I recall reading the following from an old Walrus magazine article on Stephen Harper’s professors at the University of Calgary:
Not only are Flanagan and Morton U.S.-born, but Cooper is a member of the Bohemian Club, a fraternity of Republican movers and shakers who fork out a $10,000 initiation fee to gather every year in the redwoods outside San Francisco for a policy version of summer camp. In a crowd that has included Henry Kissinger and Vice-President Dick Cheney, Cooper gives a regular talk on Canadian politics – one reason the Calgary School’s views may hold more sway in Washington than Ottawa.
You can google the Bohemia Grove, Bohemian Club and all that booga booga on your own.
One blogger, the Corbett Report actually called Mr. Cooper to ask him about his membership in the club (more analysis and commentary at the link):
Sphere: Related ContentDr. Barry Cooper—a professor of political science at the University of Calgary and mentor of Stephen Harper—joined The Corbett Report yesterday to talk about free speech, Leo Strauss, and his membership in an elite secret society known as The Bohemian Club. The Bohemian Club hosts an annual summer camp in a redwood grove in northern California each year. The membership roster of the club reads like a who’s who of political, commercial and academic elite, including the likes of David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger and George H.W. Bush.
Find out more about the Bohemian Club and hear an excerpt from Dr. Cooper’s recent appearance on The Corbett Report by watching the video below:
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hatrock 07.23.08 at 4:28 pm
lol… trying to make a connection between the “evil secret” Bohemian Club and Stephen Harper? rrriiggghhhht. The club is just a stupid retreat for artsy fartsy San Fran bohemians to reinact a dumb play for republican and other big-wigs where media can’t take pictures of them pissing on a redwood or record their casual conversations… similar to Bilderberg, but much more casual. It’s not a NWO planning session and if it were, based on that hokey ritual, we’d already be fucked by now.
Aaron 07.24.08 at 7:35 am
We’ve got $140 oil, a subprime crisis, nearly 200 bank failures, $50 trillion in unfunded liabilities, plus an official debt of $9 trillion (not counting consumer debt), a recession, Iraq, Afghanistan and, if expectations hold, Iran. Either we’re close to being fucked, or it truly is Mission Accomplished. America’s survived plenty of crises, but this seems like death by a thousand cuts.
If I were a world leader and had a role in managing all that at any level, pissing on a redwood would seem as a welcome distraction right about now.