I didn’t want to bring up the whole Mason connection to the Butler County judiciary, but there is a pattern that has emerged that reminds me a lot of the case with Kim Edelstein, the former judge of Butler County who ran sideways with Judge Stevens. All this drama against Darbi Boddy, the Lakota school board member who has now had the legal brotherhood turning its wrath toward her through Judge Lyons, has brought all this to the surface. Because most people have an assumption of constitutional law protected by our judges. But we have judges who belong to all these brotherhoods, such as the Masons, who behave as if their international order superseded constitutional law. I learned much more than most people have the stomach for regarding some of these cases, such as why Judge Stevens let his assistant waste over 500 hours playing the video game Candy Crush when she should have been working, according to witnesses. After the human resource conflict between Judge Stevens and Judge Edelstein erupted into her moving to another county to get work, Butler County prosecutor Mike Gmoser called Wood County to pursue the case further. Now I like Mike, he has said to me that he’s a MAGA guy. But then again, so did Isaac Adi. A lot of mystery only makes sense when considering malicious intent. And the more you look, the more you discover that many of these people are seduced by the temptation to abuse authority. They care about power too much, and it’s evident that they are more interested in employing losers and malcontents instead of qualified people who might show them up. And to hide such incompetence they seek out these brotherhoods to protect them from public scrutiny. I want to believe in these judges, I know many of them, and I want to like them. But this antagonism against Darbi Boddy forces a lot of unsaid things to the surface which we must explore if we want honest government.

It’s not a matter of conspiracy theory to talk about the Masonic lodges’ membership and the judicial activists’ desire to seek an alliance in brotherhoods. If you peel back the apparent layer of politics that most people agree on, when it comes to trying to understand the mentality of RINOs then you have to consider the desire of these people who call themselves Republicans to belong to collective-based brotherhoods, such as labor unions, and Mason Lodges, or even membership to the Eastern Star. These have been networking tools for gaining access to better jobs for a long time. And by the looks of things, Mason membership is a criterion for the legal profession, especially at the level of judges and prosecutors. This is a problem because these international organizations think of themselves as succeeding the American Constitution. That’s a long story in itself, considering that it was Masons that largely formed the American Constitution, or at least debated it. So many people don’t see a problem with it. But then again, when it comes to Butler County, Ohio, and Ohio, we know of several 33-degree Masons who hold public office, such as Judge Powers, and State Rep Scott Lipps of Franklin who were announced in the Journal News. Memberships are only necessary when they say something about the people who seek membership, which takes them away from their public duties should they decide to serve the public. At that point, what they believe can become very dangerous. And by all indications, it looks like it is by these means that we end up with what we call RINOs in Republican politics.

To understand why Masons and RINOs are almost synonymous, all we must do is look at the words of one of the most famous Masons, Albert Pike. If you’ve ever seen the Masonic Lodge in Washington, D.C., where George Washington and Alexander Hamilton were prominent members, it’s a magnificent structure. In that case, you can see how those people might think of themselves as a government independent of the rest of America, that their brotherhoods were more important to them than their Constitutional duties. I’ve been in several Mason lodges, particularly the one in Cincinnati by the old Taft house, and I understand all too well the purposes and the stars painted on the ceiling. Let’s call it a “research project” not an invitation to membership. Albert Pike was famous for saying, “What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us…what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Otherwise, Karl Marx would have said these kinds of statements, which makes sense because he was a Mason, just as the Masons organized Vladimir Lenin to come out of exile and raid Petrograd for the communist revolution that destroyed Russia. And when you listen to the political positions of RINOs and the legal gymnastics that have emerged in the Darbi Boddy case in Butler County in 2023, then it is pretty clear that these Mason memberships are a problem because the members are more loyal to their brotherhood than to their constitutional oaths. And from there the contents of the SWAMP and their hatred for Trump and MAGA Republicans starts to make a lot more sense. These are people who are insecure and want to touch the face of immortality, as was articulated by Albert Pike.

I’m not against Masons. Andrew Jackson was one of my favorite presidents, and he took on the epic battle that we need to have again with centralized banking. All members are not joined at the hip in political strategy, and membership doesn’t make them all bad. But it does say a lot about their character and the problem of Marxism failing all over the world and populism moving to the far right of Karl Marx, and away from this scam by the Masons that goes back hundreds of years to the Friday the 13^th murders of the Knights Templars, forcing their movement underground in secret so that they could rule from the shadows. But for these timid types, there is safety in numbers, which is the origin of their desires for power and their tendency to abuse it. Such was grotesquely obvious when the Judge Edelstein case was occurring, and in many ways, it is still happening. The way this judicial network seeks to personally destroy people they think is a challenge to their authority is a real problem, showing itself in the Darbi Boddy case. For them, it has nothing to do with constitutional law. It’s all about protecting the brotherhood, and that’s not something we talk about when we elect these judges. If their memberships in brotherhoods keep them from behaving like Republicans, small government constitutional supporters, then we need to know all about it. Because we can’t have a representative government if we aren’t talking about why these people seek the memberships they do and to what extent it impacts their social judgment. As Albert Pike indicated, it’s all about the collective where immortality resides, and these older adults are very concerned about life after their deaths. So they turn out to be more loyal to their order, which lives on, than the merit of their individual decisions, which is at the heart of the modern MAGA movement. Voters have shown they want more Darbi Boddy’s, fewer Judge Powers, and their 33-Degree Mason memberships. I usually am pretty proud of Butler County law enforcement, but I have too much information that calls into question all these characters. And when they think they are going to abuse another person, such as Darbi Boddy, without it impacting their sacred safe places, well, they have a lot to learn about the future.

Rich Hoffman