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Shriners Swarm Vegas, Jester Girl Code of Conduct Revealed

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This next week, the Shriners will be swarming Las Vegas to support the Justin Timberlake Golf Tournament benefitting their hospitals. Hanging out with the rich and famous; living like rock stars on charitable donations; basking in the limelight as reporters buzz about how these old guys in funny red hats help the kids while having fun.

That's their motto.

Helping kids while having fun.

The Shriners operate a $5 billion network of 22 hospitals that provides free medical care to burned and crippled children.

But before a man can be a Shriner, he must first be a Master Mason.

Turns out that the Shriners are led by members of their own secret sub-group, the Royal Order of Jesters.

Last year, three Jesters were caught in an FBI human trafficking sting out of Buffalo, New York. They all pled guilty to taking an illegal alien prostitute to one of their weekend parties in Ashland, Kentucky. Those caught were a retired police captain, a former New York State Supreme Court Judge and his law clerk.

All pleaded guilty to violating the Mann Act, apparently on official Jester business. This means deducting their expenses because the Jesters are a nonprofit fraternity.

The judge is in federal prison for 18 months because he got hookers for Jester parties in Florida, Pennsylvania and Canada.. His sentence was reduced for helping the FBI investigate the Jesters for the sexual exploitation of minors and foreign travel for those purposes.

In another case, the fishing tour operator who took 19 Jesters fishing on the Amazon was indicted by the Brazilian federal police for using underage prostitutes to lure North American customers. Former fishing tour operator and real estate salesman Richard Schair had sued a competitor for alleging he was involved with prostitution. A witness list for the defense named 19 Jesters who were expected to testify about their first hand knowledge of drug use, sex with prostitutes and with minor prostitutes.

Depositions provided by fishing guides testified that the Jesters asked to be called "Masons" and for girls over 13.

On June 19, 2009, Schair submitted an application for habeas corpus to a Brazilian federal judge, asking her to dismiss the case against him, though he'd been indicted by the Brazilian federal police six weeks earlier.

She denied his application because it lacked merit.

The witness list named a Las Vegas financial consultant, Samuel "Scutter" Newton, also a member of the Las Vegas Court #181. He's listed on the latest Jester tax return as a national officer.

Turns out that the Jesters weren't so secret after former Nevada Assemblyman Joe E. Dini Jr.:

"DECLARED, That the members of the Assembly of the State of Nevada hereby express a hearty welcome to the Royal Order of Jesters, Reno Court 33 and Las Vegas Court 181, and the Shrine of North America in their endeavors to provide fun and fellowship for its members and to bring necessary medical treatment to children across the United States. Declared by the Assembly March 9, 2001."

So, some attorney convinced the IRS to grant the Jesters tax exempt status to "spread the gospel of merriment and mirth."

This translates to throwing weekend parties called "The Book of the Play."

Tax returns show the Jesters spent $600,000 on one.

That's over $12,000 a minute.

This redacted "Jester Girl Code of Conduct" indicates that Jesters secure prostitutes rooms and implies that they submit certificates, presumably proving that they're disease free.

All these groups, the Masons, the Shriners and the Jesters, are nonprofit, meaning that they pay no or significantly reduced taxes for providing social benefit. Members are also prohibited from any benefit; financial, professional, personal, or otherwise.

The real crime is hiding behind burned and crippled children and using those clueless Shriners who dedicate their lives to driving goofy little cars in parades or putting on clown make up at zero dawn thirty to drive a hundred miles so they can twist up animal balloons and put a smile on the bandaged face of a badly burned baby.

The real criminals here are those "pillars of the community" who have hijacked the IRS and taken advantage of us, all of us, so they can party with prostitutes at tax payer expense.

All copies of material reprinted or duplicated from "by Sandy Frost" must include the following credit line: From http://sandyfrost.newsvine.com. Copyright (c) 2009 by Sandy Frost. Used by permission.

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Members of the media,

Documentation to support the above claims can be found here and here.

Hundreds of pages of tax returns, corporate records, court files, depositions, Brazilian court documents, etc.

Thank you,

Sandy

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  • 7 votes
Reply#1 - Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:24 PM EDT
{"commentId":10052664,"authorDomain":"tyler"}

As always, first-rate work, Sandy. Clipped.

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#1.1 - Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:10 PM EDT
{"commentId":10059493,"authorDomain":"SandyFrost"}

Tyler,

Thanks.

It felt good to write something short and tight and tie all of this together in an easy to understand manner so people get it first time through.

Thanks again,

Sandy

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  • 5 votes
#1.2 - Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:17 PM EDT
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{"commentId":10058235,"authorDomain":"mbarling"}

Generally Shriners, Masons, Demolay, Job Daughters and Rainbow Girls do a lot of good.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#2 - Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:52 PM EDT
{"commentId":10075167,"authorDomain":"SandyFrost"}

Dear Left Coast,

Thanks for your comments.

Please take the time to read some of my research. Your comment is true but there is another side, a dark side, that is hidden behind the facade of doing good.

The crimes I've been writing about, the abuse, exploitation and prostitution of illegal aliens and underage Brazilian Indian girls, can't be justified by any amount of good doing. Then there is the "head in the sand" attitude of denial from Masonic, Shriner and Jester leaders that seemingly condones these crimes.

Once law enforcement proceeds to enforce the laws of the land, things can again be made right so these organizations can get back to their tax exempt purposes.

Until then, I think that the coverups will be worse than the crimes.

Thanks again,

Sandy

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  • 4 votes
#2.1 - Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:58 AM EDT
{"commentId":10076759,"authorDomain":"mbarling"}

Sandy Frost: I will take the time to research this and thank you for the article.

I was a Rainbow Girl and my father was a Mason. Some of the dearest friends I've had were part of the organization.

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  • 4 votes
#2.2 - Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:07 PM EDT
{"commentId":10082321,"authorDomain":"mbarling"}

Here is a link from a reputable Masonic web site providing their distain for this sort of horrid behavior.

http://www.freemasoninformation.com/index.php?s=Jesters

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  • 4 votes
#2.3 - Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:52 PM EDT
{"commentId":10094022,"authorDomain":"SandyFrost"}

Dear Left Coast,

Thanks again for your comments! I appreciate the link.

The problem is that this stuff is STILL GOING ON! The stag partys masquerading as the Book of the Play. Cruises. Meetings here and there. Business as usual because these guys think they are above the law and are being protected.

I've been writing about this for over a year and a half. Please go back and read more so you understand that the Jesters seem to be nothing more than a white collar crime network of prostitution operating through the manipulation of our tax system.

No amount of right or good deed can justify the prostitution or child sex tourism or tax fraud.

My Dad was a Mason too. It's so sad to think that the Masonic membership is being used, like the Shriner membership, to perpetuate the illusion of doing good and dedication to lofty ideals of liberty, brotherhood, love and service while leaders turn a blind eye to ignore these crimes or protect themselves and their brothers, as they have vowed.

It's the ultimate hypocricy.

From your experience, is it possible for this to be cleaned up?

The most obvious solution is for the IRS to suspend the Royal Order of Jesters tax exempt status and audit from the National Court on down, at the very least. Then the FBI needs to be dilligent in their investigation and follow the evidence where it leads.

Thanks again,

Sandy

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  • 5 votes
#2.4 - Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:30 AM EDT
{"commentId":10099990,"authorDomain":"mbarling"}

So your dad was a Mason. I feel a little better because I'm sure your father is a good man.

In the link they suggested calling out these Masonic offshoots and severing them off from the Masonic Lodge. Hopefully they'll do that. I had never heard of Jesters until I read your post. In Masonic web sites I have read that a lot of groups will claim to be part of the Masonic Lodge when in fact they don't follow the order as is. Thanks for your post.

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#2.5 - Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:01 PM EDT
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{"commentId":10064612,"authorDomain":"jameseg"}

Thanks Sandy Frost for the article. I had not heard of the Royal Order of Jesters before reading your writing.

Like many college fraternities and sororities (as well as other organizations), Shriners and Masons seem to do both good and bad.

