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UFO Enthuasists Urge Obama to Release Files
UFO aficionados are urging Barack Obama to release classified documents about sightings of alien spacecraft, spurred on
by support from within his own White House team.
They have written to the president-elect, pressing him to reveal the contents of America's X Files.
In a letter, the Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee asks Mr Obama to 'end the six-decade truth embargo
regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race'.
They hope to have garnered 40,000 signatures in support of their campaign by the time Mr Obama is inaugurated in January.
The enthusiasts are encouraged by public statements from John Podesta, who is running the president-elect's transition
team, and Bill Richardson, the Governor of New Mexico, who is expected to land a cabinet post.
When he was the White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton, Mr Podesta was in charge of a project to declassify 800
million pages of intelligence documents.
He said in a press conference: 'It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and
to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon.'
Gov Richardson is a fellow UFO enthusiast. He has written a forward to a book on the 'Roswell Incident' in New Mexico,
where an alien spacecraft crash is said to have landed in 1947.
Campaigners believe the corpses of humanoid aliens have been locked away by the government.
Gov Richardson has urged the Pentagon to disclose what really happened, and last year insisted there had been a 'cover-up'.
The committee wants the U.S. to follow Britain's example in making public reported contact with UFOs.
Stephen Bassett, Executive Director of the Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee, told the Sunday Telegraph:
'The release of documents in Britain and France has put huge pressure on the US. It makes the government here look pretty
stupid.
'I think we are seeing the Democrats moving towards disclosure.'
The group wants military services and intelligence agencies to brief the incoming president about what they know.
They also urge Mr Obama to open congressional hearings 'to take testimony from scores of government witnesses who have
already come forward with extraordinary evidence and are prepared to testify under oath.'
Australian teen arrested breaking into police station
The 16-year-old youth was apprehended after officers working in the back of the Parks Police Station in Adelaide, Australia,
heard the sound of breaking glass.
The long arm of the law did not have to reach far to deliver justice, and the boy was caught in the station hall.
The officers, who expressed surprise at his audacity, swiftly locked him up.
A police spokesman said the officers heard knocking on the front doors of the station in the early hours of the morning.
"The knocking quickly turned into the sound of smashing glass, with the patrol allegedly locating the youth in the front
foyer of the police station," he said.
The spokesman said the youth did not give a reason for his actions, but may have had "a bit too much to drink."
The boy was charged with breaking into the building and with property damage after about A$2000 (£835) damage was caused
a front window and the front sliding door, local media reported.
The hapless youngster was denied bail and is expected to appear in the Port Adelaide Youth Court.
Don't
Read This If You Are Easily Offended!
For
those of you unfamiliar with Fred Reed, he's a police reporter for one of the large Washington newspapers. Fred publishes a weekly online
column in which he gets to say the things his editors would never, ever, have let him write in the paper. His stuff
is iconoclastic and various articles have probably offended everyone regardless of political orientation. So, with
the warning that "This is definitely not politically correct," here's Fred.
The following is an essay regarding the
failings of a system and a culture:
Slavery Reparations .........by Fred Reed
On the Web I find that Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman
of Afro- American Studies at Harvard, is demanding that whites pay reparations to blacks. It's because of slavery, see.
He is joined in this endeavor by a gaggle of other professional blacks. I guess he'll send me a bill, huh? I feel
like saying, Let me get this straight, Hank. I'm slow. Be patient. You want free money because of slavery,
right? I don't blame you. I'd like free money too. Tell you what. I believe in justice.
I'll give
you a million dollars for every slave I own, and another million for every year you were a slave. Fair enough?
But tell me, how many slaves do you suppose I have? In round numbers, I mean. Say to the nearest dozen.
And how long were you a slave?
Oh. In other words, I owe you reparations for something that I didn't do and didn't
happen to you. That makes sense. Like lug nuts on a birthday cake.
Personally, I think you owe me reparations
for things you didn't do and never happened to me. I've never been coated in Dutch chocolate and thrown from the Eiffel Tower. I'll bet you've never
done it to anyone. I want reparations. Kinda silly, isn't it?
