-- At 10:01 PM 10/30/98 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but the United States is now a country in which a man who believes that the President is an agent of the Illuminati has a regular program on public television.
This is not quite as deranged as it seems. The Masons are of course not a conspiracy, but one of the services they provide their members is a facility for constructing and operating conspiracies. As a result Masons have been big players on all sides in most revolutions. Conspiratorial political movements are common as weeds. Most of them aim at stealing nothing larger than arts grants, fellowships, and research grants, and are often moderately successful in this endeavor. Some also aim at stealing entire nations. Most of these are not at all successful. No Masonic conspiracies have been successful in this, so far as is known, and the Freemason movement would doubtless disapprove of such excessive ambition and limitless greed. The most famous success in stealing an entire nation was of course Lenin's Bolshevik movement (not a Masonic conspiracy), where Lenin stole a bourgeois revolution by conspiratorial means. However since Lenin's coup bourgeois revolutionaries have been on the alert against communist plots, and the only other success in stealing a bourgeois revolution from the outside was the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, where (due to Violeta's naivete and excessive trustfulness) they stole the revolution that Violeta Chamorro made. The Masons, being explicitly pro bourgeoisie, would steal a bourgeois revolution from the inside, if they ever stole a revolution, which they do not appear to have done. However, being both bourgeois and pro bourgeoisie, if the masons were to steal a bourgeois revolution, it would not be as dramatically visible as it was when the Sandinistas stole the Nicaraguan revolution, and I might well be unaware of it. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG m6fnKPcFhJN/ZGzK/9gIxsmGc/k3Z43gHdDQUkjg 4CZWSrYQlLd1bd2fAiS22I24OvT3hsupgfaM4bRTN ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald