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Originally posted by emb021
Masons, Illuminati, secret societies of various sorts, Trilateral Commission, Bilderbergers, etc. Skull & Bones has only gotten recent attention, mainly from their connection with the Bushes.
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That's not correct. The Trilaterla Commission received an enourmous amount of attention during the 1976 presidential elections. It was only a few years old, and Jimmy Carter was a member. At that time, other atlanticist organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg conferences were also covered. This was probably the period when these groups received the most attention. It was also revisited during the 1980 Republican presidential primaries when Reagan brought it up because George. H. W. Bush was a member of the TriCom.
The truth is that the Trilateral Commision does not make its members powerful. It recruits powerful people, and if they become part of any national government's executive branch, they must resign.
Just as the TriCom and CFR don't make their members powerful, neither does Skull & Bones. After three years at one of America's top 3 research universities, its not that difficult to figure out which juniors will make something of themselves. If you pick the top 15 juniors from Yale every year, that group will have many prominent alumni. Its that simple.
That said, Alexandra Robbins is a moron, or a liar. I'm convinced of this after watching 60 Minutes. She claims that she spoke with a third of the Skull & Bones alumni that she contacted. Did it ever occur to her that maybe she was being played? Perhaps the S&B alumni concocted an inside story that built upon their mystery and made them seem to be something more than they really are. S&B thrives on the conspiracy theories. It makes a lot of people want to be on the inside. Ms. Robbins was used like the tool that she is.
Also, there was a writer for the New York Observor on that piece that really offended me. He stated that S&B has some redeeming values, as opposed to fraternities who have none.
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