re: #164 Dr Lizardo

Love the one about the Masons, especially this little nugget:

Round up and restrain resisters? Maybe that’s a reference to the initiation ceremony, which I won’t talk about of course, but if that’s the case, that’s downright risible.

The Freemasons come up from time to time as conspirators, but they’re not as strong as they used to be, though they do seem to be trying to recruit younger men into the ranks, which is a good thing.

Masonic conspiracy theories go way back. The Republican Party was an amalgam of the Whigs, the Anti-Masonic Party, and the Know-Nothing Party. (Which despite common belief, was not a description of their intellectual attainments, but what they were supposed to say if questioned about the organization, a la Sergeant Schultz.)