> Here's another link for you. Notice that even the local police take orders from the Bilderbergers.

I assume you refer to the following:

"To approach the hotel property, even these uniformed police officers are required to show their credentials to the half-dozen black-suited men working for Globe Risk, a private security firm."

So, let's take a step back and think about this. The local street cops have to SHOW THEIR CREDENTIALS before entering a place where numerous political VIPs in North America and Europe are staying? Is that REALLY so scandalous or unusual or even surprising?

Where I work, it takes more than the credentials of local street cops just to get in the door -- and where I work is a place of utter insignificance in terms of political power and authority. Heck, where I *live*, it takes more than the credentials of local street cops just to get in the door. You need a search warrant. America is cool like that. Doesn't mean I secretly rule the world from my basement.

It blows my mind how people automatically assume that anything secretive is sinister, and any time any organization cooperates with anything secretive, it's through some shady force of authority and not simply a voluntary cooperation consistent with sound political and social behavior. Why can't the story just be that they wanted to meet somewhere, found a place where the local authorities were happy to assist and local hospitality and security businesses were available for hire?

Even if the Bilderbergers *were* some sinister conspiratorial group, why wouldn't they conduct their business with local authorities and business in the normal and acceptable way *anyway*?

Let me tell you about wacky conspiracy stuff like this. If the Bilderbergers or the Tri-Lateral Commission were all that nefarious and underhanded about what they do, it would have come out long ago and been splashed on every paper and every talk show and every radio program in the world, *especially* if there are people suspicious of them in the first place, as is certainly the case here. I mean, maybe it would take a couple years to come out, but not 50+. Look what happened to Nixon -- Watergate was blown open while the man was still in office by primarily just three people: a couple of reporters and a source that remained anonymous for decades blew the whistle on a conspiracy that went all the way to the White House. Today, can you read the news and not *still* hear about wiretapping? Bush got totally slammed by the nation for pulling that stunt, and the great irony is it wasn't even the fact of the wiretapping that did it, it was circumventing procedures already in place that would have allowed him to do it anyway. It's not a minor thing, but it's way, WAY minor compared to some arbitrary conspiracy theory about a few guys in suits ruling the world. Let me tell you, if any given group of 100 people had half the power conspiracy theories credit the Bilderbergers with -- and they actually tried to use it -- believe me, the six billion other people would not only blow the lid off it but shut it down in a hurry. Ok, so 5.9 billion would be ignorant and/or misled, but that still leaves a hundred million people (including most of the most powerful and connected people in the world's political, social, and economic structures) against, well, just a hundred.