Sipsey Street Irregulars: From the "Green Is The New Red" Department: Intellectually submit, or face imprisonment.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

From the "Green Is The New Red" Department: Intellectually submit, or face imprisonment.

From my own "Just-Now-Getting-Around-To-It Department," several readers drew my attention to this: "Is misinformation about the climate criminally negligent?"

We must make the critical distinction between the protected voicing of one’s unpopular beliefs, and the funding of a strategically organised campaign to undermine the public’s ability to develop and voice informed opinions. Protecting the latter as a form of free speech stretches the definition of free speech to a degree that undermines the very concept.

What are we to make of those behind the well documented corporate funding of global warming denial? Those who purposefully strive to make sure “inexact, incomplete and contradictory information” is given to the public? I believe we understand them correctly when we know them to be not only corrupt and deceitful, but criminally negligent in their willful disregard for human life. It is time for modern societies to interpret and update their legal systems accordingly.

5 comments:

Dakota said...: Of course these people are criminals. Freedom of speech is not the same as lying to "We the People" for the purposes of fraud and enrichment of the privileged.; March 18, 2014 at 7:01 AM
Anonymous said...: One need only note their recurring attempts to resurrect the Fairness Doctrine and their recent attempt to post a correctness commissar in every newsroom in the country.; March 18, 2014 at 10:29 AM
Anonymous said...: Hilariously, on that very page the person calling for state censorship of dissenting opinions asks the world at large to "join the conversation." If you scroll down to the comments, one after another is a blank, marked "comment removed by moderator."

The ecofascists aren't shy about it and aren't trying at all to hide what they are.; March 18, 2014 at 7:25 PM
Gunny G said...: I call them "watermelons."

Green on the outside and Red on the inside.; March 18, 2014 at 8:30 PM
HappyClinger said...: Well, at least the moderator practices the censorship he preaches, judging from the deleted comments! I wonder how the Earth got along for billions of years without these arrogant b@astards guarding the atmosphere. Those climate warmers are all loons.; March 19, 2014 at 9:34 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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From the "Green Is The New Red" Department: Intellectually submit, or face imprisonment.

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