The Bohemian Grove: Cremation of Care
Every July, the most powerful men in the world gather under the redwoods of Northern California. They burn an effigy of a child before a 40-foot stone owl.
Founded in 1872, the Bohemian Club is a private men-only club whose summer encampment at Bohemian Grove (Monte Rio, California) draws sitting and former presidents, defense contractors, oil executives, intelligence chiefs, and senators every July for two weeks.
The opening ritual - the Cremation of Care - involves a procession of robed members, an effigy bound on a funeral pyre, and an incantation delivered before a 40-foot concrete owl that the members call Moloch. (Moloch, for those keeping score, is the Canaanite deity to whom children were sacrificed in the Hebrew Bible.)
Alex Jones famously infiltrated the Grove in 2000 and filmed the ritual. The footage is unedited and undisputed. The members' response was that it is "satirical theater." Alright.
Richard Nixon called it "the most faggy goddamn thing you could ever imagine." (His words, on tape.)
Whatever it is - take a long look at the guest list, the symbolism, and the secrecy, and decide for yourself why the people who run the world need to gather in secret to watch a child be burned in effigy.