{"id":87518,"date":"2013-10-28T22:58:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T21:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=72e3ab884651315bb944e9ae94341a68"},"modified":"2013-10-29T19:54:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T18:54:40","slug":"environmental-fascism-the-ecofascists-are-slowly-but-surely-taking-over-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/environmental-fascism-the-ecofascists-are-slowly-but-surely-taking-over-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Fascism: The Ecofascists Are Slowly But Surely Taking Over America"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ecofascists\"<\/a>The environmental fascists believe that if people are allowed to have large amounts of freedom and liberty that the planet will literally be destroyed. That sounds crazy, but that is what they actually believe. Left to our own devices, they are fully convinced that global warming and out of control pollution will transform the earth into an uninhabitable hellhole. Therefore, they believe that it has become necessary to strictly manage human behavior \u201cfor the good of the environment\u201d. With each passing year, the control of the social planners gets even tighter. Today, they have banned certain kinds of light bulbs, they are putting mandatory \u201csmart meters\u201d into our homes, and they have instituted all kinds of ridiculous regulations concerning what you can do with your own land. Tomorrow, they plan to put \u201cblack boxes\u201d into our vehicles and move most of us into \u201cstack-and-pack\u201d housing that has communal bathrooms and no elevators. There is a reason why these people are called ecofascists. The \u201ctrue believers\u201d of the environmental fascism movement actually believe that they are \u201csaving the world\u201d by being control freaks. They truly believe that they know better than the rest of us, and they love to get into positions of political power so that they can impose their will on everyone around them.<\/p>\n

The environmental fascists are constantly \u201cpushing the envelope\u201d and doing whatever they can to use the power of the government to impose new rules on all the rest of us. Most of the time, Americans just take it without ever fighting back. For example, a car wash for a high school cheerleading squad was recently shut down because the cheerleaders were \u201cin violation of water discharge laws<\/a>\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to wave your spirit fingers when the city shuts down the cheerleading squad\u2019s fundraising car wash to protect the environment.<\/p>\n

This is what happened to Lincoln High School cheerleaders trying to raise money to attend a national competition in April. The San Jose Mercury reports that local environmental officials warned the high school cheerleaders that their car wash violated the city\u2019s water discharge laws.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a visit from the city of San Jose Environmental Services Department who said that the car washes at Hoover [Middle School] are in violation of water discharge laws, therefore we had to cancel this and all future car washes,\u201d said an email that was sent out to neighborhood email lists on Oct. 18.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fortunately, there are some Americans that are still willing to stand up and fight back against this emerging ecofascism. A recent Businessweek article<\/a> profiled one north Idaho couple that is vigorously fighting back against the ridiculous demands of the EPA\u2026<\/p>\n

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Four years ago the Sacketts were filling in their lot with dirt and rock, preparing to build a simple three-bedroom home in a neighborhood where other houses have stood for years. Then three federal officials showed up and demanded they stop construction. The agency claimed the .63-acre lot was a wetland, protected under the Clean Water Act.<\/p>\n

The Sacketts say they were stunned. The owners of an excavation company, they had secured all the necessary local permits. And Chantell Sackett says that before work began, she drove two hours to Coeur d\u2019Alene, Idaho, to consult with an Army Corps of Engineers official. She says the official told her orally, though not in writing, that she didn\u2019t need a federal permit. \u201cWe did all the right things,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The EPA issued an order requiring the Sacketts to put the land back the way it was, removing the piles of fill material and replanting the vegetation they had cleared away. The property was to be fenced off and the Sacketts would be required to submit annual reports about its condition to the EPA. The agency threatened to fine them up to $32,500 a day until they complied.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sadly, this kind of thing is happening all over the nation. The EPA is completely and totally out of control, and they seem to be obsessed with making life absolute hell for farmers and private landowners.<\/p>\n

But over in Europe, environmental fascism is actually even worse than it is in the United States. In fact, one new regulation that was recently implemented\u00a0bans Europeans from owning large vacuum cleaners<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

