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It's an impressive facility, no doubt about that!
you forgot Stargate Command :P
Do you think Obama will close it down because he doesn't believe in National Security?
Pay caps via executive order, socialized medicine (the state picks your doctor), GM-Obama via executive order, Chrysler-Obama via executive order, Bank of Obama via executive order, auto czars, bank czars, judges who "feel."
You're right. There is a difference between national security and free reign to do whatever the hell you want against American citizens.
So tell me again why you voted for the communist thug?
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The power of the internet is at your fingertips.You have the ability to confirm the facts behind the imginary information people make up...err "heard" yourself.
Perhaps you will be able to step back from this a bit, think big picture, look for truth, and realize just what you were a part of. I hope you know how much I love our country, and I hope you know how I am trying to help you. Again, doesn't it strike you as strange that ANYONE should get a "tour" of such an important part of our defense? Actually, I bet it already has crossed your mind. Maybe you will end up connecting dots with so many other heinous acts ongoing to the present.
This is not meant to sound strange or out of context - THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.
Our Founding Fathers would wonder if we really appreciate at all what they did for us. I'm afraid we have been hoodwinked by some really sick people who really do want to have global rule. And America - to the present - has for the most part stood in thier way. But that is changing in a dramatic way for the worse as we reveal our secrets, redistibute our wealth, and create crises that our all powerful & all knowing federal gov't can "solve".
Thank you for your time as you consider this perspective. May God bless you.
second, saying that Cheyenne Mountain is the only Department of Defense-certified EMP facility in the world does nothing to, in anyway, harm National Security. Again, it's NON-classified information. One has to take into account that only conventional Nuclear weapons have the ability to create EMP's of a significant measure in modern warfare.
Also, just because its the only Defense Department Certified EMP facility, doesn't necessarily mean that other facilities/bases do not utilize similar countermeasures. nevertheless, your patriotism is impressive, and i want to commend you on your stoic ideals. keep the rest of us on our toes.
THAT BEING SAID,
as a resident of Colorado Springs i say this, PLEASE STOP THE AIR RAID DRILLS AT 3 AND 4 INT HE AM, IT FREAKS ME OUT EVERY TIME LOL.
P.S. the globalization of governments, new world order, illuminati...whatever you want to call it is FAR more crucial to humanity than you might think.
If you doubt what I am saying.......think about this YOU AND ME ARE STILL ALIVE AND WE AS A NATION HAVE NEVER BEEN NUKED. YOU ARE PROTECTED BY THE MOST HIGHLY TRAINED MILITARY PERSONNEL USING THE MOST VICIOUS UP TO DATE EQUIPMENT IN THE AIR ON THE GROUND AND ON THE SEA (UNDER AS WELL).
I spent 23 years in the USAF. I worked with our other branches of military and found them to just as professional and trained equal to the USAF.
OK. we were attacked by a bunch of rag head thugs in the most cowardice of manners. If the fat bald heads in Washington D.C. would allow the military to function as the military and not stand on their necks this might not have happend..........I am sure you have had enough of my epistle .......God Bless you and your efforts....TEA
You can all pretend that your government does what's best for you, but if you like that approach you should move to Iran. Everyone else with a brain knows that secrecy always breeds abuse, and the fact that NORAD is exempt from any public scrutiny should scare any sensible American.
People with your paranoid assumptions about secrecy are as dangerous as those for which you are scared of.
It makes absolutely no sense to divulge all national secrets in the interest of calming your paranoia.
Can you please provide a reference to your claim? Site a law, ruling, regulation, etc. If you don't, you just look like a paranoid anti-Government loon.
Space is used merely for spying, navigation and communications which are certainly important militarily but surely don't require greater protection than Norad itself requires. I am not looking to invoke unlikely theories such as UFO's or Stargate but rather wonder if anyone has any practical suggestions as to why the Space Command is the owner and operator of the facility?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Space_Command
Yeah, missile command is part of space command. So, there you go.
Also, the umbrella AFSC (job code) is "Space and Missiles" - they're one and the same career-wise.
But at least I am not balding . . .
There are plenty of off limits areas within the complex that people don't get to see.
Just because they allow tours into the Pentagon doesen't mean they build another, even more secretive one elsewhere.
- by mjd420nova June 29, 2009 9:39 AM PDT
- Why does anything having to do with the defense of this country have to be met with threats or concern that we do so that we can attack others and feel safe that no one can penetrate or defenses? Burying sensitive and vital facilities deep within solid rock is only sensible and responsible and not a threat to the populance in general. We all have our opinions and are free to voice them. Don't attack others opinions unless you wish to have yours attacked in return.
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