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Where is 240?Where is Chris Mathews?Shultz?Olberman?Maddow?Here is YET AGAIN another left wing loon shooting up the place and yet not a peep from the left.I guess this guy was such a left wing loon that even Maddow cant blame Rush or Beck.Way to go Al Gore,just last week he told his band of loons to take to the streets I guess this is the result.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/09/01/left-frantically-spins-discovery-shooters-radical-environmentalism-w
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Palins' fault.
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LOL. So much for Rush inspiring people to violence.
This nutjob was influenced by:
He also appears to have been inspired by books by the environmental novelist Daniel Quinn, notably Quinn's "Ishmael." He singled out pages of that novel in his manifesto, saying that Discovery should create programming based on its message. He said he also was inspired by Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
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LOL. So much for Rush inspiring people to violence.
This nutjob was influenced by:
He also appears to have been inspired by books by the environmental novelist Daniel Quinn, notably Quinn's "Ishmael." He singled out pages of that novel in his manifesto, saying that Discovery should create programming based on its message. He said he also was inspired by Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
Lets see how 240 and the other libs spin this.They are the first to blame Beck and Rush for inciting violence,will they blame left wing loons like Gore for this?Did they blame Obamas racism for the black loon that shot up the beer wharehouse.The left is being exposed every single day.
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Palins' fault.
Bush's fault too! >:(
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The environmental movement was funded and started by the banking and oil cartels. Same with the women's movement. It's all propaganda. Divide and conquer. And no where is it more apparent than on the getbig political forums........liberal this neocon that. LOL. Fools!
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The environmental movement was funded and started by the banking and oil cartels. Same with the women's movement. It's all propaganda. Divide and conquer. And no where is it more apparent than on the getbig political forums........liberal this neocon that. LOL. Fools!
Wrong - Earth Day and the environmental crazies are nothing but washed up commies looking for a new identity without calling themselves communists.
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The Naked Communism of Earth Day
By Alan Caruba Wednesday, April 21, 2010
www.canadafreepress.com
It is no accident that April 22, Earth Day, is also the birth date of Vladimir Lenin, an acolyte of Karl Marx, the lunatic who invented communism as an alternative to capitalism.
Earth Day is naked communism.
To begin, it substitutes a worship of the Earth, Gaia, for the worship of God, creator of the universe and the instructor of moral behavior for mankind.
The Earth does not demand a moral code of personal behavior. Indeed, the lesson it teaches is “the survival of the fittest “and an indifference to suffering. The “natural events” mankind fears most all involve the potential for significant loss of life and for injury.
The Earth is a beautiful place, but it is utterly merciless. Man has learned to adapt to it and, by adapt, I mean to use its resources to build shelter and protection from it, to plant and harvest crops from it, and to domesticate some of its species while hunting and fishing for others for food.
Earth Day postulates that man is the cause of harm to Earth by virtue of his cities, his highways, his use of its sources of energy, and even the garbage that results from the normal course of maintaining life. For centuries mankind routinely burned and buried garbage. Now we are told we must separate and recycle it. We are told that everything plastic is bad even though it is one of the great inventions of modern times.
Communism is a litany of murder and oppression
Communism reached its zenith in the last century. Its imposition in the former Soviet Union, in China, and elsewhere is a litany of murder and oppression. In the 20th century, a minimum 110 million people died as a result. It enslaves mankind wherever it can.
Environmentalism has been built on the foundation laid by communism because both exist to control everyone’s life. They are opposite sides of the same coin, both are opposed to the ownership of private property and both regard man as state property to be drained of his earnings through taxation.
Environmentalism’s preferred method is coercion and the mechanism for this is government.
While America was established to ensure “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, environmentalism exists to exert more and more control over our lives by limiting our choices, our liberty. Environmentalism redefines happiness as doing without the advances of science and commerce that protects and prolongs our lives.
There is nothing voluntary about environmentalism.
