In 1963 the same year J. F. Kennedy was assassinated, anti-Civil Rights and anti-Catholic segregationist Freemasons [not KKK] numbered over five million, though KKK membership during the mid 1920’s was meant to have been as high as 6,000,000, in the 1960’s it was said to be as low as 20,000.  This was a period of a lot of racial tension in the country and attacks were happening in many places in the US, - specifically around 1963 to 1966.

     To help give you a rough idea, in 1963 there was the assassination of a National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People [NAACP] organiser Medgar Evers in Mississippi, that led to former KKK member Byron De La Beckwith being convicted in 1994.  Also in 63, there was the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four black American girls.  The perpetrators were KKK members Robert Chambliss, - convicted in 1977, and Thomas Blanton and Bobby Frank Cherry were convicted in 2001 and 2002, and a fourth suspect Herman Cash, died before he was charged. ^[1]

     In 1964 there were the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, and in June 2005, KKK member Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of manslaughter. – Again in 64, two black teenagers were murdered, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore in Mississippi, ^[2] and based on the confession of KKK member Charles Marcus Edwards, - James Ford Seale, a former Mississippi policeman and sheriff’s deputy, and a reputed Klansman, was convicted in 2007.  Seale was sentenced to serve three life sentences.  The 1965 Alabama murder of a mother of five - Viola Liuzzo, who was visiting the state in order to attend a civil rights march, when at the time of her murder, she was transporting civil rights marchers.

     Then in 1966, a firebombing killed NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer Sr., 58, in Mississippi, and in 1998 a former leader of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, [an offshoot of the actual KKK], the ‘Imperial Wizard’- Sam Bowers ^[3] was convicted of Dahmer’s murder and sentenced to life.  In the documentary Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History on the History Channel, C Edward Foster, the Grand Dragon of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan referred to Bowers as “The greatest Klan leader who ever lived.”

     Out of the millions of segregationists from the 60’s and 70’s era, there are of course many of them still alive today, granted some must be quite old now, but nevertheless they’re certainly not just disappeared.  It also goes without saying there are millions of other people whom still feel this way and share quite similar points of views to those segregationists form the not so distant past, and that perhaps as a result of this, it could be argued this is one of the major reason there has been a steady increase in ‘Black Separatist’, and even ‘Black Supremacy’ groups such the Nation of Islam, the New Black Panther Party, the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, Tribu Ka, the Nation of Yahweh and the Bobo Shanti.  Virtually all these current groups have a comparable hierarchal system to that of Masonic lodges, some have various degrees to aspire to and most look upon themselves as members of a “brotherhood”.

     During the many attacks by the KKK of the 1960’s and 70’s, there were high numbers of segregationists within the Senate, particularly members of the Scottish Rite, whom Senator Trent Lott, was a brother and President of the Sigma Nu fraternity, and who resigned in 2007 from the US Senate on totally unrelated incident.  Senator Fritz Hollings was a Klan-man, and a brother of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, - as was Senator Strom Thurmond who died in 2003 and a brother of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, and Senator Robert Byrd who died in 2010, and was a brother of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, - Byrd a Democrat delayed and try to prevent the Civil Rights Act of 1964 coming into law.  These well known segregationist Freemasons had a presidential candidate in Alabama named Gov. George Wallace, a brother of the Delta Chi fraternity, - and at their disposal they had what was regarded by many at that time, the terrorist branch of the Ku Klux Klan [KKK], informally known as The Klan.

     The current set-up is splintered into several chapters and is widely considered as a hate group.  The first KKK flourished in the South in the 1860’s, then died out by the early 1870’s.  The second KKK order thrived nationwide in the early and mid 1920’s, and adopted the costumes and paraphernalia of the first Klan, and the third Klan emerged after World War II.  Their iconic white costumes consisted of robes, masks, and their conical hats.  The first and third KKK had a well-established record of terrorism, though historian’s debate how central that tactic was to the Klan of the 1920’s.  The Ku Klux Klan name was used by many independent local groups opposing the Civil Rights Movement and desegregation, especially in the 1950’s and 1960’s.  Like the Freemasons in general, it during this period, they often forged alliances with Southern police departments, as in Birmingham, Alabama and with the governor’s offices, as with George Wallace of Alabama.

