And just like that, a meme is born, courtesy of James Taranto in his “Best of the Web” column at the Wall Street Journal. Sadly, this time, he’s discussing the Worst of the Web:
What kind of people blow up children?
White supremacists, for one example. On the morning of Sept. 15, 1963, members of a Ku Klux Klan “splinter group” set off dynamite under the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., killing four girls: Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. Denise was 11; the other three were 14.
AdvertisementIslamic supremacists, for another example. Groups like Hamas and al Qaeda not only attack civilians indiscriminately but frequently employ Muslim children as suicide bombers. Our friend Brooke Goldstein made a whole movie about it.
There’s a new kind of supremacist on the scene: green supremacists. They haven’t blown up any children–not in real life. But they’ve been thinking about it.
A British outfit called the 10:10 Campaign hired Richard Curtis, a writer and producer of cinematic comedies, to produce a four-minute video promoting its effort to encourage people to cut “carbon emissions.” The result, titled “No Pressure,” struck James Delingpole, a global-warming skeptic who writes for London’s Daily Telegraph, as “deliciously, unspeakably, magnificently bleeding awful.” He’s being too kind.
You’ve likely seen the video, thanks to the amount of traffic my post on the topic received (thank you again to the folks at Glenn Beck’s The Blaze and other sites for linking to it), but if not click here for the full visual horror, and some of the earlier ads leading up to it.
More from Taranto:
GreenwiseBusiness.co.uk reports that the video is scaring off corporate sponsors. Kyocera Mita “was keen to point out” that it “had no part in the film, or knowledge of it” and “is now considering its sponsorship relationship with 10:10,” and Sony said “that it was ‘disassociating itself’ from the climate change campaign group for the time being.”
The 10:10 site formerly featured a statement from Naomi Climer, “chair of Sony’s sustainability leadership group,” who said that the organization’s efforts are in line with Sony’s “long-term corporate targets.” An ominous choice of words! What happens to Phillip and Tracy if they buy a Vizio TV set or an H-P laptop?
The ad has drawn a few defenses, mostly on the ground that it’s intended to be humorous. Typical is Jim Edwards of CBS Interactive, who faults 10:10 for backing away from the video rather than “standing proud and telling the deniers to suck it up”:
Whatever. No one but the most extreme climate change denier believes this is actually what environmentalists want. It’s obviously just a joke outrageous enough to actually get people’s attention.
But a joke at whose expense? If a “climate change denier” had made such a video in order to lampoon global warmists as fanatical and antihuman, the effort would have been denounced as invidious and over the top–and rightly, or so we would have said a week ago anyway.
No, this video was made by green supremacists themselves, and with a high degree of technical proficiency. As 10:10 itself observed in a statement (since removed from its website), the video required the efforts of “50+ film professionals and 40+ actors and extras.” Blogger David Burge notes that “somehow, throughout this entire process, not one of the hundreds of people involved seemed to have questioned the wisdom of an advertising message advocating the violent, sudden death of people who disagree with it.”
One may hope that Jim Edwards is right when he denies that “this is actually what environmentalists want.” But it’s bad enough that this is what they fantasize about–and that they manifestly felt no inhibition about airing such a depraved fantasy in public.
And of course, as was the wont of the original White Supremacists, the Green Supremacists really dig fantasizing about a few lynchings, as Australian journalist Andrew Bolt recently discovered. Click on the next page for a fairly disturbing Green Supremacist image.
we will not be hearing “I’m shocked.he was a quiet sort and nice guy” When they find bodies under porches of these extremists. What we will be hearing is “It’s no surprise that they killed people and tried to hide it. Yes, they were clearly mentall unbalanced sociopaths”.
I have no doubt the highest form of law inforcement is investiaging these people and looking much closer at unsolved murders they are involved in.
Yeah, like THAT’S gonna happen! The fine individuals in “Law Enforcement” are out hunting evil Christians, veterans, and Constitutionalists instead.
Oooh! There’s a Law Enforcement Officer, Christian Division, right over there! In the shadows!
One may hope that Jim Edwards is right when he denies that “this is actually what environmentalists want.”
Hope in vain, Mr. Taranto. It doesn’t matter what they want; what matters is where their road leads. They just showed you.
