Mass murder and green ideology

BrookesNews.Com ^ | 25 April 2003 | Gerard Jackson

[Tailgunner Joe]

It is no exaggeration to say that the twentieth century has probably been the most momentous of any other. It gave birth to the greatest technological marvels in human history. It also fought the bloodiest and most extensive wars in history, simultaneously fighting virtually over the globe.

It was also been the century that saw the rise and fall of totalitarianism — or did it? Ideology is the foundation stone of every totalitarian structure, whether it be Communism, Nazism or Fascism. Not any ideology, of course, but one that justifies the subjection and destruction of one's fellow man.

Totalitarianism means what it says: total control. The ideology rationalises that control and the use of the power needed to enforce it. Totalitarianism brings home with bloody force Lord Acton's dictum that absolute power not only tends to corrupt but absolute power corrupts absolutely.

One only has to read Lord Liverpool's account of Nazi atrocities or other books like Victor Kravchenko's I Chose Freedom, Nikoli Tolstoy's Stalin's Secret War, Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow, Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago to realise the savage horrors of totalitarianism.

The appalling role that Western intellectuals played in supporting totalitarianism has been amply documented by genuine scholars. (See, for example, Paul Hollander's Political Pilgrims). That many, if not most, of these intellectuals are irredeemable is borne out by the depressing fact that in Australia we still have university lecturers who have never apologised for supporting Mao Tse Tung or Pol Pot. Instead, these same intellectuals still use every opportunity to attack what they deem capitalist countries.

The delusion that a humane totalitarianism is possible was exploded by Hayek's brilliant book The Road to Serfdom which lucidly explained why the worst will always get to the top in any totalitarian state.

All of this brings us to the greens. Not because most of them are obviously anti-capitalist and therefore socialists, but because of their contempt for human welfare, except their own. One thing that marks out a totalitarian movement is its contempt for human life. In this respect the greens stand shoulder to shoulder with the Nazis and the Reds. It was green ideologues that forced through the totally unjustified ban on DDT. A ban that killed over 20 million Third-World peasants and is still killing about 2 million a year.

A ban that causes immense misery and pain to those who are least able to defend themselves. Yet greens refuse to acknowledge this misery. Why? Because they despise the victims; the untermenschen whose aspirations for a better life challenge the comfortable existence of the Herrenvolk. That is why Greens still support the ban. That is why they violently oppose economic growth; that is why they oppose cheap energy, genetic engineering, man-made pesticides, intensive agriculture, etc.

Why else do you think prominent greens could callously advocate a policy of denying starving peasants aid in food. And this is why Dr Charles Wurster defended the ban on DDT, because in his own words, "this is as good away to get rid of them [people] as any". And this was while he was still chief scientist for the Environmental Defence Fund. As expected, the EDF did not repudiate his views.

No, our totalitarian greens do not use gas chambers, death camps, firing squads or torture chambers to rid themselves of the lesser people. What they try to do is deny them life-saving chemicals and technology. Green policies are killing millions of peasants. This is mass murder and those responsible should be held to account.

[Mihalis]

Excellent article, it describes quite a few ideologues and "intellectuals" that I have known.

[anniegetyourgun]

"One thing that marks out a totalitarian movement is its contempt for human life. In this respect the greens stand shoulder to shoulder with the Nazis and the Reds."

And Democrats.

[tiki]

This guy hit the nail on the head. I'm filing this for future reference.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

"In this respect the greens stand shoulder to shoulder with the Nazis and the Reds."

I read that the greenies want to have an area parrallel with the Mississippi that is several hundred miles wide "de-populated" to allow for animals to roam freely from north to south in the US.

Yep, no future for humans in their agenda.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[sharktrager]

Howard Stern had a caller today who was a "vegan". Quite the idealist. She's 17, headed to UCLA and wants to start a club there for fellow greens/vegans (like they don't have one already).

She was asked if she would approve for her mother to receive a heart from a pig if it was the only way to save her mom's life. She said she couldn't, because who was she to say one animal is superior to another.

