Matt from NC - Genocide - Environmental Idealists

Every now and then you run across a case in which some nutjob is prosecuted for starving domestic animals, often horses, cattle, dogs. Many defendants in such cases either deny that the animals were suffering or spout some Nietzschean-Darwinian crap about making them stronger.

Shaka Zulu was so distraught over his mother's death that he thought his entire kingdom should grieve with him. So he ordered his subjects not to plant crops that year, condemning many of them to starvation.

Adolf Hitler and his fellow monsters combined socialism, racism, and a cult of personality to produce Nazism: "Aryans" are the supreme race, and they should be genetically pure, militarily aggressive, eternally loyal to the Reich, and mystically at one with the land. The results of this abomination are too well known to require recapitulation.

Pol Pot and his fellow Khmer Rouge monsters thought that the people of Cambodia should live simply, communally, and close to the land. So they emptied all the cities and towns. They drove men, women, children, invalids, and hospital patients into the jungle. They killed, and sometimes ate, all who resisted, lagged, or fell. Then they killed whomever they pleased among the survivors -- perhaps 2 million all together.

Kim Il-Sung and his idiot son Kim Jong-Il combined Marxism, racism, and a cult of personality to excrete the doctrine of juche ("main subject"): Koreans are the supreme race, and they should be genetically pure, militarily aggressive, eternally loyal to the Kim dynasty, and self-sufficient in everything. While maintaining a million-man army, supporting terrorism, and developing nuclear weapons, the regime in Pyongyang has starved or otherwise killed perhaps one-sixth of its own population in the last two decades alone.

Gaia-worshippers, Marxists, aristocrats, and other environmental extremists in the Obama administration and in the larger society think that the United States is too wealthy, too powerful, too successful, too arrogant, too destructive, too far from its roots. They envision a kinder, gentler, poorer, weaker, humbler, more parklike country powered by sun and wind, a country in which they and their peer group will live well while the rude mechanicals happily ride bicycles from hut to field and back.

What do these people have in common? Unshakable commitment to a grand idea and complete uninterest in the suffering it causes. Yes, a ban on CO2 emissions isn't much like Cambodia's "agrarian revolution," but the differences are mostly quantitative. If you think that domestic idealists are incapable of tyranny or atrocity, you haven't been paying attention.

Matt

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