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1. Gore’s Dangerous Call for Environmental Civil Disobedience | PoliticsMuch.com:

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Oct 18, 2008 - 4:01 am 2. MarkD:

We need to drill, here and now, so the next time will not be as bad. The next time will be no different from the last.

Gore is past his expiration date. The houseboat should have been clue enough for even the strongest supporter.

Oct 18, 2008 - 6:21 am 3. George007:

Perhaps if Gore would realize that God created the world,and that an insignificant little clown like him,could have absolutely no effect on global warming,would just shut up and go away!!

Oct 18, 2008 - 6:27 am 4. goy:

Like pretty much every other social ill we see emerging around us – at least here in the U.S. – this phenomenon can be traced back to roots in the corrupting effects of political correctness on higher education, which at this point seems almost irretrievably broken.

So-called “graduates” who are ignorant of science, mathematics, ethics and basic logic are easily duped into following debunked fads like Gore’s “climate crisis”. This effect is enhanced when the public (and private) school curriculum is effectively ruled by politically correct thugs and useful idiots who – instead of teaching the subjects they’ve been hired to teach – relentlessly browbeat their students, as well as any enlightened faculty members, into supporting junk science, “social justice”, multiculturalism and their attendant, culturally suicidal policies.

In a sane world Gore would be answering to federal charges of sedition, as he is actively and blatantly advocating the breakdown of national security through incitement to jeopardizing the availability of energy to American businesses and American citizens. His incitement is no different from communist Raila Odinga’s incitement to “protest” his loss in the Kenya election last year (it will come as no surprise that this communist “Agent for CHANGE” was actively supported by Barack Obama – at U.S. taxpayers’ expense, of course).

Like all of the policies that emanate from the left’s Bizarro-world rationale, Gore’s incitement to domestic terrorism will have its worst effects on the poor. This has already been clearly demonstrated by the decreasing availability of food staples following junk-science-driven mandates to produce more Ethanol “biofuel”. It will continue to be demonstrated via the economy-destroying effects such hysterical policies will have in Asia, the EU and, soon, America, as so-called “cap-and-trade” scams siphon off trillions of dollars in GDP to be redistributed as governmental planners see fit. This is Obama’s “spreading the wealth around”, on a global scale.

Gore’s abundantly aware of the net negative effect all of this will have on the masses, of course. At this point any rational person is aware of it as well. But like the rest of his leftist cronies, Gore’s depending on it. This latest ploy is no different from Gore’s support for Clinton’s hypertaxation and expansion of CRA legislation in the 90s.

Just as FDR’s socialist New Deal policies prolonged the Great Depression, Clinton’s and Gore’s socialist hypertaxation stalled recovery from the late 80s’ recession, and would have continued to do so if the Republican Congress hadn’t reduced the capital gains tax in 1997 (resulting in an economic boom for which Clinton now takes the credit).

Mandating expansion of suicidal lending policies was guaranteed to eventually cause millions of low- and middle-class borrowers to lose their homes, destroying the credit system on which healthy capitalism depends in the process. Brilliant, actually.

But who and what are the angry masses taught to blame, thanks to the complicity of mainstream media and the utter corruption of academia? The Market. Wall Street “greed”. Predatory lenders. Capitalism. Conservatism. Anything but the real cause: flawed socialist policies driven by flawed socialist ideology.

Gore, the policies he supports, the criminal hypocrisy he gets away with, and the actions of his mindless minions are all just a growing symptom of an increasingly stupid society. That stupidity is made possible – actively sought, in fact, by “reformers” like Obama’s mentor and political benefactor Bill Ayers – via today’s utterly broken, culture-destroying system of education.

We continue to ignore that at our peril.

Oct 18, 2008 - 7:19 am 5. sharon:

Gore is a liar who is profiting from this debate.

Oct 18, 2008 - 7:41 am 6. keithacia:

chief ecogangbanger gore will become a billionaire selling carbon credit derivatives

Oct 18, 2008 - 7:43 am 7. stu:

I’m not a psychologist nor do I play one in real life, but is it possible that this bloated, small minded little man is trying to punish the great satan for rejecting his bid for comissar in 2000? Or is it just his fundamental greed in play? Or worse, is he playing a role in the cultural revolution the left is currently undertaking?

