Well, hell, I gave it a shot
Florida pols ignore UFO disclosure petition
Maybe I’ll go with a more provocative question next time: You really think you can stop those massive UFO incursions over Langley AFB with that little thing of yours, Congressman? (C-SPAN)
In May, I put in a plug for the New Paradigm Institute, an activist nonprofit attempting to ruffle some policy feathers with a national “Call to Action” disclosure campaign.
NPI was, and still is, asking direct constituents of congressional lawmakers to sign a petition urging ratification of the 2025 UAP Disclosure Act. A virtually identical Senate bill was eviscerated in the House last year, but the same sponsors are back at it now, using pretty much the same language. It’s pushing for the presumptive release of UFO data, with a review board — independent of UFO starch — to force the Defense Department to defend its records classification structure. And it would be empowered with eminent domain to gain access to UFO material concealed by private corporations.
There’s nothing to suggest the political realities in the House have changed substantially since last year. But, reasons the NPI, maybe it’ll pass this time around if lawmakers hear from voters they actually represent. Any political momentum these petitions generate could energize college campuses this fall. As a prelude to potential mass mobilization, according to NPI, growing numbers of faculty members across the U.S. are interested in hosting teach-ins and rallies to get students up to snuff on a coverup dating back to the mid-20th century.
So I figured I’d do my part. In June, I signed the petition for auto-delivery to my three public servants in Washington, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Rick Scott, and Rep. Greg Steube. Rubio was the only one who bothered to take it seriously enough to microwave a stale press release. His response arrived yesterday.
It was a five-paragraph rehash of his role in creating the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, with zero assessment by Rubio of its dismal performance. And it didn’t say beans about adding the UAPDA to the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. It did, however, offer a few classic oldie-goldie lyrics like “I view the inability to accurately identify these phenomena entering our airspace as a major vulnerability for U.S. national security.” Two years ago, this was a visionary pronouncement. Today, it’s just a can of Pringles.
Yeah, sure, write anytime
Still, Rubio was more helpful than Rick Scott.
America’s record-setting health-care fraudster and two-term Florida governor got back with me on July 8. “Dear Mr. Cox,” he began. “Thank you for contacting me. I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts on issues important to you.”
He used the next four graphs of blah-blah-blah to remind me of how hard he’s fighting for me and families and preexisting conditions and consumer transparency and fetuses, with this kicker: “Should you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact me.”
OK, here’s two: How did you skate away from that HCA ripoff with $10M in severance and $300M in stock options? Why aren’t you mopping floors in jail?
At least Steube didn’t pretend to give a shit about “your thoughts on issues important to you.” But he has continued to regale this “Dear Floridian” with newsletters championing his values. The most consequential was his proposal to formally designate federal coastal waters as the “Donald John Trump Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States.” Plus, he has been paying attention to the 2025 NDAA. We know this because he told us how he managed to carve out this little add-on for next year: no funding “to purchase, display, or maintain material promoting radical gender ideology or pornographic content” in DoD educational programs. (Oh, snap – there goes the admiral’s subscription to Juggs . . .)
Just yesterday, he issued a “Flash Poll” touting legislation he advocates called The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act and The Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act. Specifically, he wanted my feedback on this: Should males be permitted to compete in the women's categories at the Paris Olympics?
Of course I checked yes. Because women and girls in sports don’t need protecting. Any woman who can beat a man at anything in sports is a real athlete. Men make women stronger competitors. Every idiot in the world knows that.
So it goes.
Marik von Rennenkampff has totally exposed Sean Kirkpatrick.
Sean Kirkpatrick is not only a disgusting, incompetent liar. He's also a disgrace to the U.S. government.
https://x.com/mvonren/status/1815412674353918007
https://x.com/rosscoulthart/status/1813905387181232538
Is there any proof that petitions mobilise politicians to do anything? Most staffers probably have standing orders to send out canned responses to all enquiries from the general public.
UAP are no longer completely taboo because everyone now knows that at least a subset involve foreign tech spying on us, but beyond that, it takes a politician with a keen interest to pursue answers to the more unusual mysteries of unidentified phenomena.
I just read Frank Scully's Behind the Flying Saucers from about 1951 and his detailed description of the military, government and media attitudes and reactions at the time are identical to events of recent years. Not just similar, but identical. They had the same mix of cases including the highly credible, highly anomalous incidents with no real answers. Some of these cases are amazing, if one can accept that when a pilot states that he chased a small bright object and couldn't keep up with it, he wasn't engaged in a dogfight with a balloon.
Once you're convinced then the problem balloons, so to speak. How many cases and countries? What does the military know, and which branches? How does military secrecy work?
The most dedicated team of 'insiders' that have attempted to shine a public light on the subject (that we know of) was team Mellon; with undetermined results and the odd credibility issue. They had a plan starting with Tom Delonge as a front man and more-than-likely including the whistleblower protections for real insiders. It was a real effort, apparently exceeding those of NICAP back in the day and possibly a never-to-be-repeated one. Yet Mellon is still calling for the public to mobilise politicians (which just seems naive to me, but then, I'm hoping for a criminal investigation to turn up something which is probably equally naive).