Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Friday, July 12, 2013

James Inhofe: Climate 'Alarmists,' Obama Bureaucrats Plot To Control Americans

WASHINGTON -- Denying climate change isn't new for Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe. But in a Senate floor speech Wednesday night, Inhofe added a conspiratorial wrinkle -- proposed new carbon dioxide regulations are meant not to curb greenhouse gases, but to curb people's freedom.

Inhofe was reacting to President Barack Obama's recent speech detailing his administration's intention to restrict emissions from coal-powered power plants. Inhofe pointed the language that officials were using as evidence they're trying to hide their true intentions, noting that environmental advocates and the administration are using the phrase "carbon pollution" rather than manmade global warming, which Inhofe said he doesn't believe in.

"Their goal is not to protect the American people, it is to control them," Inhofe said. "They want top-down control, and carbon dioxide regulations will give this to them."

Inhofe argued that the administration is furthering its ends by giving talking points to "alarmists" who, he explained, are "people who believe the world is coming to an end, and it's all man's fault."

For evidence of the ultimate goal, the senator cited controversial climate-change critic Richard Lindzen, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist at odds with most of his colleagues on the prospects of warming, including experts at NASA.

Citing Lindzen, Inhofe argued that bureaucrats want to control carbon dioxide because "if you regulate carbon, you regulate life -- you control life, and that's what bureaucrats want to do."

He also questioned the idea that carbon dioxide is pollution. If it's pollution, he argued, people are polluting the air by breathing.

Nearly all scientists consider excess carbon dioxide to be pollution, and have grown increasingly concerned with levels in the atmosphere that have recently passed an alarming milestone of 400 parts per million.

Obama argued in his speech that the nation has a moral obligation to lead the world in reducing carbon pollution.

Original Article
Source: huffingtonpost.com
Author:  Michael McAuliff 

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