Ideally an organization ought to hold its members accountable before seeking to hold those outside the organization accountable. Justice suffers when secretive organizations cover up the misdeeds of their members.

Personally I have a distrust for organizations that engage in secret rituals. And I do not belong to either the Shriners or Masons.

But I know many men who do. And typically they will state the Masons are "a good organization." Often they are also active in a church and other organizations.

I hope that secretive organizations will now be held more accountable for their misdeeds. However, based on my very limited knowledge I would guess that a large percentage of our leaders in politics, business, and other groups are members of at least one secretive organization. It may take help from insiders to truly make huge progress in reforming the organizations.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#3 - Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:56 PM EDT
{"commentId":10067043,"authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}

Thank you for all your work on this issue, Sandy. I know you have taken a lot of heat over it at times, but you have done the work and can document everything you write. These people who hide behind sick and injured kids to get away with the crassest self-indulgences and crimes against women and children should be brought to justice -- as some of them finally are being brought to justice.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#4 - Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:48 PM EDT
{"commentId":10195322,"authorDomain":"SandyFrost"}

MinnieApolis,

Thank you! And thanks for reminding me of "taking the heat!"

LOL! God, it was more like hand to hand combat as those arrogant defenders tried to shake me off the trail. Or attack me. Or whatever.

You are quite correct about these being the crassest self-indulgences and worst crimes against women and children. Then there have been the unsuccessful efforts to censor me by the Shriners, the publisher of the Jester's newsletter, the "Mirth Missives" Mack "Tazmack" Gooding and Richard Schair when he sued Newsvine for defamation.

Right now we're in a "wait and see" mode as investigators move forward.

Or maybe not. I'm sure there's tons of pressure to stop any investigations, by both the Jeters and attorneys for Richard Schair.

If Schair is indicted in the U.S., the Jesters won't be far behind because from the looks of his past prosecutions, he turns on his conspirators and gets reduced sentences for ratting them out.

If Schair is otherwise sued on behalf of one of the little Brazilian girls, game over.

Thanks again and let's hope that some of them are, as you write, brought to justice.

Sandy

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  • 2 votes
#4.1 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:14 AM EDT
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{"commentId":10126446,"authorDomain":"bill-iken"}

Sandy

Every Grand Lodge in the US has an official website. Have you sent a copy of the Jester File to all of these grand lodges? Have you reveived any responsse? Why or why not. Perhaps you could compose a blog consisting of the responses or non-responses your have received ... particularly thr grand lodge of nevada ---- the Grand Master of Nevada and most of the Grand Line are now or have been Jesters. It would be interesting to see their response to severing ties between Jesters and Masons.

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  • 3 votes
Reply#5 - Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:27 PM EDT
{"commentId":10129510,"authorDomain":"SandyFrost"}

Bill Iken,

Thank you for your comments.

I've been thinking of a book title for all of this.

I was thinking about "Masonic Mafia: Prostitution and the Royal Order of Jesters" but I now think "The Jester Files: Master Masons and Prostitution at Taxpayer Expense " will be better.

You rock.

As the news about those three Jesters busted by the Buffalo FBI was unfolding, I tried contacting the Grand Master and Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of New York.

I was stone walled, put off and lied to. They, like the Shriners in Tampa, stuck their heads in the sand and refused to answer my emails and phone calls.

I'll work on the Grand Lodge of Nevada but I doubt they'll respond either about any possible internal investigations or comment on any ongoing federal investigation. How can they condemn their own when they're sworn to protect their Jester brothers?

This will go one of two ways. If the DOJ/FBI investigation system of compartmentalization will be compromised internally by rogue Jester agents sworn to protect their brothers instead of abiding by their oaths to uphold the law. Those being investigated will be alerted so all evidence, computer or otherwise, is destroyed. Suspects will then demit from the Jesters so they can claim plausible deniability.

Or we can trust our justice system to follow the evidence without compromise. If this happens, headlines around the world will report the biggest nonprofit fraud of our time.

Yes, the news will be then be about the Jesters and prostitution. But the real story will end up being about the coverup attempted by those genius attorneys like Alex and Ronny who dreamed up this clusterf*ck in the first place.

