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Mass murder and green ideology
BrookesNews.Com ^ | 25 April 2003 | Gerard Jackson

Posted on 04/28/2003 1:55:45 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

It is no exaggeration to say that the twentieth century has probably been the most momentous of any other. It gave birth to the greatest technological marvels in human history. It also fought the bloodiest and most extensive wars in history, simultaneously fighting virtually over the globe.

It was also been the century that saw the rise and fall of totalitarianism — or did it? Ideology is the foundation stone of every totalitarian structure, whether it be Communism, Nazism or Fascism. Not any ideology, of course, but one that justifies the subjection and destruction of one's fellow man.

Totalitarianism means what it says: total control. The ideology rationalises that control and the use of the power needed to enforce it. Totalitarianism brings home with bloody force Lord Acton's dictum that absolute power not only tends to corrupt but absolute power corrupts absolutely.

One only has to read Lord Liverpool's account of Nazi atrocities or other books like Victor Kravchenko's I Chose Freedom, Nikoli Tolstoy's Stalin's Secret War, Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow, Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago to realise the savage horrors of totalitarianism.

The appalling role that Western intellectuals played in supporting totalitarianism has been amply documented by genuine scholars. (See, for example, Paul Hollander's Political Pilgrims). That many, if not most, of these intellectuals are irredeemable is borne out by the depressing fact that in Australia we still have university lecturers who have never apologised for supporting Mao Tse Tung or Pol Pot. Instead, these same intellectuals still use every opportunity to attack what they deem capitalist countries.

The delusion that a humane totalitarianism is possible was exploded by Hayek's brilliant book The Road to Serfdom which lucidly explained why the worst will always get to the top in any totalitarian state.

All of this brings us to the greens. Not because most of them are obviously anti-capitalist and therefore socialists, but because of their contempt for human welfare, except their own. One thing that marks out a totalitarian movement is its contempt for human life. In this respect the greens stand shoulder to shoulder with the Nazis and the Reds. It was green ideologues that forced through the totally unjustified ban on DDT. A ban that killed over 20 million Third-World peasants and is still killing about 2 million a year.

A ban that causes immense misery and pain to those who are least able to defend themselves. Yet greens refuse to acknowledge this misery. Why? Because they despise the victims; the untermenschen whose aspirations for a better life challenge the comfortable existence of the Herrenvolk. That is why Greens still support the ban. That is why they violently oppose economic growth; that is why they oppose cheap energy, genetic engineering, man-made pesticides, intensive agriculture, etc.

Why else do you think prominent greens could callously advocate a policy of denying starving peasants aid in food. And this is why Dr Charles Wurster defended the ban on DDT, because in his own words, "this is as good away to get rid of them [people] as any". And this was while he was still chief scientist for the Environmental Defence Fund. As expected, the EDF did not repudiate his views.

No, our totalitarian greens do not use gas chambers, death camps, firing squads or torture chambers to rid themselves of the lesser people. What they try to do is deny them life-saving chemicals and technology. Green policies are killing millions of peasants. This is mass murder and those responsible should be held to account.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial
KEYWORDS: ddt; deathcultivation; enviralists; environment; greens; totalitarian; un
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To: Only1choice____Freedom
Oooo, ya got me.
41 posted on 04/28/2003 9:17:47 PM PDT by Anamensis (Ithaca, Hollywood... America is like an oreo cookie; the good stuff's in the middle.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
No, our totalitarian greens do not use gas chambers, death camps, firing squads or torture chambers to rid themselves of the lesser people. What they try to do is deny them life-saving chemicals and technology. Green policies are killing millions of peasants. This is mass murder and those responsible should be held to account.

Beware supporting this kind of hysterical shrieking. Not every rational argument has to be teased out to the nth extreme where the opponent is suddenly equivalent to "Nazis."

You isolate your argument from mainstream moderate thinking and make yourself look like an extremist, in return, furthering alienating your argument from rational discourse.

42 posted on 04/28/2003 9:28:51 PM PDT by lurky
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To: Tailgunner Joe
I like the article, but he needs a reference that documents the effect of eliminating DDT on humanity. I'm sure there are a number from which to choose. Surprising that he missed that since he had so many other references for his other statements.
43 posted on 04/28/2003 9:30:24 PM PDT by Rockitz (After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
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To: sharktrager
Btw, Stern is a all "best of" clips this week. They're partying in Vegas.
44 posted on 04/28/2003 9:30:55 PM PDT by lurky
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To: JoJo Gunn
I point your green KKK/Nazi graphics as Exhibit A. I mean, who gonna take crap this seriously? When I say "who" I mean, "those rational people who need persuasive argument to see our side."
45 posted on 04/28/2003 9:35:45 PM PDT by lurky
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To: belmont_mark
PING!
46 posted on 04/28/2003 11:53:04 PM PDT by Orion78
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To: lurky
They're not going to take us seriously. They don't care that hordes of Africans die for want of grain, so why should they listen to reason about anything?

Leftists are Death personified.
47 posted on 04/29/2003 2:08:06 AM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered....)
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To: JoJo Gunn
No, no. Not persuading leftists. It's the moderate middle that needs persuading. Or maybe not. Maybe all you care about is preaching to the choir.
48 posted on 04/29/2003 7:30:04 AM PDT by lurky
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To: cake_crumb
I'm just going from memory, but not only ducks were affected. The hardest hit species were apparently predatory birds. The numbers of raptors are recovering at a very comforting pace - unless you're an envirnazi, because then no matter how prolific a species is, it's 'endangered'.

Egg shell thinning was an enormous hoax. It is caused by an astonishing number of environmental factors, ranging from oil spills (as was the case on Annacappa), dehydration, low calcium diet, and stress.

The science has been done, but the ecofreaks keep repeating the old crap simply because it suits their purpose. You'll hear all about the persistence of breakdown products of DDT such as DDD or DDE. The test methods used are a joke, sometimes as crude as measuring total chlorine content in seawater. These idiots have been caught claiming existence of DDT breakdown products in soil samples taken before DDT was ever produced! Even after they are confronted with the facts, they keep right on going.

Try 100 things you should know about DDT. It's a pretty good compilation of the case against this crap. It's useful to have the facts when people repeat these bogus claims. I have more if you need it.

49 posted on 04/29/2003 8:35:26 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by politics.)
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To: lurky
As per your name, I know there are the Leftists who come around here. I'm not so bigheaded that I suppose they'll read all my words, but one here, one there....
50 posted on 04/29/2003 2:04:06 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered....)
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To: cake_crumb
"Because the Nazis and Reds are totalitarian, all social communsts stand shoulder with them. Including the Greens, which are socialists and social anarchists; and therefore totalitarian."

Gosh, I had better quit recycling and using ladybugs to kill my aphids. I wouldn't want anyone to think I'm a social anarchist, much less standing shoulder to shoulder with them. I'm stopping wearing cotton shirts. Cotton is a "natural" fiber, you know (and you know what people might think). Should I quit repairing my car as well? You know, their mantra is "reduce, repair, recycle."

Help me out here. How else should I quit using my common sense so I don't get put in some neat little classification box as the result of some far-fetched nonlogic required to uphold a favored political theory?
51 posted on 04/29/2003 3:02:52 PM PDT by thetruckster
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