An Open Letter to our HAARP
Supporters
Earthpulse Press Incorporated
Dr. Nick Begich November 17, 1998
An Open Letter to our HAARP Supporters:
I ran into the HAARP story quite by accident in 1994. At
the encouragement of my friends Gael and Patrick Flanagan I wrote the
first significant article on HAARP and co-authored a book about the
technology with Jeane Manning, Angels Don't Play This HAARP. That
story led to research in non-lethal weapons, electromagnetic systems,
environmental weapons, new types of biological weapons and related
technologies.
For four years my wife, children, a few close friends
and I processed tens of thousands of inquiries related to these
subjects, wrote and responded to interviews for hundreds of
publications, were aired on thousands of radio programs and gave
lectures on the subjects in twenty states and twenty countries. By
1995, I had left my position with the Anchorage School District in
order to keep up with the demands of the HAARP story.
By the end of 1995 we had begun to move back into the
other areas of interest to us yet HAARP continued to pull large
amounts of time and energy. Since that time, we have allowed HAARP
related work to dominate much of our time at the expense of other
work. We felt that the subject needed this level of commitment in
order to reach a high level of public and political debate. As an
author and publisher I realized that the freedom of the press means
more than the right to print what it wants to print. It has more to do
with the idea of maintaining an informed population through open
public debate and discourse, particularly on topics related to public
policy.
We built a significant database of research materials on
weapon systems which we disseminated around the world to news
organizations, elected officials and scientists.
I had an interesting and in some ways an unsettling past
few months. I was in Brussels in early October reviewing some draft
esolutions of the European Parliament in opposition to HAARP, certain
non-lethal technologies and new electromagnetic weapon technology
which can debilitate human health. While finishing this work I
received word of the death of one of my dearest friends, Gael
Flanagan, who was in large part the inspiration for the book Angeles
Don't Play this HAARP. Gael spoke with my wife often in the days
before she died and strongly encouraged me to withdraw from the HAARP
debate and leave it to others to resolve the issue. There comes a time
when others who
hold positions and citizens generally have to decide if the issue is
important enough to take action on.
While in Europe, I was informed that the US State
Department had sent someone there after my testimony in the Security
and Disarmament sub-committee of the European Parliament's Foreign
Affairs Committee. This was a hearing in early February which NATO
refused to attend and debate the issues when asked by the Chairman of
the Committee to provide information. The State Department official
spent some weeks in Brussels but was unsuccessful in dissuading our
supporters, who
now have extensive documents on these matters. Presently, the
inevitable is happening here in Alaska. The military in cooperation
with our Congressional delegation has begun the process of locating
and funding a new ICBM Defense system here in Alaska. The project is
to be funded at $11.4 Billion USd. In addition, a number of other
related installations are being expanded and funded here.
We have continued to reinvest all of our organizations
revenues into expanding our work and increasing the scope of our
activities in the belief that an activist media organization like ours
is needed. As a family and small organization we are limited in what
we can do. As an activist publisher we have to balance our time
commitments in order to continue to bring forward leading information
in many areas of
science, technology and politics.
I have attached some excepts from recent communications
to further clarify our position in these matters. I personally want to
thank you for your interest and help in brining these issues forward.
We appreciate your support on the HAARP problem and ask that you stay
in touch with us through our publishing and communication efforts on
the other important subjects of Earthpulse.
Thank you.
Always In Service,
Nick In February, when I was giving testimony in Europe, and
on this most recent trip, the issue of the US building a new Star Wars
defense system was discussed. These are the most recent developments:
1. Alaska is one of the two primary locations being
considered for a 11.4 billion dollar ICBM missile defense system
which would violate the agreement with the former Soviet Union. The
rationale is that "the USSR does not exist so neither does the
agreement." Last year over $1 billion was spent to develop the system
specifications. The appropriation will likely be coming in the next
defense budget. Ted Stevens, an Alaskan Senator together with other
members of our delegation chair the Senate Appropriations and several
other key committees in the Congress. The project is going to happen.