     Today, researchers estimate that there may be approximately 150 Klan chapters with 5,000 - 8,000 members nationwide, and a large majority of sources consider the Klan to be a subversive or even terrorist organisation. ^[4] In 1999, the city council of Charleston, South Carolina passed a resolution declaring the Klan to be a ‘terrorist organisation’.  A similar effort was made in 2004 when a professor at the University of Louisville began a campaign to have the Klan declared a terrorist organisation so it could be banned from campus.  In April 1997, FBI agents arrested four members of the True Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Dallas for conspiracy to commit robbery and to blow up a natural gas processing plant.

     It’s been alleged that indeed, through the protection of the Scottish Rite, the Klan has acted with impunity ^[5] throughout the 60’s and to the 90’s. - It’s alleged the Scottish Rite, in fact created the Klan soon after the Civil War.  Senator Byrd was both a Scottish Rite Freemason and high level Klan recruiter, aka a ‘Kleagle’ – an officer of the Klan.  Apparently Nixon’s speech writer, Pat Buchanan, who was taught by the Jesuits, was such a fierce segregationist and pro-Klan, it became a White House joke.  At least two Supreme Court Justices, Hugo Black, a member and president of the Civitan Club, a breakaway group of the Rotary Club, and Earl Warren, a member of The Gun Club-secret society, and a brother of the Sigma Phi Society fraternity with which he maintained lifelong ties, - both men were members of the KKK in 1963.

     FBI records revealed that Chief Justice Earl Warren, was in fact a Klan leader in Bakersfield, CA., and so there you have it, one of the most famous commissions the world has probable ever heard of, was named after an ex-head of the Ku Klux Klan!  And it’s been suggested this could have been the reason Lyndon Johnson chose him to lead the ‘Warren Commission’, as if any conflict of interest was to arise, it would tied Warren’s hands, as by exposing the Klan’s involvement would have revealed his own past, up until then a secret, and seriously threaten his right to remain on the Supreme Court on 14th Amendment grounds.  The Klan, at the time, was reviled by most of the nation and even many in the South.  Warren’s false objective in protecting Johnson, some have noted, was to prevent a civil war between the segregationists and the rest of America. ^[5] Though it’s been said the real reason was that he was saving his own skin, Warren was also a Scottish Rite Freemason, as was Johnson, Allen Dulles, Gerald Ford, John J. McCloy, etc., so he wouldn’t have dared exposed the cabals, knowing full-well the Masonic blood oath he had sworn, and the consequences he faced if he were to break it.

     In a 2010 column, Buchanan expressed his disapproval of Barack Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan, who is Jewish, to the United States Supreme Court.  Buchanan wrote: “If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats. Is this the Democrats' idea of diversity?”  Buchanan also suggested that liberals might be “anti-White Angelo-Saxon Protestants” [WASP].  Alongside Senators Trent Lott, who on the 20th December 2002, after significant controversy following racially charged comments regarding Strom Thurmond’s presidential candidacy, Lott resigned as Senate Minority Leader.  In December 2007, he resigned from the Senate and became a Washington-based lobbyist.  Republican Roger Wicker a brother of the Sigma Nu fraternity won the 2008 special election to replace him.

     Robert Byrd among others, had been ‘President pro tempore’ ^[6] - the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate and the highest-ranking senator of the United States Senate until his death on the 28th June 2010, and until that date he was third in the line of presidential succession, behind Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  In 1944, Byrd ^[7] wrote to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo: “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds”. ^[8] Though it must be said Byrd retracted his statement 61 years later, and said in 2005: “I know now I was wrong.  Intolerance had no place in America. I apologised a thousand times ... and I don’t mind apologising over and over again.  I can’t erase what happened”.  What no one could see was that Joe Biden was probably standing Byrd’s neck at the time!

     These men are obvious examples that highlight leaders who favoured segregation and whom are among many others in the past and present, men whom on the public stage pretend to us they’re in opposition to each other, - yet secretly - and what you’re not meant know, is that they’re all fraternal brothers of Freemasonry, like what it is over here in the UK and around the rest of the world, and by being so, they’re therefore married in unison of spirit and share the very same intentions and agenda as one another. – Men who are apart from politicians, are publishers, judges, businessmen, barristers, solicitors, banker’s - aka financial terrorist and banksters, network executives and bosses of Sky News, CNN, Fox, ITN, ABC, C4, CBS, etc., between each other they whisper their secret passwords, fumble there handgrips and handshakes, - whilst giving us a huge middle finger and the rule of law a two fingered salute.

