Czech President: Environmentalist 'Religion' Like Communism

Czech President Vaclav Klaus said on Wednesday that fighting global warming has turned into a a 'religion' that replaced the ideology of communism and threatens to clip basic freedoms.

The right-wing president, a free-market champion, wrote to the U.S. Congress that adopting tough environmental policies to fight climate change would have destructive impact on national economies.

'Communism has been replaced by the threat of an ambitious environmentalism,' Klaus wrote in response to questions from the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce.

The U.S. House Subcommittee for Energy and Air Quality was due to hold a hearing on climate on Wednesday with former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore, who sees global warming as a key challenge, and Danish sceptic Bjorn Lomborg, who says governments should focus on fight disease and hunger instead.

Gore, who won an Oscar for 'best documentary' for his 'An Inconvenient Truth' movie on climate change, has led a global warming awareness drive in the United States, the world's largest source of gases believed to cause it.

Klaus, who does not hold many executive powers but is by far the most popular politician in the ex-communist Czech Republic, has taken a decisively opposite stance on the issue.

Klaus said poor nations would also be hurt by efforts to impose limits and standards on emissions of gases believed to cause global warming.

'They will not be able to absorb new technological standards required by the anti-greenhouse religion, their products will have difficulty accessing the developed markets, and as a result the gap between them and the developed world will widen,' he wrote.

'This ideology preaches earth and nature and under the slogans of their protection – similarly to the old Marxists – wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central, now global, planning of the whole world,' he added.

U.S. President George W. Bush opposes mandatory caps on heat-trapping gases. He pulled the United States out in 2001 of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Klaus wrote that it was futile to fight against phenomena like higher solar activity or the change of ocean currents, and called for avoiding wasting taxpayers money on what he called doubtful projects.

'No government action can stop the world and nature from changing. Therefore, I disagree with plans such as the Kyoto Protocol or similar initiatives, which set arbitrary targets requiring enormous costs without realistic prospects for the success of these measures,' he said.

Klaus nailed it -- in ways he may never fully appreciate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_qeWnS7Eig

Al proves that the apple (try saying that last word with two fingers in your mouth and you'll be much closer to the word I wanted to use but couldn’t) doesn't fall too far from the tree.

Americans have memories shorter than Bill Clinton's (fill in your favorite male body part here) so a little review of history is in order -- not that anyone will remember any of this when Al launches his dark horse shot at the White House.

Al's old man was a bud to Armand Hammer who was the ONLY American (and I use that title very loosely here) allowed to fly his private jet into and out of the USSR under Stalin and his successors without either US or USSR diplomatic clearance. Hammer cranked up and ran many businesses for old Uncle Joe, starting with a pencil factory as they had to keep records of those 60 million kulaks Uncle Joe starved to death.

Old Armand gave Al, Sr. TONS of campaign dough and Al, Sr. carried Armand's water on Capitol Hill for years.

And here's a REAL piece of irony: Hammer owned Occidental Petroleum which was responsible for the LOVE CANAL toxic waste mess in New York. Gotta wonder how much of born-again envirowhacko Al, Jr's current assets flowed from the profits Hammer and Occidental generated from burying those thousands of barrels of sickening toxic sludge at Love Canal.

And, of course, we would be remiss if we failed to mention the half a mil the Gore Corps earned from the strip mining of a large section of their Tennessee homestead.

Gee, could that be why Al is on his current crusade? Guilt? A heartfelt desire to purge the sins of his old man??

NYAAHHHHHHHHHH...!!!!

PS: AND IF YOU STILL THINK THIS GUY IS SMART ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT, GO HERE

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/gallery.html

AND CLICK SOME OF THE AUDIO FILE LINKS. I WATCHED THE ONE ABOUT “WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE…?” LIVE IN JANUARY OF ’93 ON C-SPAN AS IT HAPPENED AND FELL OUT OF MY SEAT LAUGHING AT THIS CLOWN.

You may, too, when I explain how it went down. Gore had just been told who “these people” were by the Monticello guide then walked around the short partition wall on which the portraits hung to the paintings on the other side – THEN WALKED BACK AROUND TO THE FIRST PORTRAITS and asked the guide – FOR A SECOND TIME – “WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?”

And there was a follow-up gaff a few minutes later when asked by one of the school kids bussed in from DC for the front porch photo-op what he and Clinton hoped to accomplish for the country, Gore replied that they wanted to make it “…more better…”

And this guy wants to be president??

God save us!!

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He's got it!