I AM JOE

Oct 18, 2008 - 8:29 am 8. Robohobo:

We should burn down houses of greater than 10,000 sq ft. Start in Tennessee please @ Gore’s mansion.

[And that is called satire for the humor deficient.]

Oct 18, 2008 - 8:32 am 9. Paul from Florida:

Is there anything stopping Algore from pulling a Rachel Corry?

You know, for the children. Little forest lizards, stuff like that.

Oct 18, 2008 - 9:37 am 10. Tom Holsinger:

This one would have real short life in America. A RICO civil class action suit (18 U.S.C.) 1961 based on extortion and vandalism would quickly beggar the proponents. Consider how the Ku Klux Klan was shut down by civil suits.

Oct 18, 2008 - 10:52 am 11. Southern Man:

While I don’t advocate such civil disobediance – if I DID, scuttling Gore’s new “BS” yacht might be a fun start. How much global warming occurred to construct that thing again?

Oct 18, 2008 - 10:54 am 12. heather:

“History demonstrates that it’s a short leap from blocking bulldozers to torching property.”

Whoever wrote that headline has never purchased a bulldozer. From the point of view of the bulldozer owner that item is quite definitely “property.”

Oct 18, 2008 - 11:13 am 13. RB:

“Gore prefers to send young activists to chain themselves to bulldozers and potentially spend their best months, if not years, in prison while he himself continues to tour the world and attend carbon-neutral Hollywood parties.”

Except for the bombs and beheadings, it reminds me of al Qaeda’s leadership.

Oct 18, 2008 - 11:41 am 14. Ursa Major:

The Prophet al-Gore suggests what he is too cowardly to do himself. The man is an embarrassment beyond belief.

Oct 18, 2008 - 11:42 am 15. Jeffersonian:

And let’s remember, kiddies, that these are people of the same kidney who managed to scuttle carbon-free nuclear power in the late 1970s. They also greatly curtailed hydroelectric because of its enviromental impact.

So what they are saying is, in essence, we cannot use coal or natural gas because of the CO2 emitted. We cannot use hydro because it despoils the valleys flooded. We cannot use nukes because of the radioactive waste. We must use solar and wind which, of course, do not function at night or in windless conditions and are, besides, very unreliable and inefficient technologies.

The ecopests are primitives who would have us squatting in the dark before long.

Oct 18, 2008 - 11:43 am 16. FlyOver:

Seriously, the first place to demonstrate would be in front of Al Gore’s house. Even Bush’s place is more eco-friendly.

Oct 18, 2008 - 11:51 am 17. Moonbat_One:

MarkD, Gore bought carbon offsets from himself so things like his houseboat, private jets, and huge house are OK.

Oct 18, 2008 - 11:55 am 18. kabud:

Thank you very much for this article

national security today can only be achieved in a energy security context

Through mandating automakers to break petroleum monopoly in transportation

it is all in this:

our enemies- Kremlin and OPEC- have mostly all available petroleum and natural gas reserves

so if nuclear missile hits DC:

mind that USA petroleum consumers financed this suicide of our nation OUR SELFS

And on GORE treason:

We should never forget that Al Gore has a very special relationship with the most notoriuos criminal rulers of organized crime:

kremlin politicians.

Al Gore knew about Iran-Kremlin nuclear program but lied to American people and Congress

Al Gore IS a very dangerous and vicious criminal

and should be put in jail for life or executed if tried in a certain jurisdiction where it is an option

Just look at it from the perspective of a future russian-chinese WMD that they plan to use on America

Oct 18, 2008 - 12:22 pm 19. Boris:

Watching right wingers discuss science and environmental policy is like watching six year olds discuss driving. Fun for some laughs, but dangerous if you think about it.

