Hi Fred, 
 
 On 11 May 98 you wrote to me and said:
 FA>> course on the other hand, they most likely trust everyone  in the  real
 FA>> world they shouldn't, used cars salesmen  etc.  :).   
 PF>> Most likely? What an extraordinary assumption to make!
 FA>     Do not try to  separate yourself  from the  rest of  us.  Everyone 
 FA> gets burned sometimes.  Do  you count  your change  everytime you  buy 
 FA> something or just sometimes or never...  
Of course everyone gets burned sometimes. I don't usually count my change but 
there are certain shops and certain shopkeepers that I don't trust. 
 PF>> Hmm. What better way would a government agency have to discredit UFO
 PF>> reports than to instigate the creation of hundreds of demonstrably
 PF>> bogus ones? 
 FA>     So are we trying a reverse face.  Now you are  saying well,  there 
 FA> are genuine ones being covered over  or lost  in the  diluge of  bogus 
 FA> ones?  Government  needs to  do nothing,  we do  it to  ourselves. Its 
 FA> called capitalism in the U.S.  Free enterprise.  If there is a buck in 
 FA> it, well.  Lets be realistic.  Government doesn't  need to  create the 
 FA> Santilli's, Meir's, the Walter's  of the  world.  
No, but many conspiracy theorists have US federal agencies spending 
/millions/ on disinformation campaigns.
 FA> They  come on  their 
 FA> own.  They do the job for them.  They cloud things  to the  point that 
 FA> all looks bogus.  The best CIA job that money didn't need to buy.....
 FA> But now I am beginning to wonder here  Patrick, are  you admitting  to 
 FA> the possiblity of genuine ......
I am suggesting that if the US government did have something to hide and uFO 
investigators were too close to the mark, the simplest way to discredit them 
all would be to create some easily demolished hoaxes and so discredit any 
genuine investigators by association.
I will always accept the possibility of anything. I just don't believe 
earthhas been visited by aliens until I see some evidence as good as the 
evidence that there are orcas in the ocean. 
_patrick_                 (email: patrick.ford@amiga.gen.nz) 
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