From: wolfone@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Patrick Chester)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: What Do You Think?
Date: 5 Oct 92 05:59:08 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <1992Sep29.173457.1@cubldr.colorado.edu> crago_l@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:
)I'm going to quote an ex-CIA official because I would like very much
)to see what people on the net think of his views.
)
)This is by Victor Marchetti, former Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director
)and Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the CIA. It appeared
)as *How the CIA views the UFO Phenomenon,* in SECOND LOOK, Vol.1. No.7,
)Washington DC, May 1979, pp. 2-7.
)
)He says ....*we have, indeed, been contacted...by extraterrestrial beings, 
)and the U.S. government, in collusion with the other national powers of the
)earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.
)The purpose of the international conspiracy is to maintain a workable stability
)among the nations of the world and for them, in turn, to retain institutional
)control over their respective populations. Thus, for these governments to
)admit that there are beings from outer space...with mentalities and
)technological
)capabilities obviously far superior to ours, could, once fully perceived
This is not so obvious. The Europeans had technology far superior to the Native
Americans they met, but did not have superior mentalities.(IMHO: both had 
similar mentalities but that's not PC now. Shhh, don't tell them I said that ;)
It is also not obvious that any race that achieves space travel will be beyond
war or other bilge. They may have held out long enough to spread out into 
space far enough so that a nuclear war or other disaster would not wipe them
out in one stroke. That they would have better technology is a valid assumption
since interstellar travel is currently beyond our capabilities and any XT race
would have to come from another system. Mentality cannot be easily guessed 
since we have no way to prove that. Only speculation and wishful thinking that
travelers from the stars will come and solve all our problems for us. They 
may *be* a problem, or they may be just trading partners. My only references
that have a remote shred of validity would be aliens from hard science fiction
novels and that's just someone's imagination. At least I hope the kzin,
Ryall, Borg, tnuctpin, Krohn, Ko-Dan, etc. *are* imaginary. Life would be
very interesting if they did exist...in the Chinese frame of mind.;)
)by the average person, erode the foundations of the earth's traditional
)power structure. Political and legal systems, religions, economic and
)social institutions could all soon become meaningless in the mind of the
Yeah right. Maybe they came because THEIR sociology was screwed up. Not going
to comment on the likelyhood of that though.
)public. The national oligarchical establishments, even civilization as we
)now know it, could collapse into anarchy. Such extreme conclusions are not
)necessaril7y valid, but they probably accurately reflect the fears of the
)*ruling classes* of the major nations, whose leaders (particularly those
)in the intelligence business) have always advocated excessive governmental
)secrecy as being necessary to preserve *national security.**
Sometimes secrecy is needed but that's another debate.
)
)That's the quote. 
)
)So there it all is, the worst fears, even down to the collapse of civilization
)as we know it.  What I'm wondering is, what do people think about this now?
)WOULD the mass of people go completely ape if it was established that UFOs
)and Visitors are real?  I can't quite make up my mind.  Let's have some
)discussion on this and see what peoples's views are.
)
)Regards, Lou Crago
Well Lou, I think the reactions would be varied. Religious people might freak
if they are the kind which think that Humanity was the ONLY race blessed by
God; that would form the conclusion that the aliens were Satan's creation. That
would probably be from the more extreme groups. I would think that most  
religions would be flexible enough to account for other groups of God's 
children. I hope so or I will become a pariah. Even that would cause problems
since no doubt some would try to convert the aliens. Egad.

I think the group that might have the most problems would be the hard science
fiction community. Sure, they would be jubilant.... until they realized most
of their novels stood a good chance of becoming as charmingly simplistic as
Victorian-era science fiction. ("Good guess, but way off Hu-man.")

The only circumstances where a world panic would start would be if the aliens
were hostile and started bombing form orbit. Check out _Footfall_ for a pretty
good invasion story. Remember the plan w/Orion class spacecraft. :)

Of course, they'd have to get by my fleet ;)

Grand Admiral Jorgen Tacitus
Terran Navy
Fleet Headquarters
Festung Iserlohn (Not HERE again! :)
 


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Patrick Chester            |"The earth is too fragile a basket in which to keep
wolfone@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu |  all your eggs." Robert A. Heinlein
Politically Incorrect      |"The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us
Future Lunar Colonist      |  are going to the stars." Anonymous
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