What's Up with Bohemian Grove?

[smirkdirk]

Bouncing around the web I came across a youtube clip of Rush Limbaugh talking about it.

Here is a paranoid, fantasitical take on it:

http://www.infowars.com/bg1.html


And here is the wiki article about it which include pictures of Nixon and Reagan attending events there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove

Anybody got the low-down? I've never even heard of it before...

[Jonny T]

Bohemian Grove comes into the same category as the Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, etc. to me.

On the one hand, I do feel there are legitimate grounds for concern with them. In particular, the simple fact that some of the most powerful, influential people in the world from all walks of life are coming together under multiple guises*, with little to no visibility or accountability - I feel this is an issue. Not to say anything *is* happening there to be concerned about, but it could be and the public would never be informed.

(* yes, I'm aware these groups are separate and have different members and purposes; they do, however, have a significant overlap.)

This is particularly true of the Bilderberg Group, which was set up in part to allow sensitive matters to be discussed out of the public eye.

On the other hand...

It's not concrete that decisions are being made at these meetings which would not have been made anyway. The amount of secrecy involved does make me wonder what they're actually up to there, but that won't necessarily be what people would expect.

The big problem with all of these - Bilderberg, the Grove, Trilateral Commission, etc. - to me is the conspiracy theorists' take on it. The POV put across in this post is IMO fairly reasonable - not automatically "right" but at least within the realm of the rational. When the only voices being raised against these groups are Jones, Icke and their ilk - it's an annual gathering of trans-dimensional shapeshifting blood-drinking reptillians - people tend to switch off.

(Hmm...memories of the UFO meta-conspiracy, anyone?)

This is particular easy with the Grove due to the cremation of care ceremony and quasi-pagan imagery used during meetings. pretty fertile grounds for people to devise whatever theories they wish.

so overall? I'm suspicious of the Grove, but tend to take Alex and his ilk with a ****load of salt.

so overall? I'm suspicious of the Grove, but tend to take Alex and his ilk with a ****load of salt.

BOATload?

[Jonny T]

sure, let's go with that...