By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
"This is a very COURAGEOUS essay."
(din ciclul: Mos Grigore takes a closer look ...)
Americans are searching for leadership in this election year and they have found it. Unfortunately, he is not an American politician.
Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, who survived the communist system and now leads a country that emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet empire, is warning of a new form of communism threatening human freedom and progress.
Like former President Ronald Reagan, who developed his under-standing of the communist menace by fighting the communists in Hollywood, Klaus suffered under them during the communist era in Czechoslovakia. Because of this experience, however, he came to understand how Soviet-style communism, which collapsed as an empire and created the circumstances for the emergence of the Czech Republic as a free and independent nation, never really died as an ideology and that it has imitators in the West.
His book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles, published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, charges that the movement to "save" the environment has been taken over by ideologues who favor total government control over our lives. He says it can be considered a form of communism, socialism or even fascism. Whatever you call it, the result will be the extinction of human freedom.
Indeed, Klaus's book quotes the authoritative essay, "Fascist Ideology: The Green Wing of the Nazi Party and Its Historical Antecedents," by Peter Staudenmaier, as providing the backdrop for understanding the mentality driving the media-led hysteria over "global warming" and the alleged necessity for immediate governmental action at the national and global levels.
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Klaus came to Washington, D.C. at the end of May to lead this effort. But he will return to the Czech Republic (empty handed - n.M.G).
Various American conservative political figures, including former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, are even trying to appear "green". Gingrich, for example, appears in a commercial, financed by Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, warning about global warming.
(The group Judicial Watch contends the commercial is a violation of federal election law and an illegal contribution to Pelosi's campaign).
Gingrich has become an advocate of "green conservatism" and now proposes a Gore-like "Contract with the Earth."
In his book, Klaus calls Gore a hypocrite for his "own wasteful consumption of electricity" and says the former vice president has no interest in facts or documentation for his sensational claims.
The "cultural warfare" Smith warns about can be seen in the almost total blackout that the liberal media gave to Klaus's various appearances in Washington, D.C., including at the CEI dinner and the National Press Club. Rather than attempt to refute the arguments of a man who has a wealth of knowledge about economics and international economic relations, the liberal media tried their best to ignore him.
Fortunately, the Washington Times highlighted his warnings on page one.
"Environmentalism, says Czech President Vaclav Klaus, is the new communism, a system of elite command-and-control that kills prosperity and should similarly be condemned to the ash heap of history," the paper reported in a front-page story by David R. Sands.
"I understand that global warming is a religion conceived to suppress human freedom," Klaus told editors and reporters at the paper.
In order to demonstrate the courageous nature of the stand that Klaus is taking internationally, the book includes a cartoon of someone resembling Klaus being burned at the stake as three people taunt him, saying, "So, do you believe in warming now?"
Where are the U.S. political leaders who will follow Klaus in taking a forthright stand in favor of human freedom?
Gingrich has become an advocate of "green conservatism" and now proposes a Gore-like "Contract with the Earth."
In his book, Klaus calls Gore a hypocrite for his "own wasteful consumption of electricity" and says the former vice president has no interest in facts or documentation for his sensational claims.
The "cultural warfare" Smith warns about can be seen in the almost total blackout that the liberal media gave to Klaus's various appearances in Washington, D.C., including at the CEI dinner and the National Press Club. Rather than attempt to refute the arguments of a man who has a wealth of knowledge about economics and international economic relations, the liberal media tried their best to ignore him.
Fortunately, the Washington Times highlighted his warnings on page one.
"Environmentalism, says Czech President Vaclav Klaus, is the new communism, a system of elite command-and-control that kills prosperity and should similarly be condemned to the ash heap of history," the paper reported in a front-page story by David R. Sands.
"I understand that global warming is a religion conceived to suppress human freedom," Klaus told editors and reporters at the paper.
In order to demonstrate the courageous nature of the stand that Klaus is taking internationally, the book includes a cartoon of someone resembling Klaus being burned at the stake as three people taunt him, saying, "So, do you believe in warming now?"
Where are the U.S. political leaders who will follow Klaus in taking a forthright stand in favor of human freedom?
Mos Grigore says :
Read the full article to understand why Klaus states that "... modern environmentalism has assumed a religious dimension and has become a "green religion."
2 comments:
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cuvintarea lui Klaus legat de prezentarea cartii in cadrul lui National Press Club, Washington D.C., 27. May, 2008,
eveniment total ignorat de presa americana ...
Klaus is a vocal critic of the notion that any global warming is man-made (anthropogenic).
He has also criticized the IPCC climate panel as a group of politicized scientists with one-sided opinions and one-sided assignments.
He has said that other top-level politicians do not expose their doubts about global warming because
"a whip of political correctness strangles their voices".
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