Structure would cost $100 million, but would attract 50,000 tourists a year
Aliens from “another planet” want to build an embassy in Belize. Sounds like an early All Fool’s Day joke, but Canadian Bernard Lamarche says he is dead serious about the proposal.
After a first submission by the Raelians in 2007, under the previous administration, Lamarche has tabled the proposal again to the Office of the Prime Minister of Belize, asking for permission to build a structure here which he claims would cost US$100 million, but serve as a revenue generating attraction for 50,000 tourists a year.
Lamarche says that the purpose of the embassy is “to welcome the human beings from another planet who created life on earth and who were wrongly mistaken for gods by our ancestors.”
He is one of several people around the world who have subscribed to the Raelian movement, who claim that humans are the intelligent design of space creatures. The movement claims they have over 40,000 members.
Frenchman Claude Vorilhon, who founded the movement in 1973, and who is now known as Rael, claims that he had received a “divine message” that those known as “elohim” – which is actually a Hebrew word meaning “Mighty Ones” in the Jewish Scriptures – created humans in their image and likeness.
A BBC report on Who are the Raelians? says that Vorilhon describes these beings as being “over a meter in height, with pale green skin, almond shaped eyes and long dark hair.”
This group founded Clonaid, and claims to have cloned a human being. Another venture which the group is now promoting is Clitoraid, a program to provide reconstructive surgery to women of Africa who have been victims of genital mutilation, “to help women regain their flower of pleasure.”
Bernard Lamarche said he was converted after reading the message in 1981 for the first time, but initially believing it to be sci-fi material.
Lamarche, who wore a necklace with a medallion with the Swastika superimposed over the Hexagram/Star of David, enclosed in a circle, says that the sign is a symbol of infinity and the official symbol of their movement.
Lamarche visited our newspaper along with naturalized Belizean, Linda Cabral, of Progresso, Corozal, who told us that she and others in Progresso have seen “crafts” visit the area, and last June she had a very personal encounter, so she knows these creatures exist.
The goal of the Raelians, says Lamarche, is to have the embassy built and ready for the “human beings from another planet” to arrive by 2025.
The “elohim” will want to meet leaders from around the world.
He said that the Raelians are asking for a response from the Government of Belize within 6 months of their proposal.
According to Lamarche, the proposal has been taken to several other countries, including some in the Caribbean, but only one embassy is to be built on earth.
Lamarche is dead serious about promoting the idea, and Thursday evening, April 2, he is hosting a presentation at the Belize Institute of Management (BIM) in Belize City.
He is visiting for two weeks and leaves Belize next Saturday.