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Our man at Bilderberg: Let's salt <strong>the</strong> slug in 2010<br />

Publicity is pure poison to <strong>the</strong> world's global power elite. So we should all turn up to its<br />

next annual meeting with a few more tubs of <strong>the</strong> stuff, writes Charlie Skelton<br />

Ten <strong>years</strong> ago, when Jon Ronson dared to report on Bilderberg, he found himself "chased<br />

<strong>by</strong> mysterious men in dark glasses through Portugal". He was scared for his safety.<br />

"When I phoned <strong>the</strong> British embassy and asked <strong>the</strong>m to explain to <strong>the</strong> powerful secret<br />

society that had set <strong>the</strong>ir goons on me that I was essentially a humorous journalist out of<br />

my depth, I wasn't being funny. I was being genuinely desperate," he wrote. I know<br />

exactly how he feels.<br />

Only out of sheer desperation did I try to arrest one of <strong>the</strong> goons following me and <strong>the</strong>n<br />

follow my flimsy leads up <strong>the</strong> Greek police ladder, finally catching one of <strong>the</strong> goons wethanded<br />

in <strong>the</strong> lavatory of <strong>the</strong> department of government security. And only <strong>the</strong>n did I<br />

know <strong>the</strong> extent of Bilderberg's paranoia: <strong>the</strong>y had set <strong>the</strong> state police on me.<br />

So who is <strong>the</strong> paranoid one Me, hiding in stairwells, watching <strong>the</strong> pavement behind me<br />

in shop windows, staying in <strong>the</strong> open for safety Or Bilderberg, with its two F-16s,<br />

circling helicopters, machine guns, navy commandos and policy of repeatedly detaining<br />

and harassing a handful of journalists Who's <strong>the</strong> nutter Me or Baron Mandelson Me or<br />

Paul Volker, <strong>the</strong> head of Obama's economic advisory board Me or <strong>the</strong> president of<br />

Coca-Cola<br />

It makes me want to spit, <strong>the</strong> absurdity of it: <strong>the</strong> cost, not just in Greek tax euros, but on<br />

my peace of mind, of having (conservatively) a dozen Jack Bauers assigned to tailing me.<br />

I hope <strong>the</strong> operation at least had a cool name: Operation Catastrophic Overreaction,<br />

perhaps.<br />

So, yes, Bilderberg's paranoia is half to blame. But <strong>the</strong>re is ano<strong>the</strong>r reason why Ronson<br />

was hounded round Portugal, why I was chased round Greece, and why on Sunday <strong>the</strong><br />

Romanian journalist Paul Dorneanu was strip-searched <strong>by</strong> goons in Vouliagmeni, held<br />

for four hours and forced to purge his camera of images (for <strong>the</strong> crime of trying to film<br />

<strong>the</strong> delegates leaving). And it is this: <strong>the</strong>y can harass and detain us only because so few of<br />

us are <strong>the</strong>re.<br />

Just now, I searched for "Bilderberg" on Reuters. I did <strong>the</strong> same on AP. And this is what I<br />

turned up:

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