Skeptics Café

When it comes to cooker conspiracies in Australia, Karen Brewer has carved out a niche of her own. Few who have observed Brewer are unaware of the all-important two questions.

Where did they go to school? And, who’s their daddy? The answers according to Karen will reveal if said subject is or was “a filthy Freemason DeMolay”. Karen is convinced a cabal of paedophiles march from DeMolay ranks and apart from occupying most areas of public life, have an inordinate influence on the placement of DeMolay symbolism in parks, on buildings, around streets, indeed everywhere.

In her spare time Karen motivates her “ANZACS” to yell at Governors General, or rather their driveways, in Australia and New Zealand. They are usually aided by a megaphone and demand the GG dissolve parliament and issue writs for a new election. This is because the government is corrupt and is hiding the truth about Bill Heffernan’s fanciful list of high ranking paedophiles, announced under parliamentary privilege. 

In September 2020, Karen’s allegations of paedophiles in parliament led to the National Party MP for Mildura, Dr Anne Webster, and her GP husband, Philip, being awarded $875,000 in damages for social media defamation, courtesy of Brewer. As Media Watch reported at the time, the judge referred to Karen as “delusional”. 

Karen is closely watched on social media by her fans and perhaps many more who just can’t look away. Thankfully, Lyle Allan who holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and is a Master of Arts in Political Science at the University of Melbourne, has her in his academic gaze. Indeed, Lyle wrote an article for The Skeptic published in December 2021, The Brew Ha Ha, about the conspiracy theorist Karen Brewer.

Lyle will speak about Brewer at Skepticon this year and tells us:

Freemasonry has rarely been the subject of fierce opposition in Australia and New Zealand. Karen Brewer, a conspiracy theorist par excellence, does just that.

Freemasons, according to Brewer, control parliament, the judiciary, the police and the public service in Australia and New Zealand. Not only that she claims that Freemasonry promotes pedophilia. She is also critical of Demolay, a little-known Masonic youth organisation that former United States President Barack Obama once belonged to.

Brewer has had run-ins with the law in New Zealand and Australia. The National Party of Australia federal parliamentarian Anne Webster won substantial damages against Brewer for defamation. Paul Barry, on the ABCs Media Watch program, claimed Webster was unlikely to receive the damages awarded to her from Brewer.

Brewer organises demonstrations outside the residence of the various state Governors and the Governor General in Australia and New Zealand.

The amount of support she has cannot be established with certainty, but a comment in The Australian newspaper that she may have 20,000 followers is possibly too many.

I’m really looking forward to his presentation. You can still get tickets for the convention, to attend live or online.