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- From: u2nmh@csc.liv.ac.uk (N.M. Humphries)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
- Subject: Re: Government coverups
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:26:40 GMT
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- Michael Saleeba (zik@zikzak.apana.org.au) wrote:
- > billp@mozart.amd.com (Bill Peterson) writes:
-
- > > 1) Something crashed. The Air Force doesn't want us all to know.
- > > 2) The Air Force STILL doesn't want us to know. (Almost 50 years
- > > later).
-
- > You see this sort of thing again and again, particularly in
- > alt.alien.visitors - wild claims that the government or some part of
- > it is trying to cover up information about UFOs. Now there's something
- > about all this that doesn't ring true for me at all. WHY? I mean,
- > what's the point? What do they stand to gain by covering it all up? It
- > must cost them a lot of effort, so they'd have to have a pretty darn
- > good reason to do it.
-
- It's not a question of what they have to _gain_ from a cover-up, rather what
- they haveto _lose_. If the governments publicly acknowledge the existence of
- UFOs there would be mass hysteria worldwide.
-
- Why? Let me put it this way. People will suddenly realise that all we
- are are just little specks of dust when considering the universe. We're not
- very advanced in our space travel or our defenses, so when we hear about UFOs,
- we usually deduce that the things flying them are very advanced compared to us,
- therefore have the weaponory to destroy us at the flick of a switch. And, unlike
- nuclear weapons, we have _no_ defenses against UFOs _whatsoever_. When the
- public realise this, they will realise that any worry they have is absolutely
- _nothing_ compared to the UFO threat and so will turn to crime because they'll
- think "Sod it, the UFOs will get us sooner or later, so I may as well make the
- most of the time I've got now". In short, they'll turn to anarchy.
-
- That's why there is a cover-up.
-
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- The Cursor, aka Nick Humphries, u2nmh@csc.liv.ac.uk, at your service.
- "People have started taking shotguns to UFO sightings. Kinda brings a whole
- new meaning to the phrase 'You ain't from 'round here, are ya?'"-Bill Hicks
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