We send you to reeducation camp to learn correct thinking about global warming!
Posted on 05/20/2014 3:10:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Left-wing extremism has a home at PBS – and that home, to be specific, is the set of Moyers & Company. Host Bill Moyers kicked off Sunday’s episode with a flashback to the previous week’s broadcast, in which scientist and environmental activist David Suzuki had announced that he believes society should literally punish politicians who don’t believe in global warming. [Video below. MP3 audio here.]
This is what Suzuki told Moyers:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness. If we are in a position of being able to act, and we see something going on and we refuse to acknowledge the threat or act on it, we can be taken to court for willful blindness. I think that we are being willfully blind to the consequences for our children and grandchildren. It's an intergenerational crime.
Sane people can see the major problem with such a suggestion. It would be completely un-American to jail anyone, let alone politicians, for what amounts to political dissent. Such a move would be reminiscent of George Orwell’s 1984, not a first-world democracy like ours. And even if it's said simply in jest, it's hardly a joking matter to say a dissenting point of view merits imprisonment.
However, Moyers didn’t see the sheer radicalism of Suzuki’s plan as a problem. He saw a different problem, and he explained it to his audience:
The problem is, if that should happen, if politicians were to be convicted of willful blindness to the fate of the Earth and future generations, there would have to be mass arrests and lots more funding for new prisons. We're not talking about a mere handful of culprits. It's hard even to know where to start.
Ah, of course, the logistics would trip us up. We don’t have enough prison space in this country for all of the skeptics, and we probably don’t have enough police officers to make all the arrests, either. I guess that’s all that’s preventing us from carrying out this brilliant scheme.
As for Suzuki, he's has been pushing this crackpot idea for years. As the late Noel Sheppard documented, he also called for the jailing of skeptical politicians in at least two speeches in 2008. Six years later, you and I are subsidizing the airing of that radical idea with our tax dollars.
Below is a transcript of the segment:
BILL MOYERS: Welcome. Last week, the scientist David Suzuki was here to tell us what he thinks should happen to politicians who ignore or deny evidence that the Earth is heating up.
DAVID SUZUKI: Our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness. If we are in a position of being able to act, and we see something going on and we refuse to acknowledge the threat or act on it, we can be taken to court for willful blindness. I think that we are being willfully blind to the consequences for our children and grandchildren. It's an intergenerational crime.
MOYERS: The problem is, if that should happen, if politicians were to be convicted of willful blindness to the fate of the Earth and future generations, there would have to be mass arrests and lots more funding for new prisons. We're not talking about a mere handful of culprits. It's hard even to know where to start. Perhaps with Marco Rubio, Republican senator from Florida. Back when he was a state legislator, Rubio favored cutting carbon emissions that contribute to global warming. But now he's thinking about running for president in 2016 and has changed his tune, as ABC's Jonathan Karl learned this past weekend.
SEN. MARCO RUBIO: I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it. That's what I do not. And I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it. Except, it will destroy our economy.
That sums it up right nicely.
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They would have no qualms about locking up conservatives
Come and git it.
Of course guns cause global warming, but not if fired by environmentally-correct people. So they can use theirs, but you can’t use yours.
The AGW police are coming!
There are at least 36,007 empty cells now, thanks to Obama. Bob
BRING IT ON..I dare these idiots to show up at my house..they wouldn’t make it out alive..Global warming idiots are just that, morons
His family was interned in Canada during World War 2. I guess he learned a lot from that experience. Maybe he picked this up at Amherst of the U. of Chicago where many of the tolerant left go to indoctrinate.
We send you to reeducation camp to learn correct thinking about global warming!
How about jailing all PBS employees?
They could share a cell with a black, homosexual, East Asian transvestite, former public school teacher union organizer pedophile from a third world country who’d had an abortion, was on Social Security Disability and believed in letting illegal aliens become citizens and thinks Space Aliens are benevolent while eating organic food and advocating that people not vaccinate their children
How bout we shoot douchebags who get very rich suckling off the public teat? People like Bill Moyers.
WHAT HE SHOULD'VE SAID IS:
“Our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for PUSHING THE GLOBAL WARMING SCAM AND BEING WILLFULLY BLIND TO THE OF THE LOSS OF FREEDOM AND TOTAL ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION THAT AGW LAWS WOULD HAVE IF WE ALL BELIEVE THE LIES OF THE SOCIALIST “SCIENTISTS”. If we are in a position of being able to act, and we see something going on and we refuse to acknowledge the threat or act on it, we can be taken to court for willful blindness. I think that we are being willfully blind to the consequences for our children and grandchildren. It's an intergenerational crime.”
There, fixed it.
David Suzuki should go back to his Fruit Flies
Stealing $18 trillion dollars from future government revenues (the fruit of our children and grandchildren's labor) is a real intergenerational crime.
Hey, that's what camps are for, right? And they'd only have to be for a little while until the gas chambers and the ovens catch up.
Of course, this isn't Nazi Germany, and we don't have any high government officials calling for the program. Oh, wait...
We’ll start running out of space in the graveyards, first.
http://undercoverdressuplover.blogspot.com/2013/01/dihydrogen-monoxide-containment-unit.html
“Do it for the children!”
How about jailing scientists and journalists who wrongfully predict environmental disasters? For example there has been no warming for the last 15 years. If there is no warming for the next 5 years, Suzuki, Mann, and a bunch of other hysterics go to prison for fraud.
It's worse than that. I have seen at least three sources that say the Cap n’ Trade laws would cost us $700 TRILLION
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