Is Bohemian Grove a secretive elitist club of world elites, or is it just some snobs acting silly in the woods

Question

Are these people for real?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpFfBMgfKU&feature=related

Answer 1

I saw the whole video on Bohemian Grove. It's so inadvertently funny

The protesters are a motley array of wanna-be '60s flower-power losers, and faux spiritualists.

The most hilarious part is when these Cretins, resplendent in their cheap imitation, psychedelic Summer of Love attire (that looks like it came from a hippie K-mart), hold hands in a circle, and recite invocations to the river spirit, as if this is a common prayer for them.

However, they pronounce the words so sloppily and clumsily it's obviously the first time they have ever uttered them. It is absolutely pathetic. The whole ill-conceived protest is like a parody of sad, silly, desperate wanna-be losers trying to be cool by pretending to be highly spiritual, and attuned to the mystical forces of the earth.

Isn't it amazing that some gullible people will watch that video and conclude, based on the fact that it's narrated by someone who sounds like he's sometimes forced to whisper his lines for fear of being heard, that it therefore must be real? What these people don't understand is, if every President has been there, as well as a gamut of people whose political philosophy is as different as Carter's and Reagans, then how could there be a single, unifying conspiracy? In reality, you'd have one crowd trying to defeat the initiatives of the other.

This is a chance for guys who are normally trapped in a world of suits and high powered meetings to be outdoors, and act like kids again, complete with bonfires and scary stories.

Oh well, maybe if I get bored someday I'll get a bad haircut, find some aging douche-bag hippie, borrow his clothes, and have a swell ol' time at Bohemian Grove. I just have to practice my invocation to the river spirits for the tv cameras. "All Hail Mother Earth!"

Wish me luck. I'll finally get my 15 minutes of fame.

Answer 2

The Bohemian Grove gathering has aspects of both.

Answer 3

Mostly the latter, rich snobs need to let loose too lol.