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Vanity Fair writer arrested for sneaking into Bohemian Grove
Phillip Matier,Andrew Ross
SF Chronicle
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Vanity Fair contributor Alex Shoumatoff faces trespassing charges after apparently trying to sneak into the famous, rich and powerful Bohemian Club’s annual retreat over the weekend.
For more than a century, the club has been hosting its secretive summertime retreats up at the 2,700-acre Bohemian Grove.
The party atmosphere, however, has been tempered of late by the club’s battle with a fourth-generation member, John “Jock” Hooper, who resigned in 2004 over the Bohemian plan to harvest oak and fir trees from its wilderness.
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The club insists the logging would thin no more than 1.5 percent of its second-growth trees, and that the idea is to protect the grove’s beloved redwoods from fires like the ones now raging around the state.
But Hooper doesn’t buy it, and is fighting the club’s cutting plan before the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
When Hooper enlisted the help of former Harvard classmate Shoumatoff to write about the harvesting controversy, the club fought back by hiring San Francisco PR man Sam Singer - last heard spinning the San Francisco Zoo’s side of the tiger-mauling story - to launch a counterattack.
First, Singer branded Hooper as a hypocrite for running a logging operation that cut 5 percent of the conifer trees from a farm he owns in Mendocino County.
Next, Singer shot off a letter to Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter, demanding that Shoumatoff be pulled from the story because of his connection to Hooper.
But Shoumatoff - best known for the Vanity Fair article about mountain gorilla advocate Dian Fossey that eventually became the film “Gorillas in the Mist” - stayed on the story.
“Yes, I’m an old friend of Hooper’s,” Shoumatoff wrote to one of Singer’s associates in June. “But I am also a responsible reporter who tries his best to get both sides of the story.”
Shoumatoff warned that unless the club’s flacks started cooperating, “readers are going to get the idea that you’re hiding something and you are going to come off like a bunch of idiots.”
Now, however, it’s Shoumatoff who could have some explaining to do after he was nabbed Saturday night by security guards while allegedly trying to sneak into the grove compound.
He was turned over to Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies and held for six hours on a trespassing charge before posting bail.
We tried reaching him for comment at the Northwoods Lodge, across the river from the grove, where he was believed to be holed up in a cabin. He didn’t return our phone call.
Vanity Fair spokeswoman Beth Kseniak told us the magazine stands by Shoumatoff and his continued reporting.
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July 16th, 2008 at 5:18 am
The Bohemian Grove elite are priest of the occultic esoteric order. The leaders, the high priest of the entire organization is the Catholic church. They are not Christian but Baal priest who desire to control all religions. The evidence is overwhelming concerning this.
July 16th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Gee Mr shoumatoff is luckie he did’nt get sacrificed to Moloch the owl of Darkness , What a Cult of worshipers , the greedy idiot rich who kills you and I for it , Hey and they make tons of money to from controlling the poor and making them fight each other around the world . Until the people of this planet pull there heads out of there asses and start to stand up for them selfs you’ll always suffer along with me and are childrens futures . Think about living in your street not in your house as alot of us are doing now .
July 16th, 2008 at 7:04 am
This is a total puff-piece about the Bohemian Grove!
Watch Alex Jones’ Dark Secrets Inside the Bohemian Grove to learn how the global elite secretly plan our destiny/demise there!
July 16th, 2008 at 8:29 am
I am glad that we could both agree that 9/11 was in fact an OUTSIDE job.
Most people can’t figure out why Osama Bin Laden would send an Odigo message to the Israelis working in the twin towers - but when you realize that has was trying to implicate them in the crime, it all makes sense.
Osama even went as far as to paint a mural of planes hitting the Twin towers, place on a rental Truck owned and driven by two israelis dual citizens. Then, to make sure they couldn’t defend themselves, he tried to blow them up by placing explosives in the vehicle and detonating them - but too late, as they israelis had just exited the vehical.
Osama furher tried to implicate the israelis by releasing phony NYPD tapes of police officers identifying and arresting the israelis gentlemen, who’s truck just happend to explode as they were pulled over and apprehended.