There is nothing voluntary about having to recycle. There is nothing voluntary about having to fill your tank with a mixture of gasoline and ethanol. There is nothing voluntary about the imposition of mileage standards for cars. There is nothing voluntary about losing access to beneficial chemicals that control countless insect and rodent pests that spread disease and destroy property.
While the vast majority of Americans clamor for the government to permit access to our nation’s vast natural resources of coal, oil, and natural gas it stands in the way, claiming always that drilling and mining pose a threat to the environment. At the same time it acquires more and more of the nation’s landmass to deter access and economic growth.
Greatest hoax of the modern era, “global warming.”
In the name of the environment, the U.S. government is set to impose a Cap-and-Trade law on Americans that has no basis whatever in science and is, in fact, based on the greatest hoax of the modern era, “global warming.”
Cap-and-Trade will tax energy use and directly control how much energy individual Americans can use to heat or cool their homes through “smart grid” technology controlled by the utilities, not the consumer.
Environmentalism is the reason the U.S. has not had a single new refinery or nuclear plant built since the 1970s. Think about that every time you drive your car or turn on the lights.
The spread of endless environmental propaganda has been taken up by the nation’s mainstream media and has infiltrated the nation’s schools through its textbooks and other means of instruction. Earth Day will be the occasion for an orgy of media coverage.
Just as communism failed the former Soviet Union and just as Red China abandoned communism as the model for its economy, environmentalism continues its relentless quest to deter economic growth and security in America. It is the infrastructure of a New World Order.
Do not celebrate Earth Day.
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The environmental movement was funded and started by the banking and oil cartels. Same with the women's movement. It's all propaganda. Divide and conquer. And no where is it more apparent than on the getbig political forums........liberal this neocon that. LOL. Fools!
Ha,ha,ha the problem with that is its left wing loons that are gunning people down in droves.Dont see many conservatives going on shooting sprees.
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Charles Krauthammer
Environmentalists Pick Up Where Communists Left Off
WASHINGTON --
www.townhall.com
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I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the atmosphere, but is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.
Predictions of catastrophe depend on models. Models depend on assumptions about complex planetary systems -- from ocean currents to cloud formation -- that no one fully understands. Which is why the models are inherently flawed and forever changing. The doomsday scenarios posit a cascade of events, each with a certain probability. The multiple improbability of their simultaneous occurrence renders all such predictions entirely speculative.
Yet on the basis of this speculation, environmental activists, attended by compliant scientists and opportunistic politicians, are advocating radical economic and social regulation. "The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity," warns Czech President Vaclav Klaus, "is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism."
If you doubt the arrogance, you haven't seen that Newsweek cover story that declared the global warming debate over. Consider: If Newton's laws of motion could, after 200 years of unfailing experimental and experiential confirmation, be overthrown, it requires religious fervor to believe that global warming -- infinitely more untested, complex and speculative -- is a closed issue.
But declaring it closed has its rewards. It not only dismisses skeptics as the running dogs of reaction, i.e., of Exxon, Cheney and now Klaus. By fiat, it also hugely re-empowers the intellectual left.
For a century, an ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous knowledge class -- social planners, scientists, intellectuals, experts and their left-wing political allies -- arrogated to themselves the right to rule either in the name of the oppressed working class (communism) or, in its more benign form, by virtue of their superior expertise in achieving the highest social progress by means of state planning (socialism).
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere from Thatcher's England to Deng's China, where just the partial abolition of socialism lifted more people out of poverty more rapidly than ever in human history.
Just as the ash heap of history beckoned, the intellectual left was handed the ultimate salvation: environmentalism. Now the experts will regulate your life not in the name of the proletariat or Fabian socialism but -- even better -- in the name of Earth itself.
Environmentalists are Gaia's priests, instructing us in her proper service and casting out those who refuse to genuflect. (See Newsweek above.) And having proclaimed the ultimate commandment -- carbon chastity -- they are preparing the supporting canonical legislation that will tell you how much you can travel, what kind of light you will read by, and at what temperature you may set your bedroom thermostat.
