I haven’t read too much of Mr. Vee’s stuff yet, there’s How Americans Succeed in Ruining EVERYTHING!!!<\/em>, Jeff Rense : My Loathing Wakes for Thee<\/em> and finally, a little essay entitled, Far and Away, the Biggest Problem for Ufology is its Supporters<\/em>.<\/p>\n ‘\u201cIn the wake of the ABC Ufo special, a lot of Ufologists, Ufo buffs, and people just plainly interested in all things strange and absurd are wondering, and rather anxiously so, just what the future holds for Ufology. Like waking up naked next to a stranger after a harsh night of drinking, the morning after was a full blown blitz to figure out what happened, how it happened, and what to do. The world’s most renowned Ufologist, Stanton Friedman, was meticulous disparaged, his reputation literally assassinated. For a moment, we were all, for better or worse, with volition or not, standing atop the carcass of Friedman.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Odd Emperor thinks he’s in love! More seriously, this guy got his finger on something.<\/p>\n Give a ufo fanatic a phone and a phone line and all standards of rationality, common sense and decency are tossed out the window.<\/em> Says Vee. Not to mention a computer with a fast Internet pipe. The term UFO fanatic is about as spot on as any I could come up with. It aptly describes a small but growing trend in the field’\u20ac\u009dmostly in the fringes. These are not people you would normally see speaking at a UFO convention or interviewed on Coast to Coast. I say not usually but there have been exceptions.<\/p>\n Vee goes on to say.<\/p>\n The Ufo fanatics uphold whatever theory they subscribe to with fervor, displayed in a manner akin to religious zealotry. This is not merely a matter of possible visitation or some otherwise unknown phenomenon, for the Ufo fanatic, profound religious\/spiritual, however said or unsaid they might be, are at play, as such, the Ufo fanatic engages in a polemic notable of any religious fundamentalist. Indeed, Ufology devolves from a para-science, to a religion on the fringe. The memorized and recited litanies and mantras of evidence, cover-up and conspiracy, the rabidity with which they defend the Ufo presence among us and viciously deride any skepticism of alien existence, and the fanatical adhesion they’ve placed into whatever spiritual dimension they subscribe to, most often a garbled new-ageism in which the aliens are our avatars, such rabidity so as to concoct a universal religious conspiracy against the aliens (the Vatican being a leading culprit)-and of course, expressed in a disjointed and rambling mode-bears the hallmarks of a religious belief, albeit one on the very fringes of sanity, hence the comparison to fundamentalism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This has got to be my main beef against some of these so-called researchers (really UFO fanatics) out there. It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s not their complete and utterly ridicules double standards. It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s not that they defend their beliefs with a fervor that\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s spectacular while all the time claming that they have a balanced, open minded agenda. It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s not the open personal attacks, (which do nothing for their agenda but tends to further my own, One day they’ll figure that out.) Anyway, I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m impressed with Joe Vee’s take on this, whoever he really is. It’s a refreshing change from the usual carbohydrate laden crap out on the UFO fairway. Alas his column seems to be no more but you can still read his ravings at http:\/\/www.binnallofamerica.com\/thewrathofjoe.html<\/a><\/p>\n Share and Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was bumming around the Internet today as I often do. I stopped by the usual suspects, nothing very much new in those places. I happened to wander into binnallofamerica.com. It’s a small but growing voice in the UFO biz, … Continue reading ![\"Joe](\"http:\/\/www.oddempire.org\/images\/2006\/joevee.jpg\" "\\"Joe")
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\nOpen minded? Most of the vocal UFO proponents out there are about as open minded as Pat Robertson after his third double latt’a at Starbucks. Some of the more extreme ones could give lessons to the Taliban. The term Religious fanatic so often comes to mind when I deal with these people that I’m starting to think Susan Clancy might be onto something when she says that the UFO business is the leading edge of a new religion. It sure seems that way sometimes.<\/p>\n