Last weekend, the annual Bilderberg meeting took place in Turin, Italy. There has been great speculation about what occurs at these meetings, which have officially taken place since the 1950s. There also has been, and continues to be, astonishingly little mainstream media investigative coverage of them. This is extraordinary, considering both the prestigious stature of the international participants and the potential influence on geopolitical strategies and events.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper attended Bilderberg this year. The trip did not appear on his official itinerary, nor was he willing to comment on his trip, or what occurred at the conference, when asked by an independent investigative journalist (for a video record of the questioning, see www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_EmfIKnq_4).
As a Coloradan, I believe it is both true and appropriate when the journalist in the video stated to Hickenlooper that “Your electorate will want to know what you are doing here; your constituency, the people who voted you in, will want to know what happened.” Hickenlooper repeatedly said “no comment.”
Well, what were you doing there?
Much more transparency is both appropriate and necessary to establish a good relationship between Hickenlooper and his electorate. Behind-closed-doors meetings with high-level, international political, military, communications, banking, and corporate interests, without comment regarding the content of these meetings, does not engender trust.
If he wants my vote in the future, he’ll have to do much better.
Ben Gibson
Durango