Clinton has indicated support for Alaska and Hawaii's inclusion in a
defense shield (the existing system does not cover these two states).
The
additional rationale is fear of China and North Korea and, as a
result, Japan is reported to be supporting a deployment in Alaska as
it will protect Japan as well.
I have attached a couple of articles which further
illustrate the points made here. The articles are crafted to avoid
significant discussion of the other components of the project. They
mention the recent rocket launch to test early warning systems and
allude to their inadequacy. It should be noted that a significant part
of this project is not the interceptor missiles which the military
draws to our attention but, rather, the radar systems which will be
installed which draw on the research technology advanced by HAARP. It
should also be noted that the target dates are narrow and could be
pressed
forward very quickly. If there are to be international discussions on
this technology they should begin soon.
2. Alaska's new missile launch facility just launched
its first Minuteman missile 1100 miles south to be tracked by
interceptor systems following the trajectory of over-the-pole
launches. This new missile launch facility is part of an increasing
number of military expenditures in Alaska. The Minuteman is also being
considered for use in attacking targets with conventional non-nuclear
payloads, as noted in one of the articles I left with you. This would
allow the US to hit any target in the world while launching from US
soil.
3. Alaska is getting at least two new phased array radar
facilities. One is being built in Kodiak and another is being planned
for King Salmon. These are in addition to HAARP and HIPAS which are
already located here. Program planners are being told to not mention
HAARP in conjunction with these new systems.
4. Alaska is getting an upgraded computer system which
will give military and academic communities access to the best super
computer in the world.
Basically, what is now happening is what we have been
suggesting for the last four years would take place - the deployment
of a ground based star wars system in Alaska. This did not happen
absent the attention of our seated Governor as some discussion had to
take place between his office, our Congressional delegation and the
military. I testified in the Committee in February that if the
European community did not begin to deal with these matters that the
US would begin to deploy these new systems and that much of that
deployment would be achievable within 18-24 months from the date of
the appropriations. The clock has started ticking based upon the
release of information in the Federal Register...
We asked the Committee to look at both HAARP and new
non-lethal weapons and I presented many documents to support our
position. The US government chose to avoid the debate and send an
individual from the State Department to the European Parliament to
attempt to discredit me after the hearing. I believe that the volume
and content of the materials are sufficient to make the case
considering thus far the only thing the military has done is have
their surrogates from academic institutions send in a few e-mails.
I am restating some of what was in my last letter in
order to clarify my position in some of this work:
"Gael Flanagan was one of the two people who motivated
me to rise out of my station in life and pursue the truth and
actualize the change. Without her continued and sustained
encouragement the story of HAARP, non-lethals, and now the
multi-faceted work we are involved in may well have never been
started, the truth never told, the information never collected or
communicated. In the days before her death, and
while I was in Europe, she was speaking to my wife, Shelah, four or
five times a day by phone. The circumstances and conversational detail
are too much for this note and unnecessary now; however, with each
call she issued a loving warning about my work right now, my
priorities and greater purpose in life as a communicator and
originator of ideas. As Patrick and Gael's staff went through her
things there was much written caution given."
"My government, the United States, is exposed and stands
naked before each of you with the evidence we have collected and
presented. We have many who have aligned themselves with the evidence
and I believe there can be a very effective plan implemented now to
change the direction of these technologies to one of greater progress
for positive change. I thought about my conversations with each of you
in my visit there. I thought about the attacks of my government on me
personally regarding my opposition efforts on HAARP and non-lethal
technologies. My government has tried to characterize it as a
political vendetta, some kind of grudge or commercial engagement
because this is the only way they can see the world. They can not
begin to comprehend the meaning of true human service - they are too
busy looking for a poll, creating a spin or finding that ever present
"plausible denial" or deceit. You are each, daily, engulfed in the
politics of this age which hides the truth and runs from the evidence
and yet have tried to maintain the courage to stand firm."
