Posted on 05/20/2014 3:10:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Left-wing extremism has a home at PBS – and that home, to be specific, is the set of Moyers & Company. Host Bill Moyers kicked off Sunday’s episode with a flashback to the previous week’s broadcast, in which scientist and environmental activist David Suzuki had announced that he believes society should literally punish politicians who don’t believe in global warming. [Video below. MP3 audio here.]
This is what Suzuki told Moyers:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness. If we are in a position of being able to act, and we see something going on and we refuse to acknowledge the threat or act on it, we can be taken to court for willful blindness. I think that we are being willfully blind to the consequences for our children and grandchildren. It's an intergenerational crime.
Sane people can see the major problem with such a suggestion. It would be completely un-American to jail anyone, let alone politicians, for what amounts to political dissent. Such a move would be reminiscent of George Orwell’s 1984, not a first-world democracy like ours. And even if it's said simply in jest, it's hardly a joking matter to say a dissenting point of view merits imprisonment.
However, Moyers didn’t see the sheer radicalism of Suzuki’s plan as a problem. He saw a different problem, and he explained it to his audience:
The problem is, if that should happen, if politicians were to be convicted of willful blindness to the fate of the Earth and future generations, there would have to be mass arrests and lots more funding for new prisons. We're not talking about a mere handful of culprits. It's hard even to know where to start.
Ah, of course, the logistics would trip us up. We don’t have enough prison space in this country for all of the skeptics, and we probably don’t have enough police officers to make all the arrests, either. I guess that’s all that’s preventing us from carrying out this brilliant scheme.
As for Suzuki, he's has been pushing this crackpot idea for years. As the late Noel Sheppard documented, he also called for the jailing of skeptical politicians in at least two speeches in 2008. Six years later, you and I are subsidizing the airing of that radical idea with our tax dollars.
Below is a transcript of the segment:
BILL MOYERS: Welcome. Last week, the scientist David Suzuki was here to tell us what he thinks should happen to politicians who ignore or deny evidence that the Earth is heating up.
DAVID SUZUKI: Our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness. If we are in a position of being able to act, and we see something going on and we refuse to acknowledge the threat or act on it, we can be taken to court for willful blindness. I think that we are being willfully blind to the consequences for our children and grandchildren. It's an intergenerational crime.
MOYERS: The problem is, if that should happen, if politicians were to be convicted of willful blindness to the fate of the Earth and future generations, there would have to be mass arrests and lots more funding for new prisons. We're not talking about a mere handful of culprits. It's hard even to know where to start. Perhaps with Marco Rubio, Republican senator from Florida. Back when he was a state legislator, Rubio favored cutting carbon emissions that contribute to global warming. But now he's thinking about running for president in 2016 and has changed his tune, as ABC's Jonathan Karl learned this past weekend.
SEN. MARCO RUBIO: I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it. That's what I do not. And I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it. Except, it will destroy our economy.
Bring it or STFU.
They would fire environmental friendly lead free bullets, while you would fire evil lead bullets.
SEN. MARCO RUBIO: I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it. That's what I do not. And I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it. Except, it will destroy our economy.
‘They would have no qualms about locking up conservatives’
I agree as long as someone else is doing the gathering and locking up. Amazing that bubble they live in makes them think this is right or even remotely possible. Course if enough sheeple buy into it because of the left wing constantly hammering the idea home, it may be possible. There is an answer.
My new tag line says it all
We are entering into another Dark Age. This is exactly how the “establishment” handled the scientists of the middle ages. Don’t believe what we believe and we will criminalize you. But I don’t expect these dense libtards to remember the history they were taught in grade school.
Moving on, now we have campus speech codes, then media omerta on anything un-Obama, and now the vanguard of the left so much as advocates reeducation camps for freepers.
And we're expected to just keep voting.
It would be easier, and fairer, to throw the climate change frauds in prison for their criminal science fraud. Their names are known, as are the billions of taxpayer dollars wasted because of their corruption.
Why has it been impossible to stop government funding for PBS and the “arts?” As I recall, not even Reagan could do it.
Jail them? How about debating the subject you nut?
I am shocked shocked shocked. The second amendment is only about hunting Bambi and turning her into delicious sausage, jerky etc. /Sarcasm.
I forgot there is also that thing about enemies foreign and domestic. :)
“Our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness.”
It seems clearly a rhetorical statement.
Moyers is the obtuse one.
Still, I am saddened by someone like Suzuki being such an ideologue.
I have nothing but appreciation and fond memories of his text on Genetics.
I think that Pubbies should run, as one tenet, to completely debunk Cook’s ridiculous 95% cr@p. It’s total road apples! He reviewed 11,000+ published papers, and didn’t talk to scientists. He then discarded 8.00 papers that didm;t mention man’s contribution to AGW. Many of the scientists who did mention man’s contribution are of the opinion that it is so infinitesimal that it can’t even be measured! Doesn’t even get out of the “noise” in the stats. I think this could be a good issue to hammer home to the electorate, by including in the discussion all the harm these stooped regs are, and will, cause!
“I don’t recall him trying, but I might have missed it.”
Reagan wanted to fund the largest military buildup since probably WW2. I’m sure he had to trade off lots of stuff. I suspect the PBS and arts funding was and is just a nit. But I do find it galling as I can’t stand the uber-liberalism of PBS. (I also hate it that public money buys giant baseball bats and photos of a bullet in somebody’s *ss.)
My mistake, it was Galileo, not Newton.
They really do want to do that.
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