Green Nazis Must be Gloating These Days
I can just imagine the green nazis, or Progressives as they like to call themselves, rubbing their hands together in orgasmic glee as they see a growing number of Americans unable to travel, unable to take family vacations, or like me, with a limited income, not being able to take the grand kids on our usual road adventures. They probably are patting each other on the backs with self-congratulatory pomposity as they push through their insidious “public transport” or, as they read about Americans not being able to pursue homes far from the city because the commute went from just being a pain in the ass to one that imposes an onerous financial hit.
And they just must be salivating in anticipation as bills like this latest bastard piece of legislative meddling is presented to the pathetic asses we elected into office. Instead of brainstorming for ways to drill or build nuke plants, they instead seek ways to make our lives worse via economic and legislative extortion. My interpretation of each proposal is in red.
Anxious to look like they’re doing something about rising oil and gas prices — but unwilling to expand domestic oil drilling — Democrats have introduced a bill that’s supposed to ease pain at the pump by offering alternatives to driving.
The bill does nothing to increase domestic energy supply. Instead, it’s focused on the demand side of the equation, and that’s earned it kudos from environmental activists.
According to the Environmental Defense Fund, the bill — called the Transportation and Housing Options for Gas Price Relief Act of 2008 — would allocate taxpayer money to:
– expand public transportation;
increase tax burden and open up suburbs for criminals to find new targets for home invasions and assaults
– encourage “pay-as-you-drive” auto insurance policies that reward low-mileage drivers with lower insurance premiums;
penalize drivers who do not cooperate with the green agenda to suffer exorbitant insurance rates– reduce commuting costs by providing incentives to employers and employees to take transit, bicycle, carpool, walk, or telecommute to work;
marginalizing those who love to drive, need to drive, want to drive and rewarding the sheeple who comply as well as imposing more burdens on the business owner. When will it become too much a hassle for a businessman to hire normal Americans anymore. And has anybody ever thought about the time ramifications? A ten minute commute becomes an hour long bike ride. Next they’ll want companies to provide shower facilities so these sweating little comrades don’t stink up the office.
– help local governments create “walkable, bikeable” communities;
extort more money from taxpayers to put more expensive “lipstick on a pig” by sticking housing in undesirable urban areas, penalizing builders by making it unprofitable to build outside urban areas.– help Americans make “smart” transportation and housing choices by educating them about their options;
indoctrinate, via the media, schools and every progressive pulpit, that to desire a free unencumbered life is “un-American and anti-social”.
– create “location efficient mortgages” that would make owning a home near transit more affordable.
only the wealthy will be able to afford to build and live outside of the city. If the progressive freaks don’t buy up all the available land and slam some conservation restrictions on thousands of acres. But hell, these are the whores who hate the concept of private property to begin with.
The bill also would require the federal government to upgrade key Web sites so Americans would have easier access to government services without leaving home or work.
What the hell does this mean? How many Americans make a habit of going to government offices except those already with their mouth glued to a government teat
Democrats Float Bill to Curb Gasoline Demand
Brendan O’Neill gets it right in ” Greens Are the Enemies of Liberty”. I suggest that you click the link and read it all. An excerpt follows:
Environmentalists want to curb our freedom far more than the government’s anti-terrorist laws ever will…
Imagine a society so illiberal that columnists felt no qualms about demanding government legislation to force us to change our behaviour; where the public was continually implored to feel guilty about everything from driving to shopping – and where those who refused to feel guilty were said to be suffering from a “psychological” disorder or some other species of mental illness”.Surely no one would put up with such a society? Yet today, all of the above things are happening – under what we might call the tyranny of environmentalism – and people are putting up with it.
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Liberty – true liberty – requires that people see themselves as self-respecting, self-determining subjects, capable of making free choices and pursuing the “good life” as they see fit. Today, by contrast, we are warned that we are toxic, loaded, dangerous specimens, who must always restrain our instincts and aspire to austerity. This is not conducive to a culture of liberty; indeed, it represents a dangerous historic shift, from the Enlightenment era of free citizenship to a new dark age where individuals are depicted as meek in the face of more powerful, unpredictable forces: the gods of the sea, sky and ozone layer.And what of those individuals who say “to hell with environmentalism” and continue living the way they want to? Apparently, in the words of the Ecologist, they have a disordered “psychology”; they are victims of “self-deception and mass denial”.
Some greens openly admit they are on the side of illiberalism. George Monbiot describes environmentalism as “a campaign not for more freedom but for less”. Environmentalism is instinctively and relentlessly illiberal, and it is doing more to inculcate people with fear, self-loathing and a religious-style sense of meekness than any piece of anti-terror legislation ever could. If you believe in freedom, you must reject it.”
Related Reading:
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"Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom, and still they'll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate. It's the sand of the Coliseum. He'll bring them death... and they will love him for it."
zee July 21st, 2008 at 11:24 am
Which, I’m sure, has not found it’s way into today’s history textbooks, much like my generation was kept in the dark, thanks to a duplicitous media, about Stalin’s starvation tactics.
And like every other development along this insidious marxist/fascist path, this green nazism, though always brewing, has accelerated it’s attack in just the last couple years. It as if they are quite worried people are starting to wake up and they are intent on undercutting any burgeoning resistance.
I couldn’t agree more. We, as a family, hope to buy land, way out, and be the hell out of the city. That’s exactly what they intend to either penalize or make impossible. It may be the only way to stay out of their clutches is to somehow become totally self-sustaining, from growing your own food to hunting to defense. And what do you bet that they start designating huge tracts of rural land as some kind of sacred freaking habitat that you will, even if you own it, be prevented from building and farming. This is what is so scary with high tech. With satellites, they can find any enclave that is in the hinterlands. Thus it would seem you would have to go, literally, underground. No wonder so may science fiction films depict mankind as living underground in the future. Their stupid storyline is that it will be due to nuclear fallout or climate change. I say it will be to prevent detection from the feds.