Small time space weapons activist spied upon

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: Small time space weapons activist spied upon
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:57:26 -0500
From: Peter Jones <peter () redesignresearch com>
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Organization: Redesign Research
To: dave () farber net

Dave - For IP if its fits to print: From Future Brief (people may be
interested in subscribing to their brief, 3-item per day email at:
http://www.futurebrief.com/newsletter/index.asp

"For more than a year, Bruce Gagnon strongly suspected he and his family
were being spied on, but he didn't have any evidence, and he didn't know who
might be behind it. An Air Force veteran, Gagnon is one of the most
prominent activists in the world concerned with space weapons. He directs
the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space from a small
office in Maine. Still, he was caught off guard when the American Civil
Liberties Union called and told him it had uncovered court documents
revealing that NASA and the U.S. Air Force were secretly monitoring him.
'We're a small organization with meager resources,' said Gagnon. 'They feel
threatened by us? That tells us something.'" Learn more in Wired News.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70303-0.html?tw=wn_index_1

"The Bush administration, as the Clinton administration before it, continues
to push forward President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative -- or "Star
Wars" -- a wide-ranging space weapons program first proposed in the
mid-1980s. Since the '80s, the military has spent an estimated $120 billion
trying to develop weapons that could destroy incoming nuclear, biological or
chemical warheads targeting American cities.

Yet in the 20 years since Reagan called for this multilayered "space
shield," the military is still light-years away from deploying any
directed-energy weapons or anti-satellite mines. Despite the lack of
tangible progress, the Bush administration increased the Star Wars budget by
20 percent for 2007, with the total allocation reaching $10.7 billion, an
increase of nearly $6 billion since 1999.

Gagnon is convinced this master plan for space defense is nothing but a
fantastic Trojan horse. "This massively costly program under way today is
not really about defense," he said. "The true purpose of this arms program
is to control and dominate space. And whoever controls space will control
the Earth."



Peter H. Jones, Ph.D.
http://redesignresearch.com



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