Reading Wednesday’s issue of the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill, I noticed an unusual ad in the back, alongside those for apartments and jobs. The “1st Annual Exopolitics Expo – April ’04”, the ad announced. “Perhaps the most important conference you will ever attend.” Exopolitics… hmmm, sounds like it might be related to space. I went to the web site for the event and discovered it is related to space… just in a bad way. The event will, in its own words, “bring together in the Washington metro area the most powerful group of speakers ever assembled to focus on the governmental, political and media aspects of 50+ years of extraterrestrial engagement and societal denial.” That’s right, UFO “experts”, including such notables as Richard “The Face on Mars” Hoagland. The event is apparently being run by Stephen Bassett, who ran a quixotic independent Congressional campaign in 2002 in Maryland’s 8th district “in which a candidate on the November ballot in a federal election openly addressed the matter of an extraterrestrial presence and the government imposed truth embargo,” in his own words. OK, sorry I asked.
If aliens are going to Capital Hill, they’re obviously not here to study human intelligence.
Exopolitics. Is there such a thing as Endopolitics? Is that politics inside the Beltway?
In any event, I’m sure the event will be about the same as I imagine a Star Trek convention to be: Loaded with a few hundred pimply-faced geeks who haven’t seen sunlight or women since birth.
if aliens are controlling politics on earth they’re doing a horrible job.