Hi List - There was an ongoing discussion over on ufodiscussion as to
the origin of "Exopolitics."

I hope to put some context on the discussion there with this post,
with the open question:

"We can leave for future dicussion the larger question: "Exopolitics
has been a branch of human knowledge since time immemorial, albeit in
different guises."

BTW, I have signed the Petition to the U.S. Senate and urge everyone
here to do so as well, and to pass the Petition onto your friends and
networks.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/584805497

Best wishes, Alfred Webre
Vancouver, B.C.
Exopolitics.com
http://www.exopolitics.com

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From: "Ecologynews" <EcoRadio@a...>
Date: Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:16 pm
Subject: Origin of "Exopolitics"

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Hi List - Jeane Manning asked me last week what my relationship with
Dr. Michael Salla was, and I humourously replied, "Oh, Michael's one
of my students." Jeane, who is the author of "The Coming Energy
Revolution," and co-author of "Angels do not play this HAARP" with Dr.
Nick Begich was inteviewing me for a forthcoming article on
Exopolitics for the April 2005 issue of Atlantis Rising (she has taken
over the column formerly written by the late Eugene Mallove). Jeane's
question - what are the origins of "Exopolitics" - is an interesting
one now that this "New Kid On the Block" is acquiring reality in the
world.

There is a very narrow, technical answer to that question of the
origin of "Exopolitics", and broader approach to the history of our
human understanding of how a Universe inhabited by intellegent
civilizations might be organized. Exopolitics has been a branch of
human knowledge since time immemorial, albeit in different guises.

The "narrow issue" of the origin of Exopolitics is this: My book,
Exopolitics: A Decade of Contact, first publicly defined the formal
field of Exopolitics (the dynamics and study of law, governance and
politics in the Universe). The publication of Exopolitics in the year
1999-2000 set into motion a number of subsequent milestones, as the
formal field of Exopolitics developed. This followed with my vists to
the 2000 Bay Area UFO Conference, my Exopolitics presentation at the
2000 ET Town Hall organized by Steve Bassett at Santa Clara, CA.

ET Town Hall Toes Party Line By The Electric Warrior
October 17, 2000
http://www.blackvault.com/news/et_town_hall.html

and subsequent my 2000 Exopolitics article in UFO Magazine. You can
read an adaptation of the 2000 UFO Magazine Article at:

Towards a Decade of Contact: Preparing for re-integration into
Universe society by Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd

http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics/2004/06/towards_a_decad.html

One of the first milestones was the subsequent development of the work
of Dr. Michael Salla at Exopolitics.org, and his subsequent book,
--"Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial
Presence" (Dandelion Books, 2004). Michael published his first paper
on Exopolitics, "The Need for Exopolitics: Implications of
Extraterrestrial Conspiracy Theories for Policy Makers & Global
Peace," on Published January 20, 2003, www.exopolitics.org, about 18
months after I first published my book Exopolitics: A Decade of
Contact, and cites my book in footnote (39) "Alfred Lambremont Webre,
Exopolitics: A Decade of Contact (Universe Books, 1999). His book is
available online at http://www.universebooks.com/"

Michael Salla and I first met face to face on July 22, 2004 at the
Space For Progress Forum, held in the House Caucus Room of the U.S.
House of Representatives, where I was a panalist presenting on the
Space Preservation Treaty to ban space-based weapons. Michael was
then on faculty at American University, and I contacted him and
invited him to the Forum, where we spoke and then met the next day in
an intense enjoyable 3 hour collegial discussion at a Starbuck's in
Chevy Chase, MD.

Michael's website is Exopolitics.org:

http://www.exopolitics.org

Mine is Exopolitics.com:

http://www.exopolitics.com

This does not mean that Michael's approach to Exopolitics is the same
as mine, any more than two political scientists or two social
scientists need have the same approach to an issue.

The Exopolitics model that my book defines is: "Exopolitics, as a
discipline for understanding Universe society through its politics and
government, may turn our dominant view of the Universe upside down.
Exopolitics posits that the truest conception of our earthly
circumstance may be that we are on an isolated planet in the midst of
a populated, evolving, highly organized inter-planetary,
inter-galactic, multi-dimensional Universe society."

http://www.eccenova.com/exopolitics.htm

Another milestone in the development of the field of Exopolitics was
the First Exopolitics Conference, held in Washington, D.C. on April
17-18, 2004. Organizer Stephen Bassett called me in 2003 to ask my
permission to use the term "Exopolitics," as the
Conference he stated
was inspired by my book 1999-2000 book Exopolitics [That is how Steve
and I first met at the 2000 Bay Area UFO Conference - over
Exopolitics]. Steve invite me to be a keynote speaker at the
Conference. I declined for then legislative/political reasons, and
gave the Conference my blessing, and the rest is history.

http://www.paradigmclock.com/X-Conference/X-Conference.htm

Now you may ask, why was I not front and centre and in the public eye
with Exopolitics in the years 2001-2005?

That is a fair question. The last public event I organized in 2001
was a joint Conference by the Institute for Cooperation in Space and
the Disclosure Project (Dr. Steven Greer; Dr. Carol Rosin; and myself
were the Speakers) to a capacity crowd at Simon Fraser University in
Vancouver, B.C. on September 9, 2001! Both Carol and myself are
Disclosure Project witnesses.

Subsequent to that, I became deeply engaged in the effort to have the
U.S. Congress pass the Space Preservation Act, and the judgment (both
by U.S. Representatives and NGOs involved) was to separate the issues
of disclosure and space-weaponization, at elast in the arena of the
U.S. Congress, at least for the time being.

Consequently, I passed on Steve Bassett's invitation to be a keynote
speaker at Exopolitics Conference I.

I have accepted to be a Speaker at Exopolitics Conference II, and am
continuing the work for the Space Preservation Treaty to ban
space-based weapons on an explicitly Exopolitical basis wherever the
perceptual "framework" of the audience is receptive.

Our Campaign is at:

http://www.peaceinspace.org

Early this year, my literary agent called with the happy news that
EXOPOLITICS; POLITICS, GOVERMENT AND LAW had been accepted by Ecce
Nova, a Victoria, BC puboisher which is also publishing Prof. Robert
Trundle's book, "IS ET Here? No Politically But Yes Scientifically
and Theologically," another Exopolitical work.

http://www.eccenova.com/Science#extraterrestrial%20intelligence

The 2005 EXOPOLITICS is a whole evolution beyond the original
1999-2000 online Exopolitics, and I sincerely hope you all will take
an interest and read the book.

We can leave for future dicussion the larger question: "Exopolitics
has been a branch of human knowledge since time immemorial, albeit in
different guises."

Warm regards,

Alfred Lambremont Webre
Vancouver, BC
Exopolitics.com: Politics, Government and Law in the Universe
http://www.exopolitics.com