Alien Invasion: Something we need to worry about or something major defense contractors want us to worry about?

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In 1965 I had the opportunity to travel from Indiana to New Mexico with a group of 14 Explorer Scouts and two Scoutmasters. Our final destination was the Philmont Scout Ranch in northern New Mexico. We were going to spend a number of days hiking in the mountains. We weren’t a wealthy group so we were saving money along the way whenever possible. One of the money saving things we did was to camp along the way rather than stay in motels. One night we were in Lubbock, Texas and had gotten permission to camp in one of the city parks. It was mid-August, the air was warm and the sky was clear. I loved to look at the night sky, in those days there was far less light pollution. We were sleeping on the ground, without tents, in a clearing with tall trees maybe 50 meters to my left and to my right. When it happened I think every other member of the group had gone to sleep.

A circle of yellow light which seemed to be the bottom of a craft appeared moving from right to left. It was maybe 50 meters above the treetops. I would estimate it to be approximately 20 meters in diameter. It made no sound at all. It was moving smoothly but it wasn’t moving particularly fast. At just about the same time that the first craft reached the perimeter of trees to my left, two more such craft appeared to my right. They were the same size and shape, with the same illumination, as the first craft. They were side by side, also moving smoothly and silently. The appearance and passage of all three craft took about 10 to 12 seconds. Even though the bottoms of all three circular craft were illuminated with a yellow light, they did not light up the trees nor the ground. I was in awe. I turned to a friend who was sleeping next to me, shook him, and asked him if he saw that! But he was sound asleep and there was no response. The next morning, I think I told him, and only him, of what I had seen. Decades later I did an online search and found an article in the Lubbock paper about the event. I wasn’t the only observer of what had happened.

Consequently, ever since I have had no reason to doubt the existence of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), or whatever name or acronym they may be referred to by. It is a fascinating and important subject. The past few decades there have been many good documentaries produced on the general subject of extraterrestrial (ET) visitation to Earth. I have grown to particularly appreciate Dr. Steven Greer’s efforts to bring honest, authentic information on the subject to light. One theme that Dr. Greer comes back to frequently is the theme of how those in political power and the corporate media in the U.S. are making something of an effort to villainize extraterrestrial beings. It’s not uncommon to find adjectives such as “terrifying” or “frightening” used in connection with possible ET sightings. And more to the point of this post, it’s not uncommon to see the word “invasion” used in regard to such sightings. Finding articles which speculate about, or warn of, an extraterrestrial invasion is not difficult.

But here’s the thing, it is also not hard to find pictures of ancient cave art which is believed to depict alien beings. I linked to one example, or just do a search on “ancient cave art alien beings”. There are also quite a number of renaissance paintings which depict a UFO in them. Or, again, do your own search on paintings which depict UFOs. There are reports of people either sighting UFOs or having an encounter with the occupants of UFOs from just about every, if not every, continent going back decades if not centuries. The point is that metallic UFOs and alien beings with large heads and large dark eyes are nothing new. There is no question that the intelligence behind the UFO phenomena obviously has a much greater understanding of technology and physics than we do. Or maybe I need to add more than any people are readily admitting to. That is an important distinction for a reason I’ll get to. If there are people here on Earth, today, who possess the knowledge and skill to build and operate such craft, it is a relatively recent development. I would estimate no older than the mid twentieth century at the most. (I realize that raises the question of what did I see in Lubbock, Texas?)

Which brings us to a very important question. Why would beings who have outclassed us technologically for centuries wait until we might have the means to defend ourselves against them to try to invade us? Does that make any sense? These beings obviously possess the intellectual faculty to think logically. They undoubtedly have been able to watch the ongoing development of technology here on Earth. Those who have been studying the UFO phenomenon for decades state that there was a significant increase in UFO activity following the detonation of nuclear devices on Earth. I don’t think we Earthlings possess any propulsion technology that would come as a surprise to them. Nor any weapons technology for that matter.

But if we can be made to believe that some extraterrestrials have done exactly that: picked this point in time to decide to invade Earth, then the weapons industries can ask for billions of dollars, or rubles or yuan or pounds or Euros to protect us. And you know what? They’d get it. At least from the folks controlling the biggest military spenders among governments today. That is some significant motivation to those who are only interested in how such actions affect them and not the world at large.

Consider all that as context to the reality that according to people such Bob Lazar, Dr. Steven Greer, David Grusch, and others, we do have back engineered alien technology from crashed UFOs and possibly other sources. We do have craft which are being produced here on Earth using that acquired technology which look and act almost identical to the alien craft. And despite all the emphatic statements to the contrary, there are people within the halls of government within the U.S. and I suspect Russia, China and others who are aware of this.

If tomorrow a small fleet of UFOs, UAPs shows up over a major city on Earth and begin firing laser weapons or directed energy weapons, or sonic blasts, or electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) or a combination of these things, who do you think the people in the city are going to think is attacking them? At that moment I doubt if there will be much consideration given to whether or not the attack is coming from alien beings, or is a “false flag” attack by zealous, callous, profiteering defense contractors as a part of a high-tech sales pitch to the world. A “sales pitch” intended to frighten populations and motivate them to cry out for protection from their respective governments. At that moment, in the heat of the attack, the corporate media outlets around the world will pick up the narrative of an “alien attack” and those controlling the situation will run with it all the way to the bank.

