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Why are people so suspicious of our government and their military programs? Area 51 - what's the big deal? I'm keeping my eye on those other 50 areas whose existence they actually acknowledge.
Yes, our government is probably doing some shady things. Dirty, secret, unwholsome things. Covert, devious, immoral things. Things you wouldn't talk to your children about. Things your grandparents wouldn't think were possible.
But wouldn't you rather want us doing that than the other guys? I mean, if they're really working on top-secret stuff that no one can find out about, what could they ever hope to do with it?
I see three options:
1) Turn it against the American people. This might be the prospect that most scares everyone. Like one day these killer nano-swarms are gonna swoop out of the Nevada desert and enslave our population. Unlikely, yet plausible with our government's tradition of dominatrix-style power tripping.
2) Defense against unforseen threat. What if we get attacked by aliens one day, or a horde of supermutated flying mountain lions with bullet-proof fur? Certainly it would be nice to have some crazy x-factor weapons we could pull out to save the world.
3) Defense in the case of World War III. Scary prospect, this one, but probably the most likely scenario in which our government would ever whip out its 51-inch flying schlong with anti-matter lasers and invisibility. If America does get involved in a major war at some point, it's likely to involve most of the civilized world. Barring mutual nuclear devastation, it would sure be nice to have enough surprise arsenal that we came out on the side of humanity.
Think about it.
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| Yeah things like that are interesting and suspicious but I like to have enough faith in the government that they're developing top-secret jive to help protect the American people, not to hurt them. Now you reminded me about that thing we saw on the Discovery channel with that group of guys monitoring Area 51. Interesting stuff.
On a semi-related note, I saw a very interesting show on Discovery last night about JFK's assassination and specifically the "Magic Bullet". If you don't know, that's the idea that the second shot fired by Oswald improbably produced a combined 7 wounds in Kennedy and Texas' governor and was still in very good condition. They did a bunch of audio recreations, camera and photograph analysis to determine if there was a 4th shot fired from the grassy knoll, and they did these really cool ballistics tests with the exact gun and ammo Oswald used to see if such a Magic shot could have been fired. It was really interesting and by the end of the 2-hour show it cleared up a lot of my skepticity (is that a word?) about the Magic Bullet. The show was called something like "JFK: Beyond the Magic Bullet" if you ever see it on again. And if you want a good conspiracy slant on it, see the movie "JFK" from Oliver Stone. | |||
| Posted by Ross | |||
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| I've thought about it and I've come to the conclusion that it is so far out of my circle of influence that I don't even have an opinion. Is it paranoid or practical to worry about these things? And do I even care if Big Brother is watching me. Are we truly "free" or are they just good at letting us think that? See... it just gets so weird.
As Ralph would say... My cat's breath smells like cat food. | |||
| Posted by ShrinkingWoman | |||
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| Another possible threat to our civil liberties, that you failed to address, was a threat from within our own government. Those who are trusted, by some, to safeguard those liberties through the use of such Gestapo tactics are in a rather unique position to sell out their constituents for financial gain. Do you ever do the math and come to the conclusion that there is something fundamentally wrong with the fact that so many of these career politicians finish their careers in Washington as multi-millionaire with additional perks, such as Secret Service protection and a rather elitist version of Social Security, that carries over to subsequent generations in their families. I have always felt that term limits should be mandated and enforced, making public service a kin to a lottery, whereby everyone sell their political influence and vote for monetary gain. | |||
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