Posted on 11/03/2015 11:41:09 AM PST by george76
It's no secret that many U.S. environmental groups have become more strident and ideological during the Obama residency. But you may be surprised just how extreme they have become.
In early October, a national network of environmental groups - called Stop the Frack Attack (STFA) - held a summit in Colorado to discuss their campaign strategies. The STFA alliance is led by Earthworks and includes other well-known national activist groups, such as the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council and Food & Water Watch. Dozens of smaller groups, which routinely serve as the face of national groups in state- and local-level campaigns to ban domestic energy production, are also part of STFA
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to draw inspiration from Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, a leading figure in the communist overthrow of Cuba.
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the humanitarian? Flimsy left-wing folklore and T-shirts emblazoned with Guevara's face may have built a myth around the man, but they cannot change history. Guevara was one of Fidel Castro's top henchmen in Cuba and a man who sowed violent extremism across Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s.
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the STFA alliance didn't downplay the Guevara tribute at all. They embraced it. They promoted the Statesman story over social media and in their compilation of "media hits." They even bragged on their website: "We escalated the fight between the oil and gas industry and communities."
If these groups want to ignore the facts and idolize a Marxist revolutionary who fought on the losing side of the Cold War, that is their right. But it shows that today's environmental groups occupy the fringes of the political debate in this country, which is something that voters and responsible public officials - Republican, Democrat and Independent - deserve to know.
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Che was a murderous psychopath,just their kind of guy.
Since gays are "conspicuous consumers" and therefore are more at fault for global whatever the tribute makes sense in a twisted way.
Bounce that off your favorite leftist to watch their heads explode.
Further proof that ‘Environmentalism’ is simply Communism by Other Means.
Wearing a Che Guevara tee shirt is no different than sporting a swastika. Say that to a pack of liberals and watch them go into vapor lock. I’ve done it more than once.
He never looked better.
What a pathetic joke.
Not long ago FR had a posting about Hemingway making special trips to view Che murdering truckloads of people.
I don't think the guy in the shades is a Mormon Missionary...
UN Agenda 21 ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
CIA?
THanks! An oldie and a goodie!!!
Yep... and Cuban American to boot.
It tells you where they stand politically, in case anybody was naïve enough not to know already.
The “Greens” are Reds on the inside. Call them Watermelons, cause that is as much sense as they have.
Environmentalism is just the latest smokescreen to hide collectivist intentions behind, so big surprise.
I wear it often when I go birding. However, I only got a reaction from it on one occasion. At a natl wildlife refuge, I ran into some fellow birders who know me. We chatted amicably until she noticed my t-shirt. She went apoplectic, and started shaking and screeching about Kent State. I have no idea what Kent State has to do with Che. I just grinned, bid them farewell, and kept birding.
Fun stuff!
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