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Tonight the History Channel had a program, The Secrets of the Founding Fathers. - I started watching it and wrote these notes.

Secrets of the Founding Fathers

What a pile of crap! This show is starting out with accusations that the Founding Fathers were members of hundreds of secret organizations for sex and drinking. And the Freemasons are just a front for these groups.

It is unfortunate that so many fine upstanding Masons allowed themselves to be interviewed and quoted for this piece of pure unadulterated junk. Of course if you listen to them what they say is pretty good stuff. However, they brought in the nuts and the conspiracy theorists who want to blame us for the Revolution, accuse us of stealing from the May sonic (The narrator could not even correctly pronounce Masonic but pronounced it May sonic.) Constitutions and placing the ideas into the U S Constitution.

George Washington was a member of the so called “Star Families” who inherited the secrets of the Knights Templar which were hidden in the Rosalyn Chapel

Christopher Knight thinks that this is a secret society to create a world order that is good enough for Yahweh to rule over. The Knights Templar found the secret document and brought the secrets back to England, The documents are hidden in a secret location and the secret knowledge has been handed down from generation to generation through the star families. George Washington was a member of these star families.

It was also obvious to me that the PHD from Columbia university is a first class ___________(fill in your own word) who is delighted with the idea that Ben Franklin was a womanizer who was so very interested in “sex clubs”, etc.

Nefarious activities were hidden under secret societies which were all over the 18th century. Franklin belonged to dozens of secret societies. He was a womanizer who attended and belonged to the Hell Fire Club in England and brought it to the USA.

And it goes on and on and on.

I googled the professor?? who looked like he was just a little manic.
It said this on Wiki

David Eisenbach CC '94 TC '?? MA '?? PhD '?? is a crazy professor who has hung around Columbia forever but seems to have no academic home. He's tangentially affiliated with the History Department, where he received his BA in modern European history and his PhD in American history, but is officially a "Core Lecturer". Consequently, he not only teaches history but Lit Hum, Contemporary Civilization, Music Hum, and classes on the media and Shakespeare. He also teaches at the Manhattan School of Music, where the equally crazy anti-Columbia songstress Nellie McKay was his student. She subsequently wrote a song about him.
Eisenbach's activities have included advocacy on behalf of presidential candidate Mike Gravel, for whom he served as communications director, advocating the return of Minutemen head Jim Gilchrist (to debate student agitator Karina Garcia in a forum he created called "Friendly Fire"), and hosting a classtime appearance by the Obama Girl.
Cementing his reputation for offbeat craziness, Eisenbach will soon attain his lifelong dream of hosting a History Channel show about Washington sex scandals. Really.

Christopher Knight was also on it plus a couple of other conspiracy theorists.

There were some creditable Masons who were interviewed also, Mark Tabbert, Chris Hodapp and S. Brent Morris. If you listened to just what they said you got some factual information. Reasonable and authentic information from them was interspersed with a bunch of just plain awful speculation and innuendo. I was really upset. Upset that my fine fraternity would be trashed in this manner.

Oh yes and Hemp was a big crop in the Colonies and the Colonists (the Masons) drank and smoked hemp and grew a lot of tobacco and sold it to the British and also used it for clothing and making paper and wrote the Declaration of Independence on Hemp Paper. I mean So? Of course it was used. As for smoking it I am not sure but if they were high on booze and hemp when they put this country together they did a pretty good job.

Folks the fraternity is not like that. Social networking, yes. Brotherhood, yes. Worldwide, yes. Secret conspiracy to take over the world. I don't think so. 33rd degrees who run the fraternity. Not really. They run the Scottish Rite. Each Grand Lodge is sovereign. They set their own rules and police their own ranks.

Anyway I am sorry I watched it. I am sorrier still if anyone else watched it and my cancellation to the History Channel magazine will be in the mail tomorrow. Jeez - thanks for stopping by. Hugs, j

Addendum - Facebook Coment by one of the participant Masons:

If you missed "Secrets of the Founding Fathers" last night you missed: sex, drugs, "star families" Templars, ghosts, Hell Fire Club, Freemasons, stacks of bones, strange graphics, a English old lady saying "comparing penises," non-sensical writing, poor reenactments, bad editing and the most convaluted crap imaginable. So if you missed it, stay-tuned, the History Channelis bound to show the more of the same today!

Mark Allen Tabbert