     This can only be achieved if members understand each other without it being stated openly, in other words it goes without saying, - and one of the main reasons for their lodge meetings, and it’s here where their taught these tacit techniques, and the existence of ‘the invisible world’, [a world that we on the outside of these fraternities ‘never see’, - the KKK refer to their ‘leader’ of a ‘Klaven’, as the ‘Exalted Cyclops’ Chief Guardian of the ‘portal of the invisible empire’, the name Cyclops is widely thought to mean ‘circle-eyed’, and with an ‘all-seeing-eye’ Masonic twang to it as one could possible hope to find],-  and why they endorse or excuse the activity of their fellow ‘Masons’, and even though the Masonic world wishes to distance themselves, the Klan is a Masonic organisation as the Scottish Rite connection seems to verify this.

     Like most things historic and symbolic, there are various claimed attributes and origins, - as in this case to the ‘burning of the cross’ synonymous to the KKK.  This was something the Scottish clans did to help raise a call to battle, not a racist thing, just a rallying call.  It went over to the States and was used by the KKK as part of their rituals, a warning signal, a symbol of their presence, and quite often used just prior to a riot, lynching or other attack.  It’s used in their chapter meetings, as a version of the ‘Christian cross’ known as the ‘Firey Cross’, which is placed on their Alters, and in their prayers they refer to it as the ‘Holy Light’, and of what I can make of their ‘beliefs’, - it’s quasi-Protestant Christian, which is in direct contradiction to what’s been widely said by others, - which is that it’s also a symbol of their anti-Christian stance – anti-Catholic-Pope, as the Klan’s ‘enemies’ were mainly Blacks, [Jews] and Roman Catholics, and themselves to be pro-Anglo-Saxon-Celtic Protestant-Orangeman.

     But like all things ‘secret’ and riddled with double meanings, they are guided by The Kloran, [a portmanteau – two words made to form one; ‘Klan and Koran’], the handbook of the Ku Klux Klan.  The Kloran contains detailed descriptions of the role of different Klan members [whom some are called ‘terrors’], as well as detailing Klan ceremonies and procedures.  The letters ‘KL’ were often used at the beginning of words to mark out a Klan association.  Examples include: Kloran, Klonversation [conversation], Klavern [cavern], or as in ‘bunch of Klunts’ etc.  The original Kloran was written by William J. Simmons, ^[9] for his revived ‘Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,-1915.  He drew on his previous experiences as a ‘fraternalist’, and who was a member of many different lodges, and had sold memberships in the Woodmen of the World before deciding to revive the Klan.  ‘Woodmen of the World’ is yet another of those fraternal organisation.  Its history includes the erection of numerous distinctive tombstones depicting tree stumps, [very Sylvan], - and the fraternity presently has 800,000 members. ^[10]

     With their iconic conical pointed hats come masks with eye-slits, and silk gowns, - the same attire many a ‘Grover’ of the Bohemian Grove club, and many other members from various secret societies [see photo section], and Masonic lodges can too be seen wearing at certain times and rituals.  Like Simmons was a member of many different fraternities, so are many other Freemasons, and although these other Masons whom all meet therein these lodges might detest those members of the far-right and KKK, - they’re in fact in denial about the actual number of these kinds of racists there are in the Masonic Brotherhood as a whole.  Nor can they ignore the obvious as to what’s going on, - as they hold their tongues, being under their sworn blood oaths that bound them to silence, - as powerful men in the highest levels of office, fellow Freemasons protect those of the far-right and Klan, because secretly they share the ‘same ideals’, which if spoken aloud would cost them their seats, lifestyles, and in certain cases, - their lives!

     And as I keep saying, it’s no different here in the UK, [or any other country around the world], where almost every MP of the LibCon-Lab coalition government is also Freemasons.  The British National Party’s [BNP], Nick Griffin’s Masonic Link, is interestingly enough via his father Edgar Griffin, whose a long-standing Freemason, - and that Peter Silver [of Chartered Accountants Silver & Co] is a Lodge Grand Master and is based at Bridgenorth, Shropshire.  Clearly such a position of Masonic authority conveys considerable power within the Masonic community and the Non-Masonic world where fellow Freemasons would be expected to work within the rules of the fraternity, where it concerns mutual aid to fellow brothers.  It seems perfectly justified to assume therefore that Griffin’s father would have chosen the accountancy services of Silver & Co to carry out the auditing work of the British National Party ^[11].  It also seems perfectly plausible to assume Nick Griffin is a ‘Lewis’, the Masonic term for a son of a Freemason, who too joins the ‘brotherhood’, - though no doubt in his heart of hearts, wishes he too could have been a member of The Thule Society instead.

 Extract from Trapped in a Masonic World - www.trappedinamasonicworld.co.uk

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