WHY WE MUST ADVANCE THE PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM
PART 2 of 3

 

 

 

By Tom DeWeese
September 3, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

Ban it! Ban it! Ban it!

The true purpose of these policies is the implementation of Sustainable Development. Sustainable Development has three components: global land use, global education, and global population control and reduction.

Sustainable Development is anti-free enterprise, anti- individual liberty and anti-limited government. Sustainable Development has no place in a free society.

A free society protects its property owners and businesses and helps them to go about their lives, unencumbered.

A free society doesn�t set up spy mechanisms to track the whereabouts of all of its people through a national ID card, as has now been established in the Patriot Act and the Real ID Act -- no matter what the excuse or current crisis.

A free society doesn�t close down whole industries and towns at the whim of special interests groups who use made up excuses like spotted owls.

A free society honors its borders and protects its people from outside invasion. It doesn�t give the hard earned wealth of its people to criminals who ignore our laws and our borders to invade us.

And in a free society, government doesn�t tell its citizens where they can or can�t place a manger scene at Christmas.

But today, now that the floodgates are open to allow government intrusion into any and all aspects of our lives, politics has become a power struggle between two very similar camps. Republicans. Democrats. Left. Right. Liberals. Conservatives. Twiddle Dum. Twiddle Dee.

The bigger government gets, the more money there is for politicians to make and the more power they have to wield -- the less interest they have in a quaint idea about limited government and human freedom.

Political parties that have become drunk with power are not sober enough to remember their platforms, their histories, their promises, or their oath of office.

And so the dream of a free society grows ever dimmer. Instead we grow almost immune to the daily invasion by government into our lives. We endure massive restraints on the free market as vital products are banned.

DDT is banned, because a special interest group says so. Now millions over the world die needlessly because there�s now nothing strong enough to counter the swarms of mosquitoes that carry malaria. Our own cities are threatened by West Nile Disease. It doesn�t have to be that way.

Oil companies are banned from drilling oil we so desperately need. In ANWR, and in the Gulf of Mexico, there is more oil than we may ever need. We could completely end our dependency of any foreign oil. It could end the threat of terrorism. We could watch the economy soar. But we can�t because the agenda of those with power and money control the Congress. It doesn�t have to be that way.

There are movements to ban over the counter natural supplements, and fast food, and air conditioning, and recreational vehicles, and the consumption of meat, and cars, and suburban housing, and the family pet, and plastics, and fireplaces, and on and on.

All because one or one hundred special interests have a political agenda to do it. And because we have surrendered to them control of our government. The floodgates have been opened.

Ban it. Ban it. Ban it. Ban it. These are the sounds of the bombs going off in a war for control. The war against freedom.

The one statement that should never be uttered in a free society is: �ban it.� A free society cannot exist under this weight.

Globally-acceptable truths

As I�ve said before, and will say again and again: we�ve lost our core values necessary to live in a free society. We�ve given up reason. And we�ve replaced it with whims and whines.

True, those whines are being carefully orchestrated by a few with a specific agenda, who know exactly how to move you into their predetermined direction. Some describe it as a conspiracy. If so, it isn�t very secret. You can find bold descriptions of how it�s being done in books, and policy papers and all over the Internet.

But let me give you a very specific example of how it�s being done, and I�ll even give you a website address so you can see it for yourself.

I�ve written many times of the assault on individual thought through behavior modification techniques such as �Critical Thinking.� This is just one tool used to lash out at one�s values system. Another is the use of �situation ethics� problems to challenge attitudes, values and beliefs.

These tools are fully employed in today�s government school classrooms as a means to create a new kind of thinking that is coordinated to fit a specific worldview. Some call it the global village. �Thought control� is a much easier way to describe it.

Elsewhere in our society, the pressure to rethink ones values is seemingly everywhere, from textbooks and classrooms to television commercials to on-the-job training courses.

We are constantly asked how we can be so certain about anything. We are told there are no absolutes. We are told to just live for the moment. History is eliminated from civics courses. Math is questioned as to whether it is exact. Science is ignored for political gain.

How did we lose our common sense? When did the ability to think rational thought become replaced with a whine? Where do these ideas come from?

Much to my annoyance, one of the perpetrators of this anti-reason idiocy thrust his own pompous irrationality on me through a series of astonishing e-mail letters that I tried hard to ignore.

His name is Donald Sagar and he is president of a think tank called the Eden Institute. He is also a representative to the United Nations for the Association for World Education. One only has to view his website at www.edenorg.com to fully appreciate his delusion.

Mr. Sagar sent an e-mail to me one quiet Sunday afternoon to disagree with my articles dealing with global warming, which he most certainly had found while playing with his Google keys on his computer.

His first line told me everything I needed to know about Mr. Sagar�s value system. The e-mail began, �Science aside�� Obviously Mr. Sagar didn�t want to be bothered by mere science when he had loftier goals in mind. But he went on, �It is inherently illogical and otherwise irresponsible to suggest that human activity does not possess the potential to alter the Earth�s climate.�

Yeah, I�ve gotten this kind of stuff before in response to my articles. What he�s saying is, no matter what science tells us, I �FEEL� that man is damaging the Earth, therefore I insist that it be true.

