Beware Space Aliens: Trudeau’s Defense Minister

Just when we thought Lloyd Axworthy is the apotheosis of idiotic Liberal foreign-defense policy thinking, along comes former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau, Paul Hellyer, who warned a UofT audience last night about the dangers of ET coming to take on us earthlings in an intergalatic war:

Mr. Hellyer went on to say, “I’m so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something.”

Hellyer revealed, “The secrecy involved in all matters pertaining to the Roswell incident was unparalled. The classification was, from the outset, above top secret, so the vast majority of U.S. officials and politicians, let alone a mere allied minister of defence, were never in-the-loop.”

Hellyer warned, “The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning. He stated, “The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide.”

Hellyer’s speech ended with a standing ovation. He said, “The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy, and let the truth emerge, so there can be a real and informed debate, about one of the most important problems facing our planet today.”

So, according to this speech which received a standing ovation at the University of Toronto, the Bush administration’s “militarization of space” is going to prompt space aliens to attack us. I don’t know what’s more pathetic. The fact someone actually gave a speech like this, or that it received a standing ovation at the UofT, supposedly Canada’s premier university.

I suppose one could argue that this is simply an extreme form of the argument that says US foreign policy brought on the 9/11 attacks. You know, blame the victim.

With the left in an uproar over the so-called “Christian millennialism” of Bush’s foreign policy (and here), one can see Hellyer’s speech as an example of the left’s millennialism. Instead of angels and archangels, the left’s apocalypse involves aliens (and Jews, of course).

H/t: Drudge