It’s one thing when the Environmental Liberation Front (ELF) pushes criminality in the name of saving the planet. That’s what fringe types often do. But when a supposedly respectable figure like Al Gore–a former U.S. Senator, Vice President, and Peace Prize Nobel laureate–does it, you know that radical environmentalism is going completely around the bend. But it’s true: Gore urges people to commit non violent crimes to coerce the world into bending to his radical agenda. From the story:
Al Gore has sought to inject fresh momentum into the Copenhagen build-up, saying he is certain Barack Obama will attend and predicting a rise in civil disobedience against fossil-fuel polluters unless drastic action is taken over global warming. Amid increasing incidents of climate protesters disrupting the operations of fossil-fuel industries and airports in Britain and elsewhere, Gore suggests the scale of the emergency means non-violent lawbreaking is justified. “Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play,” he says. “And I expect that it will increase, no question about it.”
This is utterly irresponsible and anti-democratic. Perhaps because he imperiously refuses to answer challenging questions or engage in true debate, Gore has been unable to convince the population that global warming–or climate change as it is now called–is a bona fide emergency. Indeed, the numbers who are truly alarmed is shrinking. So, he calls out the Brown Shirts.
Shameful. Utterly shameful. If a conservative urged people to break the law to stop Obamacare, he would be hounded into obscurity. Gore should be called on this in the same way. But no one will. These ubiquitous double standards make me sick.
November 6th, 2009 | 6:46 pm
>>These ubiquitous double standards make me sick.<<
I sure hope that "IT" won't cause another H1N1 epidemic in any of your spiritual cells Wesley! :(
I hear ya! God only knows Victor! :)
Peace
November 6th, 2009 | 7:15 pm
“These ubiquitous double standards make me sick.”
Amen for that.
November 6th, 2009 | 10:13 pm
THE GUY IS A POT-HEAD! The stuff affects the brain, has long-term effects, his base of support includes a lot of pot-heads (among other things)… WHY DOESN’T ANYONE MENTION THAT????!!!!!??????
I don’t know which would be worse, being trapped in a room having to listen to and look at and deal with a baby or same with Gore. Either horrifying scenario would be my idea of a horrifying scenario.
November 7th, 2009 | 3:23 am
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November 7th, 2009 | 10:31 am
He used the term “CIVIL disobedience” repeatedly. Are you opposed to civil disobedience, Wesley? Do you believe what the anti-segregationists did in Alabama and Mississippi was “lawlessness”? Or are you dancing the old propaganda two-step?
Wesley J. Smith Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 11:57 am
His buddy Jim Hanson defended criminal attacks on a coal plant in the UK in court. This isn’t sitting in at segregated lunch counters. This is a major leader calling for people to criminally impede lawful commerce. He should be scorned.
November 7th, 2009 | 6:46 pm
Come on, Wesley. Attacking a coal company isn’t civil disobedience; it’s criminal. And what does “his buddy” have to do with it? Shall I hold you responsible for everything any of your own acquaintances does? Do you object to lawyers defending people who are charged with crimes?
November 10th, 2009 | 11:12 pm
I suspect Al Gore’s idea of “civil disobedience” falls far short of ALF’s. I don’t expect to see Al out torching Hummers. Still, it was a pretty silly statement, and unfortunately far too reminiscent of the sort of thing that AR types like Jerry Vlasak would say. In Vlasak’s case it’s a euphemism and it seems like he really wants to see things happen that he just doesn’t have the guts to do himself. “You got a nice animal research lab over there, wouldn’t want to see anything happen to it, would ya?”
In Gore’s case he may have meant it the way he said it; he doesn’t want to see it happen but he’s afraid it will.
Like I said, though, dumb comment.
December 2nd, 2009 | 7:05 pm
WJS: “Shameful. Utterly shameful. If a conservative urged people to break the law to stop Obamacare, he would be hounded into obscurity”
Apparantly you didn’t notice the town hall protesters prominently displaying their (not so_ concealed handguns in an obvious show of intimidation.
Or the plethora of t-shirts at Glenn Beck’s “9-12″ rally that read, “We Come Unarmed — This Time.”
Double standard indeed…
Wesley J. Smith Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 7:29 pm
How is it shameful? I have nothing to do with the others. I don’t recall any reputable loeader telling people to bring guns to rallies or break the law. James Hansen defended people in the UK who vandalized a coal power plant because we have to save the planet! I have also said the Climategate hackers should be prosecuted, albeit they can’t be ignored.
December 4th, 2009 | 12:32 am
Um…sorry. I’m not a “leader” and I’m not “urging” anyone else to do anything, but if they really do try to bully me into buying health insurance — or I should say, the kind of health insurance they have decided I need — I am not just going to roll over. Everyone has a breaking point when enough is enough. It may not stop Obamacare but it can make a statement about it; it is ludicrous to fine or jail a person under the pretense that (s)he is an irresponsible drain on the system, when (s)he is not at all.
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