!-Comment-! - This recently emerged website jumped out at me due to the fact it's main reason for creation matches part of the Mission blurb for Exopolitics UK. Just as we considered it important to use terms such as creating 'positive planetary PR'  and 'amplifying human initiated contact' to make up for 60 years of deception -  so too does thepeopleofearthapologize. This isn't a matter of being naive or subservient, nor does it imply that in order to adopt this position we have some unique understanding of the issues we face, it's simply a pragmatic approach that makes sense given the cultural and historical context we find ourselves in at this moment. When introduced as part of a wider exopolitical process we gain a useful starting perspective maybe - being aware of our errors as a species and from this humility we stand the best chance of engaging new cultures and integrating this Other into our daily lives. Contrast this declaration with 'Should We Show Up?' - which spread virally online in 2003.

    1. The Universe is teaming with intelligent life.

    2. Some of that life, most likely from planets near stars that have a several million year head start on our Sun, has visited the Earth.

    3. At least some of those who have visited the Earth are far wiser, fully peaceful and more enlightened beings than those of us who have lived only on the Earth.

    4. Those Earthlings who first met these beings did not interact with them in the best possible way. Some of our interactions were motivated by fear, greed and short-sighted selfishness.

    5. It would serve all of us for at least some of us to apologize for that, and to declare a commitment to be better than we have been.

    6. Any life that can visit here has the ability to instantly translate, read and understand everything posted on our Internet. It is interested in us enough (out of curiosity, a desire to monitor developing civilizations, or for other unfathomable reasons) to do so.

    7. It does no harm, and can do tremendous good to apologize, even when we do not see ourselves as directly accountable for what happened. It would serve each of us in extremely positive ways to see ourselves as not only members of one race (humanity) travelling together on one planet - "Spaceship Earth" - but also to see ourselves as citizens of the Universe ready to join with, learn from, and give our unique contribution to the full diversity of intelligent, peace loving beings