They are afraid of the dark and what lurks under the bed.

They are afraid of the dark and what lurks inside of themselves.

Yes, some people are. I have known ministers who were really afraid of what evil lurked inside of themselves. I had one tell me that if he lost his faith he would probably become a very 'sinful' person. (What ever that meant to him, I don't know.)

So I don't mess with people and their faith in God and their religion anymore. They probably need it on a deep level.

true Whatever gets a person by

I thought that these lizardmen were doing this because we were supposed to be the predators while they want to get the planet by grazing and not letting us get them.

It would be nice to know what their intentions are. I was reading on one of these sites about people who say they have come in contact with them and felt great love coming from them. There was no fear at all.

I don't think I'd get close enough to find out though.

Yeah, their called Republicans.

Where aliens are concerned, there are two groups of people (humans) out there. One is a group that 'worships' these "star visitors" and they think they are here to save mankind.

The other group are actively fighting a vicious (and desperate) battle against them.

This is not to say that all of these non-human intelligent life forms are bad or evil. Some of them are better than others and may have good intentions. (We can only hope.)

But I don't think that "love" is one of their strong suits.

Their intentions? Business. Its all about business.

On Earth the resources (currency) is:

Gold, oil, energy, land, slaves, drugs, weapons.

It's been awhile since I've done the calculations but with energy being e=mc^2 and acceleration being m/f
*(f=ma)
the cost of transporting people to another star system is... astronomical.

Unless something about being raised on Earth was critical and unfeasible to recreate they should have been able to just pluck a few vagrants off the streets a little ways into Winter and then set up a breeding program in any climate controlled building on a planet with similar gravity. If they knew about the selective breeding basically pushing African Americans towards the athlete phenotype and this slave labor was for physical work they might have focused on that race but poor black people in ghettos aren't rare by any means- to be honest I think they'd have to raise a huge fuss before most local authorities cared about the missing persons.

Now, even just stealing computers from mafia type organizations in the orient should be more effective for most of the thinking labor you could make slaves perform though it's hard to imagine a race with interstellar travel without computers that vastly outperformed our own.

...and energy is readily available as soon as you can build a sphere of solar collectors around your star (probably make the sphere just a bit bigger than the distance out to your planet so it still gets that light but loses night constellations unless simulated.
Oil is just a concentrated energy source (though with interstellar travel they should have more compact ones.)

Gold... well a mining operation not on Earth but Mercury would net a LOT more gold.

So, that leaves oil, land, drugs, weapons.

This reminds me of that scene in the movie "Independence Day" when all the people go to the top of roof waiting for the aliens that are going to save them. When, they were actually coming to destroy them.

Not oil. Fusion fuels would be much more useful and they should have worked out the monopole magnet style version within at least a few million years.
Land? They could just touch down and say they were taking the Brazillian rain forest. If they told the hippies they weren't going to bulldoze any of it but would try to build infrastructure so the locals could make a living from something other than slash and burn agriculture I don't think the world would have any objection beyond trite little legal issues they should be able to work out.

Drugs? Well dag yo, it sure would be hard to grow plants since they take so much water and steal so much sunlight from the dirt/rock. With that habit we have of trying to burn those crops to the field and busting into kids' meth labs before the place explodes production of drugs outside any Earth jurisdiction should work much better and they wouldn't even have to deal with paying any humans for them.
Or better yet genetic engineering to just stick the gene for the chemical they want into a plant they could farm even more easily, or maybe into animals so they could smoke a pig or snort some ostrich.

Weapons. Really? You think replica swords and pressure propelled chunks of metal should have any interest to anyone that could engineer a railgun? We already know how to make them just at sizes that aren't so portable but for aliens? Well even if they haven't worked out the miniaturization thing they could just stick a bunch in orbit and then warn us that Earth was going to pass through a "dark shower" and laugh while we scrambled for bunkers to escape what we thought was a natural disaster of ultra speed projectiles that would probably rip through most bunkers anyway. And things like that are just if they are too brain dead for ideas of their own.

You are thinking (and reasoning) about these things from a human view point. What they want is the Earth. How they operate on the earth is via earth's own resources and currency. They prefer a peaceful take over.

This is what I have heard and read about.

The earth itself is said to actually have an 'owner." That owner wants to take peaceful possession of it rather than destroy it and or all of its inhabitants. The Draconian's, (unlike the Sirians) think it is more 'humane.' The Sirians would have just invaded earth, slaughtered everyone and taken everything they wanted.

Galaxy 'travel' in actual space ships is not accomplished in the way that you would think.... (clunking along through space at a certain speed.) It is done by bending space.. like worm holes or 'worp' drive. It is not without its problems and accidents do happen in re-entry.

"Energy" is the primary resource in all of the universe. It comes in many forms. There is technology here that we don't even know about and would not even understand. A lot of our own technology was given to us by them. One of the reasons gold is such a stable currency is that it is used in their technology and for their survival on their ships etc. It never loses its value because of this.

Slaves: Well that would be us. Each person has value. That is the reason for keeping track of people: Birth certificates, social security numbers etc. When this country needs money, it is not gold that is used for collateral, (we don't have any) it is people. The national debt means ... somebody owns us.

There are other kinds of slaves too. People disappear every day.

Exactly. Thats how I see these idiots that worship aliens.

The things I mentioned (Drugs, weapons, oil, gold, slaves, land, etc.) are the TRUE CURRENCY here on earth.

Federal reserve notes are worthless I.O.U's. Paper is all they are. Credit is only numbers. It (digital currency) has no 'actual' value. A disruption in the electronic systems and your bank account can be wiped out.

If you don't deal in REAL CURRENCY in the end, when the monetary system fails, the ones with the real currency will be the wealthy ones and the ones with cash and digital money will be broke.

Guns (weapons) always have value in a world of war. They are better than money in the bank just for that reason.

Gold and land also. Better than I.O.U's (Federal reserve notes)

Human resourses = slaves. If you have people at your disposal to do actual work on things... that is a valuable resource.

And oil is used for everything. Plastics, cars, suntan lotion etc.

Again I say, its all ABOUT BUSINESS.