Masonic Handshake in the news

reply to post by Anonymous ATS

It is a masonic handshake. I will not tell you how I know for a fact that it is, but you can rest assured that it is a masonic handshake. Take it from someone who knows.

reply to post by Wally Conley



It is NOT a masonic handshake. I will tell you how I know for a fact that it is not - because I know for a fact that Jack Straw is not a freemason. Ipso Facto you can rest assured that it is NOT a masonic handshake.

Take it from someone who knows.

I was always told to cover my work? If he was doing a Masonic handshake in public he would hide it and not do it in full view.

He is more likely to be a member of a Roman Catholic group as most of the Labour cabinet in Britain are, for example Ruth Kelly is a member of opus Dei!

The Labour members were told by the priests regarding stem cell and other matters to vote with their faith.

An example of Rome interferring in politcs.

Indeed it resembles the Pass grip of a fellow craft, but it is hard to tell when only having this little picture to look on, so until a better one surfaces ill say that it is just a weak handshake from Mugabe.

Best regards.

Loke.

even if it is a masonic grip, what does that mean? I have had people who were not masons inadvertanly give me a semi-masonic handshake. It only raised my curiosity to see if they were in fact a mason. But like I said, what does it all mean?

Its a masonic handshake between Mugabe and Straw!

Should be a better image of Straw and Mugabe!

Hmmm......Straw seems to know mugabe quiet well from this image!

[edit on 15-2-2009 by zerozero00]

Originally posted by ZeddicusZulZorander
I didn't see anything in that article about it being Masonic. How do you know exactly? Especially considering the aweful picture quality...

Uh, the picture is pretty clear. Bush's thumb is in the middle of the knuckles of whoever is receiving the handshake, NOT at the top of the hand like a normal handshake.

Originally posted by curme
I know there are black Masons, but are they accepted enough, especially within the community of powerful white Mansons, to be treated as equals?

[edit on 29-9-2004 by curme]

Of course, though I would bet it has something to do with Geography.. I know in the South they are still not as accepting of each other.

Generally every major event in Masonry there are, at the very least, Representatives from the Prince Hall Lodges, and likewise we attend their events.

Though Prince Hall lodges are NOT exclusively Blacks only, I know plenty of White Prince Hall, and I have found that most of the guys who I know joined Masonry while in the military where Prince Hall.

Anyways, it doesn't look like a Masonic handshake to me.. though it's not impossible.. he did attend his studies in London didn't he?

Originally posted by zerozero00

Should be a better image of Straw and Mugabe!

Hmmm......Straw seems to know mugabe quiet well from this image!

[edit on 15-2-2009 by zerozero00]

Well it certainly looks a dodgy handshake to me!

reply to post by zerozero00


I usually shake my instructor's hand like that when being welcomed to class.
Mainly just 'cause he's grabbed my hand quickly or I don't put much effort into the handshake.
I always shake a lady's hand like that, though.

reply to post by lucifuge

Oh do you now? Looks like a poorly taken picture to me.

reply to post by Wally Conley

Well, I'm a Freemason and I will tell you that it is not a Masonic handshake and I have yet to find that either one is a Freemason. Dictator's such as Mugabe usually ban Freemasonry or at least seriously frown upon it.

Plus, we don't go out in public and start using our handshakes...especially in front of cameras. If I suspect someone is a Mason I don't inquire in front of everyone, I'll do it somewhere private.

[edit on 15-2-2009 by KSigMason]

reply to post by RuneSpider


Do you rub her knuckles when grabbing her hand like this?
Jack Straw is pressurising his thumb on Mugabes Knuckle and Visa Versa!

reply to post by zerozero00

They say there is no such thing and I agree.
Yup nothing to it

reply to post by zerozero00


Actually, when i grab hands like that, yes. The thumb is free at that point, and if you continue with a normal hand grip, it goes to the knuckles.

Originally posted by SLAYER69
They say there is no such thing and I agree.
Yup nothing to it

The only problem is that, in all the photos you posted, the only person there who was a Mason was Harry Truman.

They were not "Masonic handshakes".

Originally posted by Masonic Light

Originally posted by SLAYER69
They say there is no such thing and I agree.
Yup nothing to it

The only problem is that, in all the photos you posted, the only person there who was a Mason was Harry Truman.

They were not "Masonic handshakes".

"The Mason takes the fellow Mason by the right hand as in an ordinary hand shake, and presses the top of his thumb hard on the second knuckle, the fellow Mason presses his thumb against the same knuckle of the first Mason's hand."