At the Denver congress a Montreal international investment banker called David Lang took the microphone. He was speaking to a small caucus, not the public, and like a lot of people who only ever speak to the room they are standing in he was unguarded. The recording survived. Hunt had a copy. Anyone who has heard the tape never forgets it.
What Lang said, in plain English, was that the work being agreed in the room must not be put to a democratic process. It would take too long. It would cost too much. It would require educating the public, which he then described, on the record, as cannon fodder.
The exact words, transcribed:
I suggest therefore that this be sold not through a democratic process. That would take too long and devour far too much of the funds to educate the cannon fodder, unfortunately, which populates the Earth.
Verbatim from the recording made at the Fourth World Wilderness Congress, Denver, September 1987. Speaker: David Lang, Montreal investment banker. Source: G. W. Hunt video letter, May 1992.