Posted on 04/28/2003 1:55:45 PM PDT by 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.
Beware supporting this kind of hysterical shrieking. Not every rational argument has to be teased out to the nth extreme where the opponent is suddenly equivalent to "Nazis."
You isolate your argument from mainstream moderate thinking and make yourself look like an extremist, in return, furthering alienating your argument from rational discourse.
Egg shell thinning was an enormous hoax. It is caused by an astonishing number of environmental factors, ranging from oil spills (as was the case on Annacappa), dehydration, low calcium diet, and stress.
The science has been done, but the ecofreaks keep repeating the old crap simply because it suits their purpose. You'll hear all about the persistence of breakdown products of DDT such as DDD or DDE. The test methods used are a joke, sometimes as crude as measuring total chlorine content in seawater. These idiots have been caught claiming existence of DDT breakdown products in soil samples taken before DDT was ever produced! Even after they are confronted with the facts, they keep right on going.
Try 100 things you should know about DDT. It's a pretty good compilation of the case against this crap. It's useful to have the facts when people repeat these bogus claims. I have more if you need it.
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