The heavy Load

While trying to find the source of a comment I had made earlier in the week I ran across a particularly distressing article.

http://www.quebecoislibre.org/06/060129-2.htm

The depressing part is not so much the observation and documentation that Stephen Harper 'sold out'. This is fact and of course the selling price is getting higher day by day as we build up to the next election. My issue is the use of this one situation to close off any suggestion of hope against the 'resistance is futile' camp is .. so .. well .. anti-productive. In this case to quote directly: "As I have written many times in QL, partisan politics is a waste of time for people who really want to reduce the size of the state."

Now this attitude of doom and gloom is hardly unique. Many libertarians in Ontario know a certain 'leader' who is a full time advocate of the doom, despair and misery and all is lost and every action is bound to fail school. Well take up knitting or something that is productive then. As the T-shirt says: "Lead follow or get out of the way". Of course change is possible and guess what it is happening all the time. It does take more effort to be creative than to repeat gloom and it takes creativity to be successful, but just watching it on TV or preaching to the converted is not going to change anything.

I truly believe if there was as much effort put into action as there is into moaning and complaining we would be much farther along the road to a freer society than we are now. Matter of fact the political road right now seems to be twisting back to the bad old days of force getting what it wants in public debate and inter-personal affairs. I blame that regression only partly on the people doing the intimidation. Those who stand by and let it happen are partly responsible too.

Hypocrisy among the authoritarians.

The authoritarian prophets of the global warming Armageddon seem to be, typical, preaching you *must* done one thing: but doing another themselves.

Al Gore was caught using 20x the typical energy consumption of the typical household in the U.S. at his mansion.
The consumption is actually up significantly while he is making himself famous and rich making a film about how the government must use force to stop "over consumption". The title of the film is 'An Inconvenient Truth'. I'll do no plays on the movie title with this story: too obvious. He is somehow better then the common folk and needs that heated pool and gas lanterns in the yard, him being a prophet and all; but wait. It is ok for his massive contribution to green house gases. It's not really pollution since he is buying "carbon offsets". Ok guess again, cause he is buying them from himself through a company he is part owner of. Even worse this company he has invested in is based on making money out of people's fears about global warming, so he gains from the fear he creates. How Cynical: capital intended.

Wait here is more to the story, this house is only one of several he owns. May take months to total how bad he is 'abusing' the environment. As for 'the truth', turns out his initial comments that the house was all powered by 'green energy', also turn out not to be supported by the facts. I promised above no plays on his recent movie's title, real hard to resist that is.

While down picking up the Oscar's in Hollywood he was no doubt visiting friend, and fellow activist for green house gas reductions, Barbara Streisand's house. Looks like her house could be using even more energy than him. Well that is the way it is with prophets, one rule for them and one for the plebs.

Bab's beach house, note all those green air conditioners.

Canada has it's own version of the story last week with Dr. Suzuki being caught throwing out unneeded green house gases with his cross country bus tour for 50: with only 8 people in it. In typical Canadian fashion our story is only one tenth the magnitude story in the U.S.. Perhaps there is a connection with Bab's though, she is known to take her motor home downtown so she does not have to use public washrooms. Not just one of those gas guzzling SUVs she complains about, a full size motor home!

Time do fly

Gee Nov 2005 I started this and not a word posted since, must be too busy eh?
Ok this weekend, more of the news you want to hear!