\n

Incandescent light bulbs have already been removed from the shelves. Next being removed are larger size vacuum cleaners. Germany\u2019s online flagship daily the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports: \u201cBeginning September 2014 in the EU only vacuum cleaners that consume less than 1600 watts may be sold. From 2017 only a maximum of 900 watts will be allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ultimately, the ecofascists intend to manage virtually every detail of our lives, because literally everything that we do \u201caffects the environment\u201d in some way.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0the Los Angeles Times<\/a>, one of the next things they hope to do is to put \u201cblack boxes\u201d in our vehicles that they can use to tax us and track the \u201cdamage\u201d that we are doing to the environment\u2026<\/p>\n

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As America\u2019s road planners struggle to find the cash to mend a crumbling highway system, many are beginning to see a solution in a little black box that fits neatly by the dashboard of your car.<\/p>\n

The devices, which track every mile a motorist drives and transmit that information to bureaucrats, are at the center of a controversial attempt in Washington and state planning offices to overhaul the outdated system for funding America\u2019s major roads.<\/p>\n

The usually dull arena of highway planning has suddenly spawned intense debate and colorful alliances. Libertarians have joined environmental groups in lobbying to allow government to use the little boxes to keep track of the miles you drive, and possibly where you drive them \u2013 then use the information to draw up a tax bill.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What I find humorous about the above excerpt is that the L.A. Times is trying to get us to believe that this is something that \u201clibertarians\u201d actually want.<\/p>\n

Another thing that the ecofascists have planned for the future is to move much of the population into \u201ceco-friendly\u201d stack-and-pack living environments. These stack-and-pack living environments were described in a recent article by Suzanne Eovaldi<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

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A typical stack-and-pack living area in the 200 square foot APodment bulding in Sammamish, WA is already developed. Occupant Judy Green (Seattle Times 5-12-13) \u201cshares the kitchen with seven other tenants on the second floor.\u201d With no elevators, she has to walk up and down six flights of stairs to get to her loft! Bathrooms often are communal; no or few cars are allowed because of global warming.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The ultimate goal is for the government to watch, track, monitor and control everything that we do \u201cfor the good of humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n

And of course this emerging \u201cBig Brother\u201d control grid has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. In fact, it is being reported that the United States spied on 60 million Spanish phone calls in just one single month<\/a> recently, and according to\u00a0CNN<\/a>, the U.S. had even been spying on the private phone conversations of 35 foreign leaders\u2026<\/p>\n

\n

The release of further allegations of National Security Agency surveillance efforts caused the Spanish government to summon the U.S. ambassador Monday, and The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House ordered a halt to some eavesdropping on foreign leaders after learning of it this summer.<\/p>\n

Quoting unidentified U.S. officials, the newspaper\u2019s website said the wiretapping of about 35 foreign leaders was disclosed to the White House as part of a review of surveillance programs ordered by President Barack Obama after NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked classified information on the NSA\u2019s phone monitoring systems.<\/p>\n

The White House ordered a halt to the monitoring of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and unspecified other leaders, the newspaper reported. The Journal report did not specify who gave the shutdown order or the date it was issued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And this \u201ccontrol grid\u201d is getting much tighter and much more oppressive on the local level as well. For example, just check out what happened to one Texas woman recently<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

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A Texas woman was arrested, strip-searched and jailed for an overdue traffic ticket Wednesday,\u00a0a local\u00a0CBS\u00a0affiliate first reported.<\/p>\n

Sarah Boaz\u00a0said she was cuffed outside her Richland Hills home by an officer who was waiting for her when she stepped out to go to work,\u00a0the\u00a0New York Daily News\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n

The officer told her a warrant had been issued for her arrest after she failed to pay a summons for running a stop sign in August.\u00a0Mrs. Boaz\u00a0admitted that she didn\u2019t pay the fine because she lost the summons.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m like nobody puts out a bench warrant after 60 days,\u201d she told the\u00a0Daily News. \u201cWhy would you do that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mrs. Boaz\u00a0said she was forced to step into a jail cell and remove her clothes for a search. Her family bailed her out within a couple of hours.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When most people read about stuff like this, they are absolutely outraged.<\/p>\n

But the ecofascists actually love this kind of stuff. They want an all-powerful government that will have the power to force people to do \u201cwhat is right for the environment\u201d. In fact, many of them actually believe that the planet will not survive if government does not behave in such a manner.<\/p>\n

