The Greens and democracy

Let’s have a vote! All in favour? All opposed?

But wait, what does this have to do with eco-terrorist James Lee’s bizarre actions and manifesto mentioned earlier? Well, in point one of Lee’s manifesto, he seems to endorse Senator Milne’s committee of experts idea. We’ve reproduced the whole point here so we’re not selectively quoting, although the emphasis added is ours and not Lee’s:

The Discovery Channel and its affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn’s “My Ishmael” pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other’s inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilisation building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!

If poor Mr Lee had just decided to run for office in Australia, he could be earning a public wage now instead of cooling in a morgue somewhere. He certainly has the right instincts to be in politics. He believes in coercion. He believes in State control of the media. He thinks “top down” solutions imposed from above should trump individual choices. He believes in expert scientists of a certain point of view. He’s against human civilisation and believes that children are filthy pollution.

Point four of his manifesto gets to the heart of his pro-planet, anti-human life message. He writes that, “Civilisation must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the population of the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn’t, then get the hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??”

Gee. That’s pretty much straight out of the tyrant’s modern political play book, isn’t it? Civilisation is filth? Check! Religion and culture and tradition are disgusting? Check! Human population should go down because it’s a pestilence? Check! You’re obliged to agree? Check! If you disagree, go to hell? Check! If you disagree, you’re immoral? Check!

You get the feeling that some people just don’t like humanity. You get the feeling that some people view human life as a problem to be solved. That solution is vague, but usually involves somebody else dying without being killed. You get the feeling that deep down, some people view human beings as parasites on the planet. You get the feeling some people don’t feel very good about themselves but would like to take it out on the rest of us.

We also get the feeling that some people don’t view human life as the Ultimate Resource, as economist Julian Simon put it. Our view is that these people are themselves very selfish. They can’t imagine the world they live in coping with all the problems they perceive. So they want to destroy the world as it is and remake it into the world they want to live in, even if that world doesn’t include you and me.

It’s all very self-centred, moralistic, and unimaginative. And of course, Lee was plain crazy, as this paragraph proves. He wrote:

The world needs TV shows that DEVELOP solutions to the problems that humans are causing, not stupefy the people into destroying the world. Not encouraging them to breed more environmentally harmful humans. Saving the environment and the remaining species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.

Of course the Squirrels!

TV will save us!

Save the froggies.

It would all be absurd and sad if there weren’t real live crazy people trying to run the government who didn’t’ share more or less the same anti-human, anti-civilisation worldview.