Just Monday, a British parliamentary committee proposed that every citizen be required to carry a carbon card that must be presented, under penalty of law, when buying gasoline, taking an airplane or using electricity. The card contains your yearly carbon ration to be drawn down with every purchase, every trip, every swipe.
There's no greater social power than the power to ration. And, other than rationing food, there is no greater instrument of social control than rationing energy, the currency of just about everything one does and uses in an advanced society.
So what does the global warming agnostic propose as an alternative? First, more research -- untainted and reliable -- to determine (a) whether the carbon footprint of man is or is not lost among the massive natural forces (from sunspot activity to ocean currents) that affect climate, and (b) if the human effect is indeed significant, whether the planetary climate system has the homeostatic mechanisms (like the feedback loops in the human body, for example) with which to compensate.
Second, reduce our carbon footprint in the interim by doing the doable, rather than the economically ruinous and socially destructive. The most obvious step is a major move to nuclear power, which to the atmosphere is the cleanest of the clean.
But your would-be masters have foreseen this contingency. The Church of the Environment promulgates secondary dogmas as well. One of these is a strict nuclear taboo.
Rather convenient, is it not? Take this major coal-substituting fix off the table and we will be rationing all the more. Guess who does the rationing?
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LOL @ how emotional everyone is becoming, in their hate for the left.
it's not attractive for moderate voters.
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LOL @ how emotional everyone is becoming, in their hate for the left.
it's not attractive for moderate voters.
The left is driving away moderates faster than any "hatred" of them by the right is driving them back.
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The left is driving away moderates faster than any "hatred" of them by the right is driving them back.
maybe. but the repubs aren't doing their part to offer any alternative other than 'we're not obama"
then again, it worked with Bush. But do moderates hate obama as much as they hated Bush? Bush was around 30% approval. Obama's not there yet.
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maybe. but the repubs aren't doing their part to offer any alternative other than 'we're not obama"
then again, it worked with Bush. But do moderates hate obama as much as they hated Bush? Bush was around 30% approval. Obama's not there yet.
30% when? It wasn't 30% when he came into office. 30% when he left office? Where was he at this point in his first term? Throwing out arbitrary numbers doesn't prove anything.
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Do some real research instead of a fucking 5 minute google search. ::)
The Rockefeller dynasty along with the oil cartels have been financing the environmental movement since the 1940s.
Here's a perfect example:
Earth Day: Hundreds of millions of dollars went into ``Earth Day'' 1970, a vast public relations stunt to get the ``green movement,'' earlier prepared by the WWF and allied agencies, off the ground. Earth Day was bankrolled by the UN, Atlantic Richfield, and the Ford and Rockefeller foundations; it was directed by the British intelligence-sponsored Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies.
Those pesky liberals ::)You're just a brainwshed idiot who thinks everything comes down to liberals vs. conservatives. Give your fucking tirades a rest dude. For fuck's sake you sound like a fucking broken record. I used to respect and appreciate your input but now you've gone off the deep end and just sound like a fucking Fox News sound bite.
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30% when? It wasn't 30% when he came into office. 30% when he left office? Where was he at this point in his first term? Throwing out arbitrary numbers doesn't prove anything.
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Greenpeace: Greenpeace was founded in 1971 out of the Don't Make a Wave Committee, by a coalition of Maoists, Trotskyists, and Canadian members of the Sierra Club. Its first head, Ben Metcalfe, had worked for British Intelligence in postwar Germany. The idea was to create a ``direct action'' terrorist arm of the WWF. It now has branches in 24 countries, including Russia, with headquarters in the Netherlands and an annual budget of $157 million. Its current director is Lord Peter Melchett, heir to the Imperial Chemical Industries fortune.
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LOL @ how emotional everyone is becoming, in their hate for the left.
it's not attractive for moderate voters.
Oh freaking please 240. You have been dead wrong for 2 years now on every single issue as far as how the public would react to the policies of your heros.
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maybe. but the repubs aren't doing their part to offer any alternative other than 'we're not obama"
then again, it worked with Bush. But do moderates hate obama as much as they hated Bush? Bush was around 30% approval. Obama's not there yet.
