Rote: None Dare...pp. 58-62

We're kind of finished with the CFR. Allen's not, but I am. I've explained what it is and what it does, but that isn't going to convince anyone that is on the Illuminati side of things. As an academic, it's very hard to explain to people what I do for work. The amount of time I am "in office" or "at work" is very small. I teach two courses which amount to five hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm writing, reading, or just pondering the things that I have to write and read. Yes, I would likely be doing these things for free, but I am lucky in that respect. In either case, when I'm scratching with my pen in my notebook, that's work. It is also work that I don't get paid for, and it's work that probably is going to have little influence on the outside world. 

A think-tank is like that. It's just a bunch of people getting paid to think about stuff, and once in a while the things they have thought about end up in public. You cannot explain that this is important to people who will prima facie reject any concept that intellectual matters are important. The strain of anti-intelligence in the right-wing is basically their foundation now and it is used to insulate them from any kind of criticism. Places like the CFR do not make sense to them until the policies that come out of one of their versions become a talking point mantra for them to shout. 

Now, this is a difficult position to take because from the CFR we launch directly into the Bilderberger group. I'm not going to get into another deep dive with them, because it's the same pattern: a group of elite individuals who hold a meeting once a year and don't let people like Allen contribute. It's the same story only this time there are direct political people involved. The reason for the secrecy and security is because this type of meeting would be a gold star terrorist target. Ultimately though, this is the kind of thing that bores me because it's all based on an argument from ignorance. Allen doesn't know what happens in there so he assumes that this ignorance proves that it is evil. 

For example, Wikileaks got a hold of some of their meeting minutes and it's all...very boring if you are not into the minutiae of international politics. Viscount Etienne Davignon, the chair of the group for twelve years, commented about the conspiracy theories, "It is unavoidable and it doesn't matter. There will always be people who believe in conspiracies but things happen in a much more incoherent fashion. ... When people say this is a secret government of the world I say that if we were a secret government of the world we should be bloody ashamed of ourselves."

Let's walk through what Allen is proposing. The world is controlled by the CFR, but not really, it's the Bilderbergers who are also the CFR, and also the Round Table--all run by the COMMUNISTS, funded by the Rockefellers, who modeled themselves after the Jesuits which influenced the Illuminati. I think I have this correct. The goal then is to institute SOCIALISM which isn't "socialism" but a nefarious plot to institute a one-world government, which, if you are reading along with me Allen thinks already exists. Let me remind you that this book is hugely influential. 

But, I'm not allowed to move on just yet, because the original chair of the Bilderberger was Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, which Allen calls an SS trooper. Now, he's gone full Godwin here, so we have to check this out. This is true but it is framed wrong. Bernhard joined the National Socialist Motor Corps prior to the outbreak of the war in Europe, but that seemed to be more of an auto-club-type thing. I am unclear on the details. What Allen is referring to is that Bernhard also was a member of the Reiter-SS. This was a mounted division of the SS, which I'm assuming was for wealthy aristocrats (as most mounted divisions throughout European history had been). Bernhard was pro-Nazi for a bit, until he became vehemently anti-Nazi. He fled the Netherlands after the invasion, and then led every effort he could to fight the Nazis. Perhaps this is a case of, "They were fine until they came after me;" but he flew bombing missions over Germany and organized the Dutch resistance. I'm willing to assume that the Nazi party membership does not mean what Allen thinks it means here. 

Allen blames the CFR and thus the Bilderbergers for the 50k deaths in the Vietnam War. This is puzzling to me for two reasons. The obvious one is that it is false. The second one is that the US foreign policy people are in a bind here: what are they supposed to do to satiate the conspiratorial right? They enter the war, it's because they are the tools of the COMMUNISTS (or whoever). If they refrain from the war it's because they have capitulated to the COMMUNISTS. 

For people like Allen, it's not about the war, it's about being able to rile up emotions. The Vietnam War was a farce that the American government had no idea how to win from the beginning. A lot of people died because of the Communist panic and a willingness to "bear any burden" in a fight against an idea. Allen doesn't want this to be ineptitude, ignorance, or an accident. He needs everything to be purposeful because that is what angers up the blood. The less rational the people reading this are, the more they will sign up for any idea he is trying to sell. It's just too bad that the chapter ends with an utterly boring list of names.