Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory

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

[Norman Bates]

Thanks. I will take your condescension into consideration.

[The Great Yazoo]

You're welcome.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

bump

[Celtman]

The Presbyterian Church USA recently said it would stop investing in companies that do business with Israel...

      True.  But what does this have to do with right wing conservatives?  PCUSA is also pro-abortiona and pro-gun control.

[William Terrell]

There have been links to theories on FR over the last several years. It does not ring true that these people attend a mere coffee klatch year after year. The notion is the compliment to tinhat; it's gullible.

[CWOJackson]

The notion is as creditable as the rest of the speculation...and just as threatening. Of course where would the world be without hysterical conspiracy theories.

[The Great Yazoo]

Sorry that I didn't make my point clear. That is, mainline Presbyterians (PCUSA) seem to have a little bit of a problem with anti-semitism. I don't see anti-semitism or anti-zionism among the right-wing evangelicals that I run with (such as the Presbyterian Church in America family down the street). Just the opposite. Most Fundamentalists I know are very much supportive of Israel and very much opposed to those trying to throw Israel into the sea. If anything, anti-zionism and anti-Israel are diseases of the political (and "religious") left, particularly, the National Council of Churches.

[MWS]

I listened to Alex Jones over the internet for about a month or two earlier this year. Funny stuff. I loved how he used Imperial March for his opening bumper - real ominous stuff.

But, eventually I stopped listening. It got quite boring hearing the same BS repeated over and over again. I believe it was G.K. Chesterton (or was it C.S. Lewis? I get them confused at times) that once pointed out that even loons have a sort of "coherent logic", but that their worldviews are small and quite stuffy. That is exactly how it felt listening to Jones. Same old crap regurgitated over and over again. It really needed some air from fresh ideas let into it... the real world is much more dynamic than the world in which Jones and his crew believe.

[MWS]

Aliens from outerspace have been stealing your socks from your dryer for years. They eat socks for food and are stockpiling for an inevitable invasion.

Don't denigrate me for trying to come up for an explanation for why this occurs.

If you don't know the truth, how do you know I'm wrong?

[William Terrell]

Of course where would the world be without hysterical conspiracy theories.

Back in the stone age, considering every dark political change in history was made as a result of a conspiracy.

Do you really believe that these folks meet for decades every year about world policy and don't work to do anything about it?

[hershey]

Not much.

[american spirit]

When you get ready to make a lucid point let me know.

[CWOJackson]

"Do you really believe that these folks meet for decades every year about world policy and don't work to do anything about it?"

Meet about world policy? I thought you said we didn't know what they were doing?

Actually I think they meet just to drive the nuts crazy...or is that crazier?

[MWS]

You'll be the first I ping. ;)

[William Terrell]

Meet about world policy? I thought you said we didn't know what they were doing?

Right, they meet to play bridge. What else would such people meet about?

[CWOJackson]

Yes, God forbid they just like to chill out with people they have commonalities with. How sinister and evil can that be?

[William Terrell]

Yes, God forbid they just like to chill out with people they have commonalities with. How sinister and evil can that be?

You think they get together as a social club. Do you seriously think that?

[cynicom]

Notice no plumbers invited. I suspicion most are people that like to bask in the glow of their own greatness.

[CWOJackson]

"You think they get together as a social club. Do you seriously think that?"

To me it's far more plausible then plotting taking over the world. Even the ominous like to let down their hair and relax with their own.

[GOPJ]

Sounds harmless -- and might be helpful.

Formed in the spirit of post-war trans-Atlantic co-operation, the idea behind Bilderberg was that future wars could be prevented by bringing power-brokers together in an informal setting away from prying eyes.

"Bilderberg is the most useful international group I ever attended. The confidentiality enabled people to speak honestly without fear of repercussions.