A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact (45 page)

Disclosure will accomplish something in American politics that has happened only rarely. Very likely, there will be a credible, capable third party arising from the chaos of the moment. Perhaps even a fourth and fifth. Disclosure will shatter the old political paradigm.

One new party finding support might be called the Aquarius party. Its agenda will be that the Others should be embraced. They will not be hardened political types, but a collection of New Age believers who see this new reality as confirmation that the Age of Aquarius is here, if only we embrace it.

Another party may favor an Earth-First approach. Its members would argue that the Others are irrelevant. They have not attacked, nor have they revealed themselves since their arrival. Humanity’s problems are vast and deepening, they will say, and we must solve them ourselves. Expecting help from extraterrestrials is wishful thinking and unlikely to happen. Their slogan will be “Power to the People,” and by people, they will mean humans.

There will also be those who see the Others as the beginning of end times. This is the Armageddon group, populated by doomsday thinkers, evangelicals, and survivalists. They will have much to say because many of them will have been waiting their entire lives for something this devastating. Some of them may start within the Republican Party, but they may well bolt if they feel the Republicans are not responsive enough to their beliefs.

If one thinks of the American political system as a spectrum of belief, the Disclosure world will look like this, going from pro- to con- regarding the arrival and disclosure of the Others:

A
QUARIUS

D
EMOCRAT

R
EPUBLICAN

E
ARTH
F
IRST

A
RMAGEDDON

The success or failure of these new competitors for the American voters will depend on who can convert their passion into competition in the political arena. Armageddon believers may have the most passion, but some may not stay active if they think the world is ending. Earth Firsters may find themselves absorbed into the Republicans in the same way that the latter have tried to harness the Teaparty movement of 2010, or it could go the other way around, with the Republicans collapsing into the new party. The Democrats will try to appeal to Aquarians as being sympathetic to their cause but still “solid” regarding traditional national security.

It will be a political free-for-all. The winners may still be the Republican and Democratic parties, but even if they survive the battle, they will be changed by the fight to stay in power.

In nation after nation around the globe, great changes will be played out as the political deck is shuffled. The volatility of the situation is more easily seen in light of the Arab Spring of 2011.

Indeed, the Arab world will become further inflamed by Disclosure. The democratic uprisings that swept across that political landscape showed deep dissatisfaction among the people. The rest of the world discovered, much to its collective surprise, that a new generation of Arabs want a greater voice, and not necessarily one influenced by sharia law. Arab youth of today, like youth elsewhere, have grown up with the Web. Arab women are also finding their voice. We are seeing an entire culture that had been dominated for generations by a tightly authoritarian political and cultural system now, in the age of the Internet, showing cracks. Matters will become more volatile still with a growing belief that the traditional cultural patterns need to be revised. This is aside from the pandemonium likely to occur because of uncertainties in the petroleum market, up until now the main source of income to much of the Arab world. As was once said of the American Revolution, it will feel like “the world is turned upside down.”

Elsewhere in the AD world, dictatorships will fall to populist uprisings while some multi-party systems may face calls for dictatorships. Change will be in the air.

Amid such turmoil that is likely within the domestic politics of so many nations, the ultimate political battle must be waged internationally. How will these many nations come together to blend their voices into a single message for the Others? Is that even possible?

Before discussing this, we need to understand the specific troubles that will be faced by the United States, for years the leading force behind the cover-up, and most probably the source of most of our knowledge of the Others.

Reclaiming Legitimate Power

The United States lacks the global power it had during the Cold War. Yet it remains, at least militarily, the world’s most powerful country, and in many ways still the global agenda-setter. Many nations will view the United States with increased skepticism if its role in the UFO cover-up is established clearly. Still, its military power will be seen as the best shield possible against an outside threat, although some nations might see it as unnecessarily provocative.

In a nation founded on principles of popular sovereignty, in which Lincoln’s phrase, “A government of the people, by the people, for the people,” carries deep emotional resonance, it is no small matter that in the world AD, the president acts not just with Americans in mind, but the citizens of the entire planet. Many of the important issues at stake in today’s world will be amplified post-Disclosure:

Will we live in a world that promotes human freedom, or will we live in a global police state?

In a world that is already a global village and interweaves further each day, who will make the most important decisions affecting the lives of ordinary people?

Will we have a public culture in which truth is readily available, and in which citizens can make informed decisions about their world?

How can Disclosure help the human-built infrastructure support our ever-increasing population with its ever-stronger thirst for energy?

Can Disclosure save the natural global ecosystem from collapsing due to excessive human pressures?

Change is coming; the only question is what it will look like. That battle is being fought now; it will still be in progress when Disclosure occurs. Then, that radical act of openness on an issue of such magnitude will energize and ultimately transform the debate.

All modern presidents have been elected with the support of the wealthy and powerful, all of whom have strong interests in the promotion of an international order that they themselves dominate. This puts the Disclosure president in the middle of this battle—entirely separate from the issue of the Others and their agenda. He or she must decide what side to choose.

The first option will be to embrace the status quo of power, and to continue to navigate the ship of state through the rough waters with as little disruption as possible. Recall that for Disclosure even to happen, the powers-that-be will have had to make a decision that the cost of maintaining the cover-up was greater than the cost of letting it go. Letting go of the cover-up, however, will not mean letting go of power. Having given the president the information, and thus the go-ahead, they will now want him or her to help them re-assemble the system in a way that continues to grant them control.

The second option is to embrace change. It would mean using the act of Disclosure as a personal release from duty to the puppet-masters. It would mean working for reasoned, humanitarian policies to bring about a peaceful transition and a courageous confrontation of the truth.

Will the world get another Millard Fillmore, or a new Abraham Lincoln?

The Disclosure president will already know that he has thrown the dice and bet his presidency on this single announcement. He will have had company, of course. Many other world leaders will have thrown their own reputations into the fire of Disclosure, but it is the American president to whom the world will look.

His advisors will carry messages from the power elite that the world is so troubled now that the president must keep the peace at all costs. As the expression goes, he must “dance with the one who brought him.”

It will be a powerful argument. No president will want the world to come completely unhinged on his shift; better to play it safe. Yet the A.D. world has no safe course of action. Knowing this, the Disclosure President may choose another way. He may choose to go to war. Not with the Others, but with the Breakaway Group.

In that eventuality, he would actively work to reclaim full constitutional authority in the name of the people. This does not mean seizing power in the form of a dictatorship, but it does mean enforce his authority over the runaway black budget, and particularly over the Majestic operation insofar as it utilizes the resources of the U.S. military and U.S. tax dollars, and insofar as it operates on U.S. territory.

In the disruption that follows Disclosure, if the president were to assume this level of power, he would understand that his life would be in danger. Yet, perhaps in a moment of quiet while sitting in the Oval Office, reflecting on the actions of those who came before him, he may decide that the risk is worth it because the times demand it. The opportunity to set things right may not return for a long time.

He may survey the political landscape and realize that the dynamic has shifted and that he has more legitimate power than the secret-keepers. There would be allies. They will include the people—not only U.S. citizens, but citizens from every country on Earth. And he would see the posturing on Capitol Hill, the investigation committees being formed, and the subpoenas being issued.