Posted on 02/12/2008 3:29:15 PM PST by Between the Lines
MONTREAL, Quebec, February 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - There are very few Canadians who would not immediately recognize the face of David Suzuki, Canada's environmentalist extraordinaire.
In Canada the name of Suzuki is almost synonymous with environmentalism, with his fame and reputation having been solidified by years of successful lecturing, activism, and internationally syndicated television programs, including the famous The Nature of Things. He is often described with the words "prophet" or "guru," and is widely hailed for his "wisdom." Besides having been awarded the highest award possible for a Canadian citizen - the Order of Canada - Suzuki has been the recipient of twenty-two honorary degrees.
Hence, when Suzuki speaks, Canada listens. And a week and a half ago Canada listened as the sixty-one year old scientist and activist called, again, for the imprisonment of politicians who deny climate change.
Suzuki made the remarks during a speech at McGill University.
"What I would challenge you to do," said Suzuki to the gathered students, during the section of his speech dealing with climate change, and those who deny its existence, "is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act."
"It's an intergenerational crime in the face of all the knowledge and science from over 20 years."
The packed room of 600 listeners burst into applause. Some attendees at the speech reported that the line about throwing politicians in jail was the biggest applause-line of the night, almost bringing the crowd to its feet.
Subsequent to the speech, however, Suzuki's spokesman, Dan Maceluch, attempted to downplay Suzuki's remarks, saying that they were not meant to be taken literally.
"He's not advocating locking people up, but he is pulling his hair out," said Maceluch.
This is not, however, the first time that Suzuki has called for the imprisonment of those who don't buy into the climate change hype. While Suzuki's high-profile McGill speech has received the widest amount of media coverage, last month, in a University of Toronto speech, Suzuki made similar remarks.
"[Governments] should go to jail for what they're not dong right now," said Suzuki on the occasion. "What our government is not doing, is a criminal act."
Despite Suzuki's spokesman's attempts to dissuade the environmentalist's listeners from a literal interpretation of his words, those who attended the speech have said that Suzuki did not seem to be joking, or even speaking hyperbolically.
"He sounded serious," said McGill Tribune news editor Vincci Tsui, as reported by the National Post. "I think he wanted to send home the message that this is very crucial issue.
Suzuki is well known to pro-life and pro-family advocates in Canada for his recurrent emphasis on so-called "sustainable development" and his ongoing preaching of the idea of over-population. In Suzuki's world-view, human beings are nothing more than another species of animal - and indeed, in his own words, a "cancerous" animal - that has developed a superiority complex, leading humans to believe that they hold a privileged place in the cosmos.
Conservative commentators have reacted strongly to Suzuki's remarks as being further evidence of the ongoing whittling away of human rights in Canada, where those who disagree with the establishment, particularly those on the political and social right, are being increasingly persecuted.
As journalist Terry O'Neill wrote in an article published on Feb. 7 in the National Post, "We should also not be surprised at the intolerance that permeates Suzuki's 'lock 'em up' rhetoric. After all, despite the multicultural mantra that we 'celebrate our differences,' there's a disturbingly illiberal tendency these days (as shown in the recent 'human-rights' prosecutions of Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn, for example) to censor those with whom one doesn't agree. It's only a very small step to try to throw such disagreeable persons into prison, too."
Paging Michael Crichton....
There you go. Finally a liberal/socialist who admits the true feelings about global warming. If we don’t agree, we should be put in gulags!! (ooops, I mean jails.)
Vladimir Lenin would be soooo proud.
Hillary was willing to put doctors and patients in jail if they went outside her health care bureaucracy.
Give liberal/socialists enough power and they think they can justify criminalizing disagreement. Boy, it that doesn’t tell you something I don’t know what will about global warming.
Once again the left shows what it thinks of free speech.
Not to mention science.
Such demagogues are naturally cowardly, so I look to public spokesmen to say,
“Fine, imprison the heretics once the world intolerably warms. However, if the world DOES NOT intolerably warm, then all those who attempted to cause public panic, to illegally seize political power and enormous sums of money, should THEMSELVES be thrown in prison. Their names should be erased from the annals of science, and they shall be remembered only as frauds and agitators!”
At the head of this list should be Al Gore, James Hansen of NASA, and David Suzuki. And after their imprisonment, they should be banned from further public outcry and agitation.
And in prison, they should be joined by other FALSE PROPHETS OF DOOM, like Paul R. Ehrlich, entomologist expert on BUTTERFLIES who wrote ‘The Population Bomb’, predicting massive overpopulation of HUMANS by the year 1980, unless the left was given dictatorial powers to force people to stop having children.
He should have been in prison since 1980.
I think we want a northern border, too.
Rachel Carson was similarly described and look at the mischief and misery she caused.
Basically, the new liberals have taken the scapegoats of the Nazis and Marxists and created a new one. Instead of Jews and Capitalists, the “enemy” is the guilt imparted by human beings who knowingly or unknowingly hurt the environment. Of course, guilt can be redeemed by new patterns of thought, word and deed.
What MIGHT actually work though is do something like this:
Arrest a black or a woman...anyone but a white Republican male really, that disagrees with this foolishness and have a TV crew follow them from booking to their poor family losing their home because they’re now out of work, etc.
Add up the amount of money tax payers had to fork out for the trial, pay for his housing, food, appeals...his family’s cost on them for being on welfare...even if necessary go so far as to have him stabbed in the neck by a REAL criminal...all in a inconvenient type TV documentary setting their flock can understand.
We’d never hear about algores money making power grab scheme again!
How do you ALMOST bring a crowd to it’s feet ?
How do you ALMOST bring a crowd to it’s feet ?
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After being proven wrong, can we then jail any politician (and Weather Channel employee) who went along with the climate change scam? Please?
No, no. We can treat them as enemy combatants and hold them without trial for an indefinite period. :-)
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