Our political elite - alien life

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Hunter Thompson said: When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. From The Detroit News:
Next frontier for Cheeks Kilpatrick: Panel exploring existence of alien life
A group hoping to prove alien contact with Earth has tapped former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick to help convince the federal government to acknowledge the existence of extraterrestrials.

The Detroit Democrat and mother to former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will help preside over 30 hours of congressional-style hearings April 29 to May 3 at Washington's National Press Club. She did not respond to calls for comment.

Dubbed the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, the public panel pledges to expose evidence of "extraterrestrial vehicles" and a government effort to deny sightings of such craft commonly called UFOs.

Stephen Bassett, executive director of the Bethesda, Md.-based Paradigm Research Group that is hosting the hearings, said he sought former members of Congress to interview dozens of witnesses in a style that harkens back to their work peppering witnesses in congressional hearings.

"I had invitations out to about 50 former members who I thought were likely candidates to participate, and Congresswoman Kilpatrick was the first one to respond," Bassett said.

Kilpatrick became a U.S. representative in 1997 but lost her seat to Hansen Clarke after a 2010 primary challenge.

Kilpatrick will be joined by five other former members of Congress for the hearings. Each will be paid about $20,000 and their expenses will be covered, Bassett said.

Joining Kilpatrick on the bipartisan panel are ex-Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska (Democrat and more recently Libertarian), as well as former Reps. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., Darlene Hooley, D-Ore., Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., and Merrill Cook, R-Utah.

The chosen panel members weren't required to believe in aliens or a government cover-up, but pledged to keep an open mind.
'Scuse me? For a long time, I participated in Project SETI and for four years was actually able to bring some real horsepower to the project (with the full approval of my boss at the time). If they are out there, they are sitting back chortling and waiting for us to grow up. The massive government cover-up that the Paradigm Research Group claims is bogus. $20K plus expenses for 30 hours of work is sweet -- I would suspend my suspicions for a bit of this schwag... The comments are a fun read especially this rant from Bill Hartnell:
Breaking News: This panel DOES have evidence of alien life. Cheeks-Killpatrick has already formed a coalition with Joane Watson and various local Preachers and Ministers to protest the alien race as not only wanting to take over Detroit and steal it's jewels, but also that since the aliens are green, the color of money, and not black, these aliens are clearly racist and the huge gatherings of 5-15 protestors need to scream from the mountaintops, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, these racist ETs have got to go...Hey, hey..."...Charles Pugh has asked that a panel be established to determine if these 5-armed, 3-eyed, green-skinned aliens are indeed aliens and not just from Flint...Steven Shonfeld has commented that the local government needs to tax these aliens until they move into the city limits to solve Detroit's cash-flow problems, while Jeff Ligan has gone silent and is wearing his favorite tin foil hat after a series of bizarre posts where he states the aliens are "rethuglicans", "viceroys" and members of "ALEC", then responding to his own post with "What? They really ARE real?" and finding a nice, warm, safe corner to don the aforementioned renolyds wrap headgear and rock silently back and forth in embryonic position...In other words, just another day here on the detnews.com feedback...enjoy...
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