Who's afraid of the Freemasons?

[Kitty Herder]

This is a weird topic, but I was just on a nutty conspiracy theory website,so the topic is on mind. Why are conspiracy theory types who rage against the "New World Order" and the like so obsessed with FreeMasons? The Masons seem pretty harmless to me.

[MrModerate]

1. Actually, it's the Oddfellows who give me the willies.

Those guys are scary.

[Smith_3]

2. The masons draw people to speculations because of their long history of secrecy.

And because they used to be a highly influential group with lots of powerful members. I think nowadays though they don't do much more than a little charity work. Back a few centuries ago however, they were a relevant political force.

[Kitty Herder]

4. I suppose that makes sense.

It's just that is seems pretty silly to me because the masons aren't that secretive anymore, and most of them are just regular guys. It's almost like the Elks club. (Honestly, the whole New World Order, Illuminati, etc. thing seems pretty silly to me.)

[Hannah Bell]

3. think "skull & bones" today

http://www.montgomerylodge.org/history.htm

[Joe the Liberal]

5. I'd be more worried about the privatly owned Federal Reserve. n/t .

[Kitty Herder]

6. Yes, that does concern me.

I don't like a private entity having that much power over our government. But I freely admit that I don't have a great understanding of how all that banking voodoo works.

[Joe the Liberal]

9. There's a good movie about it actually.......

It's kind of old and rather long but very informative, if you ever have any spare time give it a watch, it's called "The Money Masters" here's the link.....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6076118677860424204

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Who? Paranoid bigots usually.

[billyoc]

8. Illumi-nitwits