Who Would Have Ever Dreamed that American College Students Would Have So Little Understanding of Freedom?



They have noticed that their climate change propaganda has not been as effective as it used to be, that countries are backing away from their subsidies for wind and solar energy, or perhaps it’s that the Paris Accords didn’t transfer enough wealth to the have-nots. In any case, the effort to prosecute climate skeptics for “denying” the urgency of battling climate change is not going as well as it was.

The letter that 20 professors fired off urging President Obama to investigate climate skeptics for suspected violation of the RICO laws for denying that climate change is an earth-shaking problem, has been described as a “big mistake.”

The professors have hired Climate Nexus, a PR firm that specializes in global warming publicity and spin, and they’ve gone into full damage control mode. Activists have been urged to emphasize the role of fossil fuel companies instead. More people are susceptible to the idea that fossil fuel companies are somehow evil. Besides they’re big and rich. The American people just don’t rank climate change among their most urgent issues. It usually ranks at the bottom of their concerns.

The California Senate failed to take up a landmark bill arguing for the prosecution of climate change dissent. It would have “authorized prosecutors to sue fossil fuel companies, think tanks and others that have ‘deceived or misled the public on the risks of climate change.'”

This bill explicitly authorizes district attorneys and the Attorney General to pursue UCL claims alleging that a business or organization has directly or indirectly engaged in unfair competition with respect to scientific evidence regarding the existence, extent, or current or future impacts of anthropogenic induced climate change,” said the state Senate Rules Committee’s floor analysis of the bill.

The big deal here is not the argument about whether or not climate change is a major threat. The big deal is the push by the Left to silence anyone who disagrees with them. Freedom of speech is under attack across the globe, which simply emphasizes how far to the left the Left has moved.

The President of the unelected executive arm of the European Union has stated that he will block all “right-wing populists” from power across the continent. Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission promised to exclude Norbert Hofer, the leader of Austria’s Freedom Party from all EU decision-making if elected ahead of yesterday’s presidential vote. Across the continent there has been a surge to the right, and the decidedly undemocratic Commission could be in for a battle if they attempt to exclude every elected government that they choose to call “far right.

On college and university campuses across the country, the effort of student activism has been to silence dissent, eliminate any trace of free speech, and forbid anyone from saying anything whatsoever that might offend sensitive feelings. Surely all of this denial of the most basic speech rights protected in America by our Constitution is not a mere coincidence. Who would ever have dreamed that our college students would know so little about American history, the U.S. Constitution and how it came about, or the importance of free speech in keeping a people free. Or, as far as that goes, why there is any particular value in freedom anyway.