There is another element involved which people who lust for control over others would be attracted to, that is the willingness of frightened people to give up any human rights or freedoms they may have at that time for a promise of protection. That is an important topic for another time, another post.

As hard as it may be to believe, the “invasion” scenario described above is a very real possibility that humanity should be aware of.

Liberty

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I am writing again on the subject of liberty as opposed to the general concept of freedom. I feel the importance of realizing the difference between the two, and the primary, essential nature of liberty, cannot be overstated. Without the existence of liberty in our lives, any other freedom is conditional upon being allowed by; the agreement of, our oppressors.

Some might consider this too fine a point, but it really isn’t. In fact, it is a monumental issue when we really get into the details of it. In the preambles to both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, the Founders made it clear that “liberty” was a primary value that they sought to secure in the new nation. Not “freedom”, if they had meant freedom they would have written “freedom”. They knew about freedom. But they didn’t, they wrote that they were seeking to “…secure the blessings of liberty…”

What is the difference between liberty and freedom? Liberty is a specific type of freedom. It is the freedom from unjust oppression. The type of unjust oppression which the monarchs, the aristocracy, the rulers of England were waging on their subjects. Political, religious and economic oppression.

There is a place where liberty and freedom become mutually exclusive. That is when someone wants to claim the freedom to infringe upon your liberty. In other words, they seek to exercise some sort of political, religious or economic power which they have used freedom of some sort to acquire to oppress your ability to reasonably engage in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Such attempts at oppressing other, vulnerable, people seem to be a very common occurrence in the world when some individual(s) or group(s) are allowed to acquire an inordinate amount of political power or economic wealth.

The inherent conflict with the stated intentions of the Founders becomes a non-issue when people are led to conflate liberty with any and all freedoms. Redefining longstanding, traditional terminology seems to be a common ploy in the efforts by special interests to unjustly impose their agendas upon others. Two other recent examples are the redefining of “pandemic” and “vaccine”.

We in the United States are fortunate that the Founders of this nation cared about liberty as a primary value. We do not honor them, or ourselves, when we allow it to be redefined and abused in order to allow some to pursue their overly self-serving dreams of wealth and power.

But if we can recapture, rekindle the desire for liberty for all, thoughtfully work to make it a reality, with thoughtful invention and thoughtful restraint we can achieve the great nation that the Founders dreamed of, and more. But not if we allow a false allegiance to unbridled freedom lead us down the path of our own worst impulses.

While this essay is dealing exclusively with the role of concept of, the seeking for a just presence of liberty in the lives humanity, played in the birth of the United States. The fact that it was a primary value within the hearts and minds of the Founders of this country, does not in any way indicate that I do not know that many other people in other countries have also dreamed of, worked and fought for, liberty in their nations. Liberty is not something that one people or nation can hold a franchise on. In fact, it is only when many people around the world can realize a fair and just existence of liberty within their lives and their nations that such liberty may be truly secure for any of us.

Do Not Conflate Liberty with Freedom

In the U.S.A. there is a great travesty taking place within our thinking and within our expressions.  That is the conflation of “liberty” with “freedom”.  They are not the same and they were not when the Founding Fathers of the United States fought for the blessings of liberty. Not freedom, liberty. 

Liberty is the freedom from oppressive restrictions upon one’s way of life.  This in no way states nor implies the freedom to do whatever one wants to do.  Oppression is the unjust infliction of hardship and constraint upon a subordinate group.

Some freedoms, including unbridled freedom in the marketplace, are what enable some to acquire an inordinate amount of wealth and power which then enables them to oppress others.

In order to preserve our liberty, We the People must predominantly agree our liberty is a precious thing to be preserved.  As Liberty is a paramount value in the United States as expressed in both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, if any subgroup decides otherwise and acquires and exercises the means to subvert the value of liberty within our culture, for one citizen or the entirety of the citizenry, they are violating that paramount freedom. They have entered into actively subverting the values and principles that the United States was founded upon.  They have set upon overturning our nation, our culture, and our lives.   When this occurs it is usually being engaged in by individuals or groups who have been acquiring inordinate amounts of wealth and then using that wealth to acquire (buy) inordinate political influence.

It’s not that capitalism is inherently bad.  It’s that the men and women practicing it must recognize the implicit social compact necessary to preserve our essential liberty:  they should not take too much.  They should not “drain the economic well”.  This is important to ensure that the average citizens of the U.S.  do not become impoverished and economically enslaved.  But impoverishment and economic slavery is happening pervasively in the U.S.A. and elsewhere in the world.

Sacrificing the American peoples’ hard-won liberty for the freedom of unbridled predatory capitalism is a travesty and a grievous insult to all of the men and women who have worked and fought to establish and preserve liberty for us and future generations.