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Them - Adventures with Extremists

Is there really a secret room somewhere from which a hidden elite rules the world? Are they perhaps known as The Bilderberg Group? How come so many of the different extremist organisations out there share common ideas? This book provides no clear answers, but a very interesting encounter with several of the questions and the people who are asking them...

Title: Them - Adventures with Extremists
Author: Jon Ronson
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 0-330-37546-6

I got this book as a gift, from a business acquaintance, who told me that I just had to read about the twelve feet alien lizards that rule the world. With a description like that, I just had to find out for myself what the heck this was all about...

Author and humorist Jon Ronson spent a few years with people and organisations labelled as "extremists" by others. In this book Jon Ronson describes the events he partook in and the people he met. The result is extremely entertaining and very informative.

Appearing in the book are such diverse characters as Omar Bakri Mohammed (point man for the islamic Holy War on Britain), a Ku Klux Klan leader, Ian Paisley and David Ickes among others. David Ickes is probably the most interesting person from a "wacko"-perspective: he believes that the semi-human descendants of evil extraterrestrial 12-foot-tall lizards walk among us and rule the world from a secret room somewhere.

In fact, the world being ruled by a small group from a secret room somewhere, is the theme that runs throughout the book. All the extremist organisations have this theme in common. Specifically, the secret group is named "The Bilderberg Group" and actually exist. But do they really rule the world?

Jon Ronson meets with all these extremists and sets a goal to find the secret room, to locate the ruling elite group, if they at all exist. He actually reaches that goal. He finds The Bilderberg Group and at the very end of the book he penetrates (rather easily I might add) the security around one of their not-so-secret yearly gatherings and participates in one of their "rituals".

This ia great book. Jon Ronson writes well, and describes the people and organisations with great sense of humour. Some of the stories are mindboggling, some makes you laugh your pants off (like the part about the Ku Klux Klan leader who does not allow his members to say the N-word...) and some are simply sad, sad stories about terrifying events that actually took place (the story about Randy Weaver and Ruby Ridge is well worth looking into in greater detail I think).

It is simply a "must read", great material to bring along on the summer vacation or to the beach.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743233212/qid=1052062504/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/102-6525440-9957713

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