You Just Gotta Believe Tink!

Have you ever seen a UFO? Millions of us have,strangely quiet about Al Queda even though they
credible reports have been made by hundreds andhave there own problem with Muslim extremists.
thousands and even the Apollo 11 astronautsThe Muslim's fighting the war in Chechnya have
reported sightings of strange phenomenon. Butcommitted as many or more acts of terrorism
what does the government say? Nonsense! Nothan we have seen in the west. Yet the Russian
such thing, never was never will be; yet thegovernment refers to them as Chechen rebels or
sightings continue. Unexplainable events, whichMuslim extremists rather than the western nom
cause the government's explanation of, no suchde plume of Al Queda, Are they not connected?
thing to fall to pieces. Travis Walton'sOr have the Russians just missed the buzzword
disappearance for five days after his coworkersboat?
reported his abduction is case in point.All evidence of Al Queda's existence comes from
Betty and Barney Hill reported being abducted andthe government the President said the name of
that the aliens showed her a star map of whereAl Queda 95 times in his last speech. We know
they claimed to be from. Skeptic's claimed therethat Al Queda knocked down the twin towers
was no such constellation but several years laterbecause the government assured us it was so.
it was found and only visible from the SouthernJust as they assured us that Spanish terrorists
Hemisphere of earth. But before I go too muchblew up the battleship Maine and North
further, I ask not do you believe in UFO's butVietnamese patrol boats attacked us in the Gulf
why do you believe the way that you do?of Tonkin and Saddam was a supporter of Al
Is it a faith-based belief? Or a science belief or aQueda.
perhaps a personal belief based on experiences orThe government refuses to answer any
is it a comfort belief. I have known those whoquestions about the Mossad agents arrested after
refuse to accept the possibility of UFO's becausecheering the attack on 9-11 or the inexplicable
it is an uncomfortable belief. Like reading ghostbehavior of the Air Force on that day or even
stories alone late at night they are far morewhy air traffic controllers in the Pittsburgh were
comfortable to read in daylight even if you don'tordered to evacuate their tower. The
believe in ghosts. It plays on our fight or flightgovernment and the media insist that the
reflex to be attacked by the unknown and to beconspiracy theories are silliness, a realm for nut
unable to judge fight or flight because of thecases and tin foil hats, blithely ignoring any
hiddeness of the adversary and ourevidence to the contrary.
powerlessness to stop them.During Stalinist times the Soviets sent thousands
As humankind has reached out into space it hasto the gulags on the charge of "wrecking." If your
become easier to believe that there might betractor wouldn't start or your factory machine
other societies more advanced than our ownbroke maybe it was on purpose, maybe you
doing the same. Yet our government insists it iswere a wrecker! After Chairman Mao's death in
not so, reams of evidence even from their ownChina failure's were blamed on "The gang of four"
astronauts yet adamantly they contend it is notthe ruling hunta that followed Mao. Even in our
so. Many will believe on that alone, just becauseown country during the red scare, people's
the government says so, evidence be hanged thecareers were ruined on the charge of being a
government says it's not so and that is all theycommunist subversive.
need to hear.Governments have and governments will always
So do you believe in Al Queda? Have you everdeclare who are our friends as well as our
seen one? Do you know anyone who has everenemies, but it all begins to swirl into a blur and I
seen one? Do you know anyone who has seen abegin to hear Big Brothers voice on the monitor.
UFO? Before September 11,2001 There probablyMusharif is our best friend in the region but if
weren't a thousand people outside theMusharif doesn't do as we ask he is our enemy.
government who had ever heard of Al Queda.The Saudi's are our friends and we will arm them
The CIA estimated 3000 members worldwidebut if unnamed persons do not stop funding and
including bookkeepers and bottle washers. Therearming foreign fighters in Iraq there will be
are more than 10,000 UFO sightings worldwideconsequences. The Iraqi government is a
every year yet the majority of the populationsovereign government, Iraq must meet our
and the government denies their existence.benchmarks, we will stand down when the Iraqi's
My point is this, why do you believe that there isstand up, so I'm calling today for a troop surge.
such an organization as Al Queda? Why is thisIs there an Al Queda outside of the three
belief so prevalent that all candidates from all thethousand the CIA identified in 2001? I don't know,
parties now vow to fight Al Queda yet none canI guess it depends on who you ask. If you ask
produce any evidence of their existence. If athe administration they will tell you our almost
candidate were to announce in a campaign speech4000 dead and 30,000 wounded have barely
that he would spare no expense to fight offscratched the surface. They estimate the cost
UFO's he would be laughed from the podium. Yetclimbing to one trillion dollars, a figure higher than
there is far more independent evidence of UFO'sthe average calculators can reach but we must
than there is independent evidence of Al Queda.because they're every where. And we must fight
The government and the media proclaim that onethem or the UFO's I mean the communist
exists and is a clear and present danger whilewreckers in the gang of four who are intent on
insisting that the other is silliness for nut cases andconquering us and violating our vital fluids will win.
tin foil hats, blithely ignoring any evidence to theI guess it all depends on what you want to
contrary. Every major power in the world hasbelieve, years ago I saw something totally
investigated UFO's and on some level taken themunexplainable in the sky but I knew that my
quite seriously. The paranoid Soviet regimegovernment was totally uninterested. Then years
declared them a threat so much that fighterlater I saw something unexplainable and yet the
aircraft were launched in response. In one case agovernment fully explained it sort of, provided
Soviet fighter fired on an unidentified craft andyou didn't ask too many questions they explained
the craft returned fire knocking the Soviet planeit. It 's the Peter Pan principle; you just gotta
from the sky.believe Tink!
Today a more pragmatic Russian government is