from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and nationally recognized author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues.
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Straw man: .... is a
common type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on the
misrepresentation of the original topic of argument. To be successful, a straw
man argument requires that the audience be ignorant or uninformed of the
original argument. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
One of the easiest ways to control or manipulate the average
individual is to create a straw man argument and then convince that individual
with strained logic, or all kinds of scientific mumbo-jumbo, that the argument
is true. The uninformed individual will buy the argument because he
has insufficient knowledge to refute it. The next easiest way to
control or manipulate the average individual is to make them feel guilty about
their actions and how those actions impact the straw man (fallacy)
argument. Since the average individual is not very well informed, straw
man arguments are very effective.
Use of the straw man argument to control the population of an
entire planet is not that difficult. Those wishing to control the
planet, for whatever reason, (usually power and
money) first invent the straw man, then they create the
guilt attached to the straw man. The first invented straw man was the
earth's environment and how man is impacting the environment by his alleged
damaging behavior, thus creating "GUILT." The second invented
straw man was Social Justice and how the wealthy nations and individuals should
feel guilty about all the poor people in the world and the absolute
obligation of the wealthy to share (by force)
their alleged "ill-gotten" wealth with the poor ..... more "GUILT."
Never let it be said that the moneychangers would not find
profit when government invents a straw man. The Environment and
Social Justice straw man arguments each require wealth re-distribution to
implement the government policies developed to solve the invented straw man
dilemma. Who profits from wealth re-distribution ..... the
moneychangers?
In support of the environment, the straw man argument is that
life-giving Earth is a precious resource for all humans, therefore it cannot be
subjected to the "inadequacies" of the average man or the capital markets and
must be owned, managed and regulated by the "Wise Ones." Who are the "Wise
Ones?" Government of course and the special interests that infiltrate
government and control it, like environmentalists, socialists, corporations,
unions and the moneychangers.
The so-called "Wise Ones" snuck into our lives in the
dead of night, like all thieves, shoved these Environment and Social Justice
straw man arguments down our collective throats, triggered our collective guilt
and stole our liberty while we were sleeping. The President and the
Democrats did the same thing with Obama Care. But in that case, they lied
through their teeth to get us to believe that Obama Care was the greatest thing
since the invention of electricity. Lying to get their way is a way of
life for the inventors of the straw man. Liberals are especially clever at
lying and creating straw men arguments. If you don't think they lie, just
listen to Senator Harry Reid every now and then. President Obama lies
every time he opens his mouth. He and Harry Reid are, without a
doubt, pathological liars.
In any event, we will confine this article
to government's effort to join the move to form a global
government using the environmental straw man. Radical
environmentalism, which it has now become, is a fraud perpetrated on a naïve
public that doesn't know any better, because most of them are ignorant or don't
care. Man-caused global warming (now Climate
Change), the Kyoto Treaty and other environmental laws and treaties
are bunk and most informed people know it. If you don't think
so, read this Report
by the CATO Institute on what the IPCC left out of its last
report on Climate Change. Do they lie or purposely omit information to
promote their radical environmental agenda? You bet they do!
(link: http://www.cato.org/blog/
To corroborate the CATO Institute
Report, read this article from the Wall
Street Journal.
(link: http://online.wsj.com/news/
Huge numbers of environmental organizations (NGO's) and
millions of "believers" have been built up around the environment straw
man. Other special interests our now profiting by the actions
government takes to manage the environment by controlling the behavior of the
people through their guilt. Al Gore, the great purveyor and con
man of the environment straw man, stands to
profit handsomely when governments implement the Cap and Trade scheme,
which forces alleged polluters to pay non-polluters, national and
international. Since all fund transfers tend to be brokered, Cap and
Trade funds would flow through one of the Cap and Trade broker firms in which Al
Gore has a huge interest.
The radical environmentalist's philosophy, propaganda
and agenda is "protect the environment at all
costs", the U. S. Constitution and the rights of free American
citizens and property owners be damned. Contrary to their belief,
humans are not a stain on the Earth. We are in fact part of the
evolutionary and natural processes of Earth and those processes, not
environmentalists or governments, will determine the final outcome. We
will but only tickle the grander elements such as the Sun, the moon and the
Earth itself, along with the Solar System, if not the Milky Way Galaxy,
none of which is predictable to any degree of accuracy and do not lend
themselves to modeling for long periods of time. A few spewing volcanoes,
or an episode of Sunspots, a large asteroid, or changing ocean currents, can
totally invalidate any computer models. The variables are just too
great to model and the scientists and the "Wise Ones" know it, lying all the way
to the bank to collect their climate change grant money, paid for by the
taxpayers they are trying to dupe. Who are the stupid ones in this
scenario?
Governments, including the U. S. Government and the
environmentalists, have brainwashed an entire civilization into believing that
environmental protection has a higher priority than American constitutional
rights, protections and safeguards and perpetrated on free citizens by a now
rogue and oppressive U. S. Government that has lost all allegiance to the U. S.
Constitution. (IRS, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Obama
Care, etc.)
