Mass murder and green ideology

BrookesNews.Com ^ | 25 April 2003 | Gerard Jackson

[Anamensis]

Oooo, ya got me.

[lurky]

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.

[Rockitz]

I like the article, but he needs a reference that documents the effect of eliminating DDT on humanity. I'm sure there are a number from which to choose. Surprising that he missed that since he had so many other references for his other statements.

[lurky]

Btw, Stern is a all "best of" clips this week. They're partying in Vegas.

[lurky]

I point your green KKK/Nazi graphics as Exhibit A. I mean, who gonna take crap this seriously? When I say "who" I mean, "those rational people who need persuasive argument to see our side."

[Orion78]

PING!

[JoJo Gunn]

They're not going to take us seriously. They don't care that hordes of Africans die for want of grain, so why should they listen to reason about anything?

Leftists are Death personified.

[lurky]

No, no. Not persuading leftists. It's the moderate middle that needs persuading. Or maybe not. Maybe all you care about is preaching to the choir.

[Carry_Okie]

I'm just going from memory, but not only ducks were affected. The hardest hit species were apparently predatory birds. The numbers of raptors are recovering at a very comforting pace - unless you're an envirnazi, because then no matter how prolific a species is, it's 'endangered'.

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.

[JoJo Gunn]

As per your name, I know there are the Leftists who come around here. I'm not so bigheaded that I suppose they'll read all my words, but one here, one there....

[thetruckster]

"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."

Gosh, I had better quit recycling and using ladybugs to kill my aphids. I wouldn't want anyone to think I'm a social anarchist, much less standing shoulder to shoulder with them. I'm stopping wearing cotton shirts. Cotton is a "natural" fiber, you know (and you know what people might think). Should I quit repairing my car as well? You know, their mantra is "reduce, repair, recycle."

Help me out here. How else should I quit using my common sense so I don't get put in some neat little classification box as the result of some far-fetched nonlogic required to uphold a favored political theory?