The Trauma of Secrecy

Anything that has to do with promise of power, satisfaction of greed and fear of consequence is bound to involve secrecy. It has been so throughout the human history. And there is a lot of that going on concerning the extraterrestrial and/or unidentified crafts flying around our globe - and sometimes crashing here.  Much of the secrecy is being employed by the military where pulling rank and threats of discharge or worse causes staff to keep their mouths shut for years or decades, perhaps forever.

But the secrecy also involves civilians. Like in the 1966 Westall UFO incident in Australia where over 100 pupils (and teachers) were threatened to secrecy. Witnesses recall threats of detention and men in suits telling them to keep quiet. You would think that it is somewhat okay to tell an employee to keep quiet, but definitely not okay to come and tell school kids or any civilian for that matter to never divulge what one has experienced.

There wouldn't be conspiracy theories if it wasn't for all the secrets. There wouldn't be a need for whistleblowers either. Whistleblowers who are then blamed, accused and chased - perhaps even silenced. Neither would there be the questioning of the current,  almost heroic, status of whistleblowers if it wasn't for the growing public need to know - instead of the widely abused need-to-know-basis of governments and military. Whistleblowers like the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange or the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden - nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014! And there wouldn't be a need for the Disclosure Project if it wasn't for all these coverups. These are the ingredients of the gigantic soup of secrecy that is constantly being stirred, and we may yet have a taste of it - the truth about intelligent extraterrestrial life - if all goes according to plan, in a near enough future. Wouldn't that be something?! It would surely be - something!

But meanwhile the trauma that is caused to witnesses - civilian and military alike - who have been ridiculed, intimidated, warned and hushed throughout the years is often overlooked. What does it actually do to a person to having to keep quiet about something that is often one of the most overwhelming experiences of one's life? Something that you would definitely want to share with everybody, be excited about, shout from the rooftops, even boast about - where it not for the sceptical atmosphere created partly by the Keepers of Secret. It may even have physical consequences to a person in as much we are not designed so much to contain knowledge as to spread it. It could also be that once the atmosphere changes and it is all right to talk about these things quite openly, there will be a regular flood of disclosures after all that containment. But until that happens, widespread self-censorship is in major play as well.

Perhaps one day you will be driving your car leisurely along the road, every now and then overtaken by cars with bumperstickers like End UFO Secrecy Now or A.D. After Disclosure. And driving on, lo and behold, what with the growing awareness of the matter, you will have your first sighting - if you haven't had one already - as an unmistakeble extraterrestrial craft rises above the mountain ahead of you, hovers towards you with blinking lights, and lands on the field to your right. Now would that be traumatic - or just dramatic?! You see several people stepping out of their cars to have a closer look - encouraged by the recent media coverage admonishing people to go ahead and make new, unique, acquaintances. Would you?

LINKS
- Disclosure Project  - The Guardian - Wiki:Wikileaks - Wikileaks - Zazzle -