Environmental Pol Pots

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | October 9, 2002 | Walter Williams

[samtheman]

I searched. Couldn't find this article, at least under it's actual name: Environmental Pol Pots.

Sorry if it's a repeat. But not that sorry. Deserves a careful re-reading. Especially now, in this election cycle, when the label "environmental criminal" is being applied to President Bush. This is a still-timely article about some of the real environmental criminals.

[Defendingliberty]

What's a pol pot? It's a long pole for handling pots. Remember most people have no education in history so the title will throw them into a state of confusion. Perhaps a modern day villain would have made a better title " Environmental Martha Stewarts"

[tdadams]

Consider that most environmentalists subscribe to the notion that overpopulation is a major threat for the future of the planet, combined with their enthusiasm for abortion, it's not too hard to conclude that most probably see the millions of people dying from malaria and see it as either a good thing, or at least view it neutrally, as if that's just nature taking it's course and we shouldn't interfere. Talk about callous.

[samtheman]

You're right. Pol Pot is old news. Long forgotten by Americans.

But the basic fact of environmental do-gooders sentencing millions to die horrible malarial deaths should be picked up by the Republicans this season and fed into the campaign. I think it's hugely relevant.

The RATS are working from the assumption that all environmental regulations are divine and all rollbacks of environmental regulations are evil.

Time to set the record straight. Starting with --- for lack of a better phrase: the case of The Environmental Pol Pots.

[hellinahandcart]

Giuliani wanted to spray the sh!t out of the city back in '99. We could have stopped West Nile here, if there hadn't been such a loud, cordinated, and ceaseless outcry from the enviros and the media and the politicians.

[tdadams]

Remember most people have no education in history

Isn't that the sad truth. I was traveling is southeast Asia a couple of months ago, including Cambodia. You run into a lot of leftist westerners there. One young lady I talked to, who was very opinionated and neo-fascist in her enthusiasm for leftist ideology, had heard the name of the Khmer Rouge, but had no idea of who they were, what they stood for, or what they did to the Cambodians.

My immediate conclusion what that her leftist professors had to have deliberately omitted the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge from her education simply because it would have exposed the ugly ends that Communist ideology leads to.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Pol Pot and the radical environmentalists have a similar philosophy. Pol Pot wanted to ban all learning, all science, all technology (except for the technology required for his death squads), and have people live as subsistence farmers in some huge collective. He wanted to force people to return to the stone age, and he didn't care how many people died in the process.

The radical environmentalists want the same things -- to return humanity to the stone age. These people are in revolt against 5,000 years of civilization. There is a certain mentality that does not know how to create, so instead it craves destruction for destruction's sake. In their world, 99% of people will live in prehistoric misery while the ruling class will live in luxury -- they will live in palaces and jet all over the world to environmental conferences and plan which group of humans is "overpopulated" and needs to be exterminated.

[Don Joe]

Read Pournelle's "Fallen Angels". He and his publisher have put it online for free. You can read it on their website, or, download it in a variety of formats.

http://www.baen.com/library/jpournelle.htm

[BadAndy]

Pol Pot was the dictator who ruled Cambodia after the US left SE Asia. His troops killed over 1 million people in a Mao-like effort to reshape their society.

[Savage Beast]

Some of the cruelist, most sadistic people I have ever met have been "environmentalists".

They have the same sort of cruelty and sadism that fundamentalist religious fanatics have--the kind that is ruthless, brutal, merciless, self-righteous, and joyful in its cruelty.

At first, like most people, I supported them and this movement, but I now have nothing but disgust for them and their actions.

As a rule of thumb, if "environmentalists" are for something, I oppose it. If they are against something, I support it. I still think each thing through--let me hasten to say--but experience and careful observation have taught me that these people are not to be encouraged or supported.

"Environmentalists" are not harmless do-gooders. They must not be supported. Do not give money to "environmentalist charities". Do not support politicians who support these "environmentalists" and their organizations.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Equating Pol Pot to Martha Stewart is ridiculous.

Try it this way; Pol Pot as the head of the Khmer Rouge was responsible for the death of 25% of the population of Cambodia during his short reign (well in excess of 2.5 million people).

To equal that number in this country, you would have to kill about 75 million Americans.

Hillary has that sort of political outlook and ruthlessness, but not Martha Stewart.

Regards,

[lafroste]

"Environmentalists" are not harmless do-gooders. They must not be supported. Do not give money to "environmentalist charities". Do not support politicians who support these "environmentalists" and their organizations.

A few months ago an attractive young lady showed up on my doorstep to enlighten me about all the good works of the Sierra Club and to solicite a donation. I proceded to give her a lecture she will not likely forget. It ended with "so you see, there is not a chance in hell that I will give Sierra Club even so much as one dime." She was one of the evil ones, I could see it in her eye.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[tdadams]

Not to quibble, but just for historical accuracy... the best estimate, and most agreed upon, number of deaths during the Khmer Rouge years was 1.7 million.

[Defendingliberty]

"equating Pol Pot to Martha is redicilous"

That right, that's why I said it. The averave American thinks Martha Stewart is evil and give real evil a pass....

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