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2005-09-12 12:17 | User Profile

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[COLOR=Indigo][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5]Ukrainian Parliamentarian Suggests Jailing Freemasons[/SIZE]

[SIZE=3][B]Raiders News Update ^ | 12/09/04[/B]

Ukrainian MP Taras Chornovil has suggested that the country’s parliament, the Supreme Rada, introduce criminal responsibility for Freemasonry, the MigNews web-site reported on Tuesday.

[B]Taras Chornovil is the son of the late nationalist leader Vyacheslav Chornovil, and his appointment as an adviser to presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich on West-Ukrainian affairs earlier this year provoked much criticism in nationalist circles. He will head Yanukovich’s campaign headquarters in the repeat of the controversial second round of Ukrainian presidential elections. [/B]

[B]He has submitted to the Rada a bill entitled “On amendments to the Criminal Code of Ukraine”, according to which, membership of Freemason organizations, or any other organizations that require rituals and oaths of higher priority than the current law, must be punished by a jail sentence of up to three years. [/B]

The bill also reads that the members of Masonic organizations who are Ukrainian civil servants, law enforcers or military servicemen must be jailed for three to seven years.

Ukraine’s president, members of parliament, civil servants of ministerial rank, military servicemen and law enforcers of the rank of major-general or higher, if discovered to be members of Freemason organizations, may face up to 10 years in prison.

If the membership in a Masonic organization causes deaths, a threat to Ukraine’s national integrity or its defense potential, members of the organization must be imprisoned for 10 to 15 years, the bill reads.

[B]In February, the leader of Ukraine’s Socialist Party, Aleksander Moroz, said that about 300 of Ukraine’s top officials were members of the St. Stanislaus Order Masonic Lodge. Later, other left-wing parties and also the pro-Western bloc headed by Yulia Tymoshenko also called on the government to ban the St Stanislaus Order in Ukraine[/B].[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]

And there's a perceptive reader's comment:[SIZE=3] [COLOR=Blue]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS]"[B]The continental Masonry is very different from Anglosaxon lodges. The later have mass membership and function as social clubs or fraternities.

On the other hand continental lodges (Grand Orient) are elitist, very politicized and often extremely secularist/anti-Christian.[/B] Some of early Communists/Bolsheviks started with the continental lodges (although later they became enemies of the Lodge).

In continental Europe where you see militant fanatical secularism among the intellectual or politicians the continental Lodge is often involved.

[B]In addition European lodges can be related to organized crime, in Italy it is hard to draw the line when the Grand Orient end and where the Cosa Nostra begins. [/B] There is also infamous P2. (Some reflexes of the corruption among secret societies can be found in the III part of God Father).

"Democratic" conspirators like Soros fall into the key contradition - you cannot reconcile the secrecy with the truly open society. That is why some European countries (like Italy) have laws against secret societies and so had the ancient republics.

[B]22 posted on 12/09/2004 5:43:05 PM PST by A. Pole ("For the love of money is the root of all evil" -- II Timothy 6:10) [/B] [/FONT] [/COLOR][/SIZE]