Let’s Stop Bashing the Defense Contractors and Look at Disclosure from Their Perspective

This is the first thread I’ve started in this subreddit and I’m a newish redditor, so forgive me if I am not following some rule here. I just wanted to get this idea out there: Let’s stop bashing the defense contractors and try to look at this from their perspective. Today people like Steve Bassett and Danny Sheehan have been appearing on many podcasts to discuss Burchett’s proposed amendment to the Schumer amendment that removes the eminent domain clause. They, like some of their supporters here, are enraged that the contractors are getting this ‘out’, however if you look at things from the contractors’ perspective (or even anyone who is worried about actions that relate to private property), that clause sets a dangerous precedent for seizing a private company’s intellectual property (IP). Imagine if you had a company and the Congress simply decided to seize your IP. Would you be OK with that? Would you be OK with that if your were a stockholder? No.

Likewise, many people here have asserted that the evil, big bad Republicans are just trying to hide something they feel uncomfortable with religiously, however what people on the Left don’t get about conservatives is that conservatives fear – above all other things – excessive government power when it comes to seizing property. They look at the excesses of the French and Russian revolutions and are worried that those purges/excesses will happen here. Rather than being ‘greedy late stage capitalists’, they see themselves as protecting the income sources that are needed by families and retired people. That is why the ‘Mikes’ you guys hate vote the way that they do. Are they afraid of disclosure or the aerospace industry being nationalized?

Now, back to the individual contractors: Obviously Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon want to make money. They are private, for profit companies. However they were – if all these allegations are true – given parts of this UAP technology by the government so that the tech could be back engineered and applied into other uses. They were making money, however they were also providing a service to their country. The US government simply does not have the people needed to conduct deep-level research. It is composed of career government employees, many of whom are basically just bureaucrats. While I respect organizations like the Army Corps of Engineers and USAF/USN research laboratories, they just don’t have the talent that Lockheed, Boeing, Northrop, Hughes, Bell, etc have or had. A trade off was involved, however these companies were arguably serving their country.

They’ve now invested money and, more importantly, intellectual capital into developing offshoot products and technologies. Sure, they may have gotten a ‘start’ with the NHI technology, but they’re the ones who had to figure it out. Who has had to deal with the weight of this subject? The average UFO researcher or some guy at Lockheed who has spent decades trying to get this stuff to work? The weight was always on their shoulder’s, not the public’s.

Finally, all of these companies have served the USA well. They built machines like the P-38 Lightning and B-17 Flying Fortress during WW2 and the SR-71 and B-52 after the war. They were part of the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’. From their perspective they are the good guys.