Overthrowing a Mars Colony Dictator: British Elite Prepare for the Real Thing

On June 11, the British Interplanetary Society began a two day meeting on a most unusual topic according to a BBC news article: “How to Overthrow a Martian Dictatorship.” The meeting envisaged a Mars colony ruled over by a ruthless dictator who trampled on the rights of workers in a futurist society controlled by a corporation. The dictator needed to be overthrown without destroying the colony itself. According to the author of the BBC article, Richard Hollingham, the meeting brought together 30 prominent scientists, engineers and philosophers who took their “task seriously,” only, wink wink, “two short blocks from the London headquarters of Britain’s security service, MI6.” .

At the same time as the June 11/12 meeting was held, real life events were allegedly occurring at a secret Mars colony that remarkably paralleled what the British Interplanetary Society was discussing. Was it just coincidence, or are British scientists and policy makers, with more than just physical proximity to Britain’s MI6, secretly preparing for future efforts to remove from power ruthless dictators controlling secret corporate colonies on Mars?

Hollingham gave a brief background to the British Interplanetary Society meeting that was officially titled the “Extraterrestrial Liberty III – Dissent, Revolution and Liberty in Space”:

This is the third annual conference on extraterrestrial liberty. Last year the event tackled the challenge of writing a constitution for an alien settlement, concluding that successful space colonies should base laws and liberties on the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

According to the meeting’s organizer, Charles Cockell, a professor of astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh: “This year we’re discussing what happens if you don’t like the government you’ve created and want to overthrow it.”

The scenario described by Cockell was the following:

The scenarios the group is contemplating are easiest to imagine if you think about what a space colony might be like. Perhaps a domed settlement with a few hundred residents, beneath a thin dusty Martian sky. A fragile and isolated outpost of humanity 225 million kilometres from the home world. With a brutal dictator and his cronies in charge of the oxygen generators, for instance.

The most likely dictator would be one emerging from a corporation controlling a Mars colony that exploits workers as a form of slave labor according to Cockell:

As we know private corporations can be just as ruthless and despotic as the worst governments.  If you strike, then maybe the corporation says ‘that’s fine – let me show you to the airlock and you can leave’ and off you go into the vacuum of space.”

More than coincidentally, only two days before the BBC published  Hollingham’s June 22 report of the British Interplanetary Society meeting, a whistleblower claims that he was part of an inspection team to investigate the very scenario the meeting had discussed….

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