How big is this “club” that we’re all not in?

George Carlin famously commented, in reference to the ownership class and banking elite, that “[i]t’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” There’s truth to this. The number of people on the planet who have a jaw-dropping amount of money, allowing them to jet set around the planet, is in the tens of thousands.

The Wilson-Davis Memo (p. 13) says there are 400-800 people on the ‘bigot’ list.

But I’m not talking about that club exactly. I’m talking about the layers around that inner circle, i.e., the people who know without knowing (note: if you don’t think there’s anything to know, then please consider pointing out something else in any top-level comment – thank you).

Let me give you an example. I once knew a guy who worked for one of those big defense contractors. I brought up this subject when we were in a private setting. I expected him to either look at me like I was a weirdo or laugh it off. Instead, he got defensive, evasive, and eventually pretended like I wasn’t talking. I actually don’t think he had any firsthand knowledge, but it was clear he felt an obligation to be very careful with his choice of words on this topic.

I’d put this guy in the knows-without-knowing camp. Assuming there’s something to know, he knows it, through personal experiences that you and I do not and may not have. We’re not in the club.

Someone like Michael Herrera is in this club. He’s not going to be on the “bigot” list, but he saw something that he should not have seen, whether OEM or reverse-engineered.

Someone like Senator Harry Reid would also fall into this club, by virtue of his membership in the G-8 (the individuals who, by legislative mandate, must be informed of the most top-secret matters; the top 2 leaders from each party (x 2 for each house), plus the 2 ranking members from the Intelligence Committees (x 2 for each house)).

So, there are people within industry, military, and government that have had close enough interactions that they know–even if they were only “told” about recovered material by really serious people in a really serious setting (in Reid’s case), or where they didn’t have any background information about the otherworldly craft they literally saw with their own eyes (in Herrera’s case).

Then there are the most trusted people around those people, and the people that they tell, and so on.

Should we go with an order of magnitude and say there are 4,000 to 8,000 people in this club? That may be significantly understating the figure. In at least two of the examples above, the individuals are not drawn into the “club” by virtue of being connected to the individuals on the bigot list. Do we triple that number then?

Why stop there when we’re barely scratching the surface of all of the commercial suppliers, transportation companies, law firms, accountants, etc. who get sufficiently close to this project that they know without knowing? There are 1.2M people with top-secret clearance. How many of those people work at a defense contractor and have heard from a credible source through the company gossip mill that something is definitely “up” with the UAP topic?

To be sure, one can define the boundaries of this club in different ways, but at what point does this number become a political impediment to disclosure?

I’ve long wondered whether the lack of true political action, in the face of UAP becoming part of the official and mainstream dialogue, is that the number of people who already know is pretty big. If that’s the case, then that’s a problem, as the political obstacle will remain – and, in fact, grow – as this club gets bigger and bigger through the official processes going on.

Take the efforts in Congress right now toward the NDAA legislation. There is no reason to be politically optimistic about this legislation’s passage today than there would have been if, the day after Mellon said it wasn’t going to pass, someone told you, “hey, they’re going to try the exact same thing next year.” That would have been unfathomable, yet 6 months later, here we are: in desperate need of a new political strategy.

CALL TO ACTION: Demand that Congress enact the UAP legislation outside of the NDAA process, including whatever amendments to their own silly rules they need to make. We can start by demanding this of the members of Congress who are already engaging with the community (and have now been read in, how nice for them). Then we expand this to a general letter writing/phone-call campaign at crucial steps.