Planning our future:
by Charles Overbeck
Matrix Editor
easterisle@parascope.com
The date is May 14, 1998. The attendees -- 120 representatives of the
Western political, financial and corporate elite -- cruise through the
untamed Scottish countryside in black limousines on their way to the
swank Turnberry Hotel in Ayrshire. The discussions they will engage
in, and the consensus they reach, will influence the course of Western
civilization and the future of the entire planet. This meeting will
take place behind closed doors in total secrecy, protected by a
phalanx of armed guards.
The Bilderberg is about to get busy once again.
According to a Bilderberg Society press release, the 46th Bilderberg
meeting was an informal discussion "to discuss the Atlantic
relationship in a time of change. Among others the Conference will
discuss NATO, Asian Crisis, EMU, Growing Military Disparity, Japan,
Multilateral Organizations, Europe's social model, Turkey, EU/US
Market Place [sic]."
Those who attend Bilderberg meetings do so in a private rather than
official capacity. From former CIA director John Deutch to New Jersey
Governor Christine Todd Whitman, each guest attendee is hand-picked by
the Bilderberg's organizing committee to join in secret deliberations
about the propagation of Western hegemony in the New World Order.
All Bilderberg discussions are conducted in absolute secrecy. To
guarantee solitude, the Group customarily books an entire hotel in a
secluded location. The hotel is protected by a tight security grid of
heavily armed guards from the U.S. Secret Service, various European
secret service agencies and the local police.
Although some reporters and many media owners are present at these
meetings, you will hear nothing about the Bilderberg in the news.
According to the Bilderberg's press release, "Participants have agreed
not to give interviews to the press during the meeting. In contacts
with the news media after the conference it is an established rule
that no attribution should be made to individual participants of what
was discussed during the meeting."
A source close to the Turnberry conference told The Scotsman: "I
cannot comment officially on whether this is a conference of the
Bilderberg group... This is a strictly private non-governmental
conference, one of a series of such meetings. Their purpose is the
discuss most informally and confidentially topics of current concern
to the democracies of Europe and America."
Bilderberg proponents argue that this cloak of secrecy is vital to
ensuring an honest and vigorous debate.
"Some of the delegates are politicians, but everyone is here
privately," the Turnberry conference source told The Scotsman. "It
inspires frothing at the mouth of conspiracy theories, but the purpose
of the privacy is to allow delegates to have a frank and constructive
debate and get to the heart of things knowing that they are not going
to be reported."
Of course, this secrecy also guarantees that the vast majority of the
world's citizenry is kept completely in the dark regarding Bilderberg
deliberations, even though the consensus of the Group may affect
national and international government and commerce.
The extremes to which the Bilderberg goes to achieve this level of
secrecy raises serious suspicions about the Group's motives in the
minds of many. Critics of the Bilderberg say:
The Group perceives itself as being supra-governmental. Indeed,
Bilderberg founder Prince Bernhard himself once said, "It is difficult
to re-educate people who have been brought up on nationalism to the
idea of relinquishing part of their sovereignty to a supra-national
body." (Alden Hatch, H. R. H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands: An
Authorized Biography, G. G. Harrap & Co. [London], 1962.)
The Group coercively manipulates global finances and establishes rigid
and binding monetary rates around the world.
The Group selects political figures whom the Bilderberg determines
should become rulers, and targets those whom it wants removed from
power.
Rather than pursuing an agenda which would work to solve global
health, energy, environmental and agricultural problems, the Group
pursues an agenda which guarantees the propagation of its own power
and the enrichment of its members, at the expense of human rights and
environmental degradation worldwide.
As Bilderberg critic Tony Gosling wrote, "One cannot help but be a
little suspicious when priorities for the future of mankind are being
considered, by those who have real influence over that future, in
total secret."
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