This is a load of horseshit.However YOU wont hear it on MSNBC .Try getting to stations that actually report news instead of pro Obama garbage.Paul Ryan has a full perscription to turn the economy around.Ever hear it on the stupid rating failure MSNBC with their moron pea brained hosts?Of course not.They are too concerned LIKE YOU with insulting Palin.
Now,your comments on this left wing loon shooter.Your quick to blame Beck when you hear of a violent act.Here we have a follower of Al Gore and your dead silent.What would I expect from a guy who hates amnesty but votes for Bob Barr who supports amnesty.
Obama has managed to drive moderates away from democrats to the point that Gallup has republicans up by ten a record for such polling in the history of Gallup.Nice try,try again.
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What does his final approval rating have to do with anything? What was it when he was at the same point in his first term as Obama is?
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Worldwatch Institute: This group was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1974, with Lester Russell Brown as director. It maintains that the Earth's carrying capacity has been exceeded. Brown is, or has been, affiliated with many groups including Zero Population Growth, the Population Reference Bureau, and the New York Council on Foreign Relations. He is on the advisory committee of the ``2020 Vision'' program of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), which is connected to the World Bank; and of the Institute of International Economics, run by C. Fred Bergsten, of the Trilateral Commission, which acts in close association with the International Monetary Fund. Money to found Worldwatch came from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
These are called FACTS not some stupid internet article trying to prove a point. Follow the money.........
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What does his final approval rating have to do with anything? What was it when he was at the same point in his first term as Obama is?
And what the fuck does any of it have to do with the original point of this thread. You guys are so fucking brainwashed you can't even stick to the topic of thread.
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maybe. but the repubs aren't doing their part to offer any alternative other than 'we're not obama"
then again, it worked with Bush. But do moderates hate obama as much as they hated Bush? Bush was around 30% approval. Obama's not there yet.
::) ::)
More BS. People right now are not looking for the GOP to do anything positive or helpful. They just Obama cock blocked from doing anything else.
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And what the fuck does any of it have to do with the original point of this thread. You guys are so fucking brainwashed you can't even stick to the topic of thread.
You have to be the angriest nurse I've ever seen. You must really hate cleaning bedpans and taking orders from doctors fresh out of med school.
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Do some real research instead of a fucking 5 minute google search. ::)
The Rockefeller dynasty along with the oil cartels have been financing the environmental movement since the 1940s.
Here's a perfect example:
Earth Day: Hundreds of millions of dollars went into ``Earth Day'' 1970, a vast public relations stunt to get the ``green movement,'' earlier prepared by the WWF and allied agencies, off the ground. Earth Day was bankrolled by the UN, Atlantic Richfield, and the Ford and Rockefeller foundations; it was directed by the British intelligence-sponsored Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies.
Those pesky liberals ::)You're just a brainwshed idiot who thinks everything comes down to liberals vs. conservatives. Give your fucking tirades a rest dude. For fuck's sake you sound like a fucking broken record. I used to respect and appreciate your input but now you've gone off the deep end and just sound like a fucking Fox News sound bite.
Oh please - get your fingers out of patients' assholes already.
Its all laid out completely in this book clearly as well as anywhere else. Enviro BS is nothing more than a way to control the population by governments.
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Greenpeace, PETA and co. are nothing more than opportunist scumbags.
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Worldwatch Institute: This group was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1974, with Lester Russell Brown as director. It maintains that the Earth's carrying capacity has been exceeded. Brown is, or has been, affiliated with many groups including Zero Population Growth, the Population Reference Bureau, and the New York Council on Foreign Relations. He is on the advisory committee of the ``2020 Vision'' program of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), which is connected to the World Bank; and of the Institute of International Economics, run by C. Fred Bergsten, of the Trilateral Commission, which acts in close association with the International Monetary Fund. Money to found Worldwatch came from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
These are called FACTS not some stupid internet article trying to prove a point. Follow the money.........