Oct 18, 2008 - 12:40 pm 20. kabud:

When Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin told Vice President Gore about Russian nuclear assistance to Iran he was tempting Gore to compromise himself. Gore had to choose between angering his Russian friends or obeying U.S. law and informing Congress. The alternatives were not attractive to a liberal American politician. Gore had to choose between his friendship for Russia and his oath of office. It seems, contrary to his statement during Tuesday night’s debate, that Gore chose to break his oath of office.

On Tuesday congressional leaders asked for hearings into Gore’s secret relationship with Russia’s former prime minister. Consider how much trouble Gore got himself into with a simple exchange of information. In a classic move, Chernomyrdin asked Gore to break U.S. laws requiring that he report Russia’s nuclear proliferation to Congress. It is typical of KGB agents to ask for these “little favors.” After a certain number of such favors the Kremlin owns you. Then you are paralyzed, and cannot act against Russia in any meaningful way. If Americans want to know why our politicians are typically so weak in their dealings with Russia, here is the reason.

There is nothing inconsistent in Russia’s assistance to Iran, which is simply a way for them to mess with us. And there is nothing inconsistent with asking the U.S. vice president to break the law. The Russians have everything they need to make puppets out of those who start wars in the Middle East, and those who are responsible for American policy.

It’s all part of the grand Kremlin puppet show.
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the rest of the article is a must read:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19872

Oct 18, 2008 - 12:42 pm 21. It’s the hypocrisy, stupid. : Pursuing Holiness:

[...] For example – Gore’s call to arms is typical of his environmental conduct: asking others to do what he himself wouldn’t — sacrifice. His massive carbon footprint, his frequent use of private jets, and his inflated electricity bill — more than 20 times the national average — have all been widely reported. Calling for young climate activists to engage in unlawful, albeit non-violent, action takes the hypocrisy to a whole new level. Unlike the symbol of non-violence, Mahatma Gandhi, who led millions of freedom seekers and who spent years in prison for his convictions — Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times but was never awarded — or civil rights activists who through their personal sacrifice won equality for blacks in South Africa and the U.S., Gore prefers to send young activists to chain themselves to bulldozers and potentially spend their best months, if not years, in prison while he himself continues to tour the world and attend carbon-neutral Hollywood parties. [...]

Oct 18, 2008 - 12:51 pm 22. Pinkie Ann LeBrainne:

There’s a name for Al Gore, and it’s found in the DSM
(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). Gore may have been deluded before, but now he’s delusional. Where are his doctors?

Oct 18, 2008 - 12:57 pm 23. Webrider:

“Jeffersonian:
And let’s remember, kiddies, that these are people of the same kidney who managed to scuttle carbon-free nuclear power in the late 1970s. They also greatly curtailed hydroelectric because of its enviromental impact.”

Um, don’t forget the unrepentent whoremonger and vehicular manslaughter perp of Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and his families opposition to wind power fifty miles from their Hyannisport residence because it might impair their view.

Leftists are ALL hypocrites, and ignorant twits like “boris” just prove it. Human induced global warming is a fraud and teh world temperature has actually been declining for the past few years. While we *might* have some impact, it’s at best approximately 3% and that is under question. It’s just a fraudulent way to hold power over the ignorant and garner more over the stupid.

Oct 18, 2008 - 1:45 pm 24. geokstr:

Boris:

Do you ever have anything to contribute to a dialogue or has Soros just assigned you the responsibility of being merely annoying here?

Oct 18, 2008 - 1:47 pm 25. Revolutionary:

I engaged in environmental civil disobedience – I took the water restrictor out of the showerheads in my house.

Oct 18, 2008 - 1:53 pm 26. Robbins Mitchell:

anAL GOREtentive

Oct 18, 2008 - 1:55 pm 27. Rubicon:

