XPost: alt.conspiracy, sci.space.policy, sci.astro   
   XPost: sci.space.history   
   From: pvstownsend@zyx-abc.fsnet.co.uk   
      
   rem81604@aol.com (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message   
   :   
      
   >      As immense as that game is, there is a bigger one: Control through   
   > fear. As Werner Von Braun related to Dr. Carol Rosin, his spokesperson   
   > for the last 4 years of his life, a maniacal machine - the military,   
   > industrial, intelligence, laboratory complex - would go from Cold War,   
   > to Rogue Nations, to Global Terrorism (the stage we find ourselves at   
   > today) to the ultimate trump card: A hoaxed threat from space.   
   >   
   >      To justify eventually spending trillions of dollars on space   
   > weapons, the world would be deceived about a threat from outer space,   
   > thus uniting the world in fear, in militarism and in war.   
      
   You don't need to invoke sentient alien creatures - an asteroid will do just   
   as well.   
      
   Back in the 70's the rumour went around that the game of Space Invaders was   
   launched to get us all trained up for countering the real invasion, which   
   was imminent.   
   --   
   Paul Townsend   
   I put it down there, and when I went back to it, there it was GONE!   
      
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