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Canadian Ex-Minister Calls For Serious ET Study
Nom du Keyboard writes "A former Canadian Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister wants Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics - relations with Extraterrestrials - to avoid the possibility of intergalactic war. Unfortunately he also proposes starting a 'Decade of Contact', which seems to mean spending a whole lot of public money on UFO education. Is he on the right track here, that we can't afford to ignore the rest of the Universe any longer?" From the article: "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning ... The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide."
Looks like Canada's finally doing something about illegal aliens.
Any ET that Bush can shoot down isn't worth knowing anyway.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
Yes, the US government has been in a secret war with the G'ould for around 8 years now, but the SG-1 team is always around to keep the government honest. Well, at least until General O'Neill and Samantha Carter moved on to other jobs...
--Mythos
Im assuming this is a joke...
I like to think our superior recreational drugs (with the sadly missed exception of peyote) and excellent beer are the drawing cards for aliens throughout the 'verse.
It's good to know one of our retired politicians is projecting our world renowed good Canadian manners outward toward our interglactic neighbours.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Did you not watch that movie?? The aliens would die from all the germs and bacteria that humans are immune to! Simply coughing and sneezing at them will be our ultimate weapon. There is absolutely nothing to worry about!
...(a pretty amazing feat for one little planet, wouldn't you say? Even with a base on our moon!)...
That's not a moon... : p
Be a real patriot: Question authority. Think for yourself. Formulate your own conclusions.
Check out TFA and read one of the three "non-government organizations":
http://www.disclosureproject.org/
They're conspiracy theorists, and apparently they have followers around the world.
Let's remember that another UFO-believing group, the Church of Scientology, got famous followers like John Travolta, Tom Cruise, etc.
Cults happen.
...have I been embarassed to be Canadian...until now.
"Anyone that has ever gotten an idea based on any of my work and done something better with it-good for you."--J.Carmack
The aliens must be laughing themselves sick at our hubris.
If they laugh themselves sick, are they eligable for treatment in the Canadian free health-care system?
Progressivism: Parasites helping parasites to help themselves - to other people's stuff.
Forget fusion weapons...
Yeah, you're all forgetting all we'll need is a copy of Sasser on a diskette! Wait -- they're an advanced civilization, after all... better make that a flash drive.
I am not left-handed, either!
If they come, we'll just round up the aliens and throw 'em into a volcano. Yeah, that sounds plausible!
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
As for aliens? Do some research on the net. It will become very clear that what we are likely dealing with is a previously emmigrated human species, having left about 10,000 years ago after creating a nuclear winter right here. They come back, and for them it's like planet of the apes - the primitive tribes (sub-humans) of their time have risen up, built an oil-based economy and are in the process of riding the same rail-road of destruction that they did. Sound spectacularly crazy? Heh... Reality has a funny way of doing that sometimes...
Here is a decent place to start to get a taste. From this neutral site, you can google around and go deep into tin-foil-hat territory, or alternatively, you can investigate the real evidence in a scientific manner. There is a lot of both on the net.
I am actually pretty surprised that here on Slashdot, this article recieves such a mocking response. Skeptisism is good, but laughing is simply playing into the black propaganda to keep you from looking there. Looking there is good and healthy, it just may change the way you see things.
It is your personal duty to fight for what is right on a daily basis. Ignoring injustice is identical to approving
When we get attacked by the Nascarians, just stay to their right ... you'll have lots of warning as they make three left turns to get back to you.
If you think imaginary property and real property are the same, when does your house become public domain?