The problem in this logic is that she has already made that choice, and determined the pig is more valuable than her mother. If they are truly equal you'd flip a coin or something.

[cake_crumb]

Thanks for the post.

This article could also be describing Kyoto and the reasons for mass starvation in countries where the UN is responsible for getting food aid to the filthy peasants....err....poor, downtrodden masses.

[headsonpikes]

SMASH THE WATERMELONS!!!

[thetruckster]

"[T]the greens stand shoulder to shoulder with the Nazis and the Reds."

I'm no greenie, but antagonistic hotheads like this who write in such ludicrous broad strokes will accomplish nothing to work the types of wise compromise needed to ensure the future of our kids (who currently haven't the right to vote) so that we all can work, eat, stay healthy, and carry on life. He makes me want to say, "Talk to the elbow because the hand ain't listening," and I am (generally) on his side.

[Anamensis]

Well, the pig may not be more valuable than this girl's mother, but it's probably smarter. I mean, let's face it, mom raised this twit, have you ever seen a pig raise its offpsring to act like that?

[cake_crumb]

"If they are truly equal you'd flip a coin or something."

Darned good point!

[cake_crumb]

He should have said there is no such thing as gentale socialism or communism, instead of totalitarianism, because socialism and communism, no matter what improvements you think you're making which, in theory, correct mistakes of the past, socialism is always totalitarian. Totalitarianism is the only way to keep the masses in line in a socialist system.

Because the Nazis and Reds are totalitarian, all social communsts stand shoulder with them. Including the Greens, which are socialists and social anarchists; and therefore totalitarian.

[JoJo Gunn]

[JoJo Gunn]

[manic4organic]

I must be lost. How did DDT come to play in this article? I'm all for hammering on the Greens and totalitarianism, but that and most other pesticides are simply unneccessary and mostly toxic to humans. Somebody educate me.

[laredo44]

I read that the greenies want to have an area parrallel with the Mississippi that is several hundred miles wide "de-populated" to allow for animals to roam freely from north to south in the US.

Funny thing is, they can have it. All the need do is buy it on the open market. Of course, they have no intention of doing that.

[MikeAtTheShore]

"Green policies are killing millions of peasants. This is mass murder and those responsible should be held to account."


Not only do Liberals think their words have no consequences (witness the whining of the Dixie Chics) but they think their actions have no consequences either.

[laredo44]

She was asked if she would approve for her mother to receive a heart from a pig if it was the only way to save her mom's life. She said she couldn't, because who was she to say one animal is superior to another.

Now that's committment! Wonder if she'll feel differently if she has kids.

[mvpel]

DDT is proven to be HIGHLY effective in controlling and eradicating the populations of mosquitos that carry the malaria virus.

When he talks about people dying because of the ban on DDT, he's referring to malaria deaths.

http://www.acsh.org/publications/reports/ddt2002.html

There are some 300 to 500 million reported cases of malaria each year, 90% occurring in Africa. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about two and a half million people die of the disease each year, again, mostly in Africa, the majority of them poor children. Indeed, malaria is the second leading cause of death in Africa (after AIDS) and the number one killer of children there (with about one child being lost to malaria every thirty seconds). Many medical historians believe malaria has killed more people than any other disease in history, including the Black Plague, and may have contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire. Malaria was common in places as far north as Boston and England until the twentieth century. Two thirds of the world lived in malaria-ridden areas prior to the 1940s.

That devastation all but stopped during the time that DDT use was widespread, around 1950-1970. Indeed, the discovery that DDT could kill malarial mosquitoes earned Dr. Paul MŸller the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1948. DDT, a chemical pesticide synthesized by MŸller in the late 1930s, was initially used against houseflies, beetles, various farm pests, and typhus-carrying lice on the bodies of World War II soldiers and civilians. America and England soon became the major producers of the chemical, using it to fight malaria-carrying mosquitoes, especially in tropical regions.

In all, DDT has been conservatively credited with saving some 100 million lives.