Posted on 12/06/2009 4:33:01 PM PST by Starman417
In 1977, John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, co-authored the 1,000 page book Ecoscience with Paul and Anne Ehrlich. One section, titled Population Law, cited the radical group Zero Population Growth and said it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.
Few today consider the situation in the United States serious enough to justify compulsion, however.
I ask, who's Constitution are you reading Dr Holdren? The idea that there could be a time when such measures could ever be considered is in my mind appalling. And this man has the President's ear.
Rick Weiss, the Office of Science and Technology Policys Director of Strategic Communications, said the material at issue was from a three-decade-old, three-author textbook used in colleges to teach energy policy.
He could easily dismiss fears that Dr. Holdren favors government control over population growth. He made that quite clear in his confirmation hearing, Weiss said. He then quoted a section of the confirmation transcript in which Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) asked Holdren whether he thinks determining optimal population is a proper role of government.
No, Senator, I do not, was Holdrens reply, according to Weiss and a transcript of the proceedings.
In other remarks at the confirmation hearing, not cited by Weiss, Holdren told Sen. Vitter he no longer thinks it is productive to focus on the optimum population for the United States. I don't think any of us know what the right answer is. However, not knowing the "optiomal population" does not dismiss the idea that Dr. Holdren does not believe that there is a need to control populations through government mandate.
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Grrr...
Orwell’s 1984 is not too far fetched.
His Animal Farm is already happening.
Next on the re-reading list is the Road to Serfdon
by F.A. Heyek
would make a GREAT CHRISTMAS gift to LIBERALS.
Somebody else about 2000 years ago said that there was going to be a one-world government.
Hmmmm....
Not a single person working with and/or appointed by this commie,pinko, former drug using wannabe hippie is not at least as far out in left field as Zero, their commie hero, is. Hell, they have perverts or seriously twisted minds in every office.
if your pregnancy is not approved by the Public Option, you will have to pay the maternity care out of your own pocket.
The Nazis advocated population control in response to perceived and manufactured threats.
Deja Vu.
Spoken like a true conservative (a BIG compliment), not that there's anything wrong with that. See, what you speak of is true, and what we (as a society) promulgate is false. The Truth will Hurt.
Oh, let me not count the ways our society is in for a real hurtin' when truth and sanity return. But if it doesn't, the crash from socialism will be even worse.
He’s so out in left field he’s not even playing in the same ballpark.
I have no doubt that Obama will be a future Secretary General of the UN. He want to cede all US sovereignty to the UN so he can be world dictator.
Would that make him, the you know (Antichrist)? I did not say that. You did not read that. I am not here. Sssshhh!
Abortion is a sure fire way to economic crisis. When you kill the unborn, you are killing a potential consumer in society. Most of the interest among industrial nations on free trade comes from their desire to increase their market potential. The natural increase in the size of the market comes from babies born into the economy. But when babies are being thrown away through abortion, then nations have to rely on foreign trade to stimulate their economies and not through natural market growth due to increasing population. Foreign trade has so many risks involved. In order to sustain foreign trade, you have to lend to deficit nations so that they could buy the goods available in the world market. However, you do not have to lend to anybody by giving babies a chance to be born, in stead of throwing them away through abortion.
There is a close connection between abortion and economic stagnation. When the US Supreme Court says that abortion is a constitutional right of the people, then it also says that being unemployed or seeing your business go bankrupt is also a fundamental constitutional right of the people. The laws of abortion denies the right of the state to maximize its resources for the benefit of all its subjects. The state has a right to outlaw abortion to safeguard the welfare of its citizens. By protecting the rights of the unborn, the state is also protecting the rights of the citizens of society.
Some say that abortion denies women their rights. If a woman gets pregnant and she does not want to raise her child, she could always give up that child for adoption to other willing parents who want to keep that child or to the state. When a woman has a child and she does not want to keep that child, then the state will just have to volunteer to keep that child until suitable foster parents could be found who is willing to keep that child. The State has the right to prohibit the killing of unborn fetuses because it will affect the welfare of adults in society. The fetus is a potential consumer in society so the state has the right to keep it alive for the sake of the economy.
I don't know if you fully understand the world they seek to create. They wish to destroy the consumer. The leftist elites seek as bleak an existence as possible for us.
Look at what they've done to Europe. It's what they want for us X10 because they aint done with Europe yet either.
They want a world where it's an extravagance to go buy a cup of coffee.
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