On Dec 20, 11:10�pm, Larry wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote in news:f42da1fc-950c-482b-
:



"Some Masons claim a link to the Knights Templar", but there is no
question that those Masons *could be* wrong.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...22488652468125
Here's an excellent Templar/Freemason/Lightbringers video from England.

Larry

Interesting film. I think some of the allegations are pretty extreme
and perhaps totally unfounded, but as far as propaganda pieces go it
was
cleverly orchestrated.

The timeline of events outlined inspired me to consider our
collective, public attitude toward political revolutions. The film
purports that nearly all political revolutions in the western world
have Masonic connections.
Our attitude has certainly changed. While only a minority of New
England colonists actively supported the American Revolution at the
time (most were apathetic, and too busy trying to farm to really care
one way or the other), we look back at those events as once of the
most glorious achievements in the last couple of thousand years. It is
a well established fact that most of the founding fathers were
Freemasons.

From our modern perspective, most folks are a little more dubious
about the French revolution that occured soon after. Only about 80
years after the US was founded we had our own internal revolution, and
certainly among the side that prevailed in the ensuing military
conflict there was no sympathy at all for the idea of political
revolution.

Ever since the beginning of the 20th Century we tend to disapprove of
political revolts. There have been some exceptions, but as a rule we
now think of revolution as a negative thing- but according to the
filmmaker the "socialist" Freemasons have been at the root of most of
them.

I fact checked the claim made about Harry Truman. There are scores of
references confirming that when he was VP and before the US became
involved in WWII he said that if if looked like Germany was going to
beat Russia we should send military supplies to the Russians, and that
if it looked like Russia was going to beat Germany we should instead
aid the Nazis. Truman's rationale: "we need to perpetuate the war so
they will each kill off as many as possible." Changes my opinion of
Truman, at least a little bit, even if the film failed to change my
general opinion of Freemasonry.