LETTER TO THE EDITORS: "Unspeakable evil at Bohemian Grove and in the press" Congratulations upon the 25-page hatchet job by the New York Times' Ron Rosenbaum (BOOKS: 'Them': Beyond the Fringe," January 13, 2002) and Patricia Cohen ('THEM' - Hopping Rides With a Range of Extremists," Jan 18, 2002), in their "review" of Jon Ronson's book, "THEM - Adventures With Extremists".
Ronson had produced a documentary for British TV, in-part on the successful infiltration of San Francisco's Bohemian Club at its 2,700-acre "presidential retreat" of Bohemian Grove, by investigative journalist Alex Jones. Using insider assistance, Jones, from Austin, Texas, and his hidden-video man, Mike Hansen, now a candidate for Travis County Commissioner, penetrated past US Secret Service agents and Sonoma County sheriff's deputies to reach the inner bowels of the fortified compound.
Their escapades produced the first videotape - to make it out of the Grove alive - of the annual "Cremation of Care" ritual of "simulated" child sacrifice and cremation upon the altar of the 50-foot-tall Owl of Bohemia. As Jones explained to his radio audience: "Ha! We really got 'em good this time!"
One may presume that catching President Bush and Company secretly partaking of homicidal pagan rites, while alleging to be America's most-Christian Conservatives, would be treated with the reverence it deserves. Especially since the bodies of mutilated children have been recovered nearby and alleged "snuff films" were investigated by Congress (self-investigated by the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department and FBI that provides security for the Bohemians [see interview below with Senator John DeCamp, author of The Franklin Cover-up]).
Instead, Jones was the one lumped into the extreme category inhabited by alleged terrorists such as the KKK and "disgruntled" U.S. government employees Timothy McVeigh and Usama Bin Laden.
One week later, Jones was again lumped with a new alleged terrorist, a U.S. Marine named "Richard McCaslin", who allegedly staged a Lone-Nut invasion of Bohemian Grove after listening to Jones' radio show. After forgetting batteries for his flashlight, the camouflaged Rambo got lost in the dark among the giant Redwoods and was forced to sleep in a cabin. The bemasked vigilante, upset at missing the ritual killings by six months, allegedly decided to arson the Grove's dining facility. "Frightened" deputies allegedly performed an historic act of negotiation, disarming the heavily armed "terrorist" without a single shot, grenade or missile being fired. The jailed terrorist then immediately held press conferences to name Alex Jones as his inspiration (but not the New York Times).
This tale was immediately spun by Santa Rosa's Michael Coit ("Bohemian Club's friends, foes dismiss dark tales - Texas talk show host shocked by fan's arrest but sticks to claims," January 23, 2002) and Peter Fimrite of the San Francisco Chronicle ("Masked man enters, attacks Bohemian Grove - 'Phantom' expected armed resistance," Thursday, January 24, 2002).
Like the Times' coverage, neither mentioned the address of Alex Jones' website, infowars.com, where readers could view FREE video clips and judge the accuracy of Jones' "claims" for themselves. None of the four critics admitted to actually watching Jones' video, "Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove," before writing their 30-plus pages of reviews.
Coit had phoned Jones' live radio show to conduct a mutual interview: "If my neighbor was worshipping a 40-foot stone owl and burned children on a fire, I wouldn't let that neighbor walk my dog or baby-sit my children. Instead these people are baby-sitting the Big Red Button, I mean the nuclear-launch codes," Jones said. "This is some sick stuff."
Since his video went on sale, Jones said he received threatening emails from Bohemian Clubbers in New York City. He added that a fellow videographer of the Grove in 2000, a retired military veteran and computer programmer, has been a missing person for the past four months. He told his wife and children that he was headed back to Bohemian Grove to do additional interviews, and that was the last anyone has admitted seeing him.
Incidentally, in December Jones released a new documentary video titled, "911 - The Road to Tyranny," a collection of mainstream news reports of treason committed by the Bush administration and others to stage bogus acts of terrorism against the American people to provoke wars.
After reading this sequence of events, a gentle reader might connect the dots of a wild conspiracy theory: manipulation of the news by the rich and infamous.
This reminds me of a speech by John Swinton, Chief of Staff of the New York Times and the "Dean of his Profession", in a toast before the New York Press Club, 1953:
"If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of journalists is to destroy the truth; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell this country and this race for their daily bread. We are the tools and vessels for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
| My hometown's media moguls of Scripps-Howard News Service are reportedly members of the Bohemian Club, both Charles Scripps and Jack Howard. I wonder if they would agree to an interview.... J. Davis Lee
Knoxville, Tennessee
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