?  Sorry, it had to be said.
Before you call people idiots, check your own reading skills.
> 
> Do you have PROOF that Freemasons are evil?  I sure as hell don't.
> Are there Freemason connections to this country's origins?  Of course
> - see also the dollar bill.
> 
Neither I nor George have said masons are evil. Just read the text.The 
text starts out with "Washington Defends Freemasonry": what part of that 
don't you understand?

> In order to make a case that Washington was supporting something evil,
> you have to prove the initial premise that masons are evil.  Now yeah,
> I'm aware that people way deep into conspiracy stuff generally accept
> freemason=evilbarsterds as a given.  But none have proof.
just read the text, puleese...
> 
> You're just doing such a basic logic fail here it's not funny.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:20 AM, eric christian <ericdanc at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>> Matthew T. Eskes schrieb:
>>
>>> -- The Founding Fathers struggled for the principle that man could and
>>> should be trusted with his own destiny. Our current /domestic/ enemies,
>>> against whom those Americans in uniform are sworn to defend, do not
>>> believe in this principle, but we have again won a round in the endless
>>> fight against them.
>>>
>>>    -- Jeff Cooper on the assault weapons ban ending
>> Washington Defends Freemasonry
>>
>> Letter of George Washington to George Washington Snyder, October 24, 1798
>>
>> The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources,
>> 1745-1799.
>> John C. Fitzpatrick, Editor.--vol. 36
>> Mount Vernon, October 24, 1798.
>> Revd Sir: I have your favor of the 17th. instant before me; and my only
>> motive to trouble you with the receipt of this letter, is to explain,
>> and correct a mistake which I perceive the hurry in which I am obliged,
>> often, to write letters, have led you into.
>>
>> It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati,
>> and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the
>> contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.
>>
>> The idea that I meant to convey, was, that I did not believe that the
>> Lodges of Free Masons in this Country had, as Societies, endeavoured to
>> propagate the diabolical tenets of the first, or pernicious principles
>> of the latter (if they are susceptible of seperation). That Individuals
>> of them may have done it, or that the founder, or instrument employed to
>> found, the Democratic Societies in the United States, may have had these
>> objects; and actually had a seperation of the People from their
>> Government in view, is too evident to be questioned.
>>
>> My occupations are such, that but little leisure is allowed me to read
>> News Papers, or Books of any kind; the reading of letters, and preparing
>> answers, absorb much of my time. With respect, etc.
>>
>> ----------------
>> In other words, FF Washington claims FF's Jefferson's "Democratic
>> Society (later: Party)" was founded by Illuminati, Jefferson among
>> others since he was the key founder. This jives with other sources
>> stating that Jefferson actually met Weishaupt in his (Jefferson's)
>> european travels and became himself an illuminatus. See how the pieces
>> just fall together? EC