{"id":1451,"date":"2007-09-18T18:47:15","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T18:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2007\/09\/18\/washington-post\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T18:47:15","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T18:47:15","slug":"washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON POST: There’s the Red Vote, the Blue Vote . . . and the Little Green Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Dana_milbank\"<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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There’s the Red Vote, the Blue Vote . . . and the Little Green Vote<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

WATCH VIDEO COMMENTARY:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com<\/wbr>\/wp-dyn\/content\/video\/2007\/09<\/wbr>\/18\/VI2007091800507.html<\/a> [Time 3:22]<\/p>\n

Washington Sketch: The Little Green Vote<\/p>\n

The
\nWashington Post’s Dana Milbank sketches a press conference on the
\ngovernment disclosure of paranormal secrets.  Video by Akira
\nHakuta\/washingtonpost.com<\/p>\n

By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, September 18, 2007; A02<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Federal
\nlaw limits the participation of resident aliens in the political
\nprocess. But it is silent on the role of extraterrestrial aliens.<\/p>\n

This
\nloophole has not been lost on the life forms who arrived on these
\nshores aboard flying saucers with little more than the antennae on
\ntheir backs. After years of suffering without suffrage, these beings
\nare now seeking to play a role in the 2008 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

That, at any rate, is the considered opinion of the Paradigm Research Group, which held a news conference at the National Press Club<\/a>
\nyesterday to demand that presidential candidates support a "truth
\namnesty" to end the "government-imposed truth embargo on the facts
\nconfirming an extraterrestrial presence."<\/p>\n

"The truth amnesty
\ndisclosure project is reportedly recommended by the participating
\nextraterrestrials themselves," Alfred Webre of the Institute for
\nCooperation in Space announced to the humans-only gathering, next door
\nto a speech on Iraq<\/a> by Rep. Jack Murtha<\/a>.
\n"That is the specific extraterrestrial civilization which approximately
\n60 years ago entered into a top-secret CIA human-extraterrestrial
\nliaison program."<\/p>\n

The 2008 presidential cycle has already been an
\nabnormal one, and the candidates yesterday resisted this attempt to
\nturn the race toward the paranormal.<\/p>\n

"Let me check in with the mothership," Phil Singer, a Hillary Clinton<\/a> spokesman, answered when asked about the truth embargo.<\/p>\n

"We’re
\nmore focused on lifting the government-imposed truth embargo on issues
\nlike the war in Iraq," replied Bill Burton, a spokesman for Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dismissive
\nanswers such as these from the two Democratic front-runners leave an
\nopening for other candidates to claim the alien vote — a prospect that
\ncould create havoc in the primaries if large numbers of ETs are found
\nto be living in Iowa<\/a> and New Hampshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The likeliest beneficiary: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson<\/a>,
\nwho wrote a foreword to the "Roswell Dig Diaries," a UFO book. "As a
\n25-year-old he was an employee of a secret CIA extraterrestrial liaison
\nprogram," Webre explained. "He has inside knowledge."<\/p>\n

But the knowledge must still be secret: His spokeswoman didn’t respond to an inquiry.<\/p>\n

Also a favorite of the ET crowd is Dennis Kucinich<\/a>, the Ohio<\/a>
\ncongressman. "I’m sorry to out you, Dennis, but he knows a lot about
\nthis subject," confided Stephen Bassett of the Paradigm Research Group.
\n"If he brings it forward as a presidential candidate, he’s going to
\nmake some history."<\/p>\n

The Republican side is "really tough" for the UFO crowd, but Bassett gives his nod to John McCain<\/a>, a former Navy pilot, over Ron Paul<\/a>, who was an Air Force flight surgeon. "McCain has shown some displeasure with the way NASA<\/a> has conducted its affairs," Bassett reasoned.<\/p>\n

More than anybody, Bassett has been working to elevate alien affairs as an issue in 2008. He filmed video questions for the CNN<\/a>-You Tube debates; they weren’t selected. He urged George Stephanopoulos<\/a> to ask the candidates about ETs; no luck. He wrote an article titled the "ET Ticket" — it gives the nod to Clinton and Richardson<\/a> — for publications such as UFO Magazine. And, fresh from the weekend’s "X-Conference 2007" convention in Gaithersburg<\/a>,
\nhe rented a room at the press club yesterday to announce "new efforts
\nto introduce the UFO\/ET issue into the ongoing presidential campaigns."<\/p>\n

An
\neconomy-minded Bassett didn’t order a microphone for his event, and the
\n"X-Conference" banner he bought on the Internet ("one-third the price
\nof Kinkos<\/a>!")
\nwas too big for the room and had to be continued on a second wall.
\nAbout 40 X-Conference conventioneers packed the room, far outnumbering
\nthe handful of journalists.<\/p>\n

But none of this slowed Bassett, who treated the assembly to startling revelations: the "Jimmy Carter<\/a>
\nET studies," the "Rockefeller initiative toward the Clinton
\nadministration to end the UFO truth embargo" and the "1967 Malmstrom
\nAir Force Base incident, where our SAC missiles were shut down by an ET
\ncraft hanging over the base."<\/p>\n

Not one of the participants or
\naudience members cracked a smile. Neither did they giggle when Webre
\nproposed an environmental rationale for the ET amnesty program, saying
\nthe aliens’ "advanced technology," which uses nonpolluting fuel, could
\n"revolutionize the transport of goods and people on this planet and
\nrejuvenate the biosphere."<\/p>\n

The faces remained serious and earnest
\nwhen Robert Miles, a film producer, announced plans to give each member
\nof Congress a high-definition DVD titled "Fastwalkers: They Are Here."
\nOn the cover, a mean-looking alien eyes the Capitol and saucers circle
\noverhead. "Don’t tell me the American public’s not interested," Miles
\nchallenged.<\/p>\n

So far, however, the presidential candidates remain,
\nwell, alienated. Even Kucinich. "If you have a serious question, just
\nask me," Kucinich spokeswoman Natalie Laber replied when told of the
\nUFO crowd’s hopes for her boss. "If not, then just keep your silly
\ncomments to yourself."<\/p>\n

Click here to Email journalist Dana Milbank:<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/projects.washingtonpost.com\/staff\/email\/dana+milbank+\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Original article:
http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/09\/17\/AR2007091701780.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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