The real story is not in any of the *intentions* of the people who worked on this video; it lies in the fact noted by David Burge: none of the idiots making this video noticed what they were doing until it was done. Not unlike the Germans who had no idea what was going on in the camps until they were brought to see it.
When you think about it the concept of “Green Nazis” is not so farfetched. In the enviromentalist worldview human beings are just one of many species on the planet with no greater rights to life or existence than any other. In fact our centuries of rapacious “planetary abuse” render us unfit to continue as the Earth’s primary species. Therefore what do a few (worthless) human lives matter when the entire planet is at stake? Advocacy of the elimination of those who oppose the enviromentalist agenda is a built-in feature of the movement.
I would like to say that outfits like the “10:10 Campaign” are fringe loonies with too much time on their hands. However these groups command an increasingly large number of our cultural “elites” who already loathe middle-class values, business (other than entertainment) and the “productive sector.” Intellectuals like Peter Singer and others like him are finding an increasingly receptive attitude to the idea that the number of people on the planet should be greatly reduced or wholly eliminated in some yet-to-be-determined fashion.
The corollary to this is that, in order to reach this goal, all human activity must be made subordinate to the needs of “the planet.” This will require that some sort of “vanguard elite (to use Lenin’s term) of the most committed enviromentalists achieve worldwide power.
This cannot be achieved by force (most greens couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag) but by a steady process of propoganda and indoctrination. They are engaging in a Gramscian “long march through the institutions” in order to achieve their ends. Every day it looks like their chief end is the elimination of a whole lot of us.
H/t Jim Treacher at Daily Caller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmBnVjy4vag&feature=player_embedded
This is the ad they want to make, but don’t dare: http://sweasel.com/archives/6979
These weenies don’t have the courage to threaten adults.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU_Nt-wPgtU
Ed, as usual, Robert Heinlein said it best:
Typical Luddites. You always know them, because they offer everyone else up for destitution or extinction – but never themselves.
How noble of them.
Green is the new brown.
One more irony, of course, is that the slogan of the organization from which you can download the lovely graphic of the hanging little girl is “Act Responsible”.
Reminds me of The Princess Bride:
“You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
SDN:
Thank you for the Heinlein quote. Reminds me I have to read more of him.
It sums up the negative reaction to the ad, which some of the die-hard Greens still supporting do not seem to get. They think, “Hey! It’s just like a Monty Python skit; that’s all. Just a little dark humor! Lighten up!”
Of course, the problem is the video was not part of some edgy comedy show pushing the envelope, but part of an advertising blitz from a political/ideological sect whose propaganda shows ever increasing levels of misanthropy. “No Pressure” did not appear in a vaccuum (no pun intended), but in an environment where man is increasingly viewed as a virus to be exterminated for the health of the planet by many environmentalists.
As even one environmentalist unhappy with the video put it, it seemed to confirm the very worst of what critics think of their movement.
Inconceivable!
AS the AGW theory continues to disintegrate, the 10:10 video shows just how desperate the so-called Greens are getting.
At least the ACT ad is trying to depict metaphorically what they think will happen if the world warms. They can make the case that they want to save the girl’s life by trying to keep the ice from melting.
My objections to that ad are, first, the psychological impact on kids who see it, and second, the fact that it has been the cold periods in history that have killed lots of people.
You might think this stuff is extreme. But stuff like this is being taught and being showed to many school kids in America as “science”
One of my criticisms of the AGW proponents is that they failed to “peer review” Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” “documentary”, for which he received not only an Academy Award, for we know how scientifically stupid the Hollywood crowd is, but also a Nobel peace prize. When AGW-supporting scientists failed to professionally critique Gore’s movie, I knew the fix was in.
I love it when people quote “The Master” i.e., Robert A. Heinlein. He understood people better than anyone I know of and could write a story like no other before or since. So good in fact that the next best author, Larry Niven, put RAH in two stories of his own. I’m in the process of re-reading his future histories right now and the parallels between the way his characters act and the real life Luddites in government and the environmental wackos is amazing.
Indeed. We are living in the Crazy Years.
And if the Old Man were still here with us, he’d be shaking his head and saying, “I told you so.”.
cheers
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