Sunday, October 14, 2007

Al Gore: Leading Us to Peace? Really?

He is a “President” himself, the President of a new and growing democracy in Eastern Europe - - but you’ve probably never heard of him. So German Chancellor Angela Merkel and (former) British Prime Minister Tony Blair and “authorities” at the United Nations and other big and important people around the world obsess about so-called “global warming” and seek to, quite literally, “change the weather.“ All the while, President Klaus has repeatedly been so bold and brash as to remind us that “change” is a natural facet of the weather, and that the global temperature hasn’t increased very much in the past one hundred years.

Most important about President Klaus‘ comments is the fact that he identifies the global warming hysteria for what it truly is: yet another attempt to control human behavior and constrain human liberty. These are threats to civilization with which Mr. Klaus is well acquainted, given that he has lived most of his life under communist dictatorships.

In his Financial Times Journal editorial, President Klaus concluded by saying “I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning.”

By every indication it would seem that Al Gore, officials at the United Nations, and the decision markers with the Nobel Prize believe that a “central, global” economic planning is the very force that can lead humankind closer to prosperity, and peace.
Unfortunately, none of these people would seem to have learned the lessons of history, as President Klaus apparently has.

Austin Hill is a talk show host at NewsTalk 960 KKNT radio in Phoenix, and author of "White House Confidential: The Little Book Of Weird Presidential History." He is also a local columnist for Arizona's East Valley Tribune

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