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Czech President Vaclav Klaus
06.23.07 (8:02 am)   [edit]
The biggest threat to freedom, the free market and democracy is not BushHitler's War on Terror or Karl Rove's sinister machinations or the ruthless Reagan and Bush tax cuts or Big Orl, SUVs or GITMO or the quality of the GITMO newsletter or Dick Cheney's murderous Halliburton Orbital Death Laser it's ....ambitious environmentalism:

Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, argues in the Financial Times that ambitious environmentalism is the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity.

Mr Klaus writes that “global warming hysteria has become a prime example of the truth versus propaganda problem” and the issue “is more about social than natural sciences and more about man and his freedom than about tenths of a degree Celsius changes in average global temperature.”

Do you agree? Or do small climate changes demand far-reaching restrictive measures?

Vaclav fields questions from readers and his answer to this loaded query stood out:

All that environmentalists demand is responsibility. Responsibility of those who cause damage to others to pay for that damage, and to do their utmost to stop inflicting it. I had the impression that responsibility was supposed to be a conservative virtue, and a necessary complement to the great freedom we have in our open market economies. But more and more I see the supporters of capitalism demand that they be free to dump their waste on their neighbours lawns without consequence. What happened?
Nanne Zwagerman

Vaclav Klaus: Environmentalists do not demand responsibility. Responsibility is not their idea, it is a basic, elementary aspect of human behaviour – on condition government policies do not give wrong incentives. The idea of responsibility for damage done to others is not the environmentalists’ copyright. It is a standard of human behaviour. Environmentalists – especially in the case of global warming – artificially created “a damage” (higher temperature) and made all of us responsible for it. I don’t believe in this “damage” and I am not ready to pay for it. The role of men in slightly higher global temperature (0.6°C in the last century) is only marginal, if any.

To say that “the supporters of capitalism demand that they are free to dump their waste on their neighbours lawns without consequence” has the beauty of communist propaganda I had a chance to “enjoy” during the first 48 years of my life.


Supporters of the "Gore Fix" are free to spend more money on their heating and electricity bills to power their mansions than I make in a month while demanding that stunted little proles such as myself reduce, reuse, recycle and lovingly embrace such ridiculous concepts as using one square of toilet paper (by the way, the proprietress of this intellectual tsunami has her own line of Signature Guitars) and tooling around in glorified golf carts that cost as much as a regular sized compact car or small truck whilst Gore is seen exiting a private jet and entering a Lincoln Navigator* to travel to packed concert halls to tell his audiences that they are the problem and he is the solution. Gotta love that...nice racket...


*Scroll about 3/4ths of the way down the page to see the variety of eco-friendly cars the Gorelickers used to see their savior. (HT Zombietime)

 


posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 06.24.07 (5:26 pm)

Wow. This is a man who speaks without fear nor any necessity to be politically correct. Where did he come from? I've heard/read that we find the vestiges of Communism most within the environmentalist movement. Klaus seems to agree, and he should know. It is nice to have a thoughtful treatment of global warming from a national leader who does not agree with the liberal viewpoint.



posted by: ottomanprang (reply)
post date: 06.25.07 (6:54 am)

We also find people like Klaus among former Soviet Bloc countries who recognize communism in all it's incarnations... ;)

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