Let me put it this way . . .
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The government chosen Pope Carl Sagan decreed that
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1. UNLESS the evidence was extra-ordinary about UFO's it was useless, totally worthless, needed to be 100% thrown in the trash because there was no benefit from any evidence less than his bench-mark criteria.
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2. He decreed such KNOWING that there would NEVER BE such 'extra-ordinary evidence' ALLOWED by the oligarchy into the public domain--even if it required--as it has 100's of times--theft from law-abiding citizens--and even the murder of many dozens of law abiding citizens merely because they happened to see something not allowed to be seen by the serfs and slaves.
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3. Therefore, the citizens of the Republic could be safely (except for them) kept behind the RIDICULE wall of hostility courtesy of the MSM and all officialdom.
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4. The tyrannical tech secrets would be safe from the taxpayers paying for it.
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5. The non-polluting 'free' energy could be withheld indefinitely from the citizens--insuring the !!!!CONTROL!!!! schemes of the energy industry and the oligarchy.
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6. Nothing exotic would be allowed into the public domain for at least 100 years, if not longer--probably well after the depopulation plans of the oligarchy.
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7. All the faithful acolytes worshiping at the altar of Pope Sagan and 'extra-ordinary evidence' would be expected, demanded to fall in line and not explore anything embarrassing to or threatening to the oligarchy and their death grip on the exotic tech stuff.
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8. And given all the givens . . . the story was expected to dead-end there. Trouble is, SOME FOLKS are more dedicated to critical thinking skills than others. And propagandized lobotomies just haven't worked with everyone.
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9. Of course, that doesn't prevent folks from being faithful acolytes to Pope Sagan and the farcical propagandized narrative of the oligarchy about the critters and the craft.
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Sigh.