Things are unfolding and we'll know more in a few months.

In the mean time, stay tuned and thanks again.

Sandy

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  • 3 votes
#5.1 - Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:25 PM EDT
{"commentId":10137339,"authorDomain":"potentate00"}

Bilken

Most of the grand masters across the US are jesters, thus jesters will not go after other jesters!!!!!!!!! The Grand Masters themselves would be in volation of masonic law by being a jester and their activities. Their is only one way to end this to prosecute all of them in the legal system. It may be difficult to prosecute since some of the jesters are the legal system in some areas. The FBI must be the investigator. If you talk or try to change the system as a mason, the jesters have the Grand Master suspend your membership in masonry. Some of us has seen close so called friend have the Grand masters file charges and protect the jesters. The end of this Mason, Shrine and Jesters saga is far from over.

 

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  • 4 votes
#5.2 - Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:22 PM EDT
{"commentId":10195382,"authorDomain":"SandyFrost"}

Potentate 00,

I'm not so sure about the FBI or the integrity of any law enforcement investigation.

One Jester is the deputy director of the Louisiana Law Enforcement Commission. This guy has access to all sorts of legal information and who knows where his allegiances lie.

It will take the DOJ millions to unravel this mess. I think the quickest way to clean the Jesters up is through the IRS. There's certainly enough evidence to launch an investigation and eventually suspend their nonprofit status and freeze and seize their assets.

Again, we'll have to wait and see where the weak links are, whether it's in the cover-ups or the full out prosecutions.

There will be a straw that breaks this camel's back but it's like finding it in a pile of needles.

Thanks again,

Sandy

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  • 2 votes
#5.3 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:24 AM EDT
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{"commentId":10142111,"authorDomain":"bill-iken"}

Sandy

Just as a suggestion, if you get nowhere with the grand masters, try sending the information to the Grand Worthy Matron of the Eastrern Star in each state. Contact information for these ladies is generally found on the web pages of the various grand lodges. You can also send stuff to the Daughters of the Nile and Ladies' Oriental Shrine --- they have their own web pages.

Just like any other "mens'" Organization, the men can only play IF the women will allow it. Hell truly hath no fury like a pissed-off Eastern Star.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#6 - Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:11 PM EDT
{"commentId":10142167,"authorDomain":"bill-iken"}

Sandy

As to a title for your book ... you have consistently maintained that the vast majority of the Masons and Shriners are good and decent men. So why smear them in the title?

Why not consider something like: "Hiding Behind The Apron: Shriners, Jesters, Prostitution and Tax Cheats" or "The Subversion of Masonry: How A Few Bad Apples Spoiled The Masonic Order" or "A Peek Under The Fez: The Dark Side of The Shriners"

I believe that a title that conveys that the Masons are being used, without their knowledge, would be more reflective of your position than a title that implies that all Masons know of and condone these misdeeds.

Also, this would save a lot of good, innocent couples from getting into marital arguments when the man wants to attend a lodge function.

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  • 3 votes
Reply#7 - Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:18 PM EDT
{"commentId":10156172,"authorDomain":"SandyFrost"}

The title will be:

"The Jester Files: How Master Masons Party with Prostitutes at Taxpayer Expense"

Thanks,

Sandy

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    #7.1 - Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:19 AM EDT
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    {"commentId":10143804,"authorDomain":"PaulAndrew"}

    "A Peek Under the Fez: The Dark Side of the Shriners" gets my vote!

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    • 2 votes
    Reply#8 - Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:55 PM EDT
    {"commentId":10149096,"authorDomain":"ralphy-1"}

    Bill Ilken:

    Why should Sandy have to carry all the water on this. If you want the Star ladies to recieve this, perhaps, send it yourself. It could even be done anonymous through Hush Mail.

    Yes I agree that Star Ladie's anger could force some Grand Masters to act against these criminals.

    Sandy:

    By the look of the comments posted, you have touched a nerve in the fraternity with your latest posting. Keep it up!

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    • 3 votes
    Reply#9 - Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:07 PM EDT
    {"commentId":10149428,"authorDomain":"mbarling"}

    Bill Iken: are you trying to alleviate all the Masonic lodges?

