February 28, 2007
Paul Hellyer has a unique solution to global warming and the gas shortage -- ask aliens what makes their saucers fly |
By MIKE STROBEL
Al Gore is the poster boy for global warming. He sure is. Look at him. There's a man who has never run for a bus.
All that gushing, honey love spread over him by other rich and famous people at the Oscars worries me, too. Watch for a new hole in the ozone 20 klicks above the Kodak Theatre. Now the radio says Gore's mansion in Tennessee devours $30,000 a year in hydro and gas, at a clip 20 times the U.S. average. If this emperor has no clothes, why should he? His thermostat is set on high.
So if not Al Gore, who will save us from drowning in glacial melt and keep beach resorts from Nunavut? I find one answer in the lakefront office tower where my mom happens to hang her shingle. Hon. Paul Hellyer. Remember him? Defence minister under Pearson. Liberal leadership contender. Trudeau's transport minister. The Belinda Stronach of his day. Grit. Tory. Grit. He even toyed with the NDP. 'OPEN YOUR EYES'
These days he dallies with another airy acronym. UFO. "Open your eyes," he tells me. "Two days of research and you'll believe it too." I will ask the United Airlines workers who saw a big, metallic Frisbee over Chicago's O'Hare airport last November. I will not ask the air traffic controller who quipped: "To fly 7 million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable."
What have UFOs to do with global warming, or the GTA gas shortage? They're the cure, says Hellyer, 83. Here's how he sees it: When a UFO crashed in Roswell, N.M., in 1947 (oh, stop being such a cynic), it offered a techno treasure trove. From that wreck, and 77 others, the military gleaned hardware that was out of this world. The micro-chip, for instance. Bullet-proof vests. Fibre-optics. Tupperware. (Just kidding). Lasers. Star Wars weaponry. "And particle guns." What? "High voltage. They fire something like controlled lightning." Aha. Ray guns. "Yes. The U.S. air force probably has them by now." The big prize, though, is what makes those saucers fly. Imagine a vehicle that does 30,000 km/h or hovers on a dime, regardless of whether Esso has any gas. NO GREENHOUSE GAS Best of all, no exhaust. No stench. No smog. No greenhouse gas. No ice cap melt. No drowned continents. No Al Gore?
The U.S. must have figured out the aliens' propulsion by now, says Hellyer. Likely it is zero point energy, an idea floated by Einstein, which is infinite, pollution free and exists all around us. Think of it as you queue for rationed gas. The perfect fuel. (Or is it? Why do flying saucers keep crashing?) "That's why I've gone public. I want the Americans to tell us if they have it. Or how close they are. "The people of the world have the right to know, too. To save this planet." And if the Americans haven't figured it out? "Instead of trying to shoot down those guys, we should invite them down to tell us what we need to know." Which guys? "The aliens. I'm told there's more than one species." How do we get them to come? "I'm told there have been face-to-face communications." I wait for him to cackle or make monkey sounds or jump on the desk of his lakeview office. But Hellyer has unwavering, sane eyes, pale and clear. He is 6-foot-3 and every inch a gent.
He will be on hand next Wednesday for the Toronto screening of the UFO documentary Fastwalkers, so called for a military code name. (See exopoliticstoronto.com). Hellyer has never seen a UFO. "I've never seen the Taj Mahal either, but I know it's real." Maybe he is right. Maybe oil execs are not the only slimy green men in the energy business. Beam me up, Scottie.
Anything's better than a buck a litre.
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