Posted on 04/19/2002 11:30:43 AM PDT by 11B3
Conservative Radio Host Burning Green Swastika for Earth Day
By Michael L. Betsch
CNSNews.com Editorial Assistant
April 19, 2002
(CNSNews.com) - In advance of Earth Day 2002, the day when environmentalists celebrate their efforts to preserve the planet from what they consider human destruction, working-class Americans in one rural Montana city plan to condemn the "green left" for allegedly killing their livelihood.
KGEZ Radio, an AM station broadcasting out of Kalispell, Mont., is celebrating Earth Day on Friday, three days early, by burning a twelve-foot green swastika in front of the station.
John Stokes, the owner and host of KGEZ's morning talk show, will strike the match to ignite the green swastika and, he hopes, educate the public about the liberal environmentalists whom he accuses of ruining rural America. He calls them "green Nazis," and he hopes to make them angry, too.
Stokes said that by burning the swastika, he's making a bold statement that every industry in America has been adversely affected by dictates to preserve the environment.
"We've lost our natural resource industry; we can't mine, we can't log," Stokes said. Such losses, he said, have resulted in a 70 percent unemployment rate in America's natural resource industries.
If environmentalism had produced worthwhile results, "We probably all would agree with it, but the results have been disastrous," Stokes said.
And it's not just the miners and the loggers who are struggling because of laws passed at the behest of environmentalists, Stokes said. "Everybody's on the list. They just don't know it yet."
Unsuspecting industries targeted by environmentalists include farming and agriculture, paper mills and truckers and transporters of manufactured goods, Stokes said.
Stokes is especially angered by the Endangered Species Act, which was enacted at the insistence of environmentalists.
"It's destroyed rural America," he said. "If you live in the city, you probably don't understand that. But when you get out here in rural America, you know, the great fly-over country, it's had a devastating effect."
Critics of the Endangered Species Act say it mostly endangers humans. They say environmentalists have become experts at deliberately misusing the act to destroy people's livelihoods and culture, by depriving them of various opportunities to earn a living from the land.
The Montana Human Rights Network (MHRN), which seeks to protect environmentalists from physical harm, has been in a war of words with KGEZ's Stokes since 1994, though they've never met to discuss their differences of opinion.
Ken Toole, a program director at the MHRN, said his organization tangled with Stokes after witnessing a rise in "the use of violence and intimidation around political disputes around resource development."
Toole, also a Democratic state Senator from Helena, said Stokes has - in the past -- urged people to call in to his radio talk show to reveal the telephone numbers and home addresses of environmental activists on the air.
"What we concluded is that in this community, people were being singled out for harassment because of their political views in an effort to get them to shut-up," Toole said.
Toole said Stokes blames the failure of the "traditional resource-extractive economy" on environmentalists "who want to save trees." And, he said, Stokes encourages listeners to "go beat the hell out of them (environmentalists)."
Stokes called Toole's accusations an "absolute lie."
But according to Toole, "Our belief is that John Stokes very much feeds into that by reinforcing all of the kind of scape-goating, the mythology, the fear and anger felt by some people in the community around these conservation disputes."
In fact, Toole said Stokes' form of scape-goating resembles that of those who "want to blame the international Jewish banking conspiracy" for the world's economic woes.
As for Stokes' symbolic burning of a green swastika, Toole said Stokes is "trying to symbolize his idea that conservationists are uncompromising, are bad, are evil. But we're very clear that the swastika is a symbol for his perception of the conservation movement."
"Those guys are misguided," Stokes said of Toole and the Montana Human Rights Coalition's efforts against him.
"They've found the perfect issue to co-opt everybody's principles," Stokes said of environmentalism. "Think about it. Religion's never been able to do it; political philosophies have never been able to do it.
"These green extremists have found the one thing that everybody can agree with, and that's clean air and clean water," Stokes said. "And, once you've established that's the principle, then everything's permissible under obtaining that," he said.
Just what, exactly, is a rural city?
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
-- St. Paul's letter to the Romans, Chapt. 1, v. 25-27
What we would call a Town, Village or X-Roads with a gas station.
Eddie01
Uhhhh, yeah just the same, except that there is no "international Jewish banking conspiracy" but the "International Green Religion" is very real, and will not rest untill every person on earth has been forcibly converted.
Hey ole cogitator, how do ya like them (Alar free, of course!!!;) apples ya green fascist!....
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
Molon Labe !!
As always, they can dish it out, but they sure can't take it!
Just what, exactly, is a rural city?
It’s where the cows wear gang colors.
EVERY "solution" to each manufactured "crisis" involves bigger government, less freedom, higher taxes and other costs, more laws and regulations.
They are not pro-nature, they are anti-human. The ideal environmental citizen is a corpse. Corpses:
Consume nothing;
Throw away nothing;
Use no energy--fossil fuels or electricity;
Fertilize the soil for plants;
Do not contribute to the population "crisis".
Exhale no greenhouse gases;
Burn nothing;
Travel to nowhere (no nasty hydrocarbons);
Vote Democratic.
--Boris
We know the above is true from the crisis of the Klamath. Farmers committed suicide because of the ESA. There is legislation in the US House, HR2829, an attempt to put a leash on the power of the ESA. I suggest contacting your Congress-person and asking them to support change to the ESA. If not now, when? If not us, who?
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