Some time ago the US government announced that they will de-classify UFO sightings material from the 50s and 60s. This caused quite the stir amongst conspiracy theorists but also plain sci-fi fans like me. They did, and – of course – the results were not that insightful. A few days ago the government also released whitehouse.gov/aliens. Styled in the fashion of the X-files TV show, this is a web product created and published by the government. Paid for with your tax money and – given my experience working on various government projects – probably highly funded with delivery cycles that have lots of space for bureaucratic swings and roundabouts. Watching the site, I was amused at first but soon the hair on my neck stood on end and I turned first speechless and then disgusted to my core. This isn’t a playful site about outdated paranoid government materials about extraterrestrials, it is a live tracker of arrests of illegal immigrants portrayed like a Hollywood trailer painting the…
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