Posted on 07/16/2009 6:10:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Holdren is a discredited nut. Which is why Obama picked him I guess.
Thanks for posting this. It seems that most folks I talk to don’t know anything about this guy’s views.
Query: Where did the swine flu really come from? If it has mutated into a stronger form, why? Can anyone doubt that a Science Czar who would carry out mandatory abortions and sterilizations, would also decide to reduce the population with a genetically modified virus? Why not? Don’t Prince Charles, Al Gore, et al say we only have 96 months left to save the planet?
If Holdren believes that, why wouldn’t he start to work on the “Final Solution” in one form or another? He’s an all powerful science Czar, after all, even Congress can’t impeach him. I’d like to see proof he is not behind the Swine Flu. Wouldn’t you?
The Catholic News Agency also reported on July 15 ( see here : http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16560 )
In Tuesday e-mails to CNA, Rick Weiss, the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Director of Strategic Communications, said the material at issue was from “a three-decade-old, three-author textbook used in colleges to teach energy policy.”
He could “easily dismiss” fears that Dr. Holdren favors government control over population growth.
“He made that quite clear in his confirmation hearing,” Weiss said.
He then quoted a section of the confirmation transcript in which Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) asked Holdren whether he thinks “determining optimal population is a proper role of government.”
“No, Senator, I do not,” was Holdren’s reply, according to Weiss and a transcript of the proceedings.
In other remarks at the confirmation hearing, not cited by Weiss, Holdren told Sen. Vitter he no longer thinks it is “productive” to focus on the “optimum population” for the United States. “I don’t think any of us know what the right answer is.”
According to Weiss, Holdren “made clear that he did not believe in coercive means of population control” and is not an advocate for measures expressed in the book “and they are certainly not endorsed by this administration in any way.”
Weiss also provided CNA with a statement from the book’s other two authors, Paul and Anne Ehrlich.
The Ehrlichs said they had been “shocked” at what they called the “serious misrepresentation” of their and Holdren’s views.
“We were not then, never have been, and are not now ‘advocates’ of the Draconian measures for population limitation described — but not recommended — in the book’s 60-plus small-type pages cataloging the full spectrum of population policies that, at the time, had either been tried in some country or analyzed by some commentator.”
Describing “Ecoscience” as a “textbook,” they said its descriptions can be “misrepresented as endorsement.”
A discredited nut and a liar. He fits right in.
Well, According to this article by Amanda Carpenter in the Washington Times, Holdren and his co-authors have now distanced themselves from the words published in Ecoscience 32 years ago. From the article:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/15/hot-button-40981162/
When asked whether Mr. Holdren’s thoughts on population control have changed over the years, his staff gave The Washington Times a statement that said, “This material is from a three-decade-old, three-author college textbook. Dr. Holdren addressed this issue during his confirmation when he said he does not believe that determining optimal population is a proper role of government. Dr. Holdren is not and never has been an advocate for policies of forced sterilization.”
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The White House also passed along a statement from the Ehrlichs that said, in part, “anybody who actually wants to know what we and/or Professor Holdren believe and recommend about these matters would presumably read some of the dozens of publications that we and he separately have produced in more recent times, rather than going back a third of a century to find some formulations in an encyclopedic textbook where description can be misrepresented as endorsement.”
Tell him to take it to Africa,the Mideast, the third World where Islam dominates...heck even France where the Muslims are happy in their new homes having families of 9 children.
America and the old france have already dropped below the Nuclear family and are thus being displaced at an alarming rate. Basically all the old G7 are going through the same thing.... displacement.
This guy is an ill-informed, miss-informed crackpot experimenting in the destruction of the greatest country in the world hand in hand with Barry-oh.
I just thought these assertions from Obama Science Czarina should be repeated.
yitbos
Cuckoo, cuckoo.....
What’s to stop us from embarking upon a “Brave New World”/”This Perfect Day” experiment?
The Constitution?
Not really.
The people we choose to elect, time, and moral inertia. That’s all.
“One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort”
Gentlemen, we have the technology. The time is now. We can, must, and will blow up the sun.
I would LOL if these assholes weren’t so dangerous.
But you did get a fair sized grin.
“Thanks for posting this. It seems that most folks I talk to dont know anything about this guys views.”
Sadly, two thirds of the US population has no clue about ANYTHING, as witnessed by the election of a Marxist, and maybe even an illegal immigrant, for POTUS.
The USA is being destroyed at breathtaking speed by
Obama and his zars.
I wish I would wake up one morning and find that the days since the election have all been a bad dream. Every moment there is something else coming from the White House that is totally unbelievable to be happening in what was once a moral, free, and God-loving country.
Newt Gingrich said tonight on Sean’s program that he has talked with business leaders who are simply in SHOCK at what is coming out of this White House and Congress.....viz a viz the Cap and Trade and Healtcare disasters.
But the damage coming out and being done is much much worse than even these shocked business leaders can imagine....if Zero has taken this lunatic and put him in as Science Czar.
Heil Hitler, Zero! You shall have your dream world and a nightmare it will be for the rest of us.
This has been the elitist point of view for decades.
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