Obama Jugend?

Our post travels hither an yon, from global warming to competing political models in the world to a clueless and reckless electorate to Mr. Obama’s desire to create a new civilian security force as large and as well funded as the U.S. military . . . .

The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley has said of John McCain’s “belief in the apocalyptic vision of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change” that it is “a lurid and fanciful account of imagined future events that was always baseless, was briefly exciting among the less thoughtful species of news commentators and politicians, but is now scientifically discredited.”

He states further that if

the United States, by the ignorance and carelessness of her classe politique, mesmerized by the climate bugaboo, casts away the vigorous and yet benign economic hegemony that she has exercised almost since the Founding Fathers first breathed life into her enduring Constitution, it will not be a gentle, tolerant, all-embracing, radically-democratic nation that takes up the leadership of the world.

The Viscount’s disdain for the scam of global warming seems well grounded in science and is something I would like to study at greater length.

I set out his views not for purposes of taking on the issue of global warming but merely to repeat the Viscount’s list of the types of governments waiting in the wings to assert themselves if American stumbles economically by shooting itself in the foot with carbon credit hogwash and other moves to limit carbon emissions and otherwise found our energy policy on turning daffodils into JP4 jet fuel.

To wit:

• the “brutal gerontocracy of Communist China,”
• “the ruthless plutocracy of supposedly ex-Communist Russia,”
• “the crude, mediaeval theocracy of rampant Islam,” or even
• “the contemptible, fumbling, sclerotic, atheistic-humanist bureaucracy of the emerging European oligarchy.”
  

The stakes for the blessings of self government are high. He continues:

For government of the people, by the people and for the people is still a rarity today, and it may yet perish from the earth if America, its exemplar, destroys herself in the specious name of "Saving The Planet".

The fact that the dissembling, white-hating, extreme leftist Obama is the likely next president is proof that large numbers of idiot Americans think there simply never will be a tomorrow. They apparently believe that a socialist with a lifelong record of embracing the greasiest, most rejectionist, most divisive, most anti-American characters can be trusted with the executive power.

Will otherwise sane people whose prosperity and security have been achieved by virtue of free enterprise economics and limited government embrace socialism and revolution disguised as airy fairy “change” that has no recognizable shape or form? We shall see soon enough. My view is that we are on the threshold of a period ushered in by an electorate that thinks that "what is will always be" and that tinkering with self government will never break anything, even if it's "tinkering" that's the equivalent of taking a sledge hammer to an automobile's valve covers and spark plugs.

Bill’s and Bernadine’s forthcoming (?) book.

How do we know we are in for change that will not change the country irretrievably? Where is it written that Obama plans modest changes? Remember, Obama’s the man who wants a "civilian national security force” that’s “just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the military.

Obama Jugend, anyone?

Or is that too fanciful to contemplate? Just too over the top?

If so, answer me this: Why would anyone advocate the creation of a security force as large as the military and separate and distinct from all other security organizations in the country? What is the threat to us against which this force will provide us security, and how is that different from the threat of domestic crime and foreign invasion.

"An open letter from The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley to Senator John McCain about Climate Science and Policy." By The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, The American Thinker, 10/18/08.

H/t: Rebecca Bynum, "New English Review."

UPDATE (10/22/08):

"The Dangers of a Diminished America. In the 1930s, isolationism and protectionism spurred the rise of fascism." By Aaron Friedberg And Gabriel Schoenfeld, Wall Street Journal, 10/21/08.

UPDATE (10/22/08):

And the fatigues because . . . .?



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