[lbo-talk] re: Bilderberg

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 11 13:40:45 PDT 2004


Hilarious send up on a far right obsessive about the Bilderbergers, a correspondent for The American Free Press, formerly The Spotlight, in "Them: Adventures With Extremists, " by Jon Ronson. Available used via amazon.com for $4.90.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/- /0743233212/qid=1086986009/sr=8-5/ref=pd_ka_5/102-3781069- 3543319?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
> ...Amazon.com
In Them, British humorist Jon Ronson relates his misadventures as he engages an assortment of theorists and activists residing on the fringes of the political, religious, and sociological spectrum. His subjects include Omar Bakri Mohammed ( http://www.memri.de/uebersetzungen_analysen/themen/islamistische_ideologie/isl_bakri_24_10_01.pdf

), the point man for a holy war against Britain (Ronson paints him as a wily buffoon); a hypocritical but engaging Ku Klux Klan leader; participants in the Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas, battles; the Irish Protestant firebrand Ian Paisley; and David Ickes (sic.), who believes that the semi-human descendants of evil extraterrestrial 12-foot-tall lizards walk among us. Despite these characters' disparities, they are bound by a belief in the Bilderberg Group, the "secret rulers of the world." In a final chapter, Ronson manages, with surprising ease, to penetrate these rulers' very lair. He writes with wry, faux-naive wit and eschews didacticism, instead letting his subjects' words and actions speak for themselves. --H. O'Billovitch



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