Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor last year accepted an invitation to join the Belizean Grove, an elite but little-known women’s-only group.
Founded nearly 10 years ago as the female answer to the Bohemian Grove — a secretive all-male club whose members have included former U.S. presidents and top business leaders — the Belizean Grove has about 125 members, including Army generals, Wall Street executives and former ambassadors.
Sotomayor’s membership in the New York-based group became public Thursday afternoon in a questionnaire submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Since then, the group has been deluged with press calls, said its founder, Susan Stautberg, who explained that “we like to be under the radar screen.”
The group — which on its website describes itself as “a constellation of influential women who are key decision makers in the profit, nonprofit and social sectors; who build long-term, mutually beneficial relationships in order to both take charge of their own destinies and help others to do the same” — hosts periodic meetings around New York, as well as an annual off-the-record three-day retreat in Central or South America at which its members attend cocktail parties with U.S. diplomats and host-country officials and participate in panel discussions on public policy and business affairs.
Comment: Sotomayor should not be allowed on our highest court; by her actions and associations she has clearly demonstrated her inability to uphold and defend the US Constitution. We certainly can see how one Supreme Court Justice who was a member of a secret organization did more to subvert liberty and freedom than any other person in recent history, and we don't need another.
Here are a few quotes to consider:
Robert A. Heinlein: Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
George Washington: "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation, and excessive dislike of another, cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests."
Comment 2: Aside from party ideology, all of these oligarchs are tied, not to a state or even to the United States with any sentiment, but to associations, special interests, and global involvements. In this day and age I am not sure if repealing the 17th would prevent this, certainly history tells otherwise, but I am 100 percent sure it would greatly curtail it.
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But I thought that the Bohemian Grove, like the Bilderburg Group, didn't exist, as reported by mainstream media.
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