In the end, they are not going to settle for anything less than total control. They want to control where you live, what kind of work you do, what kind of transportation you use and even how many children you have<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is a totalitarian system wrapped up in a \u201csave the world\u201d package.<\/p>\n

And right now, the ecofascists are steadily gaining ground. If they are going to be defeated, people need to start standing up for freedom and liberty while they still can.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Ecofascists\"<\/a>The environmental fascists believe that if people are allowed to have large amounts of freedom and liberty that the planet will literally be destroyed.  That sounds crazy, but that is what they actually believe.  Left to our own devices, they are fully convinced that global warming and out of control pollution will transform the earth into an uninhabitable hellhole.  Therefore, they believe that it has become necessary to strictly manage human behavior “for the good of the environment”.  With each passing year, the control of the social planners gets even tighter.  Today, they have banned certain kinds of light bulbs, they are putting mandatory “smart meters” into our homes, and they have instituted all kinds of ridiculous regulations concerning what you can do with your own land.  Tomorrow, they plan to put “black boxes” into our vehicles and move most of us into “stack-and-pack” housing that has communal bathrooms and no elevators.  There is a reason why these people are called ecofascists.  The “true believers” of the environmental fascism movement actually believe that they are “saving the world” by being control freaks.  They truly believe that they know better than the rest of us, and they love to get into positions of political power so that they can impose their will on everyone around them.<\/p>\n

The environmental fascists are constantly “pushing the envelope” and doing whatever they can to use the power of the government to impose new rules on all the rest of us.  Most of the time, Americans just take it without ever fighting back.  For example, a car wash for a high school cheerleading squad was recently shut down because the cheerleaders were “in violation of water discharge laws<\/a>“…<\/p>\n

\n

It’s hard to wave your spirit fingers when the city shuts down the cheerleading squad’s fundraising car wash to protect the environment.<\/p>\n

This is what happened to Lincoln High School cheerleaders trying to raise money to attend a national competition in April. The San Jose Mercury reports that local environmental officials warned the high school cheerleaders that their car wash violated the city’s water discharge laws.<\/p>\n

“We had a visit from the city of San Jose Environmental Services Department who said that the car washes at Hoover [Middle School] are in violation of water discharge laws, therefore we had to cancel this and all future car washes,” said an email that was sent out to neighborhood email lists on Oct. 18.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fortunately, there are some Americans that are still willing to stand up and fight back against this emerging ecofascism.  A recent Businessweek article<\/a> profiled one north Idaho couple that is vigorously fighting back against the ridiculous demands of the EPA…<\/p>\n

\n

Four years ago the Sacketts were filling in their lot with dirt and rock, preparing to build a simple three-bedroom home in a neighborhood where other houses have stood for years. Then three federal officials showed up and demanded they stop construction. The agency claimed the .63-acre lot was a wetland, protected under the Clean Water Act.<\/p>\n

The Sacketts say they were stunned. The owners of an excavation company, they had secured all the necessary local permits. And Chantell Sackett says that before work began, she drove two hours to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, to consult with an Army Corps of Engineers official. She says the official told her orally, though not in writing, that she didn’t need a federal permit. “We did all the right things,” she says.<\/p>\n

The EPA issued an order requiring the Sacketts to put the land back the way it was, removing the piles of fill material and replanting the vegetation they had cleared away. The property was to be fenced off and the Sacketts would be required to submit annual reports about its condition to the EPA. The agency threatened to fine them up to $32,500 a day until they complied.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sadly, this kind of thing is happening all over the nation.  The EPA is completely and totally out of control, and they seem to be obsessed with making life absolute hell for farmers and private landowners.<\/p>\n

But over in Europe, environmental fascism is actually even worse than it is in the United States.  In fact, one new regulation that was recently implemented bans Europeans from owning large vacuum cleaners<\/a>…<\/p>\n

\n

Incandescent light bulbs have already been removed from the shelves. Next being removed are larger size vacuum cleaners. Germany’s online flagship daily the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports: “Beginning September 2014 in the EU only vacuum cleaners that consume less than 1600 watts may be sold. From 2017 only a maximum of 900 watts will be allowed.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ultimately, the ecofascists intend to manage virtually every detail of our lives, because literally everything that we do “affects the environment” in some way.<\/p>\n

