It’s Up To You

Is it just me … Or somewhere in the Bush Administration and Congress, has the word has gone out that it is okay to consider taking action that will harm the United States of America by intentionally restricting long term energy needs? I apologize. That’s probably not as inclusive as it should be. Congress, government agencies and state legislatures have been pursuing anti-American goals that excessively tax, deny or limit energy to American consumers and manufacturing for decades.

As an example, not long ago, the Department of the Interior (DOI) was “priming the pump” of public disinformation by proposing to add polar bears to the ever growing list of “endangered species.” You probably remember hearing something about it. The first thing you and I were NOT told was that the demise of the polar bears was unrelated to their current, robust and thriving numbers. The hypothetical DOI polar bear panic came from nothing more than another computer model projection, not unlike the illegitimate genesis of global warming.

This new polar bear computer model was fed suppositions about the environment for the next 50 years. And because it was based on the bias of the model’s developer, not science that could be replicated in a laboratory environment, predictably the data fed to the computer concluded that, in 50 years, polar bears MIGHT become endangered.

It worked for global warming! The fools bought into it. Why not try again?

Since polar bears have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, the notion that polar bears might suddenly go missing in 50 years seems questionable – no, laughable – no, ludicrous. And look how many people bought into that too!

I can hear you asking, “Do you mean to say there is NO science to support the contention of future polar bear extinction?”

Gather around; you don’t want to miss this. Listen to my words. The irrefutable fact is: the habitat of polar bears is in the open waters of Alaska where geologists believe there are major reserves of undiscovered oil and natural gas. Pause. Are you beginning to see the faint outline of the big picture?

You may also recall that ANWR, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, just happens to be in a desolate location in the northeastern corner of Alaska, far above the Arctic Circle, in an area which is believed to contain vast reserves of oil. ANWR began as the Arctic National Wildlife Range in 1960 as the culmination of efforts by Sierra Club environmental activists. In 1980 the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act renamed "Range" to "Refuge," increased the total area of the Refuge, designated a large portion as Wilderness, expanded the purposes, authorized Congress to consider a portion of the coastal plain for oil and gas development, and designated three Wild Rivers. The refuge is huge, something close to 20 million acres.

Within ANWR is the "10-02 Area," which encompasses 1.5 million acres of the refuge's coastal plain. Within the 10-02 Area, 2000 acres or less is needed for oil extraction, an area comparative in size to a USPS postage stamp placed on a football field. If oil is discovered as expected, and still there are no guarantees, less than two thousand acres would be affected, out of 20 million acres, less than one tenth of one percent of ANWR, and probably closer to one-one-hundreth of one percent when all is said and done.

In 1980, the U.S. Congress mandated studies of the petroleum potential and biological resources of the ANWR area, which continue today at taxpayer expense, and the development debate about the 10-02 Area continues. During that time, the active oil field at the North Slope has declined from its peak of 2 million barrels in 1980 to less than 750,000 barrels a day today. In 2007, the US imported an average of 60% of its oil and during certain months up to 64%. That equates to over $330 billion in oil imports. That’s $37.75 million per hour gone out of our economy! Factor in the cost to defend our imported oil, and the costs in jobs and industry sent abroad, the total would be nearly a trillion dollars annually.

So what is the problem? Why hasn't Congress done something to develop ANWR, particularly since no nation on earth has more proven energy reserves? Don't believe me? Look for yourself.

Environmentalists claim the 2000 acres to be developed in the 10-02 Area are an important habitat to the Porcupine and Central Arctic Caribou Herds (which migrates through Prudhoe Bay and has grown from 3,000 animals to its current level of 32,000 animals), as well as many other species. I’m not making this up folks. This is why you don’t have oil from ANWR, or for that matter, nuclear energy in other parts of the country, or petroleum refineries, or coal for energy.

But the footprint of development is not the real issue.

Insidiously, as if in lockstep, we recently learned from a press release that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Fisheries Service had accepted a petition from “a California environmental group seeking protection under the Endangered Species Act for an ice seal called the ‘ribbon seal’ that inhabits Alaska’s Bering Sea.”

Anybody with a “low government intelligence warning light,” which typically should be on all the time, would have seen the warning light begin to flash (and alarms begin to sound). Many other lights on my caution panel began flashing, the most worrisome was labeled, “a subversive national enemy has been detected.”

As a one-time resident of Alaska and former Arctic survival instructor, intimately familiar with this area, let me assure you that in short order, maybe only a matter of months, several other varieties of seals, the bearded, spotted, and ringed seals for example, would be proposed for addition to the protection list by so-called environmentalists.