Once again Al Gore demonstrates the intellect of the typical American voter. We knew then as we know now, his Global Warming – Climate Change rhetoric, is full of “I want to make billions selling carbon trading credits, and I want to force others to do as I say, while I do whatever I want because “I” am special. After all, I was groomed to be president & they denied me. So now, my leftist friends & I have constructed a fable & have spent hundreds of millions pushing this fake issue on everyone.
Now, after telling media types at a convention they should view “balanced news reports as bias” that will impede implementation of my economy starving plans on innocents, he also tells others, gullible others, that he wants them to fight back.
And again, Al takes a back seat claiming he is just trying to save the planet. Pelosi & company say the same thing.
They still will not respond to the challenge that CO2 levels respond to temperature changes and NOT the other way around. If they did respond they would have to admit, it is not CO2 driving temperature change. In fact, it is solar activity & that temperatures have been dropping since 1998, with lower sun spot activity, this fact is now obvious to anyone willing to listen to reason & look at actual facts & not Al’s contrived power point presentations that failed to overlap temp & CO2 levels because that would have proven to anyone there he was full of it!

Oct 18, 2008 - 2:49 pm 28. tanstaafl:

“I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants.”

I can’t understand why there aren’t legions (rings, whatever) of young people blocking the Goreacle’s private jet every single time it takes off for some spot in the country or (even) the world.

I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people picketing outside of the Tennessee mansion protesting the bloated one’s egregious use of resources from the electrical grid.

I can’t understand why the man couldn’t just go quietly into the night after being repudiated (yes, really) for the Presidency. I can’t understand why he latched onto global warmism as a way to catapult himself into renewed famousness and, with the collusion of filmmakers, how he could reduce himself to make a film shot through with with such hyperbole and lies and borrowing glacier melting footage from Disney.

Oct 18, 2008 - 3:28 pm 29. Gracehfaceh:

Wouldn’t burning down a house, let alone a mansion, be -technically- bad for the environment? Civil disobedience, my foot.

Oct 18, 2008 - 5:12 pm 30. Tom the Redhunter:

Hmmm…environmental civil disobedience. If this happens you can be sure the media will ensure only glowing accounts are published of the protesters.

If a President BO and his Dems in congress take away our guns, do you think they’ll treat Second Amendment civil disobedience the same?

Oct 18, 2008 - 5:30 pm 31. Jim Baker:

Environmentalism has been preached in our government schools for over 30 years. Half of our population was immersed in this belief system. There is no basis for Environmentalism in the science. Environmental canards are derived from extrapolations and unproven assumptions. It is the State sponsored religion that our founders most feared. AlGore is passing the collection plate from the pulpit. Now we see the Eco-terroristic evangelists at work punishing the heathens. What does anyone expect? Nothing has changed since the burning of witches.

Oct 18, 2008 - 7:28 pm 32. AdrianS:

In 2008, The ONE …. LOST!

The Secretaries of State in every state of America MUST require verifiable documentation as to whether any candidate is qualified for the office for which they are contending. If said Secretaries do not perform this legal duty, they may be subject to prosecution for dereliction of duty and other criminal acts.

Oct 18, 2008 - 7:38 pm 33. sam in Toronto:

funny, how Gore has a huge house, contributes a heck of a lot to “global warming” but it’s ok, b/c he buys carbon credits from a company that he has a large stake in?

anyone else see something wrong with that?

Oct 18, 2008 - 7:39 pm 34. TY Freberg:

Al Gore is starting to look like a big lizard… Regardless, he’s still criminally insane as a man; that is what the law supports. And the laws
of physics: even if it (the planet Earth) wanted to cool or warm
unusually? Summer happens after Spring because the planet’s
interior energy production of heat has cooled off enough
to allow a closer orbiting proximatey to the Sun; after
orbiting closer to the Sun–regardless of desire–the
Earth’s interior heat production increases and becomes
too great to allow the planet to orbit as close to the
Sun, and it repels itself into a state called Fall,
then Winter. Winter is when the planet is the
hottest (thus the farthest from the Sun), and
Summer is when the planet is the coolest…
Al Gore is a backward thinking man (what he calls ‘global warming’ is actually ‘global cooling’ and the seasons aren’t really–and never
have during a recorded historical time–ever going to change
because of his disability); he thinks that’s fine? just so
long as he can motivate other persons into
being just as self-destructive.
Face it: he (and Hollywood) bought the Nobel Peace Prize.

