Tue Jul 26, 8:00 AM ET
Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) July 26, 2005 — If our current libel laws
were to extend beyond Earth"s boundaries, Steven Spielberg"s War of the
Worlds might be found to be defamatory towards a race of
extraterrestrial beings that may be living below the surface of Mars.
That is the claim of a veteran lawyer and space peace activist who
says that by portraying Martians as aggressive attackers, Spielberg"s
new film also misrepresents the broader challenge that humanity must
confront interacting with other civilizations in space.
A graduate of Yale Law School, Alfred Lambremont Webre is known as
the founding father of exopolitics. His work as a futurist at the
prestigious Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in 1977 directing a
proposed Extraterrestrial Communication Project for the Carter White
House led to the emergence of exopolitics as a social science
discipline.
Like many other futurists, Webre has concluded that humanity is
destined to become a space-faring civilization. But he has been at the
forefront of advocating that such a future will require a program of
public interest diplomacy with "off-planet cultures."
In his newly released book Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and
Law in the Universe (Filament Books; $9.99), Webre presents a practical
and philosophical model of how such an outreach program to other
planetary civilizations might be shaped.
Webre thinks that intergalactic diplomacy will involve peaceful
co-existence and cooperation with other civilizations founded on
principles of Universal law.
"Exopolitics is premised on the notion that if humanity is not only
to survive but thrive in the Universe, it will have to develop a
political science to effectively interact with the beings that it will
encounter in space," Webre says.
It might seem like science fiction fantasy to some, but Webre"s book
deals with a subject that is taken very seriously by some of the most
accomplished members of Earth society. Among many other prominent
citizens of this world, a former American astronaut and one of Canada"s
former defense ministers have endorsed Exopolitics.
"The scientific paradigm of the 20th Century was that intelligent
life ended at Earth"s geo-stationary orbit," Webre explains. "The
exopolitics model informs us that, in reality, Earth appears to be an
isolated planet in the midst of a populated Universe composed of
intelligent civilizations subject to Universal law, operating under
Universal forms of governance, and mediated by Universe politics."
Webre delights in the cosmic irony that his e-book publisher,
Filament Books, originally decided to publish Exopolitics on its
website along with War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells" classic account of an
alien invasion from Mars that inspired Spielberg"s new blockbuster.
In his science fiction novel, Wells portrays Mars – and by
implication, other planets – as harbingers of alien monsters that wish
to attack and destroy our planetary civilization. "[Across the gulf of
space … intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this Earth
with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us,"
Wells wrote.
Webre has a far more optimistic view of Mars and other possibly
populated planets. He thinks that human contact with aliens represents
not a "final threat" but a "future hope."
His optimism is fueled by recent scientific discoveries made by
NASA"s Mars Rover. These findings confirm the high probability that the
red planet could host life today.
Webre is also intrigued by data derived from the scientific process
of "remote viewing" which suggest that below Mars" surface dwells a
peaceful race of intelligent humanoid beings that survived an
environmental cataclysm on Mars that occurred eons ago.
"Remote viewing" is the mental process of perceiving and describing
places, persons, and events at distant locations. It was sponsored and
developed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the early 1970"s with the help of
scientists from Stanford Research Institute.
According to Webre, both remote viewers within the American
intelligence community and civilian remote viewers trained by the US
government have discovered astounding data about life on Mars,
including the fact that the surviving Martian culture has technology
that appears to be 150 years in advance of our present day civilization.
The remote viewing data indicate that because their physical
appearance is so similar to humans on Earth, some Martians have already
migrated to villages in South America. "Humans from Mars seem to be
genetically related to humans on Earth," Webre says. "This raises many
important questions – for science as well as for religion."
If such data prove accurate, Webre thinks that mutually beneficial
agreements with our extended "human" family from Mars could help human
civilization on Earth cope with the looming environmental challenges
that threaten our own planetary survival.
His brilliant treatise Exopolitics describes the steps that must be
taken to move in that direction. It sets forth an agenda for a hopeful
future in which humanity addresses the challenge of contact with other
civilizations in the Universe not in a "war of the worlds" scenario but
through a "peace among worlds" initiative. It is "a roadmap to the
stars."
About the Author
Alfred Lambremont Webre is a futurist and lawyer educated at Yale
Law School. He was a Fulbright scholar. A member of the bar of the
District of Columbia, he once served as general counsel to New York
City"s Environmental Protection Agency. He was a Clinton-Gore delegate
to the 1996 Texas Democratic convention. He lives in Vancouver, BC,
where he is the International Director of the Institute for Cooperation
in Space (ICIS).
About the Book
Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe By Alfred Lambremont Webre
Edited and with an Appendix by Andrew D. Basiago
Forewords by Dr. Courtney Brown and Paul Davids
Comments by Astronaut Dr. Brian O"Leary and Others
Filament Books Price: US $9.99
ISBN: 0-9737663-0-1
Available at http://www.filamentbooks.com
Contact
Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd
3339 West 41 Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V6N 3E5
Canada Toll-free: 1-877-266-7337
Telephone: 604-733-8134
Fax: 604-733-8135
Website: http://www.exopolitics.com
Hi,
while I find it desirable to establish peaceful contact with ET civilisations, the basic problem are the apparently hostile intentions of some of the ETs. So, it is really fundamental to me to sort out: who is benign, who is maybe ‘indifferent’, and who is obviously hostile (read: abductions; animal–and in some cases even human (!)– mutilations; apparently establishing bases on Luna, and ‘warning us off’ not to go there again–after all, it’s our moon, not their’s; invading air space, which could be interpreted as hostile, or ‘indifferent’ at best).
I basically found out about the issue of ET’s visiting Earth through Dr. Greer’s ‘Disclosure Project’, and I was really impressed by his assertion at the ‘National Press Club Conference’ in 2001 that ‘none of them are hostile’ (I’m quoting from memory, but I think this is fairly accurate). But now, after some time has passed, and I dug deeper into the subject, I really wonder what to do with cases people like Philip J. Corso and others are citing.
Bottom line: There are so many contradictory informations available that imho it is really imperative to ‘sort this all out’. To me, this would be the basis for any form of Exopolitics. Michael Salla posted a critical response to Dr. Greer’s article “Exopolitics vs. Xenopolitics”. I would like to hear/read a statement from Dr. Greer on that. How did he come to the conclusion that ‘none of them are hostile’? How do abductions etc. fit into this picture? This should really be clarified.