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I said you were PROBABLY paid disinfo.

You have my pity, because such energy would be a lot better served if you actually got offline and went out into the world to help people.

'Formal Reply to Allegations Against Me'
Douglas Mallette
1/17/2012

This is to serve as the official response to a short list of attacks against me that will most like try to be used repeatedly as a way to silence me and my lectures. Sadly, we live in a world where people who don't like someone or their ideas can use the internet as a weapon for slander and misinformation, instead of formal dialog, debate and discussion.

I will take this moment to address these criticisms against me and give full explanations, not 'sound bites.' It is my hope that this letter will be reviewed by any and all organizations who receive slanderous information about me. I will start with the most condemning accusation first:
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- Accusation: I advocate violence and genocide.

This accusation stems from a statement I made on a Blogtalk radio show back in August of 2010. Here is the specific statement used against me, "The only thing that would hamper the building or the food would be some nefarious organization coming in and attacking it. And if they did that, then it's very obvious that that organization and those people are not concerned in any way, shape or form with actually helping people eat. They only want to maintain their power and control, and that's when you go in and simply annihilate them. That's where I do advocate military force a little bit. We build these cool facilities that are passive and peaceful, feeding people, and some organization comes in and tries to destroy it or does destroy it, that organization needs to be completely eradicated from the face of the planet. That is pure evil. I don't care what their ideology is, at some point people need to die. They need to be destroyed. No questions. No jury. No nothing. Your gone. Toast. You are useless waste of skin."

That statement was uttered when I was a naive, novice activist, and when I was a much angrier man, and that statement was said in irrational anger. As I began to think about how many suffering people would be hurt further if some violent group (terrorists if you will) tried to destroy one of the food facilities put in place to help them, that line of thought got my blood boiling. The result manifested in this completely stupid statement. If I could go back in time and change it, I would, but of course that's not possible. I do not condone violence.

If one were to do proper investigation, they would find that that is the one and only time I have ever said anything like that, and I'm sorry I did. I have become a lot more peaceful now, working on myself as much as I work on trying to better the world. I never claim to be perfect, and we all make mistakes. I'm sure everyone has moments in their life where they have said or done something they now consider to be completely against their current character.

This bears repeating - I do not condone violence. The world needs to do a lot more thinking and talking, and a lot less swinging of fists. I do advocate protecting people from irrational and violent forces, in non-violent ways if possible, and I find no shame in that. Some people have no defense and need help, at least until we get to a saner world where violence isn't used to solve issues, and calm reason and discussion is the only tool in the tool box for that. All I can do ask for is forgiveness with regards to this ill advised statement.
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- Accusation: I didn't work for NASA.

I never claim I worked for NASA. In fact, I go to great lengths to make sure people understand the difference between working for the Space Shuttle Program (SSP) and working for NASA directly. The former U.S. Space Shuttle Program was populated mostly by people who did not work for NASA directly, but who worked for contracted companies like Boeing, Lockheed, United Space Alliance and hundreds of subcontracted companies. The government did this to ensure fairness throughout the country, so that the few larger companies would not dominate all the work.

I worked for a subcontractor to Boeing, first with GB Tech, then we moved over to GeoControl when the contract shifted hands to that company. I worked in the Boeing building in Houston, Texas, not far from the Johnson Space Center. I worked with Boeing people, on Boeing materials related to the Space Shuttle. My paycheck might have been from a subcontracted company, but in most respects, I was with Boeing. I make this point again and again, but sad to say, sometimes the translation misses people, and when they hear "Space Shuttle" they tend to think everyone involved were NASA employees. I hope this clears that up.

As for what I did, Boeing dealt with many aspects of the Space Shuttle, from maintenance operations in Florida at the Kennedy Space Center, to logistics and operations in Texas. Boeing basically built the Space Shuttle. NASA contracted them to do it and effectively "rented" it. That's a simple way to think about how that all worked. I worked in the Boeing SE&I (Systems Engineering and Integration) department, called Configuration Management. We were responsible for tracking and maintaining all the records of the materials that went up and down in the shuttle payload bay as they related to the Shuttle Manifest and technical drawings. This also included interfacing with other departments on a regular basis, like Propulsion, Mass Properties, etc. We attended and delivered updates to Boeing and the United Space Alliance and were responsible for delivering official documentation to NASA that readied the craft for launch. I have professional references to support my work there.
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- Accusation: I am the poster child for the Zeitgeist Movement.

Although I do support the Movement, and several other organizations that are working towards making a more sustainable world for mankind, I do not consider myself the poster child for anything. I am simply a man who wants to help people understand how science, engineering and technology can improve the lives of all people on Earth.

My experience in the space industry, coupled with my formal education in Engineering Technology: Space Systems, coupled with my life long passion for space exploration in general (which is why I wrote a book on it), has afforded me the knowledge to speak on such things.

I have spoken at the Initiatives of Change conference in Caux, Switzerland, at Liverpool Hope University, in Liverpool, UK, and at the University of Illinois, in Champagne-Urbana, Illinois (USA), to name a few. None of those were as a 'poster child' for the Zeitgeist Movement. In fact, I don't use my support of the Movement as a means to do speaking, but sometimes supporters of the Movement make it possible for me to attend speaking events. For that, I am grateful. In general, I am more interested in ideas, not the labels of organizations.
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- Accusation: I am a Conspiracy Theorist.

As I say repeatedly when asked about conspiracy theories, I personally think they are a waste of time. One could spin their wheels forever on the subject and never really get anywhere, other than convincing themselves of what they want to be true. I do not spend my time on them. I also don't care about 'secret societies' and whether "they" hold sway over the world. I'm more interested in solving problems, not complaining about symptoms. I am not a Conspiracy Theorist.
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- Accusation: I am convinced that aliens had a role in human development.

This one kind of makes me laugh. Although I do find that hypothesis fascinating, I do not think aliens had a definitive role in shaping mankind. I have enjoyed films like Ancient Aliens, which aired in America on the subject, but for anyone to assert this as truth is ridiculous. There is no data either way to solidify that hypothesis at all, and to be honest that kind of data will likely never manifest anyway, but it is kind of fun to speculate on the 'what if' scenario. Sometimes it's nice to let the mind wander. Every once in a while you find a kernel of truth there. Now, do I believe that alien life is most likely plentiful in the universe? Absolutely, and so do many, many globally recognized and well respected astrophysicists and space scientists, such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku, and the late great Carl Sagan.