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ANDREW ALEXANDER: Politicians, power and a new religion
(Global Warming Cult)
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| Jan. 2, 2009
| Andrew Alexander
Posted on 01/02/2009 6:24:42 AM PST by PROCON
Since this is the moment in the year when forecasts are demanded, I shall pick a sad certainty. Parliament will create more offences, lots of them.
The Government, astonishingly, has apparently created a new imprisonable offence every four days for the past decade. Curiously little row has been made about this, least of all by what passes for the parliamentary Opposition.
Many of the new offences in the coming year are sure to stem from the new religion: global warming.
Its extent and scale may still be an issue among scientists, but politicians have latched on to this crusade fervently. The reason is simple. It increases the power of government. Never, never underestimate this urge. Anyone wanting to understand politics must understand this. And when it comes to global warming - it is a politicians' dream. The scope for governmental interference and pious lectures is limitless.
Industry can be splattered with new regulations. The private citizen can be subjected to constant hectoring on how this or that might save the planet.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigmoney; cashcow; globalwarming; scamartists
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posted on
01/02/2009 6:24:42 AM PST
by
PROCON
To: xcamel; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
01/02/2009 6:25:18 AM PST
by
PROCON
(Happy New Year!!)
To: PROCON
Drat! Beat me to the steely-camel ping!
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posted on
01/02/2009 6:27:04 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: PROCON; OKSooner; honolulugal; Killing Time; Beowulf; Mr. Peabody; RW_Whacko; gruffwolf; ...
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
GREENIE WATCH
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
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posted on
01/02/2009 6:27:17 AM PST
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: PROCON
And when it comes to global warming - it is a politicians' dream. The scope for governmental interference and pious lectures is limitless.
Bingo!
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posted on
01/02/2009 6:34:17 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: PROCON; bamahead
Wow. This guy Gets It, that’s for sure. Good article.
Pretty much everything he says is likely to play out here, as well, under Obama.
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posted on
01/02/2009 6:57:40 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Obama: Carter's only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.)
To: PROCON; Robert A. Cook, PE; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Genesis defender; proud_yank; ..
To: PROCON
Its extent and scale may still be an issue among scientists, but politicians have latched on to this crusade fervently. The reason is simple. It increases the power of government. Never, never underestimate this urge.It's the same all over the world!
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posted on
01/02/2009 8:41:25 AM PST
by
SuziQ
To: PROCON; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; America_Right; ...
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posted on
01/02/2009 7:55:10 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(This election gave the drunks the keys to the liquor cabinet!)
To: FreedomPoster
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posted on
01/02/2009 9:12:36 PM PST
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: PROCON
Temperatures have fallen in the past year-and-a-half, leaving the global position unchanged over the past decade. And even if all the Kyoto agreements were fulfilled, he calculates, it would reduce the global temperature in the year 2100 by only .0075 degrees. Britain's contribution would be tiny to the point of immeasurable - though painfully measurable financially.BINGO
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posted on
01/03/2009 3:14:07 PM PST
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GOPJ
(GM's market value is a third of Bed, Bath and Beyond. Why is GM "too big to fail"? Steyn)
To: FreedomPoster; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ..
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01/05/2009 7:39:14 AM PST
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bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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