A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact (27 page)

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, being empowered to take testimony in foreign countries), a report will be assembled that will document what happened.

At the end of the process, the central issue will still be unresolved. Truth commissions are sometimes criticized for allowing crimes to go unpunished. Squarely on the table will be the relationship between this truth commission and criminal prosecution.

We believe there is an answer with precedent.

Amnesty and Pardon

If the President of the United States, at the time of Disclosure, was heavily involved in the cover-up either before or during his tenure, and if that connection can be demonstrated, then there will be a resignation in the offing.

However, assuming that the President of the United States himself was not an architect of the cover-up, pressure will be brought to use presidential authority to extricate the country from a very intricate mess.

The mess will be one in which a special prosecutor will have been appointed in the first month or so A.D. As this office conducts its business, it will become obvious that many high-ranking current and ex-officials will
be targeted for prison sentences. The charges will vary. Certainly perjury will be common, but an entire shopping list of criminal charges will be under review.

Matters could become dramatic. In the case of a president about to resign, he may use his authority to issue thousands of pardons, triggering a separate constitutional crisis.

More likely, a president who has maintained plausible deniability will find inspiration in the acts of two of his predecessors.

On January 21, 1977, one day after his presidential inauguration, Jimmy Carter granted a presidential pardon to all of those who had avoided the draft during the Vietnam war. That single act meant the government forever relinquished the right to prosecute hundreds of thousands of draft-dodgers. Such a blanket pardon may well be issued A.D. in an attempt to focus the nation on the future of contact, and not on the past crimes.

Acting pursuant to the grant of authority in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States, as the President of the United States, I do hereby grant a full, complete and unconditional pardon to: All persons who may have committed any offense between July 2, 1947, and May 17, 2021, while operating under orders that were given by lawful authorities in order to maintain secrecy concerning certain knowledge of extraterrestrial or non-human intelligence operating within the borders of the United States and its military bases worldwide. This includes lying under oath, obscuring facts from the elected representatives of the elected government, funding covert operations through extra-legal means, and all manner of felony acts to be determined as having been in the cause of maintaining this secrecy.

This pardon does not apply to the following who are specifically excluded here:

• All persons judged to have committed murder or other felonious assault resulting in grave bodily injury to another party.

• All persons judged to have committed treason against the United States by using their knowledge of the extraterrestrial presence and the secrecy surrounding it to subvert American interests.

No matter what else, treason and murder will be crimes that no president can pardon. If lives were lost in such ventures, those individuals will go to prison, possibly for a long time.

It may be that a blanket pardon fails to suffice for the extraordinary times that A.D. will usher in. In that case, specific pardons will be granted for certain individuals. President Gerald Ford’s pardon of disgraced President Richard Nixon comes to mind. Imagine if high-level generals or ex-presidents have been connected to the cover-up. They will be pardoned, by name, and for specific acts. If it were to happen today, for example, it might be former President George Bush, Sr., who was also a former CIA director. Perhaps he would be given a pardon in exchange for his full, truthful testimony.

However, the same wildcard disclaimer has to be made here. The way this plays out will be determined by the nature of our relationship with the Others, and whether or not a deal has been struck with them at any point during the last seven decades.

Economy

Economies usually like stability. In the short run, at least, there will be great disruption, as the money markets are shocked and rocked by the news. Permanent damage to the structure of our economy is another matter.

There are many examples in which the financial markets bounce back from bad news. A return to business, even if not business-as-usual, is likely to be the A.D. scenario as well, not because the changes will not be deep, but because there really is no alternative but to go forward, no matter what that means. History teaches us that humans adapt, and the markets that they create in which to transact their businesses also adapt.

The announcement will probably be accompanied by a bank freeze and a temporary shut-down of the stock market. There is precedent for both.

Three weeks before President-elect Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933, a banking panic spread throughout America, feeding on itself, causing alarmed customers to empty their accounts. The day before Roosevelt took office, more than 5,000 banks went out of business. Roosevelt called for a “bank holiday” and closed every bank in the country. After Congress passed back-up legislation, the banks stayed closed until Department of the Treasury officials could inspect each institution’s ledgers.

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and Nasdaq remained closed for the rest of the week, not opening for business again until September 17. When the markets did reopen, the New York Stock Exchange dropped 684 points in the first day of trading.

Both scenarios are about giving people and institutions time to process changes. Whatever happens after Day One, there will be a need for time to consider things.

Taking Stock of the Situation

One financial advisor the authors spoke to anticipated that the immediate aftermath of Disclosure would be “pure chaos and hysteria.” The only reasonable response, he thought, would be to shut things down. If Disclosure occurs on a Friday afternoon, as we anticipate, it is likely that the markets will be closed for the entire next week.

But what happens when they resume? Most traders believe that the only way to calm markets down is to let them open up. Even then, there is bound to be a great deal of panic selling, and this may well trigger the so-called “circuit breakers,” which close chaotic markets. Put into place by the major securities and futures exchanges, these are coordinated cross-market trading halts that are activated when a severe market price decline reaches levels that may exhaust market liquidity. Under these contingencies, trading may be halted temporarily or, under extreme circumstances, markets shut down before the end of normal close of the trading session.

These circuit-breakers will probably be triggered repeatedly. During the time period of “close-and-consider,” analysts and traders will be getting an earful from their clients. The people we have spoken with expect that anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of stockholders will want to alter their portfolios significantly, if not close them entirely, when they learn that UFOs are real and the government has been hiding this information for generations.

Most financial analysts have spent time considering extraordinary contingencies such as terrorism, nuclear accidents, natural disasters, and criminal acts. Few to none, however, seem to have considered the possibility that UFOs might be real, and that they might have to deal with that. In the world A.D., they will be unprepared, and most of their advice will be made up on fly.

One Certified Financial Manager from a leading financial management and advisory company had some thoughts about how he would behave personally, and how he would interact with clients—although he was told by his management that he could not use his name in an interview with us, presumably because the topic is too alarming. “My biggest job if this happens,” he said, “is going to be holding my client’s hands over the weekend when I’ll probably be freaking out myself.”

Day-trader Peter Katz is one of the many financial experts who had never considered the possibility that he would have to take ET Disclosure into account in his stock strategy. When asked about how he would have to adjust, he replied he would not take a strong position until he could see how the market was reacting. “My gut,” he added, “is that the market would be heading south instead of north.”

Stock analysts from Merrill Lynch to Smith Barney will scramble mightily in the aftermath of Disclosure to bring in consultants and experts to help calm their customers and assure them that they are preparing to adapt to the future. They will create bold new client PowerPoints describing their take on what might be called the After-Market.

But the safe positions of the past may not necessarily apply in this new financial environment. For example, it would seem logical that the price of gold will rise in the panic, and this may happen. Yet, depending on the
nature of the announcement, analysts may speculate that the unleashing of new technology will increase gold’s value even further or, conversely, diminish it by achieving the ancient alchemist’s dream of turning common metals into gold. In general, we can expect that the discussion of radical technologies will wreak havoc on some traditional portfolios.