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another always carried for is ture out upon 123 RESISTANCE EMPOWERMENT The Ethics of Contact active role in discerning and opposing the extraterres- trial Intervention that is occurring in our world today. This includes discerning our rights and priorities as the native people of this world and establishing our own Rules of Engagement concerning all present and future contact with other races of beings. Looking at the natural world and back through human history amply demonstrates to us the lessons of intervention: that competition for resources is an integral part of nature, that intervention by one cul- self-interest and has a destructive impact on the cul- ture and freedom of the people being discovered and that the strong always dominate the weak, if they can. While it is conceivable that those ET races visit- ing our world may be an exception to this rule, such an exception would have to be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, by giving humanity the right to assess any proposal for visitation. This has certainly