TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Sunday, July 18, 2004

From San Francisco Chronicle July 18, 2004:

On Saturday, some 2,000 CEOs and politicos and arty types arrived at the cool redwoods and lily-choked lake of the Grove, the famous Russian River playground of the powerful Bohemian Club.

They say it's the place to be seen in America in July.

Except, of course, you can't see them.

Signs abound: No Thru Traffic. No Trespassing. Members and Guests Only. No Turn Around. Sentries scan the paths from above with binoculars, helped out by infrared sensors.
[...]
There are 125 different camps -- Toyland, Dog House, Sons of Toil, etc. George H.W. Bush will be in Hill Billies, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

But today, outside the Grove, NOT IN OUR NAME SONOMA COUNTY presents:

FAT CATS' FESTIVAL AND PARADE
Annual Protest at the Summer Encampment
at the Bohemian Grove
This is where the boys
(Bush Sr., Rumsfeld, Kissinger, Bechtel, Cheney, and so many more),
who bring us war for profit, frolic!

Join Not In Our Name Sonoma County on
Sunday, July 18th, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
[with]
David Rovics, singer/songwriter of
"Who Would Jesus Bomb"
http://www.davidrovics.com/

Dave Lippman as Shrub, the Singing CIA Agent
http://www.davelippman.com/

The Prince Myshkins, queer music revolutionaries
www.hiddenagendamusic.com/myshkins/[...]
The parade/march will proceed to the entrance to the Grove. Dusty will perform the Resurrection of Care ritual. The protest will proceed to the Monte Rio amphitheater for the performances...

Say "No!" to the incestuous relationship between
corporations and the government.

Say "No!" to the wars they foment for their own profit.

Money and help gratefully accepted.
For information, contact badbohos@yahoo.com or 707-569-9922.
http://www.nionsc.org/

That front page feature in today's San Francisco Chronicle quoted above is a lengthy historical profile of the Bohemian Club and other exclusive clubs based in San Francisco. Another excerpt:

In 1971, President Richard Nixon, a member since 1953, was to be the lakeside speaker, but reporters had finally raised a ruckus about a sitting president giving an off-the-record speech at the Grove. Nixon sent sugary regrets in a telegram that hangs in the city clubhouse today, saying that anyone could be president of the United States, but only a few could aspire to be president of the Bohemian Club.

Privately, he said to domestic affairs adviser John Ehrlichman and Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman (and the hidden tape recorder) in the Oval Office that May: "The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time -- it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco."



The caption for this 1934 Bohemian Club pic published in today's San Francisco Chronicle says the Bohemian Club now excludes journalists. That is certainly misleading in that it is attended by many high-level news executives from both print and broadcast media as well as public media figures from Walter Cronkite to William F. Buckley, Jr. to Walter Williams.

See also
• Libertythink: A visit to the Bohemian Club
  
• Alex Jones Bohemian Grove archive
  
• More Grove background
  
• Friday's edition of Wall Street Journal names Bohemian Grovers
  

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