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Revenge On The Envirowackos
CNS News ^ | 19 Apr 02 | Michael L. Betsch

Posted on 04/19/2002 11:30:43 AM PDT by 11B3

Conservative Radio Host Burning Green Swastika for Earth Day
By Michael L. Betsch
CNSNews.com Editorial Assistant
April 19, 2002

(CNSNews.com) - In advance of Earth Day 2002, the day when environmentalists celebrate their efforts to preserve the planet from what they consider human destruction, working-class Americans in one rural Montana city plan to condemn the "green left" for allegedly killing their livelihood.

KGEZ Radio, an AM station broadcasting out of Kalispell, Mont., is celebrating Earth Day on Friday, three days early, by burning a twelve-foot green swastika in front of the station.

John Stokes, the owner and host of KGEZ's morning talk show, will strike the match to ignite the green swastika and, he hopes, educate the public about the liberal environmentalists whom he accuses of ruining rural America. He calls them "green Nazis," and he hopes to make them angry, too.

Stokes said that by burning the swastika, he's making a bold statement that every industry in America has been adversely affected by dictates to preserve the environment.

"We've lost our natural resource industry; we can't mine, we can't log," Stokes said. Such losses, he said, have resulted in a 70 percent unemployment rate in America's natural resource industries.

If environmentalism had produced worthwhile results, "We probably all would agree with it, but the results have been disastrous," Stokes said.

And it's not just the miners and the loggers who are struggling because of laws passed at the behest of environmentalists, Stokes said. "Everybody's on the list. They just don't know it yet."

Unsuspecting industries targeted by environmentalists include farming and agriculture, paper mills and truckers and transporters of manufactured goods, Stokes said.

Stokes is especially angered by the Endangered Species Act, which was enacted at the insistence of environmentalists.

"It's destroyed rural America," he said. "If you live in the city, you probably don't understand that. But when you get out here in rural America, you know, the great fly-over country, it's had a devastating effect."

Critics of the Endangered Species Act say it mostly endangers humans. They say environmentalists have become experts at deliberately misusing the act to destroy people's livelihoods and culture, by depriving them of various opportunities to earn a living from the land.

The Montana Human Rights Network (MHRN), which seeks to protect environmentalists from physical harm, has been in a war of words with KGEZ's Stokes since 1994, though they've never met to discuss their differences of opinion.

Ken Toole, a program director at the MHRN, said his organization tangled with Stokes after witnessing a rise in "the use of violence and intimidation around political disputes around resource development."

Toole, also a Democratic state Senator from Helena, said Stokes has - in the past -- urged people to call in to his radio talk show to reveal the telephone numbers and home addresses of environmental activists on the air.

"What we concluded is that in this community, people were being singled out for harassment because of their political views in an effort to get them to shut-up," Toole said.

Toole said Stokes blames the failure of the "traditional resource-extractive economy" on environmentalists "who want to save trees." And, he said, Stokes encourages listeners to "go beat the hell out of them (environmentalists)."

Stokes called Toole's accusations an "absolute lie."

But according to Toole, "Our belief is that John Stokes very much feeds into that by reinforcing all of the kind of scape-goating, the mythology, the fear and anger felt by some people in the community around these conservation disputes."

In fact, Toole said Stokes' form of scape-goating resembles that of those who "want to blame the international Jewish banking conspiracy" for the world's economic woes.

As for Stokes' symbolic burning of a green swastika, Toole said Stokes is "trying to symbolize his idea that conservationists are uncompromising, are bad, are evil. But we're very clear that the swastika is a symbol for his perception of the conservation movement."

"Those guys are misguided," Stokes said of Toole and the Montana Human Rights Coalition's efforts against him.

"They've found the perfect issue to co-opt everybody's principles," Stokes said of environmentalism. "Think about it. Religion's never been able to do it; political philosophies have never been able to do it.

"These green extremists have found the one thing that everybody can agree with, and that's clean air and clean water," Stokes said. "And, once you've established that's the principle, then everything's permissible under obtaining that," he said.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: greennazis
Typical of the leftist green machine to smear anyone who disagrees with them. After all those years watching these tactics being perfected by Sick Willie, you'd think that the public would start to catch on - these people are not Americans. They are not interested in "Green Issues". They are only interested in obtaining their facist authoritarian global governance goals - at any cost. The left is America's #1 Enemy. They must be stopped.
1 posted on 04/19/2002 11:30:43 AM PDT by 11B3
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To: 11B3
... working-class Americans in one rural Montana city plan to condemn the "green left"...

