Apr 19, 2012. The way the French see it, Masons are a fifth column at the heart of French society, a cabal of powerful politicians, businessmen, and intellectuals with a hidden agenda that is difficult to pin … (teaser headline)
Magazines and newspapers all have stories they run in one form or another, year in, year out. The details may differ, but the stories are largely the same everywhere, striking universal chords of sex, health, and money. A few of these perennials, however, don’t travel. They drill deep into one country’s psyche while everyone else scratches their head and says, “Huh?”
In France, the story that keeps coming back is about Freemasons. It’s everywhere. Most big French magazines run at least one big Freemason cover a year. Books dissect the “state within a state,” to borrow from a recent title. Blogs abound.
Q telling us Masons are the shadow govmint? Do we need to dig moar on Bo’s Masonic lodge? He’s from the Jester lodge in Hawaii if I remember correctly. Anons?
Rest behind paywalls. Any Anons have Bloomberg subscription can drop full story?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-04-19/france-where-freemasons-are-still-feared