"The government has suggested that I am a "crusader" of
some kind, mad or perhaps just misinformed. Sometimes there is a need
for a crusader - a communicator - someone who refuses to hold
knowledge without action and will risk everything in favor of what he
believes is right and true. I do not care for recognition, I have
never sought anything but an opportunity to try and make a difference
by pouring myself into my work as a free, empowered independent human.
I have only tried to live the example which I was raised with - that
those with the knowledge of service should explode themselves into
their
professional work and maintain effort in the direction of the truth. I
am now being made "the issue" in the battle over HAARP and new
technologies and this can not be permitted to be the case. The
problems of new weapons in the face of the alternative of peace is no
longer an acceptable direction and the "spin" must be replaced by
transparency. I am withdrawing from certain aspects of this debate so
that I can not be made the issue."
"While in Europe this trip I got to know many of you on
a very personal level and know that you know me well in many different
ways. I had a number of conversations about the possibilities of
making meaningful contributions, the impacts of life changing events
and things coming in the future of politics and the world. The most
striking thing for me was to be able to count so many people, on all
levels of organizations, who are committed to the cause of peace and
who rise to the privilege of service. I was also reminded now in the
death of my friend that we can not do it alone, we can not work
endlessly, we can not do it at the expense of our family and friends
but must be the catalyst for change by motivating others to rise out
of the ashes of their own apathy. This was my reason for engaging the
challenge of my last five year's work and is the focus of my future. I
do not believe in accidents or fate. I do believe that all people find
themselves in the places where we need to be and that all things work
together for good when service is central to life. Thank you for your
kind considerations."
Where do I stand in all of this? I am not a "lone
crusader" but am not in a position to spend the kind of time, energy
and resources in this area as I have spent in the last four years. The
US government is now moving forward with a $11.4 billion + project
which can not be stopped by only a few people. My personal position
has always been not necessarily to stop the project but to make sure
it will operate safely and not cause more problems than the ones the
system is designed to guard against. As an investigative and activist
publisher we have done what we can do with this subject and can not
carry forward the battle while sustaining ourselves with our other
work. Our other work must move forward. We have given the information
to the world and a number of legislators while environmental
organizations, peace activists and other traditional NGO's sat on the
sidelines "seeing which way the wind would blow." There is a
hurricane brewing and it is time for these organizations to commit the
necessary resources to the battle for a sane world in these areas.
Unlike these kinds of organizations we are not externally funded
through grants, awards or the normal activities of similar
organizations. We fund our activist work from our commercial actions
which is what we believe has been effective in bringing these matters
to the public. As a result, more time and resources have been
committed to this effort than can be sustained from our activity while
providing the necessary stability for my organization. I have to move
forward into other areas in order to sustain myself and activism.
Where is the right activity award when you need one?
I am completing my public work on HAARP by granting
closing interviews to the electronic media outlets I have worked with
and a written statement to my subscribers and print media
organizations we have worked with over the last four years. We are no
longer responding to any individual requests for information except by
form letter with a copy of our sign-off statement on the project. We
will not grant new interviews on these subjects to the media except as
close out statements of our position. We will continue to work as an
information source for seated elected officials and by providing raw
documents to the media without comment from me. We will continue to
carry the book, Angels Don't Play This HAARP, but do not plan any
further promotion of it beyond that which we are contractually
committed to via licenses granted on the title. We will leave posted
all essays on the subject as additional public information on our web
site.
I personally do not regret any of my efforts the last
four years but am going to honor the last request of my friend as I
have outlined in this letter. Given the items contained in this letter
I think there is sufficient reason for politicians to be concerned and
to move forward. When does the reporting and sounding the alarm end
and change begin?
The resolutions I saw should be passed. Direct inquiry
of my government should be made. The issues they should respond to are
the facts which we have presented..."
Dr. Nick Begich
P.O. Box 201393
Anchorage, Alaska 99520 USA
Internet: www.earthpulse.com
Fax 907-696-1277
November 17, 1998 Excerpts from Private communique
P. O. Box 201393
Anchorage, Alaska 99520
Voice Mail: 907-249-9111
Earthpulse Press
drnic-@alaska.net