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July 17, 2008
Guardian Moonbats Discover Environmentalism's Shrieking Authoritarianism
The moonbats at The Guardian are so liberal, they can't even find common ground with normal people when it comes to the threat of Islamic terrorism, which they refuse to acknowledge. But the increasingly alarming environmentalism craze may be another matter. From a recent piece by Brendan O'Neill:
In the current debate on liberty, we hear a lot about the attack on our democratic rights by the government's security agenda, but little about the grave impact of environmentalism on the fabric of freedom. It seems to me that green thinking — with its shrill intolerance of dissenting views, its deep distaste for free movement and free choice, and its view of individuals, not as history-makers, but as filthy polluters — poses a more profound threat to liberty even than the government's paranoid anti-terrorist agenda.
Environmentalists are innately hostile to freedom of speech. Last month James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate change scientists, said the CEOs of oil companies should be tried for crimes against humanity and nature. They have been "putting out misinformation", he said, and "I think that's a crime". This follows green writer Mark Lynas's insistence that there should be "international criminal tribunals" for climate change deniers, who will be "partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths". They will "have to answer for their crimes", he says. The American eco-magazine Grist recently published an article on deniers that called for "war crimes trials for these bastards… some sort of climate Nuremberg."
It is the mark of shrieking authoritarianism to look upon dissenting views not simply as wrong or foolish, but as criminal. Throughout history inquisitors and censors have sought to silence sections of society by labelling their words as "dangerous" and a threat to safety and stability; now environmentalists are doing the same. Their demonisation of sceptics as "deniers" has had a chilling effect on public debate. The environmentalist ethos is hostile to free movement, too. Behind the greens' attacks on road-building and cheap flights there lurks an agenda of enforced localism. […]
Environmentalism is instinctively and relentlessly illiberal, and it is doing more to inculcate people with fear, self-loathing and a religious-style sense of meekness than any piece of anti-terror legislation ever could. If you believe in freedom, you must reject it.
We've come to a pretty pass when even The Guardian is more sensible than our presidential candidates.
Posted by Van Helsing at July 17, 2008 8:56 PM
Comments
Van, Love you (in a hetero way) man. You need to take a day off.
Personally, I'm taking my big fat bonus check and going out to stock up on ammo tomorrow, before CA outlaws it.
Posted by: Oiao at July 17, 2008 9:46 PM
I'm a global warming denier. Come get me and put me up in a tribunal. I dare ya.
Posted by: Asmodeus at July 17, 2008 11:27 PM
van needs to take a lot more than one day off. Try a couple of years in a mental health facility.
Get back on those meds, van!
Posted by: Anonymous at July 18, 2008 2:59 AM
Anon,
Are you saying Van Helsing needs professional mental health because even some liberals are coming around to his point of view on green totalitarianism? What exactly is crazy about the post?
Posted by: forest at July 18, 2008 6:03 AM
Perhaps we should ignore the troll for a while.
Posted by: V the K at July 18, 2008 7:05 AM
All his posts are crazy.. His hysterical conclusions about everything, and his paranoid delusions are clearly signs of a borderline psychopathic personality.
The guy needs help. Now forest, you need help too, so your not really mentally qualified to defend him. Would a psycho killer hire a schizophernic to defend him?
Posted by: Anonymous at July 18, 2008 7:11 AM
Although, I do understand the troll's rage. Day after day, VH demonstrates that everything he believes in... apocalyptic human-caused global warming, the democrat party, socialism, political correctness, moral depravity ... is completely stupid. And he does so effectively enough to have a very popular blog.
Since the troll lacks the courage, wit, or work ethic to start his own blog... let alone get anyone to read it... he's reduced to lobbing insults anonymously. Which is really, really pathetic if you think about it.
All the more reason to ignore him.
Posted by: V the K at July 18, 2008 7:12 AM
Alright, I'll ignore him. I'll be busy "getting help" today anyway. I've invited the folks from the Gaurdian along too, but they think they're sane, so they won't come along.
Posted by: forest at July 18, 2008 8:21 AM
I think troll-boy has some mental problems if he thinks this blog is totally wrong about everything but he comes back to post on it day after day after day.
And even though he says it's totally wrong, he can't refute any of it. Like the pirate with the steering wheel on his crotch, it be drivin' him nuts.
Posted by: V the K at July 18, 2008 8:51 AM
Welcome, Mr. O'Neill! Please sit down, take a load off! You must be tired after your long and grueling journey. You know, it was so long that were were beginning to think you weren't going to make it. But make it you finally did, so again I say welcome, to the land of common sense and reason! Don't be afraid, you are in a better place now.
The most amusing thing about liberals that finally get it is the look of absolute amazement on their faces (or tones in their editorials). How they can ignore the blindingly obvious for so long is a question science may never be able to answer.
Posted by: CoderInCrisis at July 18, 2008 9:37 AM
Erm, although the Grauniad is a left-liberal newspaper, O'Neill is assistant editor of Sp!ked, which is a basically libertarian group, even if the Sp!ked crowd came to that from being student trotskyists of some kind. They're loathed by the liberati, have been directly attacked as a conspiracy by George Moonbat himself, and a Sp!ked alumnus was the creator of The Great Global Warming Swindle, for instance.
So O'Neill isn't a Guardianista, he's an outsider writing one column. O'Neill certainly isn't a "liberal" as the term is used here, or in the USA generally these days. Liberal in the same sense as Thomas Jefferson is closer.
Posted by: Ian from the EUSSR at July 18, 2008 2:27 PM
Here's the opening stanza of his latest Sp!ked article, for instance-
George Monbiot, the Guardian columnist and predictor of the world’s end, has undergone a metamorphosis of Kafkaesque proportions in recent years. Never mind poor Gregor Samsa, who awoke one morning to find himself transmogrified into a monstrous insect; Monbiot has made an even more remarkable cross-species leap. Some time during the past five years he went to bed an hysteric, the closest thing Britain had to a nutty Nostradamus, and awoke to find himself labelled a man of reason, a ‘defender of truth’ no less, who is praised on the dust-jacket of his latest book for possessing a ‘dazzling command of science’ (only by Naomi Klein, admittedly, but still).
Posted by: Ian from the EUSSR at July 18, 2008 2:28 PM
Remember Liberals, those are YOUR people, not OURS!
Posted by: KHarn at July 18, 2008 3:58 PM
Try, convict and execute the deniers after we try convict and execute the environmentalists who argued for and continue to argue for the banning of DDT and who therefore have a hand in the deaths by malaria of 30 million Africans.
Posted by: Myself@home at July 18, 2008 6:25 PM
