(post number 8)
(Earlier I mentioned signs. Person to person signs. Here I want to post a list of all the hand signs that I know of, with some accompanying notes. I have arrived at names for most of them to aid description.
Firstly, a sign I have mentioned before, the thumb and index finger sign, derived [I believe] from a statue of Caesar Augustus, a statement of Julius Caesar, and the sign of the thumb from the Colosseum in Rome. In the modern day and especially in North America and other English speaking lands, this sign makes reference to a gun. The sign has been used as a secret communication letting others who are bonded to the Masons know that the person who is doing the sign is also bonded to the Masons. I feel sure that this sign has been given the name "the straight shooter sign". I want to distinguish this sign from a hand gesture which is similar but is not a secret sign. This is a thumb and index finger gesture which is openly acknowledged to represent a gun. With this gesture the person points the index finger at another person as a good-bye gesture before they part company. The thumb is then moved down toward the palm of the hand, and at the same time a click or clicking sound is made with the mouth. A wink of the eye may be added. What this probably indicates is that the person making the gesture enjoys watching "western" movies.
The sign known as "the straight shooter sign" is different to this. It has been a secret sign, used when someone who is bonded to the Masons is on an operation and wants the person who is shown the sign, to assist them in some way; or the person doing the sign may just want some special treatment for their own benefit, or not have something withheld from them. More frequently though, it has been used in the media, as a display of the power and influence of the Masons, when particular politicians and media personalities could be seen doing the hand sign on television or in photographs. But now, with digital technology, photographs and video footage can be easily changed. The fingers and thumbs in a picture can be moved using digital editing to exaggerate the power of the Masons or to confuse. Slightly different pictures can be sent to different television sets using interactive television technology, which involves a degree of surveillance of the television viewer. Probably the most widely seen picture manipulation to plant "the straight shooter sign" was with earlier technology though. That being the poster of James Dean for the 1955 movie Rebel Without a Cause, which shows him doing the sign while holding a cigarette. The poster is in the style of a drawing or watercolour and [I am confident in saying] was not done from a photograph or from real life but was created by an artist who was acting on instructions from the Masons.