EXPEDIENCY

 

"A priesthood, or prison guards, were used to help reinforce the idea that an individual is only a biological body and is not an Immortal Spiritual Being.  The individual has no identity.  The individuals have no past lives.  The individual has no power.  Only the gods have power.  And, the gods are a contrivance of the priests who intercede between men and the gods they serve.  Men are slaves to the dictates of the priests who threaten eternal spiritual punishment if men do not obey them. What else would one expect on a prison planet where all prisoners have amnesia, and the priests themselves are prisoners?"
"Anyone who is not willing or able to submit to mindless  economic, political and religious servitude as a tax-paying worker in the class system of the "Old Empire" are "untouchable" and sentenced to receive memory wipe-out and permanent imprisonment on Earth."
'It is my personal belief that the truth should not be sacrificed on the altar of political, religious or economic expediency." 

--- Airl, from the Top Secret interview transcripts published in the book ALIEN INTERVIEW      

DEFINITION:  expedient --

noun:   a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one

expediency:

noun:   the quality of being suited to the end in view