Comment Re:Ick factor (Score 1) 332
Point out that they don't appear to mind drinking bird shit, win the case.
It has been speculated one reason the governments generally dodge the UFO issue is that if they were ever identified as a real force(s) of some kind, then the people would demand that something be done about stopping it. It's not clear anyone would have the ability to DO anything about it and when your government can't protect you, what good is the government? So a problem like this would have to be denied.
Another reason to deny it is that it's bollocks. We aren't being visited by space aliens and anyone who thinks we are is delusional.
When it comes to issues like this, the government should do whatever the best scientific advice says to do. To 'let the baby have his bottle' by caving in to a rabid public just illustrates people in government for what they are - unprincipled dicks who will say and do anything to get the job.
and then to shop those secrets around to such bastions of freedom as Venezuela, Cuba, China, and Russia.
The documents went to the Guardian and the Washington Post. Makes the rest of what you said look foolish, doesn't it.
For some time one has questioned if Snowden is a naive whistle blower with good intentions or is a sophisticated Russian intelligence operator.
Your bias is right there in your first sentence. False dichotomy; Snowden can also be neither of those two. Try to be less obvious if you want to persuade people on the fence.
Imagine for a minute, an associate of Alan Turing escaping Bletchely Park in 1944 with files recording the facility's activity — and with details of its capability to decrypt Enigma traffic.
lol, thanks for cobbling together one of the most tortured analogies I've seen on this. Was the Enigma machine intercepting communications of millions of civilians? I'm amazed I didn't realise that.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
