David

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December 3, 2008

The Greenies Are Coming! The Greenies Are Coming!

It's been 233 years since Paul Revere and William Dawes made their nighttime horseback ride to warn the American colonists that British redcoats were marching from Boston to Lexington and Concord to seize the weapons with which they would defend themselves. Having been warned, the Minutemen met the British and the Revolutionary War began that April night in 1775.

So it is once more. But instead of red-coated infantry coming to take away arms, this time it's green-obsessed enviro-wackos coming to take away your incandescent light bulbs. And your SUV. And your flush toilet. And your livestock. And most of all, any semblance of freedom you may still have left.

Forget about reasoning with them. It matters not that the country simply can't run without the oil, coal and nuclear power they are determined to ban. Or that fulfilling ethanol mandates would require all the arable land of North America be converted to corn production, thereby leaving none for food. Or that the global warming – oh, I'm sorry, I meant “climate change” (wink, wink) – in which they so fervently believe, is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated.

The only heat we're dealing with here is from the steaming pile of Grade A bull cookies they're serving us so as to scare us into accepting the totalitarianism they want to shove down our throats. (Speaking of which, the EPA wants to tax farm animals as greenhouse gas emitters. Enjoy that steak, pork chop and milk while you still can.)

There is simply nothing they won't go after and destroy for the sake of “the environment.” There isn't any aspect of your life too small for them to not control. There isn't any limit on what they think falls within their purview. As far as they're concerned the end – Mother Earth, or Gaia, or whatever – justifies any means, no matter how much it tramples, if not annihilates, personal liberties.

And should you dare question any of this, it's Salem Witch Trial time, with you as the heretic to be burned at the stake. You see, for the hardcore greenies, this is a religion. Or maybe cult would be a better word. Whatever you want to call it, it's creepy beyond measure. Heck, just thinking that they're capable of, much less should be, controlling the weather is an unfathomable act of hubris and arrogance. Is there not a shred of humility among the tree-hugging crowd?

Lest you think I've overstated this, let's check out recent quotes by the eco-worshippers' own “Messiah,” President-elect Barack Obama:  

In his first speech on global warming since winning the election, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday to set stringent limits on greenhouse gases, saying the need is too urgent for delay.

"Now is the time to confront this challenge once and for all," Obama said. "Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response. The stakes are too high, the consequences too serious."

And another:

Perhaps with those considerations in mind, Mr. Obama cast his planned energy-development measures as vital to economic revival, by generating an estimated five million “green jobs,” as well as critical to national security, by reducing United States dependence on foreign oil.

One more gem:

“We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes at 72 degrees at all times and expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership; that's not going to happen.”

So let's see if I have this all straight; Obama is going to wave a magic wand and accomplish the following:

• Change the laws of physics and meteorology
• Impound and/or ban all oil, coal, and nuclear power
• Replace them with solar, wind, and whatever else that will somehow be sufficiently profitable to employ 5 million people
• Take away vehicles, food and heat he deems unnecessary
• Somehow generate a financial revival out of all this (add economics to the laws he'll change)

And all because the rest of the world says we have to, as we'll all burn up and fry to death very soon if we don't.

Clearly, there's no part of your life they won't mess with, and nowhere on Earth to which you could escape. Since this is a “global crisis,” no one will be exempted. (Except maybe China.)

Therefore, if you value the freedom to live your life as you see fit, without government sticking its nose in every last bit of your business (including the kind that drops into your porcelain bowl); if you value the energy that drives our society and allows us to maintain the lifestyle we have, and could do so even more cheaply and easily if only the enviro-wackos would let us get at the plentiful domestic supplies available; if you want to prevent catastrophic damage from arrogant attempts to play God by defying the immutable laws of science while thinking there can't possibly be any adverse consequences, you must deal with this.

Whether you want to or are ready, the green-coats are on the march to your town and home. Will you be today's patriotic Minutemen and respond to the warning? “The Greenies are coming! The Greenies are coming!”

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