A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact by Richard M. Dolan

Author:Richard M. Dolan [Dolan, Richard M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781601635938
Google: Qd1EDwAAQBAJ
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Investigating for crimes. Asking again, “What did you know and when did you know it?” The Watergate hearings of 1973. Photo courtesy of the Sam Ervin Library (Daniel R. Smith, Curator).

But now, politicians will rally. Scurrying to the nearest microphones, they will condemn being kept in the dark. They will promise congressional hearings. They will allocate money for their own investigations. They will jockey for position to get on the right committees.

And they will put on quite a show. At least one showboating committee chair will reach back to Watergate and resurrect Senator Sam Ervin’s famous question: “What did you know and when did you know it?” It will become the refrain once more as humbled secret-keepers apologize and explain under withering questioning.

At that point, the world will realize that some very important people broke some very big laws. The question will be how to handle their criminality.

Truth Commissions

Consider the dilemma facing a president or prime minister. Public anger may be explosive, and without some way to vent it, the results could be violent and revolutionary. National governments everywhere will seek to maintain control of the process, attempting to vent public anger in a controlled way. One way to do this may be to establish a Truth Commission.

In the United States, there has never been a Truth Commission for a major policy issue on a national scale. The odds are about even that Disclosure will create the conditions for the first-ever Truth Commission to become operational.

A model for something of this magnitude is The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) assembled in South Africa after the abolition of apartheid. Established by President Nelson Mandela and chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, it was tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by the government. Many truth commissions have failed in their work, but the TRC is the rare exception, and it served as a crucial component for the transition to a democratic political system. Its mandate was to bear witness to, record, and in some cases grant amnesty to the perpetrators of crimes relating to human rights violations, reparation, and rehabilitation.

Although national laws will prevail when it comes to legal remedy, nations are unlikely to conduct Truth Commissions without reference to each other, and in particular to the United States, widely perceived as the heart of UFO secrecy. Within the U.S., Congress may choose to establish such a commission to deal with the stain of secrecy.

If such a commission is formed, certain similarities to the South African experience are likely to take place. Witnesses identified as victims of the secrecy violations will be invited to give statements about their experiences, and some of the better cases will be selected for public hearings. Perpetrators of the secrecy will be given the opportunity to testify and request amnesty from both civil and criminal prosecution. If the history of South Africa is an indication, the most prominent participants in the cover-up will probably take a pass.

After traveling throughout the United States (and possibly, in this instance,

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