And guess what is the only governmental vehicle to reach those goals? HHHMMMMMMM?????????
It aint free market capitilism.
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Oh brother Billy. Shut up you baby. You come at this like there's liberals shooting the hell out of everything every other day. ::) As if there's not rightwing loons so often found behind this crazy shit.... the first time you get yourself a lefty nut you go apeshit calling everyone out ::) You really take the cake, right along with your cheerleaders here...
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Oh brother Billy. Shut up you baby. You come at this like there's liberals shooting the hell out of everything every other day. ::) As if there's not rightwing loons so often found behind this crazy shit.... the first time you get yourself a lefty nut you go apeshit calling everyone out ::) You really take the cake, right along with your cheerleaders here...
The far left has been far more violent lately than the beck people. FACT.
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The far left has been far more violent lately than the beck people. FACT.
jezus fuck, you're on my ass 30 seconds after I posted :o Who the fuck are you? I imagine some spastic person with 20 monitors around him ready to be instantly notified the moment there is a change. Also, your facts are worth shit.
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What does his final approval rating have to do with anything? What was it when he was at the same point in his first term as Obama is?
Well, since 240 won't answer, let me provide what Gallup found on November 15,2002. Bush's approval rating was 68%. Yes. 68% approved of the way he handled his job as president. 55% approved his handling of the economy.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/7222/bush-approval-68.aspx
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Well, since 240 won't answer, let me provide what Gallup found on November 15,2002. Bush's approval rating was 68%. Yes. 68% approved of the way he handled his job as president. 55% approved his handling of the economy.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/7222/bush-approval-68.aspx
bush had 911 to thank for that. what was bush's approval rating on sept 10, 2001?
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Well, since 240 won't answer, let me provide what Gallup found on November 15,2002. Bush's approval rating was 68%. Yes. 68% approved of the way he handled his job as president. 55% approved his handling of the economy.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/7222/bush-approval-68.aspx
Thanks for clearing that up. Now I know why 240 wasn't posting it.
Edit: Look how quick he replied after you posted it. Haha!
bush had 911 to thank for that. what was bush's approval rating on sept 10, 2001?
Why does that matter? Obama had Bush to thank for his 70% approval rating when he came into office.
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bush had 911 to thank for that. what was bush's approval rating on sept 10, 2001?
240 - by constantly bringing up Bush, you only make Obama seem that much worse. You and the fellow traveling leftists who always bring up Bush as a comparison to Obama don't realize that by doing so you are admitting Obama is already at the bottom.
You guys consider Bush the worst ever and are trying desperately to show that Obama is a little better than that. Yeah, that will work! ::) ::)
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Thanks for clearing that up. Now I know why 240 wasn't posting it.
Edit: Look how quick he replied after you posted it. Haha!
Why does that matter? Obama had Bush to thank for his 70% approval rating when he came into office.
And so will Palin have Obama to thank in 2013 when she takes office. BBBBBBOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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my point is that while obama is gonna get his ass handed to him in midterms, he's still in good shape for 2012 election. you repubs are spending all day defending palin isntead of promoting a viable candidate.
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240 - by constantly bringing up Bush, you only make Obama seem that much worse. You and the fellow traveling leftists who always bring up Bush as a comparison to Obama don't realize that by doing so you are admitting Obama is already at the bottom.
You guys consider Bush the worst ever and are trying desperately to show that Obama is a little better than that. Yeah, that will work! ::) ::)
Exactly. It cracks me up when they compare what he does to Bush, the guy who they will tell you was the worst president we've ever had.
my point is that while obama is gonna get his ass handed to him in midterms, he's still in good shape for 2012 election. you repubs are spending all day defending palin isntead of promoting a viable candidate.
The 2012 election will come down to the shape of the economy. If it's anywhere near as bad as it is now, he's done. If, by some stroke of luck, it completely turns around by then, he'll get reelected. Plain and simple.