Then OSama got really sneaky and planted explosives in another israeli owned truck that was stopped heading towards the new jersey bridge.
Osama really wanted to frame israel for the particular crime. He even ensured that Mohammed Atta would have a fireproof/explosion-proof passport, all so that the NYPD could find it at the base of the towers.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:30 am
So the people who wrote the Project for A New American Century weren’t involved - Thank god. I must have been mistaken.
I always thought those Bohemian Grove, Molek Worshipers who called “For a Catalyzing Event, Similiar to Pearl Harbor” were innocent….
Forget PNAC, forget Bilderberg, Forget the Trilateral Commission, these are good-hearted folks. They don’t want global government. They just want free trade, they just want to love you.
I guess I was deluded into thinking a bunch of pedophilic Pagans could be responsible for 9/11. Sure they just invaded two countries and killed a couple million people, but you can’t expect them to kill Americans?!
That would be….Unamerican.
The Israeli Agents detained in the area with a mural of planes crashing into the twin towers - a coincidence. Their truck exploded immediately after they jumped out, guess that was a Lucky coincidence also.
Project Northwoods - Forget it, totally irrelevant
Just because the area of the pentagon containing evidence into the 2.7 TRILLION dollars going missing was hit by the Plane doesn’t mean it was a conspiracy. It was a coincidence. Just because the documents ere destroyed and no one went to jail doesn’t mean they had anything to do with it (Rumsfeld)
Bush signed the order to invade Afghanistan before sept. 11
-Just a coincidence, nothing to see here. Move Along.
Marvin Bush takes over Security of the twin towers six months before 9/11.
-Just another coincidence, shut up and move along.
ODIGO sends an instant message to it’s Israeli employees telling them to get out!
-Coincidence, Don’t be an anti-semite!
WOW! I was wrong about 9/11. Turns I was being a stupid conspiracy nut. I’m glad I started leaving Fox News on as I doze off every night….
July 16th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
The Catholic Church is the one true Church founded by our Lord Jesus Christ. The evidence for this is overwhelming, my friend. The Catholic Church was the number one enemy of the Communists, so they decided to do their best to destroy the Faith. Communist agents, enemies of the Church, infiltrated Catholic seminaries decades ago by the hundreds with the goal of advancing in the Church and ultimately to make the Church virtually unrecognizable. They have succeeded in large part, as particularly since Vatican 2 all kinds of modernist error and heresy has been widely embraced and promoted by priests and bishops, and even the Popes since the time of Vatican 2. The Popes are not infallible in their personal opinions and actions, so it is possible for them to be material heretics and yet not formal heretics. As much as there is to criticize about Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul ll and Pope Benedict XVI, I do not see proof as of yet that they were or are formal heretics. I give them the benefit of a doubt until a future Pope or Council declares otherwise, or until heresy is formally taught by the Pope in a manner binding on the faithful. So, while they may not be anti-popes, their errors in judgement need to be strongly resisted and made known. This is what the Society of St. Pius X has done. They have preserved the Traditional Mass, Sacraments, and teachings of the Church just as they received them before the devastation to the Faith caused by the liturgical reforms following the Second Vatican Council. Make no mistake, the enemies of the Church have used Vatican 2 to their advantage to almost destroy the Faith. However, the gates of Hell shall not prevail over what our Lord has established. The Crisis of Faith in the Church is huge, but there are faithful remnants everywhere who have preserved the Faith and continue to transmit it, and will continue to do so until God restores all things in Christ.
July 16th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Alex got in because he got a secret deal,
The confront with David Gergen is totally staged.
David Gergen slips and says Alex broke the deal and then asks “Did you have a deal?”
The NWO is a Freemasonic ideology, no-one else’s, yet Alex Jones never mentions this fact, why?
Because, he is a gatekeeper for the Knights of the Vatican.
Wake up, Wake up, Wake up, zombies
July 16th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
HA! The Elite Gay Party got invaded by Vanity Fair! How ironical is that??
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