Bohemian Grove - harmless male-bonding or global conspiracy?

[Edge]

Fact: Every year, at Bohemian Grove, top world leaders get together in conditions of utmost secrecy to get drunk, pee in public, cross-dress, burn a figure in effigy, and incidentally discuss world politics.

Question: Is this a harmless opportunity to break loose from world-class responsibilities, or is there a more sinister agenda?

Past & present members include:

George Bush Sr
George Bush Jr
Dick Cheney
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Malcolm Forbes
Gerald Ford
Newt Gingrich
Alan Greenspan
Alexander Haig
Herbert Hoover
Jack Kemp
Henry Kissinger
Richard M. Nixon
Colin Powell
Ronald Reagan
George Schultz
Caspar Weinberger
Art Linkletter
William Randolph Hearst, Jr.

Even Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth showed up in 1983. Her Majesty was honored with an ecstatic pagan dance ceremony, complete with expensive, elaborate stage props such as Egyptian pyramids and Babylonian ziggurats. Yet, even the Queen of England could not join this club if she applied for membership. Why? Because this club is exclusively all male. Women have not ever been allowed since the club’s founding in 1873.

So what is this ultra-elite club with the bizarre Druid customs? They are the Bohemians, formally known as the Bohemian Club. They practically own their own county north of San Francisco, a 2,700-acre summer camp they call the Bohemian Grove. Since the 1890s, the “Grovers” (as they are known to intimates) have gathered amongst these redwood trees to “get away from it all,” have a little summer vacation fun, and avoid business dealings altogether for two weeks. At least, that’s the official story.

Then, there are the other stories…some of them too strange to believe. Tales of world leaders plotting the world’s destiny there in secret “war rooms,” hand-picking Presidents and future leaders from the Bohemian Grove. Reports of occult rituals being conducted by these same powerful men, clad only in hooded red, black and white robes, offering an effigy of a human being to be sacrificed by fire to a towering 45-foot stone owl God, the “Great Owl of Bohemia” in a ceremony called “The Cremation of Care.” Sometimes, they discard the robes, don women’s clothing and parade around onstage in theatrical productions or – if the spirit so moves them - they wear no clothes at all!

Some links:

www.cultofconspiracy.com/
www.rotten.com/library/conspiracy/bohemian-grove/
www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Bohemian_Grove_Attack.htm
www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspiracy/cove ... jones.html

[Kinslaughterer]

I've also heard that in an addendum to the 1947 Defense Act (what created the Department of Defense and closed the Dept. of War) states that no federal, state, local, or international laws apply to the property where the resort is located. Essentially it protects the above named in case they get out of hand. Never verifed that bit of info but sounds curious doesn't it?

[Lord Mhoram]

Very interesting. I've never heard of it.

[Alynna Lis Eachann]

Never heard of it, but how much damage can you do on a global scale when you're getting drunk and dancing to a drum circle? I say let them have their fun... those people need a "no-prying-eyes" break more than the rest of us, and if it keeps them saner while they're doing their jobs, what's the harm?

[Kinslaughterer]

Supposedly they sacrifice people to the big Owl statue referred to as "Moloch" or is it the owl from Clash of the Titans? As the story goes the town near the resort has several disappearances during the BG meetings. Suspicious?

[Alynna Lis Eachann]

Not enough to pique my fancy. Now, if they were hiding a Stargate or an alien autopsy lab in there, that'd be different...