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    #9.1 - Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:37 PM EDT
    {"commentId":10156162,"authorDomain":"SandyFrost"}

    I took the weekend off for family visits and want to thank Ralph and everyone else for taking the time to read the words I write then taking the time to write comments.

    I appreciate it alot.

    Thanks, Ralph, because I'm the only one in the world who's investigated the Shriners and Jesters to this point, singlehandedly doing my research and digging for three and a half years now.

    I'd appreciate any help getting the word out about this.

    I agree that the Grand Masters need to be informed though it could be an exercise in futility. I wrote an editorial to the Grand Master conference international and got hits from all over the world, so I suspect that many Masonic leaders around the world know about this.

    At it's most basic, this investigation reveals imbalance beyond the man/woman ying/yang. There are many different ways to find diverse audiences who might take up the call but I'm not at that point yet.

    Believe it or not, it's not time for a press release to the world. Major things have happened in internatoinal courts and are quite newsworthy but we're not there yet.

    I don't know what it will take, but I suspect that the irresistable news hook could be U.S. indictment of a North American for using underage prostitutes to lure customers like members of the Royal Order of Jesters.

    That would drag the Jesters onto the world stage kicking and screaming "The Buffalo busts were isolated! We only take the cream of the crop! Our museum is for Shakesperean memoribilia! We don't have to pay property taxes because we're a sub-group of Masonry!"

    But the real problem here is determining the social benefit provided by the Royal Order of Jesters to justify their nonprofit status. Only the IRS can do this and there's no way to know if anyone there is investigating.

    But they should be and if they're not, why not? What we have here is a group of men hijacking our tax system to party with prostitutes at tax payer expense. This is the greatest nonprofit scandal of our time because these guys think they are above the law and if caught, will get away with whatever they've been charged with because their Masonic brothers will protect them and keep them out of jail.

    Or whatever.

    That's where things are at right now.

    These situations need to be investigated without influence or compromise but it's too early for anything to be made public.

    Thanks again,

    Sandy

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    #9.2 - Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:15 AM EDT
    {"commentId":10159193,"authorDomain":"jameseg"}
    I'm the only one in the world who's investigated the Shriners and Jesters to this point,

    Regarding the above quote from Sandy Frost's comment #9.2:

    I was not aware you were the only one investigating them. I've read about other problems with the Shriners from other sources. And since your writings sometimes cite court actions, I thought maybe they were secondary reporting.

    If your first-hand investigation has led to all these court actions, etc., I commend you for a job well done!

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    • 1 vote
    #9.3 - Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:01 AM EDT
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    {"commentId":10161898,"authorDomain":"PaulAndrew"}

    Jameseg,

    I think the point of Sandy's comment was that she is the only reporter who has done this indepth investigation/reporting into the Shriners/Jesters.

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    • 1 vote
    Reply#10 - Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:42 AM EDT
    {"commentId":10177389,"authorDomain":"ralphy-1"}

    Jameseg:

    Don't mess with Sandy. She's the only one that has the courage to stand up against the dark side of our fraternity. If her writings become well enogh known (and I'm sure they will), then the wide spread exposure will begin.

    As far as I'm concerned Sandy is a Jedi Knight, and the rest of us are cowards, to let this kind of thing go on.

    May the Force be with you Sandy!

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    Reply#11 - Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:27 PM EDT
    {"commentId":10182171,"authorDomain":"jameseg"}

    Ralph-1053423, I do not desire to "mess with" Sandy Foster or others who courageously "stand up against the dark side."

    However, I do want to see that credit is given to others who also do such investigating. There have been at least a few other people who stood up to the Shriners and investigated them several years ago, apparently before Sandy began her research.

    Sandy may however be the one who has done the most thorough research, and she perhaps initiated the investigation of the Royal Order of Jesters.

    But, Freemasonry has been criticized and investigated by many over the years.

