HECKLED: Actor tries to court environmentalists amid protest

SFGate.com ^ | 9/22/03 | Carla Marinucci

[NormsRevenge]

Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County -- Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger was dogged by persistent protesters and hecklers Sunday, as he tried to seize the environmental mantle, proposing a $60 million "hydrogen highway" he said would provide a statewide chain of hydrogen fueling stations to help clean the air.

[NormsRevenge]

"Kermit the Barbarian" .. It's not easy being GReen!

[NormsRevenge]

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[Cicero]

A Hydrogen Highway to the 22nd Century?

[Catspaw]

Police later made one arrest after a scuffle when one of the actor's supporters attempted to take a bullhorn away from Medea Benjamin, a San Francisco-based Green Party activist who led the protest.

Medea Benjamin took time from sympathizing with Saddamites in Iraq to protest Arnold?

[Republic Rocker]

I am a enviroment proponet and a Republican. And I would have to tell Arnold his time could be better spent than addressing this radical crowd.

As long as you carry the (R) you represent big business and its interests. And as long as you do so the crazy Greens will see you as Satan.

I am surprised they did not try and torch his Hummer...!

Thank you for trying Arnold. Let your actions do the taking when you take office...!

[alloysteel]

ON PAPER, the hydrogen fuel distribution system appears to be just what the yipping environmentalists would want. But what they really want, is virtually total removal of all humanity from all but a few coastal locations and some central points on the interior of the state, with travel absolutely limited to only the highest of the elite, everybody else cmmunicating by picture phones, living entirely out of their homes. Vast "sun-farms" would be devoted to solar generation plants, which is used to generate the electricity necessary to separate hydrogen from water.

All goods and services will be delivered to the home address, so there is never any need to go outside. All waste will be totally recycled, by some mysterious magical means, and all the shiny new stuff shall reappear by the same mysterious magical means.

It does not matter what Arnold might say. He is a Republican, so he might lapse into a moment of reality unexpectedly, and deconstruct this whole fairy tale world.

[pogo101]

It's odd that they would protest Arnold for being anti-environmentalism at a speech telegraphed in advance as being one plugging fuel-cell-atopia. You'd think they'd swoon.

It actually helps Arnold in my eyes a little bit that they did so. Enemy of my enemy and all that.

[Taiwan Bocks]

Arnold! Say, I'm against abortion!

Say I'm against homo's adopting.

You started it!

Until you reverse this perverted, sinful position, you can forget my vote.

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[joesnuffy]

Right up the ole hydrogen highway with this plan....
Ahhhnold Herman and his BIG tent

[pogo101]

I understand your principled position.

If, come Oct. 7, polls that you trust show Arnold and Cruz tied at 30% and Tom at 20%, would you still vote for Tom? If it helps make my question's point clearer, assume that you and someone just like you are casting the very last two votes in the state -- and that, with all the rest of the votes counted, the Recall has passed easily and Cruz leads Arnold by one vote statewide (and that Tom's hundreds of thousands of votes behind). For whom do you pull your lever?

A victory for Cruz means much more of the things that, you indicated in your post, you think are bad. ("More" than would occur with Arnold, that is.)

Faced with such a situation, I am in the "Thomas Sowell" camp: preparing to sigh, vote for Arnold, and hope for the best.

[pogo101]

Ahhhnold Herman and his BIG tent

"Herman"?

[forester]

From Arnold's Official Website

Protect the Sierra Nevada.
A decade of hard work by a broad variety of stakeholders resulted in the Sierra Nevada Framework, a policy document that has been widely hailed as a model of forest ecosystem resource protection.

As Governor, I will direct all relevant state agencies to comply fully with the Framework and call on the federal government to honor its pledge to abide by the policies set forth in this unprecedented compact. The Sierra Nevada Mountain Range is one of the state's crown jewels. Yet, unlike many of California's other natural treasures, it has no conservancy. As Governor I will propose establishment of a Sierra Nevada Mountains Conservancy.

[Carry_Okie]

Yup. I'm working up a response to his positions right now.

[Angelwood]

CODE PINK ALERT!! (Medea Benjamin strikes again!)

[Carry_Okie]

If you read Arnold's environmental policies they come from the radical preservationist left, a philosophy that has been enormously destructive to productive habitat. I'd suggest you take his positions more skeptically.

[montag813]

$60 million "hydrogen highway" he said would provide a statewide chain of hydrogen fueling stations to help clean the air.

Would make a great terror target. Hydrogen is very explosive.

[Petronski]

Just where does he plan to get the hydrogen? LOL

[Carry_Okie]

A victory for Cruz means much more of the things that, you indicated in your post, you think are bad. ("More" than would occur with Arnold, that is.)

You would do well to READ his policy. It's not what you would think; it's straight out of the Clinton Agenda21 playbook.

[pogo101]

I've read it. I strongly disagree with you. When I hear people say that there is NO difference between Arnold and Cruz/Clinton/Davis, as opposed to saying there is "not enough difference" or some similar NON-hyperbolic statement, I just realize I'm dealing with unreasonable people or people who are willing to stretch truth beyond its boundaries to try to fool people.