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Oh brother Billy. Shut up you baby. You come at this like there's liberals shooting the hell out of everything every other day. ::) As if there's not rightwing loons so often found behind this crazy shit.... the first time you get yourself a lefty nut you go apeshit calling everyone out ::) You really take the cake, right along with your cheerleaders here...
Last week we had the black idiot who admitted shooting the whites in the wharehouse because they were white.Clearly a democrat as 97% of blacks vote democrat.This week its this guy.A few months ago it was the professor at the school,then the panty bomber then the guy who tried to blow up times square.Then we had the guy that flew the plane into the building.Thats 6 examples I give you off the top of my head.Please give me one example of a conservative committing a violent act.
Yet according to you limp wristed left wing liberal idiots its Glenn Beck that is causing violence.Where?When?You cant come up with one example of a conservative in the last 5 years doing anything.
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bush had 911 to thank for that. what was bush's approval rating on sept 10, 2001?
I figured you would say that. Guess what? Bush's numbers were not helped by 9/11. Gallup says this:
On the Economy
Overall, 55% of Americans approve of his handling of the economy, up from 49% in October, but still much LOWER than it had been in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Did you see that? That 55% was lower than when it was at 9/11.
On Foreign Affairs:
There is essentially no change in this rating from October, which produced the lowest rating since 9/11.
On whether Bush care about people like you:
There is a slight increase in the number of Americans who say President Bush "understands complex issues," now at 64%, compared with 60% last July. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, 69% of Americans expressed that view.
His number actually went down after 9/11.
Your 9/11 excuse is unfounded. By the time this poll was done, 9/11 fervor had died down. In each of those areas that I listed, Bush did not benefit from 9/11. Nice try though.
Does it matter what Bush's number was on 091011? We are comparing Bush to Obama around the same time in their respective first term. AND I just showed you that 9/11 had no effect over a year later according to Gallup.
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I figured you would say that. Guess what? Bush's numbers were not helped by 9/11. Gallup says this:
On the Economy
Overall, 55% of Americans approve of his handling of the economy, up from 49% in October, but still much LOWER than it had been in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Did you see that? That 55% was lower than when it was at 9/11.
On Foreign Affairs:
There is essentially no change in this rating from October, which produced the lowest rating since 9/11.
On whether Bush care about people like you:
There is a slight increase in the number of Americans who say President Bush "understands complex issues," now at 64%, compared with 60% last July. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, 69% of Americans expressed that view.
His number actually went down after 9/11.
Your 9/11 excuse is unfounded. By the time this poll was done, 9/11 fervor had died down. In each of those areas that I listed, Bush did not benefit from 9/11. Nice try though.
Does it matter what Bush's number was on 091011? We are comparing Bush to Obama around the same time in their respective first term. AND I just showed you that 9/11 had no effect over a year later according to Gallup.
Dont confuse 240 with facts.You will distract him from bashing Palin and bitching about amnesty as he pulls the lever for Bob Barr who supports amnesty and agrees with Palin on 9 out of ten issues.
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Dont confuse 240 with facts.You will distract him from bashing Palin and bitching about amnesty as he pulls the lever for Bob Barr who supports amnesty and agrees with Palin on 9 out of ten issues.
True.
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Expert: Discovery Gunman far from First Eco-Terrorist
Life Site News ^ | Thursday September 2, 2010 | James Tillman
Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:57:36 PM by GonzoII
Thursday September 2, 2010
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Expert: Discovery Gunman far from First Eco-Terrorist
By James Tillman
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - James Lee, the gunman who entered the Discovery Channel building and took three hostages yesterday because he thought the TV station should be doing more to combat overpopulation, might be the first hostage-taking environmentalist gunman. But according to John Berlau, author of “Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health,” radical environmentalists have long advocated violence to further their goals.
"People adhering to environmentalist beliefs have certainly been involved in violent actions before," Berlau, a director at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN). They have done many things, he continued, "from spiking trees with metal rods, [which] Earth First! does, to threatening both animal researchers and biotechnology researchers, to calling for violence against them, and to, of course, the Unabomber, who had Earth First! journals."
