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Posted on 10/08/2002 11:29:54 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Activists in the environmentalist movement have a callous disregard for people. You say: "What do you mean, Williams? We can't think of a more caring people." First, I'm not talking about sensible people who're concerned about clean air and water. I'm talking about the movement leaders and the politicians they have under their thumbs. Let's look at it. The New York Green Party said in its opposition to pesticide spraying to halt the spread of West Nile disease, "These diseases only kill the old and people whose health is already poor." In East Meadow and Hempstead, N.Y., local officials, following the advice of environmental activists, decided not to spray. Nassau County's Health Commissioner said, "We believe the risk of infection for residents remains quite low." Two county residents became infected with West Nile disease and died. Environment activist Lynn Landes says, "West Nile may be a nasty experience for a very few, fatal for an exceedingly rare number, but as diseases go it's no big deal." According to the most recent Centers for Disease Control statistics, 2,530 Americans have been infected with West Nile disease and 125 died, but to environmentalists that's "no big deal."
American deaths due to environmental activist callousness pale in comparison to other countries. How about a few statistics? In 1972, the activist-controlled Environmental Protection Agency banned DDT, a pesticide once considered a "miracle" for all of the lives it saved by killing the mosquitoes that carried malaria. The ban went into effect despite the evidence that with proper use it posed no health hazard to humans and only little substantial harm to animals. The EPA ban led to diminished DDT production, making the pesticide less available to the world.
What were the effects? In what is now Sri Lanka, there were 2,800,000 malaria cases and 7,300 malaria deaths in 1948; with the use of DDT there were only 17 cases and no deaths in 1964. After DDT use was discontinued, Sri Lankan malaria cases rose to 500,000 in 1969.
Worldwide, malaria's devastating effects all but ended during the time that DDT use was widespread, roughly from 1950 to 1970. DDT was seen as such a miracle that it earned Dr. Paul Muller the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1948. In 1970, a committee of the National Academy of Sciences wrote: "To only a few chemicals does man owe as great a debt as to DDT. In a little more than two decades, DDT has prevented 500 million deaths due to malaria that otherwise would have been inevitable."
According to the World Health Organization, now about 2.5 million people die of malaria each year. Most of the victims are in Africa and are children. According to the American Council on Science and Health's president, Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, some 60 million or more lives have been needlessly lost since the ban on DDT took effect. Whelan says, "It's a real tragedy that DDT has been so demonized over the years by activist organizations such as Environmental Defense and the regulatory bodies that they have duped."
C.S. Lewis made an observation applicable to do-gooders everywhere: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
Got a good arguing point out of this article. The lefties like to ooh and ahh so much over Nobel Prize winners- well, I'll have to start bringing Dr Paul Muller up in the argument.
The proof is in whom they appear to trust: governments, the biggest polluters and despoilers of land in the history of the world. The enviro-nazis would rather have government assume total power over all decision making than allow people to use Round-Up on their driveways without posting a $500,000 surety bond. As long as they could get jobs in the regulatory agencies, of course.
Of course, human life is of no value in their equations. One look at the murders and vandalism they've been willing to commit, the human suffering from disease and poverty they condone, and the bizarre ideas their affiliates espouse (check out the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement!) is enough to convince anyone that the thing they hold least valuable is human life.
Of course, it helps them along that it's not their rich, well-secured lives that are on the line. Only a few poor schmucks in Sri Lanka or Guyana, and what point is there in protecting them? They don't contribute to the NRDC or the Nature Conservancy. They don't even vote.
Forgive me, friends. The older I get, the hotter certain of my buttons get. This is one of the hottest.
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Francis W. Porretto
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I wish I could get my definition of "Liberal" into Webster's dictionary. Liberal: A vindictive, self-centered individual, full of vanity, envy, and a lust for control and destructive power over others, carefully masked behind a facade of love, concern and caring; see sociopath; see psycotic; see twisted.
Like every families Aunt Abigail, whose visits are dreaded more than an invasion of warring Huns. A woman, who knowingly and with forethought, has never bought a Christmas present that fits, or is useful to anyone, a hypocondriac with over a hundred bottles of medications, constantly taking her own temperature and pulse, while accusingly comparing her purity,(a con game designed to see how much she can get out of you and how much control she can exercise over you), to your lack of.
Liberals and Aunt Abigail, spend their time among us delightedly trying to clone everyone into carbon copies of themselves. Putting down everything from how we run our homes, to the contents of our fridge, and passing out guilt trips like free raffle tickets. Trying to break up our marriages, attempting to drive a wedge between us and our children, and all masked under concern, caring, a desire to enlighten you, make you a "better" person, more to their own self serving standards while assuring themselves that all their efforts are for your own good.
Lord save us from Liberals and Aunt Abigails, who seem to be spread out among the general population just enough to cause misery for every living soul. Unlike Aunt Abigail, Liberals are dangerous because their harmful lust for power infects more than one family, their mental/spiritual illness is a danger to a healthy, sound, society. The Health Dept. should insist they all wear t-shirts with a large orange hazzard cone on the front so we know to stay away from them.
Bump for Prof. Williams.
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I wonder if they just watch mosquitoes drink their blood , or do they slap them.
What ever happened to common sense ?
Excellent post, Ma'am. Hones in well on that "holier-than-thou" attitude that libs often sport...
He can hit 'em outta the park too !
Thanks for the post and the ping.....
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