Posted by
Bert Chapman on Sunday, February 10, 2008 6:01:21 PM
Leftist Canadian "environmentalist" David Suzuki has gotten a lot of favorable press in his country for his environmental writings and frequent media appearances. Recently, he has gotten into a lot of deserved hot water for his comment that politicians who do not support his conception of climate change/global warming should be put in jail. This is an example of totalitarian pronouncements that goes beyond Airhead Al Gore's worst hallucinations.
Subjects such as climate change/global warming should be discussed with rationality and present discussions of alternative scenarios rather than the gospel certainty of global warming's purported threat to humanity held by climate change groupies such as Gore and Suzuki. As a democratic country with a flawed, though well established constitutional document called the Charter of Rights, you would think Canada would be a place where reasoned discussion of environmental issues could occur. You would also think that those not adhering to the Gore-Suzuki climate change alarmist theology, would be able to express their views without being brandished as heretics by the unctuously self-appointed purveyors of climate change/global warming rectitude such as Suzuki.
It never seeks to amaze me how so many liberals, so concerned with promoting tolerance and diversity, are at the core totalitarian hypocrites who only tolerate those willing to be subservient to them and their delusional and frequently psychotic beliefs. Jonah Goldberg's recent book Liberal Fascism ably demonstrates the ideological symbiosis between contemporary left liberalism and its totalitarian antecedents fascism and communism. Suzuki's recent rant should cause us to be even more cautious of those who seek to impose their collectivist beliefs about environmental issues on our economic choices and governmental public policymaking. This is especially true for us in the U.S. and we continue this year's presidential campaign.
If Suzuki really wishes to have the political power to bring his environmental coercive politics in to being, than I strongly encourage him to emigrate to North Korea where he can become "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-IL's environmental apparatchik.