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In reply to the discussion: Ok, age check, who remembers? [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)but one thing a former Canadian Minister of Defense said had me going... ok, that is plausible
I will paraphrase and add a corollary
"Governments have not released this information because it will be very hard for people to grasp the danger of an Alien race trying to take over the world." Corollary to that, "it will also end all world conflict and we cannot have that, now can we?"
After decades of reading into grays, and genetic engineering and lizard people, that one jumped at me last Saturday. The first time anybody in that environment said something that actually made sense. It reminded me of this speech by Reagan to the UN General Assembly.
"In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world"
Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, 42nd General Assembly
September 21, 1987