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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 - 08:10am Jul 30, 2003 EST (# 13181 of 13267)
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.

I sent the following e-mail on July 23d, to Bill Keller. There's been some interesting activity on the board since - I can only guess whether the note has had something to do with it. Perhaps I was naive to send the note - I was hoping for a direct response - especially an email or telephone or mail contact to Howell Raines. Here's the note, with the name of a University of Wisconsin officer deleted.

Dear Mr. Keller,

I'm taking a gamble that you've heard of me, though I'm only a poster on a NYT talk board - and that you might consider helping me, under circumstances where I feel I'm in some danger - where the NYT has some informal but substantial investment in the Science, Missile Defense board - and where the help seems like it might be easy.

I'd be enormously grateful if you someone on your staff would tell me how to make email or telephone or mail contact with Howell Raines.

rshow55 - 09:25am Jul 21, 2003 EST (# 13064 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.Z9exbJU7wf8.2132794@.f28e622/14741 reads:

A major step would be energy independence from the Middle East - independence from Saudi Arabia. I have a plan for that - but it requires, not only ideas, but some power. For instance, in the ways that matter, I have to be "out of jail."

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That plan . . . - could produce energy independence and stability for the whole world - and that would do more to improve the strategic security of the United States than anything else could.

I can't do it alone. I can't do it isolated - in effect, under house arrest.

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I enclose a copy of a note I sent to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx that summarizes some of my situation. I'm sure that you haven't followed the NYT Missile Defense board carefully - but I have the impression that xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and people at the University of Wisconsin have done so, and I believe that xxxxxxxx would be willing to talk to you - not to endorse me - but to vouch for some key aspects of my background and "story." And the predicament in which I find myself, and which I've put some others in. The note includes this:

. . . .

" Everything that I think can be reasonably classified (technically) is now out - on the NYT Missile Defense and Guardian Talk boards - and the key fact about my background that I was told was most classified is out, too - the fact that I was commandeered, as an undergraduate - in 1967 by D.D. Eisenhower - then an ex President and old man.

" I have good reason to guess that all this information has been followed by the government - though that is deniable, and I could be wrong.

" Also this, a point somewhat related to points I've told you before:

" I was interrogated, with torture and an expectation that I would die, by the order of Richard Nixon. It was a stupid order - and a muddled business. Bill Casey got called in to sort out the mess. " http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.Z9exbJU7wf8.2132794@.f28e622/14703

"My life has had some awkward aspects since. Not only for me. You know something about some of the awkwardnesses involved with the University - and when we last talked, we communicated.

. . . .

You might ask - why don't I just talk to the government. In every way that matters, they've refused to talk to me - and my situation is such that I don't feel irrational, or especially cowardly, to ask that I talk to someone on NYT staff, with a name, face to face - before I do so again. ( I was forbidden to come into Langley - something that would have made sense. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx knows something about that - and attempted to get me a hearing, I believe. )

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