Seriously, based on the comments for this article, you'd think that the second your net worth tops $1B or you are inaugurated into public office, you suddenly cede your soul to Satan and become this megalomaniacal, money hungry, power grabbing, dictatorial autocrat.

Isn't it possible that people who've been fortunate enough to build up a huge pile of assets (or even, yes, inherit them) might still have a conscience? And isn't it possible that people who've entered into public office have done so with the intention of enriching their own communities and those around the world? And isn't it indeed likely that people in these positions might every now and then enjoy chatting with and bouncing ideas off of their peers?

Why is it the assumption that having money or power automatically breeds an insatiable desire for more of both? Not every CEO is Monty Burns, nor is every world leader Kim Jong-il.

Who said anything about trusting them, I just think it's natural that they would want to talk to each other, irrespective of any malicious intent.

Yes, on some level, they're probably trying to figure out the secret of everyone else's success in order to duplicate it and make themselves more successful. But who doesn't like success? Wouldn't you do the same thing?

finkyboy,

mactosh said it best:

"Whatever their intentions the concentration of forces at a Bilderberger meeting is too enormous to discount. Their associations will effect us all no matter how benevolent the incantions of purpose they espouse might be. Power corrupts often in subtle ways its victims are oblivious to and sometimes the victim's victims are just as unaware."

Isn't it possible that the 'fortunate' among us who are raised in that environment, of the global elites:

a. Aren't 'educated' like the rest of us.

b. Don't think like the rest of us.

c. Don't view themselves as being like us, the great unwashed masses, the rabble.

d. That when new inductees are made into their order, i.e. Bill Gates, because they've 'made it,' into the billionaires' club or the butt kissing politicians' club that they're informed of what the rules are and not to break them.

e. That they could be wrong, if indeed some of them are 'well intentioned', when they try to destroy our property rights; train us instead of educate us; try to destroy our knowledge of history and respect for the form of govt. we're supposed to have here, a republic, not a 'democracy;' try to pacify the sheeple by keeping them ignorant of their natural born most basic right to self defense, the right to fight back against tyrants and criminals; when they use 'global warming' as a propaganda tool in another money making scheme i.e. 'carbon credits' by which they will further control all we do and own; keep us divided in ignorance by the 'left/right' paradigm, while true on one level on another level is a construct they have long used to keep the more 'politically aware' among the sheeple distracted while the man behind the curtain pulls the strings on both parties?

Regardless of what the elites plan for us we must not allow them and their useful idiots to make us like England:

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