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- From: v140pxgt@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Daniel B Case)
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- Subject: Re: Bohemian Grove (was: Re: Bohemian Party???)
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 05:12:00 GMT
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- In article <21DEC199213240083@reg.triumf.ca>, orwell@reg.triumf.ca (BALDEN, RON) writes...
- >Well, I myself wasn't claiming anything *especially* sinister about Bohemian
- >Grove; it's no more sinister than other coordination mechanisms (e.g. the
-
- Okay, that's fine. It's not worth flaming each other over.
-
- >Business Roundtable) of the ruling elite of the United States. It just happens
- >to be one of the places where *some* of "the elite meet to eat", as it were.
- >(Please, no uninformed idiocies complaining about the phrase "ruling elite".
- >It's not ten people meeting in a conference room. Start with C. Wright Mill's
- >"The Power Elite" (1956) and move on to Domhoff and colleagues.)
- >
- >Other references (I haven't read these myself) on Bohemian Grove I found in
- >secondary sources:
- >
- >The book I referred to by G. William Domhoff is
- >"The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study of Ruling Class
- >Consciousness", 1974, Harper and Row.
- >
- >An essay of Domhoff's, "Politics among the Redwoods",
- >The Progressive (magazine), January 1981, pp. 32-36
- >
- >Rick Clogher, "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here", Mother Jones,
- >August 1981. (The title is from some kind of motto of the
- >Bohemian Club.) I found this reference in "The Big Boys"
-
- "weaving spiders come not here" as I have said previously, is the way the club
- phrases its mainly-honored-in-the-breach rule against doing business on club
- grounds.
-
- >by Nader and Taylor (1986) (in the profile of Thomas Jones, CEO of Northrop
- >-- not T.K. Jones, he is someone else).
- >
- >Ron Balden
-