Oct 18, 2008 - 8:09 pm 35. John the Skeptic:

Re: 6. keithacia:

chief ecogangbanger gore will become a billionaire selling carbon credit derivatives
Oct 18, 2008 – 7:43 am

Actually, with the expected economic slowdown the reduced demand for carbon credits and their derivatives might cause their value to tank in an even more drastic way than Wall street.

Oct 18, 2008 - 8:49 pm 36. civil disobedience:

Al Gore and Nancy Peloski said they would save the world.
Sell us carbon credits and charge for pollution?

Now Al is asking for civil disobedience?

His first protest needs to be the west coast.

California fires in the last 5 years have melted more glaciers and displaced more polar bears than all the coal fired plants, cars and trucks ever invented.

Mr. Bore, I don’t think Arnold can afford to buy all those carbon credits.

Oct 19, 2008 - 1:51 am 37. Mike Grant:

Gore wants to raise another generation of young Unabombers or better yet, an environmental Weather Underground.

Oct 19, 2008 - 5:00 am 38. Boris:

“I want to make billions selling carbon trading credits”

Al Gore doesn’t sell carbon credits. Now, please rewrite your conspiracy theory accordingly.

Oct 19, 2008 - 7:31 am 39. Paul from Florida:

Boris, ‘Didn’t You Used To Be Deloris?

“Al Gore is chairman and founder of a private equity firm called Generation Investment Management (GIM). According to Gore, the London-based firm invests money from institutions and wealthy investors in companies that are going green. “Generation Investment Management, purchases — but isn’t a provider of — carbon dioxide offsets,” said spokesman Richard Campbell in a March 7 report by CNSNews.

GIM appears to have considerable influence over the major carbon-credit trading firms that currently exist: the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) in the U.S. and the Carbon Neutral Company (CNC) in Great Britain. CCX is the only firm in the U.S. that claims to trade carbon credits. CCX has about 80 members that are self-confessed emitters of greenhouse gases. They have voluntarily committed themselves to reduce their emissions by the year 2010 to a level 6% below their emissions in 2000. CCX members include Ford Motor Company….”

Oct 19, 2008 - 10:01 am 40. Boris:

Did you read what you posted, Paul? It says Gore’s company doesn’t sell carbon credits. Well done.

Wow.

Oct 19, 2008 - 5:57 pm 41. Sheila:

Boris – have YOU read what Paul posted? Yes, it says that Gore’s company doesn’t sell carbon credits – “ACCORDING TO GORE” – but then it goes on to say that GIM has “considerable influence” over the only firm in the US that does sell carbon credits (CCX).

What that means, in case you don’t understand, is that while the legal entity that is GIM doesnt, itself, sell carbon credits, its subsidiary does.

Oct 21, 2008 - 4:47 am 42. Boris:

Shelia,

CCX doesn’t sell carbon credits. It is an exchange that companies join voluntarily and pay for certain offset projects. The CCX verifies those offset programs.

And what does “considerable influence” even mean? The article does not define it and provides zero evidence. It sounds like more of the same conspiracy theory nonsense.

Oct 21, 2008 - 5:51 am 43. Zingerman:

“Civil disobedience” is typically used to describe defiance of a law perceived to be unjust in order to bring attention to that law and hopefully overturn it. It is a method used by citizens against the government.

What Gore is advocating is citizens acting against private companies who have broken no laws other than those that he wishes existed. That’s getting pretty close to incitement to riot, which is a crime in many states.

Oct 21, 2008 - 1:44 pm 44. USAF Vet:

Civil disobedience??? Obama gets elected and 2nd Amendment rights get legislatively targeted, you will see REAL civil disobedience.
Lest we forget…When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Oct 22, 2008 - 7:15 am 45. Tom:

Gore buys his carbon off-sets from himself–the Generation Investment Management LLP, “an independent, private, owner-managed partnership established in 2004 with offices in London and Washington, D.C.” of which he is both chairman and founding partner.

Oct 22, 2008 - 11:30 am 46. Boris:

“Gore buys his carbon off-sets from himself–the Generation Investment Management LLP”

GIM does not sell carbon credits. Try again.

Oct 23, 2008 - 1:59 pm

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