[ElkGroveDan]

"...About 40 years ago... And especially after the first Apollo spacecraft circled the moon and sent back that picture of Earthrise over the dead moonscape... leftist groups like Greenpeace started creating what they themselves called media "mindbombs!" ..."

Al Gore tried to resurrect this by forcing NASA to create a satellite, Triana, to be placed halfway to the moon that would do nothing more than transmit pictures of the Earth on the Internet. A friend of mine wrote a column on this a few years back http://frank.rightinternet.com/?p=8

[SierraWasp]

Well, Dan... You're prolly too young to remember, or may not have had the same overbearing fundamentalist religious up-bringing that I survived, but when they were designing and build the huge Apollo booster rocket, fundamentalist preachers were revising their fire and brimstone sermons to condemn the up coming moonlaunch as a "work of the Devil!"

Well, now! Based on that article and based on the fact that that one "graven image" started the new Pagan Religion of GovernMental EnvironMentalism... Those old preachers WERE RIGHT!!!

In their churches were pictures of Jesus holding the Earth in HIS hands... NOT an islolated, vulnerable "space ship earth" with a barely perceptable cushion of "firmament!" (atmosphere, of course)

The message of the contrast with the "dead" moon in the forground was the epitome of "good & evil," the "quick and the dead!" "The wages of sin are death," was quickly converted into "The SUPERFUND!!!" The high priests became the self-annointed little prigs that started calling themselves EnvironMentalists.

They alone would save us from ourselves, even if they had to infiltrate every level of our multi-level GovernMental bureaucrazy to do it!!!

So... In reality... the Luddites were right! We should have never let 'em even circle the moon even once on Christmas Eve and they should have never read from the bible! That just inspired the "Born Again Pagans" to institute an whole new union of church and state called GovernMental EnvironMentalism that we have today.

Today's GovernMental EnvironMentalism's only redeeming social value is that, just like government... the only thing it accomplishes is making everything COST MORE!!!

That creates inordinate inflation which is the cruelest tax of all. It creates arbitrary bureaucratic regulation which is what our founders rebelled against in the form of inexcusable confiscatory taxation along with governmental penetration into our very hearths and homes!!!