Really- read this and tell me he's not nuts or pulling an early April Fool's gag.
quote:On September 25, 2005, in a startling speech at the University of Toronto that caught the attention of mainstream newspapers and magazines, Paul Hellyer, Canada�s Defence Minister from 1963-67 under Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prime Minister Lester Pearson, publicly stated: "UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head."
Mr. Hellyer went on to say, "I'm so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something."
Hellyer revealed, "The secrecy involved in all matters pertaining to the Roswell incident was unparalled. The classification was, from the outset, above top secret, so the vast majority of U.S. officials and politicians, let alone a mere allied minister of defence, were never in-the-loop."
Hellyer warned, "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning. He stated, "The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide."
Hoo-kay...
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
Yeah, well, he is something like 82
I'm glad that you've mentioned that he's a former minister of defence. Most places I've seen this article, people seem to think the whole country is behind this.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
*looks around suspiciously* What have you heard? We Canadians know nothing of Exopolitics... *talks into communicator* He knows too much, he must be liquidated...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Exploited by reporters, prahaps?
Still, this guy once had access to nuclear weapons...who's to say he was not this nuts back then?
Besides, the US can't catch Bin Laden in two countries, how in fuck could we track and fire upon a ship that could be anywhere in the solar system? Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
Did we have nuclear weapons? Or did he have access from somewhere else?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
1967...I think you had some as part of NATO -or we just stuck a bunch of missiles in your country and said they were yours.
That whole "mutally assured destruction" bit back when men were men, communists were evil and you coud survive a nuclear blast by ducking your head under your schooldesk.
...and aliens were gay men in silver jumpsuirs with glitter on Lost In Space.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
That's probably it. If he HAD nukes, we didn't make them ourselves. We've got better things to use our Uranium for. A few years back there was talk of the US shipping loads of nuclear waste into northern Saskatchewan and dumping it into the Canadian Sheild. Does anyone know what ever happened with that?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I do not remember Canada ever having nukes.... Their own or ours.
Not thinking of the Soviet Union and Cuba are you????
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
"From the 1960s to 1984, there were American nuclear weapons in Canada. These were placed under dual-key rules whereby both Canadian and American authorities had to authorize a launch. Pierre Trudeau, Pearson's successor as prime minister, was opposed to these missiles, and in 1971, declared Canada a non-nuclear country. The missiles were moved out of Canada."
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
They were moved out of Canada 13 years later, of course.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I sit corrected.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Da_bang80: A few years back there was talk of the US shipping loads of nuclear waste into northern Saskatchewan and dumping it into the Canadian Sheild. Does anyone know what ever happened with that?
We kept the nuclear waste and shipped up all the extra Cabbage Patch Dolls, ET toys, Simpsons junk, Power Rangers, Pokemon, YuGiOh, first generation Nientendos, Genesis and Atari consoles -with all their useless old games, Go Bots, Syquest drives and every 5" floppy disk ever made (all holdovers from Christmas seasons past that had been building up for years), into one giant landfill, covered it up with dirt and just called it another mountain in your pristine wilderness.
In return, we secretly pay for your healthcare. ...and protect you from aliens, of course.
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
There's a massive pile of old Nintendos out there?? I could be rich!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
You gotta dig for 'em: the shell of the mountain is an 8" thick barrier of frozen floppy disks (most of which have old resumes done on WordPerfect 2.0).
Plus, most of the Nientendo equipment is that lame-ass robot that came with the first system and the gun that could never actually blow the stupid dog from Duck Hunt away.
...and oh, how I tried! Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Actually I did shoot the dog once. Boy was he pissed. or maybe that was some twisted dream I had after playing the game for 8 hours straight. After that long I couldn't distinguish reality from nintendo. Everything was 8-bit, EVERYTHING!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
You could make a fortune by making knock off games of the old Nientenos where the annoying characters are killable. Donkey Kong could just eviscerate Mario...
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
The red gun, or the gray gun?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Gray was first, I believe.
Back to original topic, has this former Minister given any other interviews? I'd think reporters would be lining up to talk with him just now...
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
I haven't heard anything, but I haven't been picking up the newspaper or anything since I finished school
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Seems he's always been a UFO advocate- even dedicating Canada's first UFO landing pad. Biography
This does not include his recent "intergalactic warfare" concerns, of course.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Why should there be any coverage? Didn't you notice that it was a press release sent out by a wingnut UFO group? Does the Times or the Post (or, I guess, in this case, the Globe and Mail) need to dispatch a reporter every time Richard Hoagland or the Raelians send out a press release, even ones that happen to feature a former government official who once participated in a PR stunt and who has adopted goofy ideas in his old age?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
If a former Secretary of State was a Ralean and said he knew UFO's were real, bet your ass someone would cover the story.
Nutty or not, this guy was (for along time) a major political figure with lots of classified information to go with his craziness.
I'm not saying reporters would just be intrested in his crazy theories- they could milk him for juicy cold war stories....or what his POV is on the current corruption scandal- whatever. I'm sure a lot of their readers know this guy and would pay attention to a story featuring him.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Yeah, but you're comparing it to journalism in the US. Canadian media probably prefer to cover real news.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Well, I can easily see it getting pushed aside with the whole "vote of no confidence" bit going on and all that, but still....it's strange in It's absence. I smell a CONSPIRACY! "They" must have gotten to the press..
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