Monday, July 28, 2008

Cowardice - The Greatest Threat To Our World

I found this article on the CHP website. And I can't agree more:
...The greatest threat to our world is cowardice: the fear of being scorned threatens to dismantle civilization and leave us unprotected in a dog-eat-dog world. Most journalists, politicians and academics are so bound by this irrational fear they're no longer able to think.

Consider what's being done to our economy in the name of discredited theories about "global warming": British Columbia's Liberal government has imposed a ruinous carbon tax that will accelerate inflation. The federal Liberals propose a similar tax. Both Liberals claim the taxes will be "revenue neutral" because they plan to give us a rebate to offset the tax we pay on gasoline and heating fuel. But that tiny rebate won't even begin to offset the inflated costs of everything that has to be moved by ship, rail or truck—almost everything we buy. And it won't offset the damage done to the economy.

The NDP, the Bloc and the Green Party are all in lock-step with the Liberals, afraid to confront a global agency promoting global hysteria over a phony global "problem" that will require a global authority—in short, a propaganda campaign pushing a power grab.

The federal Conservatives lack the courage to declare that the whole hysteria is based on discredited fake "science"; that the so-called "greenhouse gases" are actually beneficial; that the money poured down the "global warming" rat-hole could provide clean drinking water for the Third World; that the very survival of people in poor nations is put at risk because no one in the developed world has the courage to say, "It's a crock!"
Actually, the federal Conservatives had quite a good start. The Clean Air Act introduced in the fall of 2006 was set to address the real problem - which is air pollution; it had no references to Kyoto or any other environmental scams. But then came the by-election in London North/Centre; the Conservative candidate came third, ending up some 500 votes behind Elizabeth May. Soon thereafter Rona Ambrose was replaced by John Baird, whose approach is to bargain over the greenhouse gas reduction targets, rather than insisting on actual solution and refusing to waste time and effort on a non-existing problem.

Sure, the Conservatives are in minority. But giving in is not the way to win votes. There are millions of Canadians out there who didn't find a credible ballot option in the past election. If the government seized the policy initiative and showed some more courage defending Conservative platform - some of those non-voters could consider supporting them in the next election...

But the Conservative party chooses to give in to the opposition pressure. It tries to look more moderate in an attempt to attract disgruntled Liberal voters. Those attempts end up working against the party. Not many Liberal voters are willing to let go of their "Harper is scary" stereotype. At the same time - the small-C Conservatives, the party's old Reform/Alliance base to whom the CPC owes its existence, are starting to get the "why bother" attitude as their interests are being sacrificed yet again to make the party even more "broad based"...

We need more courageous people to become delegates at the Conservative policy convention. In fact - we need as many of them as possible.

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