    Thus, I commend Sandy Frost for her investigative reporting. However, I think it is important to humbly give credit to others for their efforts and to acknowledge the large number of Masons, Shriners, and perhaps even Jesters who do good work and are not invovlved in prostitution, etc. Indeed, Sandy likely owes a debt of gratitude to inside information from cooperative sources within the organizations during her investigation.

    I confess I have not read much of Sandy's extensive writings on the subject, besides this article, so she may cover this in some of her other writings. And I certainly commend her for her ongoing research and writing that is exposing these things.

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    #11.1 - Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:28 AM EDT
    {"commentId":10182259,"authorDomain":"SandyFrost"}

    Dear Ralph-1053423,

    Thanks for your kind words but I'm really just a Mom, Wife and Nana. :D I write so my kids and Granddaughter Weasel can live in a world where they can trust their leaders and live lifes guided by synchronicity and punctuated with passion. I'm an aging hippie chick, a 16 year old trapped in a nearly 55 year old body, still believing that the concepts of "Peace and Love" aren't too weird.

    Investigative journalism is one of my callings and it's not something I can ignore. Every time I tell my husband "Time to move on" something happens so I keep on reporting the news and sharing my views.

    Imagine wrestling with a Badger. Or Wolverine. Or trying to befriend a hungry Wolf in the wild. Those are my primary animal spirits, well, that and Beaver, so I dig 24/7. And after finding about 40 feathers on the beach this past summer, Eagle, too.

    Then there's my intuition.

    Few others than journalists understand this, the drive to be first with the news, but mostly, today's reporters are worthless. Scared spitless and stupid. Egotistical, self-absorbed Sockpuppets for those who have bought and paid for them. Except for Dan Herbeck of the Buffalo News. He broke the news about those 3 Jesters who were busted in the FBI human trafficking sting and got this into the main stream with little but local coverage and mentions in law blogs outraged that a Judge was caught doing this.

    To me, the news story is that our IRS has been hijacked by a few attorneys, Master Masons, who figured out how to party with prostitutes at tax payer expense. Forget those Masonic vows of charity, love and brotherhood. These guys are hiding behind and possibly medically exploiting, if not abusing for profit, burned and crippled children, I might add, and using their members as a front so Shriner leaders and the Jesters can live like rock stars on charitable donations.

    How messed up is this?

    I mean, seriously.

    Writing is quite solitary. I don't have an editor or fellow reporters to bounce this stuff off. I don't have the luxuries of corporate journalism, like a salary. I think I've made $900 writing for Newsvine the past two and a half years.

    I'm not a corporate 9-5 type. Right now, it's 0600. I'm in my long flannel nighty, bathrobe and Uggs with Bon Jovi 's "Livin' on a Prayer" blaring from my Bose speakers.

    Last weekend my husband took me on a road trip to help clear my head and hang out in the Cascade mountains and I need to thank him for his years of patience and support. As we were driving along looking at the beautiful autumn leaves, it dawned on me that this is kind of like an intervention of sorts.

    Like how friends and family gather to tell an alcoholic they're sick and need help?

    I wrote about my hero, Hunter S. Thompson, here. It goes like this:

    OK.

    I have been turning to one of my journalism heroes for guidance, Hunter S. Thompson. I have had my nose in "Better than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie."

    This is dangerous, at best, but it's one of the things that keeps me going.

    It starts like this.

    "Chapter 1 Authors Note

    Confessions of a shootist: Cruel humor on the campaign trail, from the murder of JFK to the crimes of the Marquis de Sade.

    'Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arms. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk hit him all over. Move right in with the sh!t and suck junk through all the hungry young cells.'

    William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine"

    Hunter writes:

    "John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political junkies, got shot in the head for his efforts, murdered in Dallas by some hapless geek named Oswald who worked for either Castro, the mob, Jimmy Hoffa, the CIA, his dominatrix landlady or the odious degenerate FBI chief, Edgar Hoover."

    I got in trouble when I was four for wearing a "Kennedy" button to my private Christian school. And don't get me started on my other journalism heroes, Woodward and Bernstein or Watergate as I won a SPJ award for my interview with John Dean when I was in college.

    So, as over two years of information whirls wildly around in my brain, like the frog in the blender but the frog lives, I'll ask myself "What would Hunter do?"

