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Missile Defense

Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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rshow55 - 09:39am May 17, 2003 EST (# 11738 of 11742)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

On September 25 I had an all day web meeting with "beckq" under circumstances where I had some quite good reasons to suspect that "beckq" was the President of the United States, or someone close to him. I think people looking at my records for the weeks preceeding that meeting would agree that that I was making a reasonable inference about that. Here is that web meeting. If I was being elliptical - I felt that I was doing what I was supposed to do, considering the promises about classification that I had made.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md266.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md273.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md280.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md290.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md300.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md304.htm

That all day web-meeting ended with this

rshowalt - 05:28pm Sep 25, 2000 EST (#304 of 11890)

I'd be grateful for a chance to come before you, or one or more of your representatives, and explain, in detail, with documentation and ways to check, how dangerous this situation is. Especially if a good reporter, and a videotape record, were there so what was said was clear.

Some mistakes have been made, and you and I weren't very old when they were made. They can be fixed. A lot of things would improve if this were done. They are American mistakes, and Americans, and American leaders, have to fix them.

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I have a great deal of respect for the US government. And a great deal of respect for the New York Times as well.

But all the same, I think the fact that my circumstances have been as awkward as they have been in the time since raises some questions - and not only questions about me.

Almarst , over the years, has pointed out some problems related to those questions.

lchic - 03:38pm May 17, 2003 EST (# 11739 of 11742)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

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