Copenhagen: At least some greens aren’t so yellow that they can’t admit they’re red.

While Copenhagen seems poised to enjoy a white Christmas, an equally noticeable color in the city was red, with flag-waving communists and socialists protesting and hoisting banners with messages such as “CAPITALISM MEANS WAR” and “CAPITALISM ISN’T WORKING, Crush the system not the climate.” They were well represented within the conference as well, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe and Bolivian President Evo Morales all registering such sentiments.

The limelight-lusting Chavez, who undermines his nation’s rule of law and suppresses its press with equal vigor, spoke for four times longer than his allotted five minutes, leaving plenty of time to bang his communist drum. Reporting on the Venezuelan’s comments, ABC.net.au, wrote:

“The destructive model of capitalism is the eradication of life,” he said.

Recalling how rich nations last year swiftly pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into their faltering banking systems, he added: “If the climate was a bank, they would have already saved it.”

After Morales echoed these remarks, Mugabe, best known for changing Zimbabwe from a breadbasket into a basket case, followed suit. Obviously upset that the West has targeted him with sanctions over human rights abuses, he said:

When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it’s we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere who gasp and sink and eventually die.

. . . Why is the guilty north not showing the same fundamentalist spirit it exhibits in our developing countries on human rights matters on this more menacing threat of climate change?

Well, Mr. Mugabe, perhaps because your people aren’t starving due to climate change but because you’d rather see them suffer than be fed by white farmers. Just a thought.

Mugabe hasn’t let his socialism cramp his style, though. Earlier this year he celebrated his 85th birthday with a $250,000 party, which converted into Zimbabwean currency produces a figure that freezes up computers. All the while, his countrymen are dealing with a cholera outbreak, food shortages and collapsing hospitals. (ABC reported on a bankrupt intensive care unit that could have resumed operations for less than one-eighth the cost of the octogenarian’s shindig.) Yet, while the country may be in dire straits, said Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwawo, they need a day to “honor the sacrifices the president has made for this country.”

Another man at the COP15 making sacrifices is bow-tie wearing Ian Fry. All choked up because the ocean could rise and swamp his small island nation of Tuvalu, The Australian quotes him as issuing the following conference floor plea: “The fate of my country rests in your hands.” This caused the audience to explode with “wild applause.”

It’s really very touching. We should note, however, that Fry resides in Australia, and when his wife was asked if he ever lived in Tuvalu, she replied that she’d “rather not comment.”

As for the career and lifestyle of this simple, hapless islander, The Australian writes:

A career environmentalist who once worked as a Greenpeace political liaison officer, Mr Fry has found his niche in global climate change talks over the past 10 years, representing small Pacific nations and running the climate negotiations for the Association of Small Island States.

At home, he practises what he preaches with a water tank, chooks [hens] and a vegie patch in the backyard, although there's a window-mounted air-conditioning unit down the side and a late model gas-guzzling Ford cab ute in the driveway.

If I didn’t know better, I’d think this was excerpted from The Onion. Doesn’t this sound like the obese people whose “diet” consists of putting artificial sweetener in their coffee and then using it to wash down a big hunk of chocolate cake?

But seas do rise — and fall. At one time the ocean around Florida was 100 feet higher and at another time 300 feet lower. And in the fifth century A.D., the North Sea flooded the lands of certain Germanic tribes, displacing them and becoming part of what inspired these “barbarians” to invade the Roman Empire. Serves those Romans right, though, always buzzing along the Apian Way in their SUVs.    

Yet historical precedent doesn’t make the phenomenon any less gut-wrenching. The Australian tells us that Mr Fry, “eyes welled with tears,” said to the COP15 delegates, “I woke up this morning crying, and that's not easy for a grown man to admit.”

Ah, the emotional appeal. This reminds me of another eco-warrior and Copenhagen attendee, Al Gore, and his rhetoric at the 1996 Democrat National Convention. Capitalizing on Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole’s association with the tobacco industry, Gore gave a moving anti-tobacco speech in which he spoke of his sister’s horrible death from lung cancer in 1984. Interestingly, though, while campaigning in the tobaccoland of North Carolina in 1988, Gore wooed voters with the following, “Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've dug in it. I've sprayed it, I've chopped it, I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it.”

Let’s see, last I heard, 1988 was 4 years later than 1984.

Gore also accepted checks from his beloved family tobacco farm and donations from tobacco companies for years after his sister’s passing, but he has an explanation. Citing “numbness,” Gore said, “Sometimes, you never fully face up to things that you ought to face up to.”

Yeah, never. I mean, really, never ever.

But we can’t blame ol’ Al. This is all the result of political climate change.

What does this have to do with actual climate change? Nothing, really. Except that it goes to credibility, your honor. Chavez, Morales, Mugabe, Gore . . . would you buy an economy-rending climate bill from these men? You may have to. They intend to pay for it with your taxes.  

Folks, the green movement is the new home of the Red Menace. And the only green they really love is your money.

Selwyn Duke is a columnist and public speaker whose work has been published widely online and in print, on both the local and national levels. He has been featured on the Rush Limbaugh Show, at WorldNetDaily.com, in American Conservative magazine, is a contributor to AmericanThinker.com and appears regularly as a guest on the award-winning, nationally-syndicated Michael Savage Show. Visit his Website.
 

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Pat Henry said:

Huh? I thought Communism was dead. Am I having cognitive dissonance? BTW, capitalISM is not the answer, either. Biblical worldview and ethics (necessarily self-controlled) and social justice according to the principles of that law is. Which of course includes the power to make wealth (make, not just transfer) and to hold private property under civil protection (rather than civil stealing). Without capital, we'd all be poor, and with no means to rectify it. Just a thought.

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DDW said:

What a collection Of loathsome, sickening, useless pukes (I refer to Chavez, Mugabe and Gore). If Congress had any guts at all, every single penny of foreign aid would be immediately and permanently stopped (seeing how it's completely unconstitutional to begin with). Further, is it "capitalism" we want? Or is it actually free enterprise? I don't think they're exactly the same thing. And to Pat Henry, you're one of the few people who are awake and aware.

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rprew said:

Got a question ALL economies are capitalistic. In economics, capital means cash or goods which produce other goods. One definition is "the total amount of money or property owned or used by an individual or corporation." Money IS capital! If the likes of Chavez so despise capitalism, why is it they so desperately want money? Not just any money, but OUR money! No, capitalism isn't the problem. The problem is the POLITICAL system which utilizes capitalism. It is a proven fact that the best utilization of capitalism is in a FREE MARKET economy. So, these idiots will argue, how is it the United States is having such great economic difficulty even though we are a free market economy? Simple... we are NOT a free market economy and have not been so for quite some time. Our difficulties began when we started to move towards a socialistic style MANAGED economy. The closer we get to that goal, the worse our situation becomes. My question to Chavez and Mugabe and Morales is this: When the entire world is mired in a socialistic managed economy, who are you going to turn to to bail your a$$ out?

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DDW said:

	Thank you much rprew. As always, you are 100% correct. By the way, I'm not an anticapitalist by any means and hope I didn't give that impression. I asked a question, it has been answered.
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