But if we're going to talk about reparations,
that's a street that runs in two directions. You want money from me for what some other whites did to some other blacks
in another century. How about you guys paying whites reparations for current expenses caused by blacks? Not long
ago blacks burned down half of Los Angeles, a city in my country. Cities are expensive, Hank.
Build one sometime and you'll see what I mean. Whites had to pay taxes to repair Los Angeles for you. You can send
me a check.
Now, yes, I know you burned LA because you didn't like the verdict in the trial of those police officers.
Well, I didn't like the verdict in the Simpson trial. But I didn't burn my house and loot Korean grocers. Over
the years blacks have burned a lot of American cities: Newark, Detroit, Watts, on and on. Now add in
the fantastic cost over the years of welfare in all its forms, of large police forces and jails and security systems in department
stores.
I can't live in the capital city of my own country because of crime committed by blacks. Toss in the cultural
cost of lowering standards in everything for the benefit of blacks. See what I mean?
Now, I'd view things differently
if you said, "Fred, blacks can't get anywhere in a modern country without education. We know that. We need better
schools, smarter teachers, harder courses, books with smaller pictures and bigger words. Can you help us?" I'd say,
"Hallelujah! Hoo-ahh! Not just yes, but hell yes. Let's sell an aircraft carrier and get these folks some
real schools and get them into the economic mainstream." I'd say it partly because it would be the right thing to do, and
partly, because I'd like to add you guys to the tax base. The current custodial state is expensive. I'd just love
for blacks to study and learn to compete and stop burning places.
But is it going to happen? You may not believe
it, but I, and most whites, don't like seeing blacks as miserable and screwed up as they are. I spend a fair amount
of time in the projects. Those places are ugly. It's no fun watching perfectly good kids turn into semiliterate
dope dealers who barely speak English. It just plain ain't right. But, Hank, what am I supposed to do about it?
I can't do your children's homework.. At some point, people have to do things for themselves, or they don't get done.
Maybe
it's time.
I'll tell you what I see out in the world, Hank.. I think blacks are too accustomed to getting anything
they want by just demanding it. True, it has worked for over half a century. Get a few hundred people in the street,
implicitly threaten to loot and burn, holler about slavery, and the Great White Cash Spigot turns on. Thing is, whites
don't much buy it any longer. Most recognize that what once was a civil- rights movement has become a shakedown game.
Few people still feel responsible for the failings and inadequacies of blacks. Political correctness keeps the lid on
-- but everyone knows the score. Which scares me, Hank.
On one hand, blacks hate whites and incline toward looting
and burning. (The whites you hate are the ones who marched in the civil-rights movement. Ever think about that?)
On
the other hand, whites quietly grow wearier and wearier of it. Not good.
On the third hand (allow me three hands,
for rhetorical convenience), blacks keep demanding things. As I write, you demand reparations for slavery.
Blacks
in Oklahoma (I think it was) want money for some ancient race riot. Other blacks reject the Declaration
of Independence, blacks in New York hint broadly at burning and looting over a trial, yet more demand
the elimination of the Confederate flag, and the federal equal opportunity apparatus, which means blacks, wants to sue Silicon Valley for not hiring nonexistent
black engineers. That's a lot of demanding for one month, Hank. What happens if whites ever say, "No"?
Now,
how about you? You've got a cushy job up there at Harvard, and you can hoot and holler about what swine and bandits
whites are. I guess it's lots of fun, and you get a salary for it. But don't you think you might do blacks more
good if you told them to complain less and study more?
For example, if you want blacks to work in Silicon Gulch, the best
approach might be to find some really smart black guys, and get them to study digital design, not Black Studies. That's
how everybody else does it. It works. Then blacks wouldn't feel left out, and racial tension would decline.
Sound
like a plan?
Just out of curiosity, how many hours a week do professors of Afro-American Studies spend in the projects,
encouraging poor black kids to study real life sho-nuf subjects?
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