Just what, exactly, is a rural city?

2 posted on 04/19/2002 11:35:04 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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To: 11B3
Enviro-nazis:
Worshipping the creation rather than the Creator.

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
-- St. Paul's letter to the Romans, Chapt. 1, v. 25-27


3 posted on 04/19/2002 11:49:35 AM PDT by ppaul
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To: ShadowAce
Large population and infrastructure in the middle of nowhere.

What we would call a Town, Village or X-Roads with a gas station.

Eddie01

4 posted on 04/19/2002 12:01:11 PM PDT by The Real Eddie01
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To: 11B3
"In fact, Toole said Stokes' form of scape-goating resembles that of those who "want to blame the international Jewish banking conspiracy" for the world's economic woes."

Uhhhh, yeah just the same, except that there is no "international Jewish banking conspiracy" but the "International Green Religion" is very real, and will not rest untill every person on earth has been forcibly converted.

5 posted on 04/19/2002 12:24:33 PM PDT by monday
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To: 11B3, cogitator
BUMP!!!!!!

Hey ole cogitator, how do ya like them (Alar free, of course!!!;) apples ya green fascist!....

6 posted on 04/19/2002 12:34:23 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD
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To: 11B3
Stop the attacks by the wacko, enviro-nazis terrorist's on our Freedoms !!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

Molon Labe !!

7 posted on 04/19/2002 1:23:50 PM PDT by blackie
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To: ShadowAce
Actually, Kalispell is not all that small anymore - 25,000 give or take a few. The downside to that is the fact that the rich envirowackos from Hollywierd have made the area one of their newer "trendy places in the West" to have vacation homes. Flathead Lake, which is nearby, is large enough that you can't see accross it and is extremely deep. Deep enough to make submariners out of these leftists, if you ask me.
8 posted on 04/19/2002 1:34:32 PM PDT by 11B3
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To: 11B3
Typical of the leftist green machine to smear anyone who disagrees with them

As always, they can dish it out, but they sure can't take it!

9 posted on 04/19/2002 1:46:58 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: 11B3
EARTHDAY--PANTYWAIST SISSIES!
10 posted on 04/19/2002 2:24:01 PM PDT by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: 11B3
"Earth First - We'll develop the other planets later."
11 posted on 04/19/2002 2:56:30 PM PDT by Looking4Truth
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To: ShadowAce
Just what, exactly, is a rural city?

It’s where the cows wear gang colors.

12 posted on 04/19/2002 2:59:12 PM PDT by dead
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To: monday;11B3
No reason to tell you guys anything.... you got it exactly right! Freedom Bump!
13 posted on 04/19/2002 7:19:57 PM PDT by Issaquahking
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To: 11B3
Here's the real story: the Left realized it could never get its agenda enacted by democratic means. So they wrapped up Marxism in Green camouflage. It is literally a strike at capitalism and liberty.

EVERY "solution" to each manufactured "crisis" involves bigger government, less freedom, higher taxes and other costs, more laws and regulations.

They are not pro-nature, they are anti-human. The ideal environmental citizen is a corpse. Corpses:

Consume nothing;
Throw away nothing;
Use no energy--fossil fuels or electricity;
Fertilize the soil for plants;
Do not contribute to the population "crisis".
Exhale no greenhouse gases;
Burn nothing;
Travel to nowhere (no nasty hydrocarbons);
Vote Democratic.

--Boris

14 posted on 04/19/2002 7:45:09 PM PDT by boris
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To: 11B3,ShadowAce,ppaul,The Real Eddie01,monday,belmont_mark, blackie,SuziQ,INSENSITIVE GUY,Looking4
Critics of the Endangered Species Act say it mostly endangers humans. They say environmentalists have become experts at deliberately misusing the act to destroy people's livelihoods and culture, by depriving them of various opportunities to earn a living from the land.

We know the above is true from the crisis of the Klamath. Farmers committed suicide because of the ESA. There is legislation in the US House, HR2829, an attempt to put a leash on the power of the ESA. I suggest contacting your Congress-person and asking them to support change to the ESA. If not now, when? If not us, who?

15 posted on 04/19/2002 8:24:46 PM PDT by WhiteyAppleseed
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