INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
April 18, 2008
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Time calls green "the new red, white and blue" and likens global warming
to the fight against Nazism and fascism.
As it insults World War II vets, the magazine seeks to impose a tyranny
all its own.
We never cease to be amazed by the inability of the left to feel shame
and its lack of reverence for America and those who defend its freedoms,
including the right to be stupid.
The cover of the April 21 issue of Time, taking the famous Joe Rosenthal
photo of Marines planting our flag on the blood-soaked island of Iwo
Jima and replacing our flag with a tree, qualifies for obscenity of the
year.
TIME for a history lesson and some perspective.
It echoes the greenie theme first advanced by Al Gore in his book "Earth
In The Balance" that the internal combustion engine is the greatest
threat in the history of mankind. Gore and Bill Clinton have both said
that global warming is ultimately a greater threat than terrorism.
That, admitted Time managing editor Richard Stengel, was the thinking
behind the cover story. "One of the things we do in this story," he said
last week on MSNBC, "is we say there needs to be an effort along the
lines of preparing for World War II to combat global warming and climate
change."
This trivializing of the sacrifice of American blood and treasure to
defend freedom ignores the fact that in World War II we faced a real
enemy with a terrible agenda.
The bombs that fell on Pearl Harbor were quite real, not the output of
some badly fed computer model.
"Global warming may or may not be a significant threat to the United
States," Tim Holbert, a spokesman for the American Veterans Center, told
the Business and Media Institute (BMI): "The Japanese Empire on February
1945, however, certainly was, and this photo trivializes the most
recognizable moment of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history."
It was not that long ago that the media, including Time, was singing a
different tune and waging a different war.
An article in its June 24, 1974, issue entitled "Another Ice Age?" told
of how, "when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the
globe, they find that the atmosphere has been gradually cooler for the
past three decades."
Time spoke then of a "global climatic upheaval" and "climatological
Cassandras who are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather
aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."
Reputable scientists and satellite and other observations have noted
another cooling period under way since 1998. Declining solar activity in
the current cycle correlates with other cool periods in Earth's history.
It ties in perfectly with climate history that shows the warming and
cooling of Earth is a natural and cyclical process.
A man who knows a little about fighting totalitarianism, Vaclav Klaus,
president of the Czech Republic, wrote in the Financial Times last year:
"As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel
obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the
market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not
communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous
evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning."
Lt. John Keith Wells, leader of the platoon that raised the flags on Mt.
Suribachi, told BMI: "That global warming is the biggest joke I've ever
known."
He knows a real enemy and a real threat when he sees one.
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
".it should not be surprising to see hordes of former Reds, or of those
who otherwise would have become Reds, turning from Marxism and becoming
the Greens of the ecology movement. It is the same fundamental
philosophy in a different guise, ready as ever to wage war on the
freedom and well-being of the individual." Dr. George Reisman's book
Capitalism
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