Freemasons jailed in Fiji over sorcery claims: report
Published: July 16, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
AUCKLAND (AFP) – A New Zealand man spent a “wretched” night in a Fiji jail after police raided his Freemasons meeting when frightened residents suspected witchcraft, according to the New Zealand Herald.
The man, who did not wish to be identified, blamed “dopey village people” for the raid on the island of Denerau in which 14 members of the Freemasons Lodge of Lautoka were herded into police cars and jailed for the night.
Police also seized lodge paraphernalia, including wands, compasses and a skull.
The man told the Herald that Tuesday night’s meeting was “interrupted by a banging on the door and there were these village people and the police demanding to be let in”.
Nothing sinister was going on but “such is the nature of life in Fiji” they were taken to a nearby police station, he said.
The lodge secretary showed police a copy of the permit allowing the meeting, but was told the permit was not the problem.
He said the group had to spend the night locked up in conditions that were hot and uncomfortable because “there was nowhere to lie down”.
Police director of operations Waisea Tabakau told Legend FM News in Fiji that the group were being investigated for “allegedly practicing sorcery”, the Fiji Village website reported.
The New Zealand man said that when they were freed the following morning, they were told their release was on the orders of the prime minister’s office.
Freemasonry is a centuries-old, worldwide fraternity which traditionally practises secret rituals. Its members deny there is anything pernicious about the rituals.
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I don’t get it. Is sorcery illegal or something? Is New Zealand close to Vatican City? Did someone contact Cotton Mather so he can do the boiling oil trick? Freemason’s founded the USA whether you like it or not. I kinda like it. I think they did a pretty good job considering the circumstances. There is a picture of George Washington in the Capitol Rotunda ceiling wearing a Masonic apron with star symbols. He is sitting in the heavens like a god. The capitol was supposed to be George Washington’s crypt. Divine intervention or magic is clearly at hand with these folks. Amazing what the long forgotten and never spoken secrets can accomplish. Remember GERONIMO’s SKULL at SKULL & Bones fraternity! Necromancy ain’t just for Hot Topic teeners. Cheers!
I am a Freemason and even though the wacko’s won’t believe it, there is nothing sinister about us. We are just a fraternity of men trying to improve ourselves and our community.
We do a lot of charity work, check out the Shiners Hospitals.
We take in any child and give them 100% FREE top notch medical care.
No means tests, no sliding scale, no citzenship requirenments.
If your a child and need care in our burn or orthopedic hospitals, we treat you, you DON’T get a bill. End of story, All funded by the donations of our members.
We aren’t a secret society, Hell our number is in the phone book.
O’ and Freemasons have nothing to do with the skull & bones group.
since there’s no scientific basis for “sorcery”, it’s completely fucktarded that someone feels a need to make a law about it. That borders on Theocracy, and the United States should boycott any and all Theocratic nations. (of course, we’d have a lot of laws to fix.. like not letting liquor stores sell on Sundays)
Fiji today brothers, Tulsa OK tomorrow. Religious delusion and denial is rampant all over the world. More light!