    Well, he'd go after the rat bastards, like an evangelical journalist wielding his pen like a plugged in Fender crucifix, obeying the Gods of sex, drugs and rock and roll with a fury and frenzy for which he will always be famous.

    Not that this is a bad thing, as my roots are the basically same except that I have been sober for the past 26 years.

    So, it is from these points of view that I have been trying to analyze and understand the corrupt behavior exhibited by some Shriners. I want to better understand the behaviors of those potentates and other "Jekyll and Hyde" members who appear to be drunk with power and addicted to politics, to the point of breaking the law as they put their own interests before those of the burned and crippled children, not to mention deceiving their brothers, the widows who bequest their estates and the IRS.

    In the case of the Jesters, some of them may have gone so far as to facilitate sex traffukking and human slavery, participate in child sex tourism and, well, throw weekend parties that cost over half a million dollars...

    These behaviors are typical of drunks, addicts and junkies.

    Or those willing to do anything for their next fix.

    Like Hunter wrote, maybe they are political junkies who will do anything for the rush of winning?

    Here is a definition of "addiction" from a website that ties former New York governor Elliott Spitzer to sex addition:

    "Addiction can make both the best and the worst among us grandiose and blind. The addict feels somehow bullet proof. Their thinking becomes so twisted with chronic lying, sneaking, and bending reality to suit their needs and desire that they truly imagine that they are getting away with something and that they will continue to do so.

    And for a while, even a long time, they generally do. They are grandiose; medicating their own insecurity, anxiety, and fears of fraudulence with substances or behaviors that take away -- albeit it temporarily -- feelings that they cannot bear to feel. And they have a primary relationship with their addictive substance or behavior that they will do anything, lose anything, risk anything."

    For those I've been investigating and for those involved in the cover-ups, seek help.

    For the rest of you, thanks for being here.

    Sandy

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    #11.2 - Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:35 AM EDT
    {"commentId":10183423,"authorDomain":"jameseg"}
    Dan Herbeck of the Buffalo News

    Regarding the above quote from Sandy Frost's comment #11.2:

    Sandy, I commend you and Dan Herbeck for your efforts. It takes much courage to stand up publicly against a large group of influential wrongdoers.

    And I appreciate those within the Royal Order of Jesters who apparently courageously sought to expose and correct these wrongs.

    Below is a link to a webpage that apparently contains a copy of an April 19, 2005 e-mail sent to Texas Masons about the tragic abuses of the Royal Order of Jesters. I guess you have probably already read this e-mail message, which apparently was sent courageously with the request that anonymity be preserved.

    http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/royalorderofjesters.html

    It is a blessing that at least some of the scandals are now being exposed in the mainstream media and hopefully many of the worst offenders will be held accountable.

    But there are numerous secretive organizations, and holding them (and their members) accountable is not easy. Thanks much for your investigative efforts!

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    #11.3 - Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:47 AM EDT
    {"commentId":10183580,"authorDomain":"jameseg"}

    Correction: Actually the apparent April 19, 2005 e-mail I cited in comment #11.3 was apparently sent about three weeks after the one "to all Texas Masons" it claims to quote. At any rate, Sandy likely knows much more about it! Sorry for the inaccuracy and confusion.

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    #11.4 - Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:56 AM EDT
    {"commentId":10195478,"authorDomain":"SandyFrost"}

    Jameseg,

    I've written over 20 articles about the Jesters the past year and a half. I've covered what you referred to and then some.

    You might want to read more articles before commenting further? You can start here.

    Once you read them, you will see how things have developed and led from one prostitution story to another.

    Thanks again for your comments!

    Sandy

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    #11.5 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:37 AM EDT
    {"commentId":10201662,"authorDomain":"jameseg"}

    Thanks Sandy!

    I looked at some of your other writings, including the article linked to in your comment #11.5.

    And I commend you for assembling a variety of details from various sources and printing them for the public.

    Similarly, I commend all the investigators from various places and the anonymous Texas Mason who sent the 2005 e-mail.

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    #11.6 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:51 PM EDT
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