by greencrow0 » Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:17 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Now if there is anyone debating this who was also around and thought differently then, or thinks differently now, I'd like to know, not just for the moon hoax reasons but to re-examine the processes of evaluation of events.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br>I was around then. In August of 1969 I was living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I remember the night the astronauts landed on the moon because the people I was living with had a female boxer dog and it gave birth to puppies that night...so me and the children I was looking after [I was a live in babysitter] ran between the basement where the dog was giving birth, to the upstairs where the black and white TV was showing the lunar landing.<br><br>Plus, the father of the household, who was a complete and utter drunk, was getting boozed to the rafters and ended up in a tyranical rage screaming at everyone, including threatening to kill the dog--and me. I quit my 'job' and left the home the next morning, before anyone was up...I got into a taxi and left.<br><br>In any case, the lunar landing was BIG. There was a big build-up to it for weeks, as the rocket blasted off and then the shuttle got closer and closer to the moon. We all sucked it in, there were no naysayers... <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>It never occurred to any of us to doubt what was going on for a single second</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. You had to be around in those times. We still believed the Warren Commission about Kennedy and the official version about the deaths of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. The United States was just having an incredible spate of 'bad luck' with those events...so the luner landing was a welcome respite from all that. It was such a 'good news' thing, we all just lapped it up. We very much bought into the idea that the white hats [the west] had scored a knock out punch against the black hats [the soviets].<br><br>I remember, however, I was personally much more excited about Woodstock, which also took place that summer. We saw the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Life Magazine</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> aerial shots of the huge 500,000 crowd in the field all celebrating 'the summer of love' peacefully. It was a coming of age for the boomers.<br><br>It was only many years later that I revisited the lunar landing through the prism of the cynicism born of the revelations about the Kennedy Assassination, the napalming of the Vietnamese, the Mei Lai Incident and other stuff that happened later, like Watergate. All these combined to cast doubt on successive US governments. <br><br>I started to wonder about why we never, ever saw the space capsule flying through the air and landing in the water. We only ever saw it bobbing around in the waves AFTER it landed in the remote Pacific Ocean. I began to think no parachute on earth could stop it from landing so hard in the water that the impact would have killed the astronauts inside. Another thing I wondered about was why the astronauts all sunk beneath the celebrity radar. You rarely saw them giving talks or being on talk shows about their exploits. Sure Neil Armstrong did run for government, didn't he? or at least one of them perhaps more did seek out public life. But that was another chapter in their careers, none of them ever taught space aeronautics or lectured on TV or anything like that...most of them just faded beneath the radar. Years later I heard that some of them were getting pissed off at lunar landing disbelievers who pursued them around the country trying to get answers.<br><br>Now, with the advent of 9/11, it all falls into place. It all makes sense. In a sense it is a relief that all the loose ends are being tied up, even if it is so ominous for the future. The United States government is based on a history of lies, each one bigger, more brazen and more harmful than the one before. It's all based on an effort to install a fascist government that will dominate the world. That is why it is so important to debunk 9/11 and to debunk the so-called Lunar Landings, because [and I feel somewhat sheepish that I never saw this coming so many years ago] all the lies beginning right after the second world war [and including Hiroshima and Nagasaki] are but prelude to something unspeakably horrible that will likely finush us off as a species... if we don't put a stop to the lies and, more importantly, the liars.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>GC <p></p><i></i>