Spiking trees, or driving a long metal rod into a tree that might someday be logged, has been illegal since 1988. The year before, a 23-year-old sawmill worker in northern California had his face lacerated, both of his jugular veins cut, and lost his upper and lower front teeth when his saw hit a spike.
At the time, environmentalist David Foreman, a founder of Earth First! who had advocated such tactics in his book “Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching,” said that the injury was "unfortunate" but that "the real destruction is ... liquidating old-growth forests.”
Among the Unabomber's three murdered victims was New Jersey advertising executive Thomas Mosser who the Unabomber said he targeted because he helped Exxon clean up its image after the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
"The FBI has called eco-terrorism the number one domestic terrorist threat," said Berlau. But from the mainstream media one would think "that people influenced by conservative talk radio would be the number one threat," he continued.
In 2002, Domestic Terrorism Section Chief of the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, James F. Jarboe, testified that eco-terrorist groups "have committed more than 600 criminal acts in the United States since 1996, resulting in damages in excess of 43 million dollars."
Arson is another common crime for extreme environmentalist movements like the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). In 1998 they used incendiary bombs to set fire to a ski resort and cause $12 million worth of damage.
The rhetoric and ideology of the environmentalist movement, said Berlau, encourage extreme actions.
"[Lee] was responsible for his own actions, but nevertheless actions are always preceded by beliefs, and beliefs don't exist in a vacuum," he said.
Lee followed common Malthusian environmentalist rhetoric when he wrote that “saving the Planet means saving what's left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population.“
“That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies!” he continued.
Berlau also pointed out that mainstream environmental organizations often are not as far removed from radical groups as they may appear to be. As Berlau has previously mentioned, David Brower, longtime head of the environmentalist Sierra Club, explicitly stated that the mainstream environmentalist groups use extremist groups to make themselves "look reasonable."
"The Sierra Club made the Nature Conservancy look reasonable," Brower stated. "I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth look reasonable. Earth First! now makes us look reasonable. We're still waiting for someone else to come along and make Earth First! look reasonable."
"The times there have been an abortion clinic bombing, you see ... all the mainline pro-life groups rush out to condemn it," Berlau said. But as regards environmentalism, he continued, "in some cases the mainline leaders have actually praised eco-terrorism advocates."
The Discovery Channel network itself has featured a reality show on people who have been dubbed "eco-terrorists."
Animal Planet ran the show "Whale Wars," which featured the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The Sea Shepherds have attempted to prevent whalers from killing whales by throwing butyric acid-filled bottles at whaling ships, by scuttling whaling ships, fouling their propellers with ropes, ramming their own vessel into whaling boats, and by temporarily blinding crews with laser pointers.
An author on the liberal Huffington Post news agency called the show "cheap exploitation in praise of what is nothing less than eco-terrorism."
See related stories at LifeSiteNews.com:
Discovery TV Gunman Demands Halt to 'Parasitic Human Infants,' Credits Al Gore with ‘Awakening’
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/sep/10090112.html
URL: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/sep/10090205.html
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I figured you would say that. Guess what? Bush's numbers were not helped by 9/11. Gallup says this:
On the Economy
Overall, 55% of Americans approve of his handling of the economy, up from 49% in October, but still much LOWER than it had been in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Did you see that? That 55% was lower than when it was at 9/11.
On Foreign Affairs:
There is essentially no change in this rating from October, which produced the lowest rating since 9/11.
On whether Bush care about people like you:
There is a slight increase in the number of Americans who say President Bush "understands complex issues," now at 64%, compared with 60% last July. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, 69% of Americans expressed that view.
His number actually went down after 9/11.
Your 9/11 excuse is unfounded. By the time this poll was done, 9/11 fervor had died down. In each of those areas that I listed, Bush did not benefit from 9/11. Nice try though.
Does it matter what Bush's number was on 091011? We are comparing Bush to Obama around the same time in their respective first term. AND I just showed you that 9/11 had no effect over a year later according to Gallup.
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240 has so many falsehoods and false premises running around in his head it is not even funny.