Government and the environmentalists have taken over every
state in America with unconstitutional environmental laws, all the while beating
the drums of the "environment" into the heads of naive citizens who live in big
cities. But it is the rural landowner that is taking it on the
chin. Government has disenfranchised rural landowners and made
them victims of government's environmental crimes. They
have decimated an entire culture of loggers, mill operators and wood
product employees in the Pacific Northwest and forced them into bankruptcy and
divorce and scattered them to the four winds because of the
government's and environmentalist's distorted desire to "save" one stupid
owl that was going extinct for natural causes that had nothing to do with
logging or loss of habitat. The real fact is that 99.9% of all species
that ever lived on Earth are now extinct and the Endangered Species Act is bad
legislation for that very reason and should be repealed. The government
and environmentalists use junk science to win their battles and extort
monies from naive citizens to fund their radical agendas in court.
Environmentalists have the mistaken, naive and dangerous
mindset that privately held, rural land is their land to do with
as they will, but it isn't. Rural lands belong to the millions
of individuals that own it in fee-simple title and paid for or inherited it and
the inviolate right to own that land by those individuals is supposedly
protected by the 5th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, that is if anyone is
abiding by the Constitution.
Environmentalists have stopped oil refineries, nuclear and
hydroelectric power plants from being built for over 30 years. Regulations
on coal-fired power plants have become so restrictive that no new plants are
being built and older ones are being shut down. Environmentalists have
stopped drilling for oil in areas of known government land and water oil
reserves. That's why energy costs are rising and a gallon of gas is now
around $3.50 and will not likely come down. That is why
our electric generating capacity is at or near maximum, which can
cause brown and black outs during peak load times.
Environmentalists, in concert with radical international
environmentalists, are trying to lock up private lands in the U. S. for
biospheres and wildlife corridors without compensating the owners of the private
lands they want to take. The unnecessary cost for overt and radical
environmental protection has been in the Trillions of dollars since it became in
vogue and it has severely weakened our economic engine, reduced our power
capacity and eroded our constitutional form of government almost beyond repair.
In the image accompanying this article, we show
the building blocks necessary to obtain a global government, operated of course,
by the "Wise Ones". Almost every building block shown in that
image has been accomplished by government. Although Americans still have
the right to own guns under the 2nd Amendment, almost every individual in every
other country on the planet has lost their right to own guns. All other
countries have been disarmed, except America and Switzerland.
All land, food, water, energy, money and health
care are now controlled by government in one form or another. Land is
controlled by draconian land use and environmental ordinances, local, state and
federal. The American landowner has been systematically disenfranchised
from the political process and cannot control his or her own land any
more, even under the 5th Amendment.
The Food and Drug Administration controls all
food production and sales in America, leading to raids by the government on farm
coops that exchange food in a barter system. The Environmental Protection
Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers soon will control all water in America
when the U. S. Congress passes the Clean Water Restoration Act. Both of
these agencies already act as if they do control all water in America. The
EPA and the Department of the Interior also control the implementation of the
Endangered Species Act, which has a devestating impact on land ownership
throughout America. God help the landowner that has an eagle nest on
his or her property.
The Department of Energy controls all energy in
America. Forms of Cap and Trade schemes have been implemented such that
massive wealth re-distribution is already underway from rich to poor
countries.
The Federal Reserve, a privately owned entity
that is neither federal or a reserve, controls all of America's
money.
Added to this excessive government control of
land, food, water, energy and money comes Obama Care, which now controls
all health care in America. The deleterious impact on individual freedom
and free choice from this new law is incalculable.
The Department of Homeland Security is now the
federal government policeman of all Americans with the weapons it needs to
implement total enforcement and with the capability to do to Americans what
Russia just did to the Crimea in the Ukraine.
The Department of Education controls all
education in America and has implemented global govern-ment indoctrination
throughout K-12 and college education, using the now exposed Common Core
State Standards, Race to The Top and No Child Left Behind policies and laws, all
designed towards liberalism and global government.
For the last 100 plus years, the flawed ideology
of Liberalism has been slowly inserted into every single American institution,
from public education, to academia, to the news media, to banking, to the
economy, to the body politic and to the law itself. Liberal
policies are leading directly to the bankrupting of America. Liberalism,
for all intents and purposes, is America and America is slowly losing its
individual freedom and sovereignty, on its way to global
government.
Radical environmentalism is just one of the
building blocks to global government and has already been implemented into
American law. Most of the other building blocks are already in place,
except one. The only thing left for the U. S. Government to do, to
fully install global government in control of the "Wise Ones", is
the enactment of the last building block, taking away our guns,
and that is happening by increments throughout America, even through subtle
inferences in elementary public education. This last bastion of freedom is
the only thing that stands between God-given unalienable rights, as
envisioned by our Founders, and global government. If our guns
are taken away, the "Wise Ones'" goal to implement global government
will have been completed.
The Founders inserted the 2nd Amendment into the Bill of
Rights, codified into law in the U. S. Constitution, for this very reason.
Lose the 2nd Amendment and America falls into the bottomless abyss and abject
tyranny of global government.
If you are
interested in stopping this mad rush to the one-world-order by your
own government, check out our two websites, both devoted to preserving
Individual Freedom, Constitutional Rights and American Sovereignty,
HERE and
HERE.
If you are a rural landowner, you
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