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The Evils of Manifest Destiny.
I'm glad I now see Kinsey as the cowardly self-interested parasite he is, but I hate the fact I'm right about the whole Stargate thing; it's dangerous and sooner or later, there will be no way SG1 or one of the other teams can stop the existence of aliens and wormhole travel being made public knowledge.
In the last few days since she had been made aware of the whole Stargate program which had been hidden from the American (and international peoples worldwide besides a few governments), Dr Elizabeth Weir had been overwhelmed, and with the current battle against Anubis taking place she had time to think about her fears ever since she had discovered what the Stargate Program and the previous and current White House administrations had been doing.
When she had first heard about it, despite the source even if President Hayes had been the one to decide to give her the command role of the program. She understood the reason was if and when the program was made public - and she hoped it was after this mess - the public would know her thanks to her work, Weir had been on the lookout for cameras as if she was being involved in a massive science fiction movie or something. But she wasn't. The whole project existed, it was real. The US Air Force had access to a Stargate, an ancient portal that opened wormholes to planets in a network scattered across the entire galaxy while, as far as the average American Joe was aware they were only capable of reaching the moon!
Amazement had quickly passed through several other emotions as she had been given access to the Stargate Programs mission reports - she found it hard they had been able to hide this all for a decade - and was able to learn what had been happening under the noses of the whole world. She had been fascinated by the stories of contacts with aliens from the Nox to the Asgard, and the notion all the ancient gods worshipped by millions of people in ancient times had been aliens.
Following her amazement was astonishment aliens had not only been encountered but the SG teams were also involved in a galactic war with a parasitic race of arrogant conquerors known as the Goa'uld. The Goa'uld had a history of enslaving races and plundering whatever they wished. They had superior technology and yet the SG teams had been attacking them for the last decade, and more than once Earth had come dangerously close to being destroyed as a result.
Astonishment gave way to anger, anger at the Programs' self-righteousness. With the backing of the presidential administration, the US Air Force had taken it on themselves to go through the galaxy, interfering in the affairs of other races. They had done it so often it was amazing the entire galaxy wasn't dotted about with American flags.
When she had been younger, Elizabeth had studied US history and she had been disgusted when she had taken a good long look at America's history of manifest destiny. She could understand very well the need to colonise new areas of land, especially since the population had exploded in the late 1800s, aided by the high birth rate and the immigration booming into America. But nobody back then had batted an eyelid as the settlers moved into the North American continent; Elizabeth could understand the logic behind that aspect of the whole idea, but what she hadn't liked was how everyone had justified it all by saying the United States had a duty to God to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism.
Nobody had given a damn about the consequences it would have to the Native American peoples who had lived in those regions of the continent, who had been removed from the homes they had made for centuries… only to see it all white-washed away and destroyed. The problem was it looked like the lessons of the past had not only been ignored, they were making bigger mistakes on a level that really should not even be looked at.
Not only was the US Air Force going out into the universe, picking fights with bigger enemies than Earth needed, but they had also arrogantly gone out there throwing out American values without thinking of the consequences, which had nearly seen the destruction of Earth more than once without once informing the people of Earth what was going on.
Weir could see why Kinsey wanted the program shut down, but she didn't think that was true. The Vice-President wanted the program for himself. She could see that clearly. He should have tried to con a diplomat into working for him, especially one who had been taught to see that people could say something and yet their facial expressions and body language said something totally different. Kinsey might have used a lot of carefully chosen words, but Weir had worked out what he was doing in a few seconds. With those conversations, any kind of respect she might have had or even trust she could have had in the Vice President died out.
Events had spiralled so far out of control, Weir had problems wrapping her brain around it. Not only had Colonel O'Neil gotten an alien database downloaded into his brain until he was throwing out words in a language she knew from her studies here was Ancient, the people who built the Stargates and were highly advanced beings, but now SG1 was trying to find a weapon platform which would stop Anubis from destroying the world.
I wonder if General Hammond wondered if things were going by too fast while he was in command; I've only been here a week, and yet I've been presiding over a conference of arrogant warlords, watched a highly respected member of an SG team begin to gain knowledge no human should have, and now there's a chance the weapon to stop Anubis is here on Earth.
She hoped, when this was finished, she could ensure the SG teams did not push the boundaries. America in the 19th century had made the mistake of pushing the boundaries, and they had a war with Mexico and the American Civil War. But those wars, while devastating with America, were nothing compared to what was going to come if they encountered an alien aggressor more dangerous than Anubis.
Hopefully, with Ancient technology, they would safeguard themselves.