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18 Oct 2004 @ 17:58, by Craig Lang
On Saturday (10/16/04) Richard M. Dolan, the author of the book "UFOs and the National Security State" gave a presentation to Minnesota MUFON. What he said was, to say the least, sobering.
I have never been particularly interested in the coverup aspects of UFO studies, and it never will be my primary area of focus. When I hear the word "Roswell" I usually run in the other direction. But what Richard Dolan said far transcends the field of UFO studies. I have never before heard the issue of runaway secrecy described in such succinct terms, with such well defined examples.
Dolan began his talk with an analogy of the state of US republic to that of the Roman republic. He showed how in both cases, the republic was quite healthy until the point when the nation became the center of an empire. In each case, the conquered territories become progressively more difficult to govern with a representative government. At the same time, the military - expanding to control the territories - gains progressively more power. At some point, there is a "Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon", in which the representative system truly becomes ineffective, and the government becomes fully authoritarian.
Dolan suggested that one measure of the health of our republic would be the size of the black budget - and as a corrolary, the degree to which congress has control over the intelligence community. To those involved in the overall family of coverup issues, this is the core of the problem. The issue is that of an ever expanding, but unaccountable shadow government that is steadilly growning in unchecked authority.
At the present time, Dolan states, the Rubicon has been crossed. In our case this is called the Patriot Act. And at this point, he suggests that true representative authority in our republic may be unrecoverable.
Since his primary area of study is the UFO coverup, the nuts and bolts of his talk was on the history of UFO secrecy. His first volume covers events from 1941 through 1975. His second volume is due out this next year, and traces the UFO coverup from 1975 to the present. However, what happenned in the 1970s and 1980s is, by his account particularly damning. This is when - after Watergate - we had the chance to roll back the National Security State, but failed to do so. As Dolan stated, we openned the door, took a peek and then slammed it shut again. The one truly meaningful legacy of that era has been the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This was relatively effective until recently, when became moot because of the Patriot act.
From the late 1970s, through the 1990s, there were a large number of FOIA requests for UFO related material, many of which provided some great paydirt. John Grenwald's efforts resulting in his website: The Black Vault have resulted in some excellent work in this area. However, apparently he has not had all that much success in recent years, either. It appears as though the coverup has patched its holes and resumed business as usual.
Dolan covered the usual low points in Americal history such as the Robertson Panel, the death of James Forrestal (one of the founding members of MJ12, who "committed suicide" in 1948), the Condon Report, and the decline of project Bluebook. He also discussed MJ12, and built a good case for it's continued existence (in some form or another) in the present day. He offered recent high profile UFO cases, and the reactions of the press, the government, and even the scientific community, as indications of the state of non-health of participative government in the USA. It is not a pretty picture.
In short, Richard Dolan offered a sobering view of the evolution of the USA from a republic to an authoritarian military police state beginning in the early 1940s, and accelerating in the present day. His parallels with the decline of the Roman repblic were alarming, both in their clarity and their accuracy. They cast a new and sobering light on current events.
In my view, the book "UFOs and the National Security State" is a must-read for anyone studying contemporary history, even if one has little interest in the topic of UFO studies itself. And the vision it portrays of the contemporary history and near-term future of the USA is not pleasant to think about.
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2 comments
18 Oct 2004 @ 18:53 by : Crossing The Rubicon
Speaking of Rubicons, Michael C. Ruppert has just come out with his latest book {www.fromthewilderness.com/store/index.shtml|Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil}. It is published by New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada, which is just off the coast of Vancouver and kind of like an extended suburb where a lot of the old hippies have gone to retire.
1 Aug 2007 @ 15:37 by Michael Brito @167.78.4.18 : What are Triangles
Mr. Dolan is the most logical and most careful writer, that I can think of on these subjects.
With that said, "the shadow government is larger than one nation". It is a consolidation of power, technology, energy, politics, and genius. "It is a machine, of unstoppable power, self contained, and inpenetratable."
Thats all I can say.
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