According to the Los Angeles Times<\/a>, one of the next things they hope to do is to put “black boxes” in our vehicles that they can use to tax us and track the “damage” that we are doing to the environment…<\/p>\n

\n

As America’s road planners struggle to find the cash to mend a crumbling highway system, many are beginning to see a solution in a little black box that fits neatly by the dashboard of your car.<\/p>\n

The devices, which track every mile a motorist drives and transmit that information to bureaucrats, are at the center of a controversial attempt in Washington and state planning offices to overhaul the outdated system for funding America’s major roads.<\/p>\n

The usually dull arena of highway planning has suddenly spawned intense debate and colorful alliances. Libertarians have joined environmental groups in lobbying to allow government to use the little boxes to keep track of the miles you drive, and possibly where you drive them — then use the information to draw up a tax bill.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What I find humorous about the above excerpt is that the L.A. Times is trying to get us to believe that this is something that “libertarians” actually want.<\/p>\n

Another thing that the ecofascists have planned for the future is to move much of the population into “eco-friendly” stack-and-pack living environments.  These stack-and-pack living environments were described in a recent article by Suzanne Eovaldi<\/a>…<\/p>\n

\n

A typical stack-and-pack living area in the 200 square foot APodment bulding in Sammamish, WA is already developed. Occupant Judy Green (Seattle Times 5-12-13) “shares the kitchen with seven other tenants on the second floor.”  With no elevators, she has to walk up and down six flights of stairs to get to her loft! Bathrooms often are communal; no or few cars are allowed because of global warming.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The ultimate goal is for the government to watch, track, monitor and control everything that we do “for the good of humanity”.<\/p>\n

And of course this emerging “Big Brother” control grid has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years.  In fact, it is being reported that the United States spied on 60 million Spanish phone calls in just one single month<\/a> recently, and according to CNN<\/a>, the U.S. had even been spying on the private phone conversations of 35 foreign leaders…<\/p>\n

\n

The release of further allegations of National Security Agency surveillance efforts caused the Spanish government to summon the U.S. ambassador Monday, and The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House ordered a halt to some eavesdropping on foreign leaders after learning of it this summer.<\/p>\n

Quoting unidentified U.S. officials, the newspaper’s website said the wiretapping of about 35 foreign leaders was disclosed to the White House as part of a review of surveillance programs ordered by President Barack Obama after NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked classified information on the NSA’s phone monitoring systems.<\/p>\n

The White House ordered a halt to the monitoring of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and unspecified other leaders, the newspaper reported. The Journal report did not specify who gave the shutdown order or the date it was issued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And this “control grid” is getting much tighter and much more oppressive on the local level as well.  For example, just check out what happened to one Texas woman recently<\/a>…<\/p>\n

\n

A Texas woman was arrested, strip-searched and jailed for an overdue traffic ticket Wednesday, a local CBS affiliate first reported.<\/p>\n

Sarah Boaz said she was cuffed outside her Richland Hills home by an officer who was waiting for her when she stepped out to go to work, the New York Daily News reported.<\/p>\n

The officer told her a warrant had been issued for her arrest after she failed to pay a summons for running a stop sign in August. Mrs. Boaz admitted that she didn’t pay the fine because she lost the summons.<\/p>\n

“I’m like nobody puts out a bench warrant after 60 days,” she told the Daily News. “Why would you do that?”<\/p>\n

Mrs. Boaz said she was forced to step into a jail cell and remove her clothes for a search. Her family bailed her out within a couple of hours.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When most people read about stuff like this, they are absolutely outraged.<\/p>\n

But the ecofascists actually love this kind of stuff.  They want an all-powerful government that will have the power to force people to do “what is right for the environment”.  In fact, many of them actually believe that the planet will not survive if government does not behave in such a manner.<\/p>\n

In the end, they are not going to settle for anything less than total control.  They want to control where you live, what kind of work you do, what kind of transportation you use and even how many children you have<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is a totalitarian system wrapped up in a “save the world” package.<\/p>\n

And right now, the ecofascists are steadily gaining ground.  If they are going to be defeated, people need to start standing up for freedom and liberty while they still can.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/a><\/p>\n

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Instantly Add To The Conversation Using Facebook Comments<\/h3>\n

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