Guest post by Alec Rawls
Is this video below child abuse? Instead of children exploding or polar bears falling like victims of 9/11, this time it is spectral children hating on mom and dad from a supposedly desolate future. Such childish doggerel can only be the product of earnest adults:
We haven’t killed all the polar bears
But it’s not for lack of trying
Big Bird is sacked
The Earth is cracked
And the atmosphere is frying
Apparently it is an anti-Romney ad, listing destruction of the planet by global warming as just one item in a laundry-list of petty demagogic cliches. Was this paid for by Obama?
Full “lyrics” here. Nice propaganda to put in the mouths of the innocent.
Hurry up and unplug our existing coal-generation electricity infrastructure, for the children, to keep them cold at night.
“Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,” for the children (Obama 2008), so they won’t have too much light.
Hurry up and quadruple gasoline prices, for the children:
“Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
—Obama’s Energy Secretary in-waiting Stephen Chu in December 2008 when U.S. gas prices were below $2/gal and European gas prices were $8/gal.
And don’t forget that killing debt, for the children, the gift that keeps on taking.
Some kids will have good reason to blame mom and dad if they find the future impoverished (and cold instead of hot), like those kids in the video, who were undoubtedly put up to it by their own eco-leftist parents.
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So, it was true in Bob hope’s day, and it still true now…
Ah, but you do know someone who voted for Obama last time. Me. And the operative phrase is “last time”. Not ever again. Even changed my party affiliation. My goal now is to try, as best I can, to influence conservative parties to let go their limited, yes limited, sense of personal freedom, and to untangle spiritual life from political decisions. Which means stay out of my decisions as a woman and please leave biblical tenants to church sermons. They’ve no place in science class. As for reproductive issues, if a man can deposite his DNA wherever he chooses without fear of punishment, I can deposit my eggs likewise. If a miscarriage rightly belongs to the woman and her physician, so too do other similar medical procedures. The government should stay out of such prenatal reproductive matters. For good. But that aside, I will never again vote the Democratic ticket. Big mistake. Big mistake. Why?
I like to work. And I don’t care for government interference in that endeavor. I also like to keep what I have earned. The government takes WAAAAYYYY too much money out of my hard-earned income to fund its many departments of this and that. Departments that are completely unnecessary. Return control of federal lands and wildlife to the states and counties they are in. Return education to the states, counties, and communities they are in. The list goes on and on. And return political folks to the time when they served and were paid only for the time they spent directly engaged in those endeavors. Which means part time governmental employment. Let them find another part time job to complete their necessary income if needed. Let the voting public decide who gets a full-time government job and who does not. Now that alone would reduce taxes a ton!!!!
Pathetic as this might, at many levels, at least there are no exploding body parts. I love the nice liberal touch of using the word “kinda”, just in case mom and dad retailiate?
Not to downplay this, but what was the last Disney production where the parents (especially the dad) weren’t depicted as idiots and the kids where right? Real “kid stuff”.
DEEBEE: Let’s hope at least a few mom and dads retaliate. That’s what parents are for–protecting their kids from the like of the climate change bunch.
(Pamela–you do realize you are arguing for legalized prostitution?)
Reality check. And the problem with that would be? The only thing I can think of is buyer beware. The government cannot be involved in our morality. It is for us to learn of and live by or not, and happiness or woe be our wages or not.
As others have pointed out, exploiting kids for political gain is nothing new. My candidate for the all-time stupidest use of the tactic is Jimmy Carter:
“The Lorax” at least can be salvaged as a lesson on the Tragedy of the Commons. If the trees had been privately-run orchards they’d not have been cut down. Think I read this at National Review once.
There’s no salvaging this creepfest.
“—Obama’s Energy Secretary in-waiting Stephen Chu in December 2008 when U.S. gas prices were below $2/gal and European gas prices were $8/gal.”
$2 gas in 2008? I don’t know about the rest of the country, but that was certainly not true in Sacramento County. Fact-check, anyone?
The Progressers should just come out of the closet and say they want the US Constitution abolished, and have a one world government new world order under the unelected command of wealthy elite billionaire people like George Soros and Ted Turner. Then we could really get it on.
Ted Turner: I Think It’s “Good” U.S. Troops are Killing Themselves
Here is my re-write… Enjoy!
_______________________
Imagine an America
Where science can’t be shared,
Where numbers must be fudged,
And government just stares,
And energy is vilified
By lies and misdirection,
Propaganda rules the classroom,
And success yields condemnation,
Where Obama’s fear of boiling seas
Makes him kowtow to Chinese,
Selling debt and industries,
(At bargain rates to help the trees),
And the EPA rolls onward
Over shackled companies.
