Norio on A51 rally in San Antonio Express News
From: francesbarwood@juno.com (Frances E Barwood)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 13:57:46 -0800
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SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS article of Monday, April 6, 1998 regarding AREA
51 Rally.....front page article
----written by Robert Kolarik (Express-News Staff Writer): (quoted
verbatim):
AREA 51 OBSERVER SEES DESERT DANGER,
Observer believes military uses UFOs as ruse at Area 51
Norio Hayakawa thinks The Beast has arrived and is lurking in the Nevada
desert.
For Hayakawa, though, this beast isn't the Antichrist of the Book of
Revelation. It's Big Government, and he believes it has reared its ugly
head at a place commonly called Area 51.
Because strange objects have been sighted in the sky over the highly
secret base at Groom Lake about 80 miles north of Las Vegas, many people
think
Area 51 is the repository of captured alien spacecraft. Also,
strange stories have emerged about work supposedly done on such vehicles
there.
Hayakawa, however, has a different view.
"I'm not personally a UFOlogist", he told the San Antonio Express-News
by phone. "I believe the UFO phenomenon is a brilliantly concocted
scheme by the government to conceal certain types of military weapons
development (at Area 51).......
"Weapons being tested over there could, in the future, be used against
America's own citizenry.
....Some of these mechanisms can be used to make this a society of no
privacy".
To bring attention to the facility, Hayakawa -- a funeral director from
Torrance, Calif., and long-time Area 51 observer -- is calling for a
mass gathering along Groom Lake Road at the boundary to the base at 6
a.m.
June 6.
"It's the People's Rally at Area 51", he said. "It's a symbolic
gathering of concerned citizens."
Hayakawa says the symbolism extends to the date and time chosen for the
rally:
The sixth hour of the sixth day of the sixth month -- 666, the
sign of The Beast.
"It's to show distrust of what we believe is a big government cover-up
on.........how our hard-earned tax dollars are going into some obscure
programs at locations like Area 51", he said.
Hayakawa said people also should be concerned about Area 51 because the
site
possibly is hazardous to its workers.
"There are at least 29 former workers whose lives have been damaged
physically due to being exposed to highly toxic substances during their
work periods there, without being told those substances were there", he
said. "After that, they started to have symptoms of strange diseases
that cannot be treated.
"One of the examples is the appearance of fish-scale-like rashes on the
body. In the course of the past few years, several have died from the
illnesses."
According to an Associated Press report in the Jan. 9 Las Vegas
Review-Journal, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco
ruled five current and former Area 51 workers and the widows of two
others weren't entitled to learn whether hazardous substances exist at
the base or how they're handled.
The justices sided with the Air Force, which had claimed releasing the
information could endanger national security and violate a 1995 order by
President Clinton restricting disclosure.
For years, the Air Force wouldn't even admit Area 51 -- which lies
within the Nellis AFB bombing and gunnery range -- existed. And while
it's still highly secret, the base now is at least acknowledged.
"We just call it the Groom Lake facility", said Capt. Lee Bloom of the
public affairs office at Nellis.
"They do classified testing and research of all types of things.
"It's on our base, but it's not a Nellis asset. It's an Air Force
facility, which means it's controlled higher up."
Bloom said she hadn't heard of the call for the June 6 rally.
"Yours is the first reference I've personally had to it," she said by
phone.."....That (the area next to the base) is Bureau of Land Management
land. You'd have to ask them if it is permissible to stage an event like
that there."
According to Bob Bruno, a recreation planner in the BLM's Las Vegas
office, calling for a rally on public land is legal and doesn't need a
permit if one key point is met: it must be free.
"The bottom line......(is) as soon as money changes hands, that shows
organization and you go from casual use to a commercial activity," he
said by phone. "Then, Uncle Sugar wants a small portion. It's just
illegal for someone to collect fees on public land (without obtaining a
permit)."
Hayakawa says that since the event will be a "spontaneous gathering",
there will be no charges.
"I have no idea how large this is going to be", he said. "There may be
50 people there or 500, but the word has been spreading all over
(largely via the Internet). People are coming from as far away as New
Zealand and Canada. This is an open, high desert area, so there is lots
of space."
He suggested that since no facilities are available in the area of the
rally, people bring their own provisions, such as water.
"This is not going to last for the whole day because of the
temperature," he said. "In June, it's very hot in Nevada......We will
probably have the rally with speeches from 6 o'clock till maybe 11
o'clock in the morning."
Because of its remote location, Area 51 isn't fenced off from the rest
of the world at the site of the rally. Instead, signs warning that
trespassers could face the use of deadly force by the base's security
personnel mark its boundary's intersection with Groom Lake Road.
"We are not encouraging anybody to cross the boundary line," Hayakawa
said.
"We are certain there will be a lot of security from the base, so it will
be
foolish to cross the line.
"Those in the facility at Groom Lake no doubt know about this event, and
we believe much of the activity (there) will be shut down for a few days
before and for a few days after. They are not going to do anything to
antagonize the gathering, because they don't want to embarass
themselves."
The Lincoln County Sheriff's Department -- which patrols Groom Lake Road
wasn't aware of the rally.
"No, I hadn't heard about it," sheriff's Capt. Gary Davis said.
"Six a.m., June 6 -- 666. That should bring out some interesting
characters."
Davis wasn't too concerned about the event, however.
"Most people (who approach the Area 51 boundary) are pretty good," Davis
said.
"But considering that trespassers face a $500 trespassing fine and $100
in
court administrative costs for going across, that's a pretty good
deterrent."
More information about the People's Rally at Area 51 is available on
Norio Hayakawa's Web site at
www.eagle-net.org/groomwatch
(END OF ARTICLE, quoted verbatim)
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