by Nigel Watson Magonia 54, November 1995 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- “We believe in the absolute power of these [extraterrestrial] saviours from the skies who treat us like easily duped children (or cattle) yet they use vehicles that are always falling out of the skies … The bottom line is that books, articles and programmes have to play to the believers; they are the ones who are willing to part with their cash. “The culture industry gobbles-up UFO material that is shovelled into it by willing ufologists, then it is crapped all over us whether we like it or not. As such the very spirit of wonder and defamiliarisation with the everyday that UFOs might inspire only serves to feed the dominant socio-economic structure. Ufology is a proto-religion […] Read More
Tag: Apollo
Already Passed by Congress —————————————————————————- According to a law already on the books: (Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, adopted on July 16, 1969, before the Apollo moon shots), anyone guilty of such contact automatically becomes a wanted criminal to be jailed for one year and fined $5,000. The NASA administrator is empowered to determine with or without a hearing that a person or object has been “extraterrestrially exposed” and impose an indeterminate quarantine under armed guard, which could not be broken even by court order. There is no limit placed on the number of individuals who could thus be arbitrarily quarantined. The definition of “extraterrestrial exposure” is left entirely up to NASA administrator, who is thus endowed with total dictatorial […] Read More