Is Bush Aiming to Privatize them and Establish Lunar and Martian Corporate Territories as Independent Nations?

By Rob Kall

I've been a science fiction and space exploration fan and supporter all my life. But George W. Bush's plans for NASA scare me. It's simple. I don't trust him to treat NASA, the moon or Mars any different than the other aspects of the human commons he's touched.

Any time he evokes a positive promise and vision, enunciating his speech-writers' words so clumsily, behind those words are plans to do the opposite-- to ravage and plunder, to tear down and do whatever is most profitable for him and his cronies. This is very predictable, very reliable.

So, if George Bush says he's going to improve the space program, that means he's going to ruin it, and in the process make some mega-corporations billions, and probably, some pimp neocons hundreds of thousands of dollars offering consulting services on how to make money off of the destruction of NASA and the rape of the moon and mars.

I'd assume that, following the lines of the IMF and WTO that the moon and Mars will be privatized, sold outright to corporation. Why give an acre of moon-land to a government?

Perhaps, that's the logical next step for Bush and the rest of the traitors who are sacking the US-- establishing Lunar corporate territories. The space program could be Bush's biggest giveaway ever.

In the near-term, I fear, as John Glen has also expressed concern about, that Bush's outer space rape plans will kill or weaken important NASA programs already under way.

The only thing we can trust about Bush is that he will do the opposite of what he says when it comes to promising to do good, and that the opposite will benefit his cronies and money backers.

Even life long space-buffs would be wise to tread cautiously in welcoming the Bush administration into space... unless, of course, Bush, Rove and the neocons volunteer to do the Mars trip themselves. That's one flight suit I'd be truly happy to see on George.

This article has generated some nasty remarks from right-wingers who think I'm crazy suggesting that Bush might do as I suggest. But I'm not the only one.

Edward Hudgins, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and editor of Space: The Free-Market Frontier (Cato, 2002,) suggested on CNN (Jan 18) that large corporations be given rights to their own bases on the moon, in exchange for them investing in the Bush Space project, (since it is laughably underfunded.)

 Here's an excerpt from the Progress Report, a daily newsletter from think tank, Center for American Progress:

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