Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Climate advocate Leonardo DiCaprio has called for climate “deniers” to be banned from public office. President Obama, sharing a stage with DiCaprio, did not object – Obama’s words in my opinion appear to actually lend some support to DiCaprio’s outrageous demand, for limiting the US people’s freedom to choose leaders who represent their views.
DiCaprio: Climate change doubters shouldn’t hold public office
Politicians who don’t believe in climate change should not hold public office, said actor Leonardo DiCaprio Monday at the White House before the screening of his new climate documentary.
“The scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over,” DiCaprio said at the White House’s South By South Lawn event.
“If you do not believe in climate change, you do not believe in facts or in science or empirical truths and therefore, in my humble opinion, should not be allowed to hold public office.”
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“Climate change is almost perversely designed to be really hard to solve politically. It is a problem that creeps up on you,” Obama said.
“The political system in every country is not well-designed to do something tough now to solve a problem that people will really feel the impact of in the future.”
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Read more (includes a video): http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/leonardo-dicaprio-barack-obama-sxsl-climate-change
How many tyrants and dictators through history have used the pretext of an imminent disaster to seize control, to deprive people of their freedom?
It is one thing for a hypocritical jetset climate clown like DiCaprio to say something outrageous and anti-democratic. But it is an entirely different issue, when the serving President of the United States, who took an oath to defend the US constitution, fails to discharge his duty by speaking up against a high profile verbal attack against the liberty of the people he swore to protect.
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Should chinook deniers also be banned?
Maybe, but mostly in Canada.
Easy, post a comment on his Facebook page or twitter feed and say you will boycot his films.
DiCaprio is having a great laugh and a roaring good time. All at everyone else’s expense.
Flying around the world in private jets, visiting far flung and beautiful lands, to ponder on the dire effects of climate change.
Holding swanky parties (ie, fund raisers) for his friends who all fly into exotic five star resorts and donate money to his cause, so he can fly to more exotic locales, and hold more parties.
I think the lad realizes that he has hit the mother lode, and the longer he can keep the show rolling, the better.
He may even feel genuinely righteous about it all.
But, perhaps not.
It would be interesting to see (but not worth the effort to find out) if all these junkets including private jet expenses, first class hotels etc are tax write offs 🙂 .
Useful idiot.
How about banning anyone incapable of analysing the climate data and classifying its cyclic components so they can see how unlikely the climate scientists are to be correct from any public pronouncements on climate change? This is far more rational than allowing a person who has proved his ability to make pure fiction seem real is so outstanding as to have gained several awards for it become a major spokesman.
Somehow I don’t think John Wayne would have been standing there.
I always laugh at Leftists that call CAGW skeptics “unscientific” and “unwilling to accept emoirical evidence”.
The irony is that it’s Leftist CAGW religious zealots that are not following the rules of the scientific method and are fail to evaluate the empirical evidence, which clearly show CAGW is a completely disconfirmed hypothesis.
It’s unconstitutional for the government to prohibit anyone that meets the constitutional qualifications to run for office from running. PERIOD!
it’s disgraceful Obama said absolutely nothing when DiCaprio made such a tyrannous and stupid comment–probably because Obama himself is stupid and tyrannous…
Here is what happened to DiCaprio, remember that scene from Titanic when he slowly slipped out of sight under water. Well maybe he held his breath to long. Oxygen starvation maybe.
Leonardo DiCaprio is absolutely correct about the empirical evidence. After all, no ship like the Titanic has hit an iceberg and sunk since anthropogenic global warming started. You see, he really is an expert on the subject!
Please stop reporting this nonsense WUWT! Please stop reporting such idiots! you are only giving them the publicity they crave. People like these should be prosecuted for abusing the world`s top scientists. End this rubbish now WUWT!
“Please stop reporting this nonsense WUWT!”
Oh, come on, now! You want to deprive us of the pleasure of heaping scorn on these alarmist fools? That’s no fun!
I wonder if DeCrapio is smart enough to tell us mere mortals what the climate ought to be like. I mean, on our planet, not his.
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A Cosmic Idiot, and not to mention Little Leo….
..I have a better idea. How about we ban stupid liberal actors from speaking in public ?
Too many people are advocating banning this and banning that opinion. Such opinions need to be banned.
IMO, The US Constitution bans the government from banning my opinion.
“IMO, The US Constitution bans the government from banning my opinion.”
That’s not just your opinion, that’s the LAW! Let’s hope it stays that way after this next presidential election.
DiCaprio’s comment raises the interesting question as to who should adjudicate the subjects which disqualify someone from office:
– the National Thought Police?
– the Department of Political Correctness?
– the Supreme Court of Received Wisdom?
Because what DiCaprio sees to be asking for is just the first step to the Climate Change Inquisition. It’s very, very dangerous. If it’s Climate Change today, it could be Islam or guns or the Right to Choose tomorrow. It’s an amazingly authoritarian posture and for Obama to remain quiet is disturbing.
Luckily not all actors are that stupid, though. James Woods is a favourite of mine, this is from imdb.com: “Has said he has an I.Q. of 180. Albert Einstein had an I.Q. of approximately 160. Another source lists Woods’ I.Q. as 184. He scored a perfect 800 on the Verbal portion of the SAT and a 779 in Math.”
Mr. Woods is known to have said “”Scratch a liberal and you’ll find a fascist … I’m not joking. You look at what’s happening in this country now.”
According to some of his tweets he has not bought into the climatescam either.
The reason liberals are Fascists was found by Heinlein.
“Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
To be a Liberal you have to believe first that you know better than everybody else what is best for them, second that you have a moral obligation to put your ‘wisdom’ into practice in the best interests of everybody, and third that anybody who resists your tyrannical altruism is evil.
That sums it up nicely, tadchem.
I know how we fix this horse pucky. When the Ice Age starts, we take all the Climate Alarmist out back and shoot them. 75 cents a head is not to expensive!
2 Comments.
#1 – Beliefs are for Religion, not science. When did the US repeal the Religious test clause for public office?
#2 – Obama agrees with it and is waiting to see if he can come out in support, that is why the silence. If there is not a big kickback, he will do just that. This is his “trial balloon”.
So long Leo. It was good knowing ya.
If only DiCaprio’s term had only four more months to run.
I thought the constitution banned religious tests for office.
So only hysterical chicken littles can be elected to office?
So we have DiCrapio spouting nonsense about climate change after Jenny McCarthy started in with the non-vaccine thing which has caused harm.
Instead of DiCrapio’s solution, I suggest banning celebrities and actors from being allowed to talk to the public.
Start the show trials. They’ve done every other shocker.
He is entitled to his opinions, no matter how ignorant or offensive they are. And I will oppose anybody that suggests he does not have the right to express them. I suppose that is just one of many things that Leo and I don’t agree on.