Polar bears are doing great
But whiners keep on whining
That our sky is falling faster
While skeptics steal our email
And discover all our lying!
Congress funds the ties that bind
That flow to grants where models grind,
The blind are leading blinder still,
And science plays the well-fed fool,
Falsely claiming that they know
Futures of diminished snow,
And Chicken Little’s false lament
preached non-stop from those scientists
Who find that fear will pay their rent.
Our nation’s parks are green and great
With redwood tree and pristine lake
All threatened by a modeled fate,
That dastardly villainous C02,
A trace gas from the devil’s taint.
It’s awkward now to turn the screw,
But your confidence is bunk,
The known unknowns embarrass you,
So many feedbacks, missing clouds –
And questioning is not allowed.
You say you know the places
Where the heat and moisture lurk,
But you hide and splice your data,
And you won’t show all your work.
You calmly claim to know what’s next,
Your tortured data can’t protest,
100% bull excrement
Is all your lies can manifest…
Good post Alec.
Had a quick look at the list of “adults” credited on the Vimeo page.
At least three of them -Dave Baker, Alison Plansky and Jaime Szefc- work for the ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. So if this video disgusts you as much as it does me, check out Goodby and Silverstein’s corporate clients.
http://www.goodbysilverstein.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodby,_Silverstein_%26_Partners
Then email them and tell them why you are not going to buy or use their products and why you are going to tell as many of your friends to do likewise. Something like this:
Goodby and Silverstein
We’re blaming you!
Oh, and if one of the partners is reading this, have a nice day.
————————————–
P.S.
You can see similarly nauseating stuff by another of the video’s authors here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L0dLp4aKz0
The shocking aspect is the total naivety that somehow a vote will make a change to that laundry list of woe. With the two-party adversarial form of politics, the difference between the two “parties” is paper thin, a vote for either party will make no difference to any of those issues. When will America end her endless wars of aggression? Never, we have seen that clearly demonstrated with the “non-change” from Bush to Obama. Both parties support and want war, of that there is no doubt.
Pamela: Not a problem. Just checking for consistency in your beliefs. (Now, if we can just teach people legal is not the same as moral, things should work out fine.)
This is the video of the our children’s future if the environmentalists win:
See nothing? You’re right. There will be no video–no internet, no phones, no cell towers, no department stores, no Facebook. The kids are out hunting for food and gathering wood for tonight’s fire. Living as one with nature. Not like the Obama video, where they are neatly dressed, well-fed and have enough electricity to make and run a YouTube video.
“Ireland will soon be voting on whether or not to amend their constitution to include children’s rights, removing the centuries-old presumption that fit parents act in the best interest of their children. Decisions would fall to bureaucrats rather than to parents whenever children are involved and any question of “best interest” arises.
Parental rights groups in New Zealand are fighting desperately to prevent a bill that would require any child receiving government aid to attend a government-licensed Early Childhood Education (ECE) program for at least 15 hours each week. Currently, aid is offered through a non-discriminatory, needs-based approach. The proposed law would make aid available only to those willing to let government bureaucrats shape the development and learning of their children from ages 3 to 5 years.
And in Alberta, the right of parents to put their children in a private or parochial school – in fact, to educate their children by any means other than public schools – was very narrowly saved when a bill was recently amended to restore that right. The Canadian province was one vote away from forcing all children into state-run schools.
Parents and lawmakers in all three of these countries are dealing with the same struggle: a clash of ideologies that would replace fit and loving parents with government bureaucrats as the best decision makers for children. In each instance lawmakers are responding to their country’s perceived obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a binding human rights treaty to which all three nations are a party.
Could such an approach to children ever come here to the United States?
It is already much closer than many realize.”
Petition to pass an amendment to maintain the rights and duty of parents to raise and educate their children:
https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/385/personal2.asp?formid=signup
This is a response to sceptics. If you can’t debate them down, shout them down, get them into line, crowd them out of the media and the scientific journals, just give up on them and go for the easy targets – children. That way there won’t be any sceptics in a decade or two.
Given the age-old tendency of children to reject what the ‘system’ taught them (at least for a decade or so beginning about age 15), this might not be so smart.
I agree with Brian H to so a large degree. The reality of needing food, clothing and a place to live often change one’s ideology. Many people who in college were liberals now are not. I personally think parenting and a sense of entitlement (not rich parents, “helicopter” parents who protect their kids from reality) are the major problem. When the older generation is gone, there’s no one to pay your rent, pay for your cell phone, give you a downpayment on a house. I have always believed this will be a rude awakening for the children of the boomers and below. No more handouts and the government cannot replace these parents when if there is no work force to tax. Sooner or later, you run out of ways of calling the misery “community” and reality sinks in. Hunger and cold have a way of doing that.