tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post5121874188022848885..comments2024-03-26T12:05:58.591-04:00Comments on Freemasons For Dummies: Lawsuit: Hidden Ladies Room Cameras Found in Louisville Scottish Rite Christopher Hodapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201859873755654395noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-51369907253000914822017-03-15T11:23:10.684-04:002017-03-15T11:23:10.684-04:00Two thoughts on this:
1) This certainly isn't...Two thoughts on this:<br /><br />1) This certainly isn't good but I'm not concerned about this giving the fraternity a black eye. I think the public will recognize that it's the actions of one sick individual and could have happened anywhere. <br /><br />2) If we assume the perpetrator was a Mason, it's tempting to think it's the result of not properly vetting candidates but I reject that. No amount of "vetting" will reveal to you that someone is a voyeur unless they've been convicted of voyeurism. They're not creepy-looking men with unkempt beards wearing dirty raincoats and hiding in the bushes at the park. They're otherwise-ordinary people who live otherwise-normal lives like the rest of us. That guy you've known for 30 years who goes to church every week, volunteers at the homeless shelter, has a perfect-looking family and is known as a pillar of the community? You have NO IDEA what secrets he hides in the dark shadows of his own thoughts. Background checks and investigation committees are still important but we shouldn't assume that every time we find out a Mason is a bad dude that someone failed to properly vet him. It's probably not true. <br /><br />Dave Brown<br />Garden City Lodge, Newtonville, MAgotham77https://www.blogger.com/profile/06673302463186612933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-86086509427602936272017-03-11T15:51:08.460-05:002017-03-11T15:51:08.460-05:00Sorry, I smell a setup. Installing a hidden camera...Sorry, I smell a setup. Installing a hidden camera in a red hat? Really? If we had a hidden camera pic of an Indianapolis red hat, hell, any random red cap, between me, Hodapp, and Carson, we would know who he is before lunch. This just doesn't smell right. But if it is true, than he is an idiot, and deserves the full majesty of criminal and Masonic courts.<br />jon porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05319935356893526469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-90243981652567410012017-03-08T22:22:45.225-05:002017-03-08T22:22:45.225-05:00These stories make me a little mad. Especially bec...These stories make me a little mad. Especially because it is directly or indirectly linked to Freemasonry. No American man, woman or child should suffer the invasion of their privacy and during this present age of current events this should be the concern of all sane adults. Remember the privacy concerns when "Google Glass" first came out? The concern was mostly about the Google Glass camera which could record people without their permission. How nuts is that? I have visited the lovely enchanting city of Amsterdam, in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and noticed that in certain parts of their entertainment areas cameras of any kind are not allowed. Of course, some people may sneak a camera device past security despite the publicly displayed prohibition but I like the public Dutch attitude of respect and level of maturity regarding the privacy of it's citizens. I hope most (if not all) Americans will one day reach the same level of respect and maturity. Freemasons should already have it.Thomas Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16496528868148315705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-59629635387211342452017-03-08T03:14:15.080-05:002017-03-08T03:14:15.080-05:00Certainly something like this would be on the list...Certainly something like this would be on the list of the top ten absolutely, positively worst things that could possibly happen in a Masonic organization. <br /><br />Although this should be obvious to anyone familiar with the Scottish Rite, the following is worth mentioning for the sake of non-Masons reading this: from the victim's descriptions, it sounds like this abomination is the work of a twisted individual, not a conspiracy of the organization itself. When would someone wearing a Scottish Rite red hat be in the building to do this? During a meeting of the Consistory, of course--suggesting that this is the only time this individual would have had access to the building; in turn, this suggests that this was someone who would not have had access to the building under normal circumstances. If this had been a conspiracy of the organization itself, they would likely have done it at an off-hour, and not in regalia.<br /><br />I do hope that there is a great deal of fingerprinting going on, and that the guilty party is identified and most vigorously prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to the full extent possible under the law.<br /><br />I mourn that we are imperfect in whom we admit to the Fraternity. I also recognize that sometimes mental illness--or simply a propensity to evil--develops in a formerly upright individual. But despite all this, I am proud to be a Scottish Rite Freemason.<br /><br />--Mark Koltko-Rivera, 32°Mark Koltko-Riverahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11173090767545559729noreply@blogger.com