Should the Presidnet of the United States be a member of a private and secret organization ?

Question

People are discussing Andrew Meyer getting arrested for disruptive behavior at Florida Univeristy at a John Kerry question and answer event. John Kerry even said he'd answer the question. Should a public servant like the President of the United States be a member of a private and secret organization ?

Answer 1

The President of the United States should have a role in life other than being President. He should be a doctor, an engineer, a writer, a banker, something like that. After all at the most, the Presidency would only be 8 years of his life. That would mean that he is a free individual who serves the betterment of his country by contributing a brick to the wall. In that respect, whether he is or isn't a member of a private and secret organization becomes a matter of individual freedom. Under the present "career presidents" my answer would be No.

What happened in Florida is more a reflection of the mentality that has been embedded in the police there than anything else. It is not surprising. How many of us can recall kids in our High School that were boisterous bullies with an IQ of a mule that later were accepted to Police Academy? Florida cops, especially South Florida cops believe they have rights that set them over the law. I urge people from Florida and even the rest of the nation to demand an explanation.

Answer 2

A lot of our presidents were members of "secret" societies. For example, numerous presidents have been members of the Masonic Fraternity. Most people consider this to be a "secret" organization (although, in reality, it is not). They include: George Washington; James Monroe; Andrew Jackson; James Knox Polk; James Buchanan; Andrew Johnson; James Abram Garfield; William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; William Howard Taft; Warren G. Harding; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Harry S. Truman; Lyndon B. Johnson; and Gerald R. Ford.

Answer 3

Why not?

Answer 4

OMG, you have to be kidding me? Time for you to get a life.

Answer 5

Does that include groups like the VFW or American Legion?  If so then yes.  They are still people and allowed to have personal lives.  The one thing is they should tell people what groups they belong to BEFORE they get elected.

Answer 6

What it amounts to dear, is a fraternity.

the skull thing is no doubt the invention of young people ,you know how they love to shock people.

There are groups like that on every campus.

Answer 7

Who cares?

Why not, this is a free country and I would hate to think that just because someone wishes to hold a public office they would have to quit all or any other organizations they might belong to unless of course those organization demand time that as a public office holder they would not have.

Answer 8

Well, it's not at all a "private and secret organization." It's a sorority; that is, in the case of the Skull and Bones, a very small secret fraternity for youngsters studying at Yale University. That's all!

I'm afraid, not all powerful businessmen and politics got members of this sorority. For they didn't all studied at Yale, and the Bonesmen are not numerous enough to be as influential as you assume, so far.

A lot of fuss has been made about this just because George Bush got Bonesmen when he was a youngster. On the basis of this quite innocent fact, a film was made and many farfetched and sensationalistic stories were spread.

Before the Skull and Bones got that kind of publicity, it was the Phi Beta Kappa sorority, and the Trilateral, and the Bildeberg Group, and the Council of Foreign Relation, etc.

What next stupidity of that sort is on the list of the conspiracy theorists?

Answer 9

no

Answer 10

No, but it seems to me that the current one already is.

Answer 11

I suspect there is some kind of conspiracy when I see a whole bunch of conspiracy based questions suddenly appear on YA.  Coincidence?   I think not.

Answer 12

Should he?  It's his decision.  If you restrict his ability to make that choice, you are infringing his rights.

Answer 13

Wow, this is from waaay out in left field.

What does the "Tasering" of a disruptive student have to do with a secret society?

Answer 14

What's wrong with it?

Last I read, The Bill of Rights give us the right to free association-----why should the President give up rights the rest of us have?

Answer 15

AHHH!!  Get that guy!!  Tazer him!!  ZZTCHSS!!

Don't get your panties in a bunch.  Look at all these perfectly responsible citizens who are unconcerned about government officials belonging to secret elitest societal groups.  There have been officials in groups like that before, like, the KKK and the n**i party.  All that turned out OK, didn't it?

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