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Dug this up too. Hindsight is 20/20. Washington Post making fun of a "Conspiracy". And it is a hit piece on LaRouche. Conspiracy no more. Look around you now.

BEWARE THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION!
By David Mills
April 25, 1992

The article starts out like this:

"Behind closed doors (of course), they are meeting this weekend in Lisbon. Some call them "the shadow government," "the Establishment," the "global elite" that runs the world."

"They call themselves simply ... the Trilateral Commission. (Chills run up spine.)"

"Depending on which conspiracy theory you subscribe to -- and the Trilateral Commission has found its way into many -- this 19-year-old organization is anti-American, anti-democratic, anti-Christian or anti-worker, and is scheming ultimately to abolish the sovereignty of nations and establish one world government!"

Excerpts:

"Still, plenty of ordinary, educated people have no idea what the Trilateral Commission is or what it does, even though its former members include George Bush and Jimmy Carter. There is a shroud of mystery around it."

"The press secretary for Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton's presidential campaign didn't even know that Clinton is on it! (Yes, Clinton is a Trilateralist too. Coincidence? Oh read on, my wide-eyed friend.)"

And this part -->

"Now the truth can be told about the 325 people on the Trilateral Commission, and the many previous members:"

"They do run the world!"

"The thing is, it has nothing to do with belonging to the Trilateral Commission. The TC is like a club for people who run the world anyway."

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Later in the article:

"In his 1991 book "The New World Order," Pat Robertson -- founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and a brief challenger for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination -- writes portentously:"

"A single thread runs from the White House to the State Department to the Council on Foreign Relations to the Trilateral Commission to secret societies to extreme New Agers. There must be a new world order. ... There must be world government, a world police force, world courts, world banking and currency, and a world elite in charge of it all."

"...with this stunning scoop in the April 20 edition of the Spotlight: Last June, Bill Clinton was "anointed" the Democratic presidential nominee by the Bilderberg group! "I think the whole thing is rather ludicrous," says Clinton campaign spokesman Jeff Eller. "Governor Clinton made the decision to run and wasn't handpicked by anybody."

"Criticism of the Trilateral Commission comes from the far left as well. To Holly Sklar, who edited the 1980 anthology "Trilateralism," the commission "represents the interests of multinational corporations and banks," which means it's contrary to the interests of Third World countries and workers all over. It wants wages kept low. It wants voters kept apathetic and polarized."

Now consider, this was written in April 1992