- Hi Jeff
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- Here is some background information on some of the people
involved in the creation of HR 2977- The Space Preservation Act of 2001.
Those involved in this much-needed effort have distinguished careers and
knowledge in the field of space-based weapons and "exotic weapons"
and their uses. I commend them for working to protect the public from being
violated by such instruments of war....
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- Dennis J. Kucinich - Representative Ohio http://www.house.gov/kucinich/info/aboutdjk.htm
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- Excerpt:
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- "... Kucinich's bipartisan approach is reflected
in his being asked to serve as the co-chair of the House Aviation and Space
Caucus, aimed at promoting the interests of NASA and the aerospace industry,
and as the co-chair of the Baltic Caucus, an informal bipartisan group
of House members with backgrounds and interests in issues affecting Lithuania,
Latvia and Estonia."
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- Dr. Carol Rosin (Institute For Cooperation In Space)
http://www.peaceinspace.com (excerpts)
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- ICIS President Dr. Carol Rosin, a former award winning
educator, a leading aerospace executive and a space and missile defense
consultant, was founder of ISCOS in 83, in consultative status with United
Nations ECOSOC. According to Military Space (July '84), "Rosin
is regarded to be the original political architect of the move to stop
the SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) and ASATs (Anti-satellite weapons).
Rosin testifies against the weaponization of space and for a world cooperative
military, civil and commercial space R&D, applications and exploration
program, and for the transformation of the war industry into a space industry
without space-based weapons. "Stating the dangers, costs, and fallacies
of the space-based weapons system has not stopped them from being researched
and developed, whether it is called the SDI, NMD, BMD or Star Wars. We,ve
heard the ever-changing list of excuses for why this is supposedly needed.
Under the guise of national security, and it,s only research or testing
this has become the largest R&D program in history. Cooperation in
space will stimulate the economy, create new jobs and training programs,
and emplace a strong national and global security system. We can build
space battle stations and weapons pointed towards earth and into space,
or we can build space habitats, hospitals, schools, farms, laboratories,
industries, hotels and resorts, elevators and craft that will free us to
explore the universe.
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- Daniel Sheehan
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- ICIS General Counsel and Co-Director Daniel Sheehan,
JD, is a graduate of Harvard Law School, a former Director of the Christic
Institute, and is a Professor of World Politics at the University of California.
Mr. Sheehan has a long and distinguished history as public interest counsel,
and was legal counsel in the Pentagon Papers case, the Iran-Contra, Three
Mile Island, and Karen Silkwood cases, as well as many other high profile
cases. "During my thirty years in the field of public interest law
and public policy, I have supervised professional investigations into the
illegal smuggling of weapons-grade plutonium, the illegal supply of arms
to terrorist organizations by covert operations and government agents,
and into ultra-"black" weapons programs unknown even to the most
trusted congressional officials. I have come to believe that keeping weapons
out of interplanetary space is the most important contribution we can make
to the future of this planet. The time to begin this task is now.
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- Alred L. Webre
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- ICIS Co-Director Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd, is
a graduate of Yale Law School and former futurist at Stanford Research
Institute. He has been general counsel to the NYC Environmental Protection
Administration and environmental consultant to the Ford Foundation. Mr.
Webre was delegate to the UNISPACE Outer Space conference, and NGO representative
at the United Nations. "On the same date that Congressperson Kucinich
announced his bill to ban space-based weapons, the Foreign Minister of
Canada, John Manley, announced in Hanoi that 'Canada would be very happy
to launch an initiative to see an international convention preventing the
weaponization of space.' Congressman Kucinich reciprocated saying 'I am
pleased with the recent news from our neighbor to the north that Canada
is ready to join an international effort to prohibit weapons in space.'
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- Astronaut Dean Mitchell (on ICIS Advisory Board)
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- Chairman, ICIS Advisory Board Astronaut Edgar Dean Mitchell,
Sc.D. was lunar module pilot on Apollo 14, spending a record 33 hours and
31 minutes on the lunar surface, returning to earth on February 9th, 1971.
He conducted extrasensory perception experiments during the mission. He
resigned from NASA and retired from the Navy in October 1972. He founded
the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Palo Alto, California, and remains
its Chairman. Mitchell has been presented with numerous Special Honors,
including: Presidential Medal of Freedom (1970); Navy Distinguished Service
Medal (1971); Navy Astronaut Wings, NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1971);
NASA Group Achievement Award (two); NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Superior
Achievement Award (1970).
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- Arthur C. Clark (on ICIS Advisory Board)
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- Honorary ICIS Advisory Board Member - Sir Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur Clarke's invention of satellite communication using satellites
in geostationary orbit in 45 has brought him numerous honors, such as the
1982 Marconi International Fellowship; a gold medal of the Franklin Institute;
the Vikram Sarabhai Professorship of the Physical Research Laboratory,
Ahmedabad; the Lindbergh Award and a Fellowship of King's College, London.
He is the author of more than sixty books with more than 50 million copies
in print, winner of all the field's highest honors. He is past Chairman
of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the International Academy
of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society and many other scientific
organizations. Sir Arthur was presented the "Award of Knight Bachelor"
on 26 May, 2000, at a ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka where he has lived
since 1956.
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