| Each and every month here at Off-Road.com, I look
forward to writing the "Being Green" column because frankly, I just
can't wait to tell you all what utter stupidity the
"environmentally correct" citizens of the world have come up with.
It's a guilty pleasure of mine because in truth I'd much rather
front page a headline on ORC like.... "Sierra Club Abandons
Self-Serving Extremist Platform
In Favor of Real Environmental Progress"
Yea.....like that will happen any time soon.
Soooooo...... Until it does, here's the
latest installment of eco stupidity to come down the pike sent in
by one of our loyal readers. It seems that the latest affront to
our sensibilities comes in the form of ....get this....Flyers left
on SUV's asking the owner to justify his ownership of said
vehicles! Rather than take the "flyer"
apart piece by piece, I'll just make a couple points. - Neither I, the recipients of the flyer, nor
anyone else has to "justify" a damn thing to anyone regarding what
vehicle we choose to drive.
- Since most flyers of this type have to be
placed "on" our vehicles, that constitutes vandalism - I.E.
"Defacement of Private Property". In fact, many communities around
the country have laws specifically forbidding the
practice.
- Since flyers of this type often enrage the
recipients, they often rip them off and toss them on the spot,
regardless of their normally environmentally correct intentions.
Had the eco-wannabee not defaced the private property in question,
this pollution would not have occurred.
- Using "used" office materials" for flyers
ensures that any workplace "recycling program" is rendered useless.
If the materials in question end up in the garbage or blowing
around the street, what's the point?
- Lastly, The toxic inks used in the printing of
these flyers - now garbage - will eventually make their way into
the water, contributing to water pollution, endangering fish, and
altering the biodiversity of the local aquatic
environment.
<Rant> With that out
of the way, let's drive our freely chosen, purchased, and owned
SUV's down the beaten path to a place I like to call "Mr.
Lenhart's Neighborhood". In my
neighborhood, it's considered rude to lay your greasy paws on
someone's property. That was a lesson that Granny taught me REAL
EARLY in life. Defacing someone else's property is considered
illegal, and grounds for prosecution, if not "persecution" - with
extreme prejudice. But you see, this latest
in a long line of eco-stunts is considered perfectly acceptable by
it's perpetrators. Since they don't recognize the concept of
private property and ownership thereof; since the laws of the
constitution, the states, and the respect for the "property"
(there's that word again) are meaningless in the "fight to save
Gaia", your SUV is a perfect place to vent their guilt and forward
their subversive political agenda. Sure, to
the average person this seems like a non-violent, peaceful way to
"spread the gospel" of environmentalism, and it seems like I'm
making a mountain out of a molehill, but things aren't always what
they seem. Ask yourself this.....Where does it stop?
If an eco warrior wants to graffiti your Jeep with
his miniaturized version of the Unabomber Manifesto, What's to stop
anybody with an axe to grind from doing the same? How about - The American Nazi
Party
- National Man Boy Love
Association
- ActUp
- NOW
- PETA
- ALF (though they'd just as likely burn
your SUV to ground as deface it)
- Democratic Socialists of America /
Democratic National Convention (same thing)
You know,..... any fundamentally offensive group
out to destroy your rights as an American, and well versed in the
art of militant propaganda. Free Speech?
Not even a consideration here. If it were, many communities around
the country with laws banning this practice would be in direct
violation of the first amendment. They of course are not. The bottom line is this. These people are control
freaks with an agenda, guilt, and delusions of personal importance.
They consider the SUV as a cornerstone of environmental evil that
must be eliminated at any cost...and that's a cost that they intend
to pass on to you. And while I'm on the
subject of SUVs and cost, why should "WE" pay higher insurance
rates to drive a safer vehicle? If someone chooses to buckle in to
a microcar rated only slightly higher than a honeydew melon in
crash tests, I say let them - maybe it's time to thin the herd. Let
these people squeeze themselves into a 4 wheeled casket. After all,
it's a free country - at least it used to be. But make THEM pay for
the "privilege". We have to stop this
stupidity now. Stop acknowledging these people's imaginary
authority. Stop giving them power over our lives. Stop allowing
their senseless "logic" and utter lack of integrity to determine
the laws which govern you and ....."Future Generations".</rant> "It's Not Easy Being Green" - Article
Index
Links to so called "Environmental
Organizations" The Sierra Club Homepage
- http://www.sierraclub.org
The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance - http://www.suwa.org/
Earth First! Homepage - http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/campaigns/ef/pubs/aulat.html |