Incredibly, he then argued that �energy usage worldwide is increasing at an alarming rate of speed as 3rd world countries continue to modernize.� My first thought was he could help cut down on some of that energy use if only he would shut off his computer and leave me alone.

But one must not miss the completely astonishing rationale of his statement. He obviously is one of those who advocate that people who live in third world countries are simply animals who should always live in mud huts, walk 5 miles a day for their filthy water and cook over the quaint campfire in the center of the village.

This first e-mail was followed a day later with a second correspondence that was an incredible attack on science: �Science has absolutely no idea of what preceded the current universe� and no way to hazard a guess about what the future holds for mankind unless of course the creations of science are used to definitively destroy that future.� Are you getting this? According to Mr. Sagar, science knows nothing and is only a destructive force.

So who is Donald Sagar and why does he care what I have to say? Why do you and I care what he has to say?

He has created the Eden Project, which, he says, can define our problems on earth and fix them. Here is what the problem is, according to Mr. Sagar: �Because of the relentless increase in the quantity and complexity of knowledge in the world, we are experiencing a clash between cultures that prevents all but the most capable of surviving with any meaningful identity in tact.� Did you catch that? The reason we have wars, poverty and misery is because there is too much knowledge.

But, he hasn�t just dreamed up his project for his own amusement. Of course not. According to the opening paragraph in describing the purpose of the Eden Project, he says, �This project will provide decision makers with a �pre-qualified� option for stemming mankind�s current slide into chaos.�

Now reading further one finds that this �pre-qualified� option means that he simply asked a bunch of ivory tower types and self-appointed globalists intellectuals to critique his work. They agreed and, poof, we have a new way of thinking. Facts don�t matter. He already said science knows nothing. Difference of opinion isn�t to be considered.

Simply put, Mr. Sagar begins with what he considers to be certain �globally acceptable� truths, such as Global Warming; or that human beings are destructive to the environment; or that men are unthinking brutes who must be controlled from their own actions. It doesn�t matter if any of this gibberish is true. Once this premise is established then Mr. Sagar�s theories are easy to put into place.

Now he is free to establish a �group think� pattern that disallows contrary thought. It attacks anyone who thinks �outside the box.� Propaganda becomes universal truth. All he needs now is for those in power, with their ability to apply force, to make it so. He would refer to it as the political process.

For it to work, it is essential that he get the rest of us to stop thinking and using our own experiences, along with academic and scientific absolutes, to draw our own conclusions. Once that is established, it is easy to reject morality, and then only a short step to accepting the idea that people of third world nations should live out their days in total poverty for the common good.

It is then a very short journey to accepting euthanasia as a means to rid us of the elderly who are no longer useful for the village. And then, an even shorter step to accepting the final solution of forced abortion for population control.

He is dangerous to you and me because he is not alone. His ideas have been endorsed, promoted and implemented by very influential global mouthpieces. Who they are is almost as astonishing as what they say about the Eden Project, which they all endorse. You�ll find the letters posted on the Eden Project website.

One is a letter from none other than Robert Muller, Assistant Secretary General of the UN and one of the main players in the global agenda to reorder society. He says, �I am referring to the need to establish a body of objective, globally acceptable information to serve as a foundation for global education��

Other supporters include K.B. Mathur, Director General of UNESCO, the man in charge of implementing global education policy in our public schools. There is also Dale Ott, of the World Council of Churches, and many more heads of global and international organizations that seek to impose a new way of thinking on the world for their own political agenda.

Most telling was a quote from Keith Smiley, President of Mohonk Consultations: �The planet earth and its people have been experiencing an information explosion. The uncontrolled expansion of information is dangerous since it tends to diffuse meaning and purpose.�

These people are telling us that humans armed with knowledge are dangerous to the new order they are trying to impose on us.

Where in today�s life are you familiar with the implementation of Globally acceptable truth at least in a very mild form? You use it everyday. It�s a practice called political correctness.

It started with the banning of certain ethnic jokes. Then, we were condemned for employing certain stereotypes. Then businesses were told they couldn�t even ask prospective female employees if they were married or had children. Today, we aren�t allowed to use the term illegal aliens. No matter what you call it, this is thought control --globally acceptable truths and information. It�s the only way you will be permitted to think.

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Imagine the consequences such thought control will have on the human race. Thomas Edison wouldn�t have been allowed to even think about such radical changes as alternatives to candle wax in our well-ordered society. The Wright Brothers would have been hanged as heretics to suggest man could fly.

This is the process with which your children are being deliberately �Dumbed Down� in government schools. The premise of �globally-acceptable truth� is the very root of today�s public school curriculum. This is the foundation on which our new society is to be based, according to Mr. Sagar. For part three click below.

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