No, It's Not April 1st. But It Is A Canadian Defence Minister

Aero-Views OPINION by Kevin R.C. "Hognose" O'Brien

Paul Hellyer was Deputy Minister of Defence from 1963-67, and later, Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under PM Pierre Trudeau, so he's an important member of Canada's ruling Liberal Party.

He's also convinced that the Bush Administration is embarking on a war that threatens all civilization -- no, not the one in Iraq, Hellyer is talking about the war with the aliens on the moon and Mars and in outer space.

Aliens? You mean, like UFO aliens?

"UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head," Hellyer insisted in a September speech, going on to blast the USA for "[t]he secrecy involved in all matters pertaining to the Roswell incident...."

Mind you, while he knows the US is up to no good with its freezer full of alien livers or whatever, he doesn't actually know anything to back up what he, er, knows. How could he? "The classification was, from the outset, above top secret, so the vast majority of U.S. officials and politicians, let alone a mere allied minister of defence, were never in-the-loop."

OK. So let us get this straight. That there's no information to the effect that real aliens landed in Roswell then (or ever), proves... that the US has effectively covered up that information. <SPOCK VOICE> How... logical. </ SPOCK VOICE> (Remember, he's talking about the same US where every senior officer in CIA has the Washington Post on his office speed dial; the same US that has clandestine services that issue more leaks overnight than a 10,000 bed nursing home).

Well, let's let Paul Hellyer have his say without further editorializing. Honest, from here on out, we'll be respectful. At least until we're wrapping up. (We'll probably break this promise).

"I'm so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something."

Intergalactic war, did you say, Mr Minister?

"The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning."

"The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide."

I see. Well, surely you have a recommendation?

"The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy, and let the truth emerge, so there can be a real and informed debate, about one of the most important problems facing our planet today."

Well, who will take up Mr Hellyer's call? Sure enough, there are several groups, including the Toronto Exopolitics Symposium/Canadian Exopolitics Institute, which believes that "remote viewing" proves that there is intelligent life on barren Mars; the Disclosure Project, one of the things the US exports to Canada (like military deserters, boozing hunters and acid rain); and the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS), a group which claims affiliation with noted UFO-believer Jimmy Carter, and that advocates an all-out, Manhattan Project style effort at finding aliens -- and surrendering to them.

Not quite the spirit of Juno Beach, this.

They have taken Mr Hellyer's call for intergalactic transparency to the Canadian Senate, an appointed body which has little heavy lifting to do in Canada's parliamentary form of democracy. The Senate whiles away its hours holding hearings that are well attended as they are interesting -- which is to say, not very; and it issues important-sounding reports that line dustbins from Ottawa to, well, the other end of Ottawa.

(Exercise for the Canadian reader: name a Canadian Senator. Any one. Don't feel bad, most Americans would flunk a parallel test, even though we elected ours).

The Canadian Senate, alas, has not been able to find space on its calendar for ex-Minister Paul Hellyer and his small band, which may be the only thing standing athwart the path of the juggernaut of intergalactic Armageddon.

But because we at Aero-News are not anxious to incur any intergalactic liabilities, whether they be war with what the Disclosure Project calls "Ethical Extraterrestrial Civilizations," or simply Vogon civil engineers constructing a hyperspace bypass, we urge those of our readers that are so inclined, to visit the Disclosure Project at www.peaceinspace.net and join their petition to the Canadian Senate.
(Next time I'm in Ottawa, I'll check the dustbin for the report).

For those of us who have the misfortune not to be Canadian, there are other ways to help out the cause of intergalactic peace. Americans can call their Senator at (202) 224-3121 (No fear: if you know where you live they can tell you who your Senator is) and demand equivalent hearings here.

Or you could call the White House at (202) 456-1111 and give President Bush a piece of your mind. Or, better yet, demand that he make Art Bell Ambassador to Canada.

FMI: www.peaceinspace.net