Remarks given by Mr. Rohrabacher of California on December 8, 2011 on the floor of the House, a matter of public record.
A few nights ago, I watched a video of President Eisenhower’s 1961 Farewell Address.
Unfortunately, his much heralded prescient warning of a military/industrial complex has obscured another warning in that farewell address that is just as significant:
Eisenhower pointed to the danger “of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present — and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
