The London Guardian's comedy writer, Charlie Skelton, is now
being stalked by undercover police at the Astir Palace resort
near Athens for covering the Bilderberg conference.
Skelton was detained by Greek police for a second
time yesterday for taking photographs of the area, immediately
before he appeared live on the Alex Jones radio show.
Now the writer says he is being followed by two
undercover police officers, who he believes may have also gotten
into his hotel room while he was taking breakfast.
"I've just been chatting to the plainclothes
policemen I caught following me." Skelton writes in his
latest dispatch. "As absurd as it sounds,
I've just 'made my tail'. They're watching me now. REALLY."
Skelton writes that the two officers "Nick and John"
followed and interrogated him earlier today after he had spotted
them watching him in his hotel the night before.
He relates the officers' questions:
"How many days you spend here?" – "Where
you from exactly?" – "You staying here alone?"
I I was laughing. It was too bizarre. "What is your job?"
Though Skelton's reports began rather comically, it is clear
that he has come in for more harassment than he bargained for,
underlining the fact that tracking down Bilderberg is a serious
undertaking for any journalist, particularly one writing for
a mainstream outlet.
Skelton outlines this in his latest report:
"I'm just an ordinary guy. A concerned citizen. For this
week at least, a blogger. Barely a reporter. A terrible photographer.
No threat to anyone. I'm nobody. But just up the hill, in a
luxury hotel, there's a meeting of the most powerful somebodies
in the world. Bilderberg. I've been hauled off to the police
station twice. Before this week, I've never had so much as a
cross word with a policeman IN MY LIFE."
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Though Skelton may not have anticipated exactly
what he was letting himself in for, his reports may represent
the initial crack in the dam on this years Bilderberg conference
as far as mainstream coverage is concerned.
For every Guardian reader (and writer for that
matter) that laughs off Bilderberg, there will be another who
will actually look further into its activities and its agenda.
Listen to Charlie Skelton's appearance on the
Alex Jones show yesterday:
The London Guardian's comedy writer, Charlie Skelton, is now
being stalked by undercover police at the Astir Palace resort
near Athens for covering the Bilderberg conference.
