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** Well, Freethought and Enlightenment ideals ''are'' fairly mainstream in the western world now...<ref>Unless, of course, you're an American Republican in the early 21st century, in which case they are Dangerous Socialism.</ref> |
** Well, Freethought and Enlightenment ideals ''are'' fairly mainstream in the western world now...<ref>Unless, of course, you're an American Republican in the early 21st century, in which case they are Dangerous Socialism.</ref> |
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* The Freemasons. Fears regarding their influence over America (many of America's Founding Fathers, including [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[George Washington]], and [[Andrew Jackson]], were Masons) were strong enough to lead to the creation of the Anti-Masonic Party in the early 19th century, which managed to get nearly eight percent of the vote at its peak. Today, they are sometimes alleged to be a part of the aforementioned NWO or Illuminati. |
* The Freemasons. Fears regarding their influence over America (many of America's Founding Fathers, including [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[George Washington]], and [[Andrew Jackson]], were Masons) were strong enough to lead to the creation of the Anti-Masonic Party in the early 19th century, which managed to get nearly eight percent of the vote at its peak. Today, they are sometimes alleged to be a part of the aforementioned NWO or Illuminati. |
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** In [[Tsarist Russia|Imperial Russia]], the Freemasons were widely associated with pretty much all the views and creeds coming from the West that the ruling elite despised: [[The French Revolution|republicanism]], [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleonism]], [[The British Empire|Anglophilia]], [[Nuns-N-Rosaries|Catholicism]], [[Hollywood Atheist|atheism]], you name it. The image of the Evil Scheming Freemasons has made a bit of a comeback in recent years, giving the ultra-nationalists not only a convenient explanation as to why Russia's history for most of the 20th century [[Rasputin |
** In [[Tsarist Russia|Imperial Russia]], the Freemasons were widely associated with pretty much all the views and creeds coming from the West that the ruling elite despised: [[The French Revolution|republicanism]], [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleonism]], [[The British Empire|Anglophilia]], [[Nuns-N-Rosaries|Catholicism]], [[Hollywood Atheist|atheism]], you name it. The image of the Evil Scheming Freemasons has made a bit of a comeback in recent years, giving the ultra-nationalists not only a convenient explanation as to why Russia's history for most of the 20th century [[Grigori Rasputin|sucked]] [[Red October|so]] [[Dirty Communists|badly]], but another convenient excuse to keep hating [[Eagle Land|Americans]] long after the end of the [[Cold War]] -- "their country was founded by a bunch of Freemasons, that obviously proves that they have meant to screw us over all along!" |
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* [[The Knights Templar]]. [[Foucault's Pendulum|You just can't]] [[The Da Vinci Code|have a conspiracy]] [[Assassin's Creed|theory without 'em]]. |
* [[The Knights Templar]]. [[Foucault's Pendulum|You just can't]] [[The Da Vinci Code|have a conspiracy]] [[Assassin's Creed|theory without 'em]]. |
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* The Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderberg Group, three policy institutes dedicated to promote greater global cooperation, are all alleged to be fronts for the NWO, and are often mentioned in the same breath. In 2006, [[Alex Jones]] led a protest of a Bilderberg meeting in Ottawa. |
* The Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderberg Group, three policy institutes dedicated to promote greater global cooperation, are all alleged to be fronts for the NWO, and are often mentioned in the same breath. In 2006, [[Alex Jones]] led a protest of a Bilderberg meeting in Ottawa. |
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