Kaddafi Blames bin Laden

Three days ago, JANA (Libya’s official news agency), blamed Israel for the unrest. It didn’t convince anyone (or at least not enough) to unite the country. Now, the blame shifts to bin Laden, self-declared - raised to the status of mythical arch - enemy of the West. Kaddafi is grasping at straws. In some part of what's left of his mind he remembers how the West is in the process of destroying itself with the notion that ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’.

Not everything Kaddafi says is mad. In fact, when viewed objectively, he makes several good points - and all, seemingly without the help of a teleprompter. No one can doubt that at least some of what he says about AQ is true. No one can doubt that, to some extent, children have been deliberately wrested from their parents’ beliefs and control. Hell, it’s happening in our own country; schools teaching kids a lot of BS that their parents would never openly approve of! Parents, in both subtle and overt ways, are routinely accused by their kids of committing crimes against the planet; against humanity. It’s well documented that parents often find themselves on the defensive. As such, many have taken a back seat in hopes of avoiding arguments with their eco-fascistic offspring whom they are condemned to love.

With Kaddafi it’s not so complicated. I don’t know to what extent bin Laden is involved in the Libyan turmoil (if at all). He mentions bin Laden merely for the effect it might have in the West. Will the West mobilize to save him under the notion that ‘the enemy of my enemy…”? Probably not. Still, it was worth a try; and it does prove that he’s still out there punching, and not folding like a cheap camera - like Mubarak did.

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Eco-Terror

Forty years ago, some friends of mine bought a partially destroyed (by fire) ranch in a lovely secluded California valley. They rebuilt the main structure and furnished it with furniture they had brought from the east. I had occasion to visit them some years later and was utterly charmed. It was unlike anything I had ever seen before: gently rolling hills, covered with tall, golden grass rippling in the near constant breeze. I wondered privately whether the investment had been worth it. It seemed to me that a stray match, a cigarette or a lightning strike could easily raze this idyll at a moment’s notice. But in the forty years that have passed since, nothing of the sort ever happened.

This leads me to suspect the origin of recent high-profile fires in California and elsewhere. Indeed, arson is often confirmed as having been a factor.

As eco-awareness has developed into a significant political movement the world over, eco-terrorism increasingly becomes an attractive way to get the message out: Mankind (primarily America) is destroying the planet. This is not to say that the environment is not changing; that it has not gotten hotter and dryer in some places; that any ground cover there has not become decidedly more combustible.

But, we could deal with all of this if it were possible for us to work together. Unfortunately, the environmental movement as it exists today knows nothing of compromise. In that it is radical. It argues for the complete cessation of industrial development. As such, it favors pulling the plug on energy. It sees no downside to the societal chaos that would ensue. In fact, it would welcome any crisis, human or otherwise, to help push its 'flat earth, no growth' agenda.

Eco-warriors have learned their social theory well. They know that chaos is the first step to bringing about the revolution that would usher in Marxism. They know that Communism can only really succeed in a highly successful capitalist nation in which the populace has been made to become so disgusted and disillusioned, as to gladly submit to the tyrannical bit. To this end, no manner of mischief is entirely wasted as long as it serves to keep the society unhinged.

Adding ‘acts of God’ to the list of man-caused ecological disruptions only increases the effectiveness of their efforts exponentially. …and many of us are buying into the scheme. Instead of thinking for ourselves and exposing the dirty political trickery for what it is, we capitulate – all the way to the ‘death (of freedom) panel’.