Typical Excuses for Enlarging the Government

This article is interesting in itself (click on blog title), but it goes to several levels of the bigger picture. The first level of the 'zoom out' feature exemplified by this article is that it gives one of many examples of how "environmentalists" in particular are trying to enlarge our government's control. I have "environmentalists" in quotes because any group which chooses to expand government into the corporate is no true environmentalist group. Centralized government controlled economies have been some of the worst environmentalist agencies the world has ever seen. Some of these countries remain toxic waste sites. Many of the natural environments in these countries may never recover so long as men live there, as there would be no way to clean up under people and where they live. These groups, ignorantly or not, are only pushing for a greater problem, not a solution. Government control and government regulation only tend to separate people from owning and controlling property which they would tend to care for in order to maintain or increase property value. The second, and perhaps even more problematic and next step in the "zoom out" feature shows these people trying to go beyond expanding our governments control, but linking that control with international controls which we as citizens would have even less to say about. Ask Britons what they think when they vote for something and some European Union court or bureaucracy says no. In this case, the United Nations is the entity in which "environmentalists" are placing their hopes of uber governance.

This is one of many examples of one of many groups who are trying to give away your right to representative government, property rights, and even the right to contest issues (The U.N. agrees with all the rights of our constitution, basically, with the caveat that these rights do not extend to anything against the U.N. itself). I am just hoping that before people pop a check in the mail to the soft and cuddly organization, they really look at what that group is doing. Do people really want to send some of their finite resources to a group that is trying to take away their rights? It seems insane to me, in spite of the understanding emotional pull has on people. Once again, just look past what they are selling and see what your money would be buying. It really is that easy.