Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory

BBC News Online Magazine ^ | 11/13/2004 | Jonathan Duffy

[stands2reason]

the fact that groups of very rich powerful people connected to politics, business, media, etc. meet in secret to plan any number of new initiatives (and for what purpose?) as opposed to what?......everything just happens by accident?

False dichotomy

[bad company]

He takes the money, but he says he really just does it so I don't fall off a ladder and kill myself.

How can that be, you're already Dead.

[etcetera]

However fancy-shmancy they are, what really matters is - do they get it right? The article doesn't say.

[razorback-bert]

Isn't this the group that takes its' marching orders from the gray aliens?

[William Terrell]

For a secret society bend on taking over the world they're not doing to good of a job at remaining secret and hiding their plans.

Ah, they've been unsuccessful in hiding their plans. I'd like to take a look. Where are they published?

[CWOJackson]

There's only been a couple of hundred links to their secret plans on FR over the last year or so. I didn't need any special glasses to read them either.

[Wormwood]

None of those threads are true.

[Wormwood]

Fnord.

[CWOJackson]

Did you decode them properly?

[William Terrell]

It's amazing to me that such a group of people go to all that expense and time to just sit around an talk, and not work to enact. Also, when there is enforced secrecy, there is something to hide.

Aside from the possibly deflective guests, who are the core members?

[deport]

None of those threads are true.

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Shush....... don't let the word out..... it's a secret don'tcha know.

http://www.bilderberg.org/#Bilderberg

[CWOJackson]

Wait till the world finds out it's only an executive Bohemian weekend. Sitting around the hot tub, drinking wine and talking about the latest episode of Survivor.

[BlueNgold]

Sounds a lot like a meeting of the CBS editorial board...

[NeoCaveman]

John Edwards going to the Bilderberg meeting? But I thought he was a common man???????

He was at the Bildeberg meeting last year.

[Zionist Conspirator]

And while hardline right-wingers and libertarians accuse Bilderberg of being a liberal Zionist plot, leftists such as activist Tony Gosling are equally critical.

What does liberalism or libertarianism have to do with Zionism one way or the other???

[Norman Bates]

Exactly. But then again, other than you, our view has largely been written off as some kind of paranoia. So my butcher, baker, and candlestick maker aren't looking out for my best of interests either? Yeah, well they don't pool together billions of dollars (or is it euros these days?) and have clandestine meetings across the globe.

But I guess I should just accept it as part of the "globalization" movement.

Come on. Isn't this the kind of Big-Brother-knows-best elitism that Americans have always rejected?

[rogue yam]

Am I the only one seeing the Reverse Vampires getting off scot-free on this thread?

[Revolting cat!]

[Revolting cat!]

[The Great Yazoo]

Dear Norman,

I hate to be the one who breaks it to you, but there are millions of "clandestine meetings" taking place across the world every day! Some of those meetings involve billions of dollars!

I know. I've attended some of them. I attended one of them today.

It's called "private enterprise." And history shows it's a hell of a lot better than the alternative.

History also shows that if the Bilderbergers get too far along in their plot to secure world domination, the "What-A-Burgers" will come along and compete by offering a more benign form of benevolent dictatorship.

The point is, even though your butcher (think Tyson Foods), your baker (Archer Daniels Midland, for example), and your brewer (choose one, Busch, Coors, Schlitz, among many others) DO pool together billions of dollars and have clandestine meetings, you don't miss a meal due to lack of available food!

If you have some kind of hard evidence of conspiracy, bring it forward. Displaying economic literacy would help. Otherwise, I reserve the right to write off unfounded conspiratorial theories as some kind of paranoia.

As far as the threat of "globalism" is concerned, Adam Smith demolished it two and a quarter centuries ago. And it was against big brother elitism against which Professor Smith most ardently and successfully railed.