Paul Hellyer Back Again

If the name isn't familiar, the story should be - Paul is the former Canadian Defence Minister who announced his belief in UFOs last September, saying "I'm so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something."

In a bold move to help flagging sales at Alcoa (makers of Reynolds Wrap), Paul is coming to the USA to deliver the keynote speech at a forthcoming conference in Hawaii on "Extraterrestrial Civilizations & World Peace". Here's the press release:

KEALAKEKUA, Hawaii, Jan. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- the Hon. Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Minister for National Defense, recently declared that evidence confirming the reality of UFOs and visiting extraterrestrial civilizations is subject to "what has probably been the greatest and most successful cover up in the history of the world." He confirmed that senior political officials even at the rank of Minister of Defense, a position he himself occupied, are out of the loop when it comes to information concerning UFOs and extraterrestrial civilizations visiting the Earth. Hellyer will be speaking at a forthcoming conference in Hawaii on "Extraterrestrial Civilizations & World Peace." In this, the first scheduled public presentation of his UFO related views on U.S. soil, the Hon. Paul Hellyer will deliver a key note address on many of the key policy issues over the UFO "cover up," and efforts to covertly target visiting extraterrestrial civilizations using space weapons.

The conference is scheduled for June 9-11. I kinda feel sorry for the folks in Roswell, this is sure to cut into their tourism revenue for June.

Hellyer has raised a profound policy question concerning the designation by the U.S. military of visiting extraterrestrials as an "enemy." According to Hellyer, this had led to the development of "laser and particle guns to the point that they can be used against the visitors from space." It is this targeting of visiting extraterrestrials that deeply concerns Hellyer, and he asks "is it wise to spend so much time and money to build weapon systems to rid the skies of alien visitors?" Hellyer poignantly raises the key policy question: "Are they really enemies or merely legitimate explorers from afar?" Hellyer's question has profound importance in understanding the relationship between visiting extraterrestrial civilizations and world peace.

Of course, I don't buy into any of this. If the military really regarded aliens as a threat, John Murtha would be advocating the redeployment of all our space weapons to a standoff location - right?

Paul Hellyer is the first senior politician to unambiguously declare the existence of a government cover up of evidence concerning visiting extraterrestrial civilizations. He is blazing a trail that many other senior politicians are destined to take.

Yeah, I see a groundswell of politicians taking this route. By the way, check out the web page for the conference here. Note the qualifications of the speakers - there are the ones you might expect, such as "extraterrestrial contactee". But I want to know where the latest dig was for the "Exoarcheology Researcher". And my guidance councellor was remiss in not mentioning the field of Exopolitics to me in high school. Don't forget to check the biographies as well. They refer you to Wikipedia for information on Hellyer. Classy. My favorite, though, is in the bio for Joan Ocean:

She was the convenor of the first Dolpin-Extraterrestrial Civilizations conference in Kona, Hawaii (2005), and is pioneer in human-dolphin-extraterrestrial communications.

I bet those late night bull sessions are fascinating.

Update: Just for fun, here's Joan's website about bigfoot. Apparently, they can read, write, and de-materialize whenever sane folks with cameras are nearby.

Update 2: I wasn't going to mention it, but I was disappointed the registration form was missing the checkboxes for "Alien Contact" and "Whales/Dolphins told me" under the question "How Did You Learn of the Extraterrestrial Civilizations & World Peace Conference?"