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The man accused of shooting James is Albert Eid, a 76-year-old retiree who police say mistakenly pulled a loaded .32-caliber handgun from his left pants pocket instead of a .22-caliber pistol with blanks that was in his right pocket.
Police called the shooting "completely accidental," but Eid was charged with second-degree manslaughter. He pleaded innocent and bail was set at $2,500.
Detectives said James, 47, of Medford, was seated in a chair and a small platform holding several metal cans was placed near his head.
Eid stood approximately 20 feet away holding a gun and a third person stood out of James' view holding a stick.
When the gun was fired, the man with the stick was supposed to knock the cans off the platform to make the inductee think they had been struck by a real bullet.
Police said the stunt was designed to create "a state of anxiety" for inductees, and had been used in Patchogue since at least the 1930s. Police also found a guillotine, rat traps, and a board used in a "walking the plank" exercise.
"I have been a Freemason for 47 years and I have never, in that entire time, heard of anything so off the wall," said Fletcher. "That's what makes this so difficult."
"I have never heard of anything like that," agreed Len Henderson, a 30-year member of a lodge in Portsmouth, N.H. "I was extremely upset to think people would think this had anything to do with a legitimate Masonic initiation."
Eid, described by police as "quite stunned and ... distraught," has not said publicly why he took a loaded weapon to the ceremony. Authorities said he had held a gun license since 1951.
Carl Fitje, grand master of the New York State Freemasons, said in a statement that guns have no role in any sanctioned ceremonies.
"The only secrets we really have anymore are a few handshakes," Fitje, a retired New York police detective, said in an interview with The Associated Press last year.
There are three levels of entry into the organization: apprentice, fellow craft and master Mason. Although the Patchogue group used the name "Fellow Craft" for its social group, it is unrelated to the second-degree moniker officially sanctioned by the Masons, said Robert Leonard, a spokesman for the New York State Freemasons.
Originally posted by PublicGadfly
I don't want to draw any conlusions, as yet
the pro-masons get so twisted at my conslusions anyway so i just thought a little proof was due first
Originally posted by ThePunisher
just like in 1933 germany etc etc etc (many occasions, same story) and a modern day example all the way through this war on terror, quiet like church mouses.
Originally posted by ThePunisher
check first all the sides in ww2 being controlled by the same chosen people elite, check the low level and none chosen people jews and freemasons (the majority) are used as whipping boys when the time need be, could happen again if the chosen people need a excuse this time around, to deflect anger somewhere.
you fall for the same deceptions everytime and even play a part in your own demise without realising it.
[edit on 9-9-2004 by ThePunisher]
Originally posted by PublicGadfly
Blah blah blah...innuendo...innuendo.....blah blah....falsity.....I'm MrNecros....blah blah blah...bs bs bs...
Originally posted by PublicGadfly
Originally posted by amike555
Funny that you only give so many links to one incident...? Where is the rest of the answers that you promised??
Or is this your mass murder, child molestation, and personal gain?
BTW I beleave this one case was involinary man slaughter.
Sure- patience
Old mason takes gun to lodge-
shoots young mason
why gun?
Rites?
Why was lodge closed? What happened to the masons that testified against the old mason? BUT-why a gun at a lodge???
Patience amike555
as old Doug McArthur" once said- I shall return
*edit-
I don't want to draw any conlusions, as yet
the pro-masons get so twisted at my conslusions anyway so i just thought a little proof was due first
[edit on 8/9/2004 by PublicGadfly]
Originally posted by Seraphim_Serpente
Public Gad-Fly -> You are Obviously a Chronic "Anti-Mason". Let me guess - all Masons are the Boogie Men right? This is Childish!!! Listen a lot of the People on this Website ARE MASONS themselves - the rest are
ANTI-MASONS like yourself. So who are you preaching to? You think that you would want a Larger/Wider Audience. I have an Idea -> Why don't you take your PROPAGANDA somewhere ELSE!!!
Quote: "could happen again if the chosen people (Elite) need a excuse this time around to deflect anger somewhere." -> This has ALREADY Happened!
9/11 = Excuse for Endless War in the Middle East (and a Fascist Police State at Home). An excuse for "Civilized" Countries like U.S.A. & our "Democratic Allies" like Israel to totally wipe the Islamic Terrorist Heathens off the face of the Earth.
Well I am No Zionist - but at this point I think the Islamic Extremists Deserve what they have coming to them!!!
Originally posted by ThePunisher
serpentine, i was talking about the freemasons etc and there usual silence and denial i.e. go away you conspiracy theorists the same as in the 1930's etc etc etc then they complain later they where persecuted.
it would help them each time if they didnt lie around like jelly fish while the war machine and lies are put in place.
[edit on 9-9-2004 by ThePunisher]
Originally posted by ThePunisher
serpentine, i was talking about the freemasons etc and there usual silence and denial i.e. go away you conspiracy theorists the same as in the 1930's etc etc etc then they complain later they where persecuted.
it would help them each time if they didnt lie around like jelly fish while the war machine and lies are put in place.
Originally posted by ThePunisher
serpentine, i was talking about the freemasons etc and there usual silence and denial i.e. go away you conspiracy theorists the same as in the 1930's etc etc etc then they complain later they where persecuted.
it would help them each time if they didnt lie around like jelly fish while the war machine and lies are put in place.
[edit on 9-9-2004 by ThePunisher]
Leveller
It's strange to see how you post the links to actual masonic sites, yet they seem to actually refute your argument. I guess you posted so many links that you thought people wouldn't actually read them and by seeing those masonic links they would automatically assume that their contents would agree with you? By the way, at least one of them doesn't even work.
Nice try but no cigar.
If I were an anti-mason, I sure wouldn't want you representing me!!!
theron
Well, lets shed a little light on this, shall we? There are no guns used in masonic ritual. The case you have cited was a club, not sanctioned by the grand lodge, renting the facitilities of the lodge. It was NOT a masonic event, but rather, a club made up of masons, separate from the lodge.
Originally posted by Seraphim_Serpente
Public Gad-Fly -> You are Obviously a Chronic "Anti-Mason".