THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIV, Issue # 87, April 18, 2012
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
ECO-COMMUNISM CELEBRATED ANNUALLY ON EARTH DAY
By Alan Caruba
THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT AS A REAL THREAT TO AMERICAN FREEDOM & TO THE POSITION OF THE U.S.A. AS THE PROTECTOR OF FREEDOM
WORLDWIDE: THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THE POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT -- HOW THE ALLIANCE STRENGTHENS THE THREAT
TO AMERICA
FULL STORY:
I came of age in the 1950s during a period when U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy was raising hell about Communists in the U.S. national government. He was
spectacularly inept, often made intemperate and inaccurate charges, but, for the most part, he was right. He managed to alienate his fellow Republicans and earn a
slap-down from then President Dwight David Eisenhower. By around 1953, his fifteen minutes of fame were up. His bombastic personality undermined the
seriousness of the issue.
Senator McCarthy was all bluster, but the publication of The Venona Papers: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors in 2001 revealed that his
charges of widespread infiltration of the U.S. State Department and even the White House during the Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman years were true.
Venona was the U.S. code name given secret Soviet spy communications that had been recorded during and after World War II. In 1995, the National Security
Agency began releasing the documents.
In 2000, Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media wrote about a conference, “Rethinking McCarthy,” devoted to the myths surrounding McCarthy that
were disputed by journalist M. Stanton Evans, a director of the National Journalism Center. Chief among them was that McCarthy never named any names of
suspected Communists in government, but Evans revealed a file of material showing that he had. The other myth was that those named had been cleared by
congressional committees or were just mildly Leftist. They were not.
It is not surprising that U.S. Representative Allan West, who recently said that there are some eighty Communists in Congress today, members of the Congressional
Progressive Caucus, drew the same response that McCarthy did in his era. Representative West characterized the response as “A lot of buzz and inaccurate
reporting.” Politico.com called him a McCarthyite.
In the run-up to Earth Day on April 22, 2012 — the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, the Soviet Union’s first dictator — Brian Sussman, author of the bestselling
Climategate, has a new book, Eco-Tyranny: How the Left’s Green Agenda Will Dismantle America ($25.95, WND Books). If you read no other book
about the relationship between Environmentalism and Communism this year, you must read this one.
Sussman has brought together all the relevant facts. “Karl Marx founded a philosophy that inspires dictators and demagogues,” writes Sussman. “Commencing with
the Russian Revolution in 1917 to the present, Marx’s tyrannical ideology has been responsible for the documented deaths of more than 110 million individuals
around the world.”
“Pollution,” writes Sussman, “never has been Earth’s most troubling foe — Marxism had. And Marxists have always seized upon pollution, both real and imagined,
as an effective weapon in their unrelenting war on freedom.”
Americans are the victims of blunders by a succession of U.S. Presidents, but it was Richard M. Nixon who kicked off the plundering of the nation by the
environmentalist movement when, in 1970, he quietly signed into law the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), followed by the Clean Air Act. “Nixon’s Clean
Air Act expanded the 1967 law to autocratically allow the national government to limit both industrial and mobile sources of air pollution. It set up the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
Today, the EPA has become a rogue agency, barely controlled by Congress. “Today the EPA is eighteen thousand full-time employees strong, with an annual
budget of $10 billion”, notes Sussman.
“From a legal perspective,” writes Sussman, “what Nixon did in signing the Clean Air Act was flatly unconstitutional. Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution
limits the power of the federal government to the basics, none of which includes regulating the atmosphere.” The EPA engages in the most bogus scientific
“research” seen since the days of the Soviet Union
The locus of the environmentalist movement is the United Nations, whose Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been issuing reports that were
used to support the global warming hoax and, when it was exposed as a massive fraud, has since changed its message to “sustainability,” whose purpose remains
the establishment of a global government run out of the UN. It advances every element of the Communist movement in its attack on Capitalism and the foundation
of the freedom enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
We have seen the systematic dismantling of the U.S. Constitution and our economy by our elected representatives, the latest being Obamacare’s effort to takeover
one sixth of the nation’s economy while twisting the Commerce Clause to impose a mandate on everyone to purchase health insurance, whether they want or need it.
Sussman’s book provides a time-line for the eco-tyranny at work in the nation today. The threat to our freedom and to the position of America as the protector of
freedom worldwide is real.
Think about that when you find yourself drowning in the propaganda that will surround and augment the message of Earth Day and the forthcoming UN conference,
Rio+20.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Communism: Longterm Enemy of the U.S.A. & Its Allies
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Alan Caruba's commentaries are posted daily at Warning Signs, his popular blog -- and thereafter on dozens of other
websites and blogs. His monthly report on new books is posted at Bookviews.
A business and science writer, Caruba is the Founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information
about "scare campaigns" designed to influence public opinion and public policy.
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