But if that is too much for you to stomach, consider this. A number of people who harboured — and expressed — anti-alien views have changed their minds in the last few weeks. Some of them have been convinced by the wonders the aliens have shown us, or have discovered that they can profit from the alien presence. I would not say that no one is allowed to change their minds; indeed, most of the bitterest arguments I have seen could have been resolved, if one side or the other was allowed to change their positions. Others, however, have changed their minds — and have been unable to articulate why they have changed their minds. Am I the only one who sees something vaguely sinister in this development?
I would refer you to the case of Joe Buckley, a well-known writer of military science-fiction. His works have been great successes over the past few years, with sales high enough to warrant a mention in the New York Review of Books. And Joe Buckley didn’t trust the aliens. His posts, which I will have to quote from memory as they have somehow disappeared from the internet, asked why humanity should give up control to the Galactic Federation. Even if we concede that humanity has made mistakes — and we have, let us not be deceived into believing otherwise — why do we assume that the Galactics mean us no harm? Or, for that matter, why the Galactics can be trusted? We were not — and have not — been allowed to visit their ships. We still have no idea how many of them there are — and what we know, really know, about the Galactic Federation is insufficient. These, dear readers, were the questions that Joe Buckley asked.
Except he isn’t asking them anymore. Does that seem odd to you? It may even seem sinister when you consider what happened just before he changed his mind — or had it changed for him. He visited one of the alien bases as part of a sanitized tour — and I can tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that the tour was definitely sanitized. We learned nothing of importance, but whatever Joe Buckley saw was enough to convince him to become an alien supporter, almost a Witness. He has joined a group he treated as objects of scorn, young men and women who chose to believe in glittering lights and insubstantial promises. His attitude changed completely.
But why? What happened at the alien base?
Some of the people who have joined the Witnesses have good reasons for supporting the aliens. Michaela Duval knew that her nine-year-old child would never walk again after she was badly injured in a road-rage accident. The Galactics cured her; a young girl can walk again. Can anyone blame Mrs Duval for practically worshipping the Galactics? And then there was Tommy Sinclair, who was certain to die of cancer within the next two weeks; the Galactics cured him. And now he is one of their most effective advocates, testifying to their prowess in a manner that would do an evangelist preacher proud.
And yet we have no comparable reason for Joe Buckley. Indeed, he is unable to articulate why he changed his mind. What was it? It may not surprise my more intelligent readers to discover that Joe Buckley was not the only one to change his mind. A number of others have recently been toeing the alien line, including several military officers, senior policemen and government officials. And — guess what? They all went to an alien base. Joe Buckley’s wife, who has fled her husband in fear for her life, called him a pod person. What are the aliens doing to them to turn them into converts to their cause? I do not know…
There are, however, some alarming possibilities. We have long known that it is possible to brainwash someone into something they would not normally do. The process — for humans, at least — is chancy. The never-to-be-sufficiently-damned hijackers of 9/11 were pushed into a belief that they had the right to launch a terrorist strike that claimed thousands of innocent lives. And they did that despite not being paragons of Islamic behaviour. The CIA is supposed to have perfected techniques for creating spies from enemy personnel. Is it too great a leap to suppose that the aliens might have developed a more advanced way to alter a person’s mind?
Let us consider the possibilities for a moment. The aliens are steadily taking over the minds of our top officials — and doing it in a manner that makes it very difficult to detect, let alone prevent. It will not be long before the country’s government is partly under alien control, or perhaps completely under alien control. Think about it — how could a soldier know that he was receiving orders from the legitimate government, or a government controlled by alien dupes and drones? And how could he solve the dilemma when you consider that both forms of government may be combined in a single unit?
I have attached a list of known people who have visited alien bases. In the absence of any real test for ‘pod people,’ I am forced to recommend that anyone who has visited an alien base be considered guilty until proven innocent. It is possible that a more advanced medical scan of their brains would uncover what was done to them and maybe even reverse it. It is certain that refusing to heed this threat will have disastrous results for human security, even survival.
You think not? Consider this — we just buried the Vice President, and saw the Secretary of State installed in his place. Guess who has spent time in an alien base? That’s right — the Secretary of State! And if that isn’t enough, let me ask you a second question. The Vice President was travelling on the most famous — and well-protected — airliner in the world. Air Force One was not intercepted by a flight of Chinese fighter jets; no terrorists lurked with portable missile launchers on beautiful Pacific islands to take a pot-shot at Air Force One. The detonation that destroyed the plane was a bomb, all the experts agree — and yet how did it get through the security cordon?
Those who blame the attack on Islamic Terrorists refuse to ask how three Muslim crewmen managed to get a bomb onto the plane. They died in the explosion, so we will never know for sure — but I believe that the security was extensive enough to prevent anyone from getting a bomb aboard. The Secretary of State (now the Vice President) has been pushing the blame onto right-wing terrorist militias, yet they would still face the same problem. It’s worth saying again; Air Force One is the most heavily protected plane in the world. Any terrorists who could get a bomb through security would have waited for the President himself. Taking out the Vice President just isn’t going to cut it.
Hundreds of terrorist groups have claimed responsibility for the blast, yet none of them have provided any proof. And the FBI has turned up no real leads, according to my sources. The destruction of Air Force One may be an unsolvable mystery.
I ask again — who benefits?
There are those who would tell you that anyone who writes a post such as this one cannot be trusted — after all, I’m not telling you who I am. But I am telling you that I know this for a fact, and I am trying to warn you. If you heed my words, don’t trust your computers or cell phones. They can listen to you through your most trusted possessions. Watch your back at all times.
They killed General Thomas. They won’t have any hesitation about trying to kill you.
Good luck — and God bless America.
Jayne nodded as she reached the final section. It was alarmist, but at least anyone who reached the bottom would be warned about the dangers. And it was well to remind everyone that the country had been through tough times before and had come through them for the better.