There would be humor in this ignorance if it were not for the huge national threat we face from our nation’s ideologically-driven enemies and state-sponsored religious extremists.

What the seals primarily need protection from is the 50,000 polar bears and other large maritime creatures. Seals are considered a three-course meal by any number of arctic and sub-arctic predators. It’s called “nature.” Human predation is extremely minor by comparison, but environmental extremists trumpet that “they” want all human activity to stop.

Why anyone listens to environmentalists, I have no idea. They want you to die. They would introduce the Andromeda Strain if they could, using "environmentalism" as an excuse for the atrocity. As you would expect, the animals are but a pawn – without real meaning except to those being duped. The animals are being used as a Trojan horse by non-uniformed combatants of foreign nations and anti-American ideologues to get inside the legislative gates of our nation’s defenses – nothing more.

The Endangered Species Act, which once-upon-a-time was used to support recovery of a species such as the bald eagle, has been hijacked for its advantageous use as a strategic weapon. It has been hugely successful.

While our youth fight for our mortal existence in the Muslim Wars in foreign lands, at home we’ve been fighting for decades in a different but equally deadly culture war with legal and political insurgents already entrenched inside the United States. Their most visible goal has been to replace God with government, i.e., to indoctrinate society to view an omnipotent government as if it were god, demanding that we turn to government, instead of faith, for the solution to all of mankind’s self-induced problems. Those who have accepted conversion to secularism, either because they fear molestation in a church and no longer attend, or they don’t understand the gravity of surrendering their liberty, have quietly transitioned from being owners of private property to becoming government property.

Given that environmentalists are willfully denying energy, food, and as many as 750,000 jobs across the nation that would arise from ANWR development, you would think it would be sufficient evidence to convince anyone that is both awake and conscious that these people with environmentalism as a 'cause' genuinely hate the United States and want to facilitate our nation’s destruction.

An analysis of House Democratic and Republican voting records on recent domestic energy expansion bills, making its way around the Internet, reveals that Democrats voted approximately 85% AGAINST and Republicans supported these bills by more than 90% IN FAVOR on average. Here's the breakdown of several important issues -

ANWR Exploration
Republicans: 91% Supported Democrats: 86% Opposed

Coal-to-Liquid
Republicans: 97% Supported Democrats: 78% Opposed

Oil Shale Exploration
Republicans: 90% Supported Democrats: 86% Opposed

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Exploration
Republicans: 81% Supported Democrats: 83% Opposed

Refinery Increased Capacity
Republicans: 97% Supported Democrats: 96% Opposed

Think about three quarters of a million jobs for people, many with families, who are currently unemployed and financially struggling. How could these jobs not have been a factor in the severity of the housing debacle and accompanying meltdown of the economy?

What is the only possible outcome of keeping Americans from having access to the oil that powers their once thriving economy, the engine of the planet, and jobs? Prosperty? We’re talking about an economy that now tries desperately to survive with a plastic bag held over its head by our nation’s enemies, foreign and domestic, many of whom are disguised as environmentalists, and many of the remainder are affiliated with communist organizations or beholding to Middle Eastern governments. That would definitely include Barack Hussein Obama.

The jury is not in on John McCain, who has only recently back-peddled on his opposition to off-shore drilling in coastal areas. Importantly, he has consistently refused to support ANWR development - and is adamant in his refusal even today. In my voter's handbook, that makes John McCain the handmaiden of our nation's enemies. The question is simple: Will John Mccain continue to choose his environmental and subversive benefactors over his own nation and fellow citizens? Will John McCain find his patriotism, or remain as he appears today, a legitimate 'Enemy of the State'. The jury should be in soon. Given that past performance accurately predicts future actions, I remain hopeful but not optomistic.

Environmentalists appear to be trying to unceremoniously finish us off by plugging the few holes that remain in the plastic bag.

It’s worth noting that the same thing happened to the ACLU which began as a civil rights watchdog. Now its only use is as a weapon of culture litigation (another plastic bag over the top of the first one) to hinder and obstruct the national interests of the United States. The same applies to the plastic bag that passes as the main-stream-media, people more ideologically aligned with communists, and Muslim terrorists incarcerated in GITMO, than Americans. You can think of other examples, arguably the Democratic Party and a majority of the Republican Party. Let’s not forget the Supreme Court and Federal Judges! It’s hard for liberty to breathe through that many layers of plastic bags, but that’s the idea – the ultimate goal is “lights out” in America.

The two principal political parties today seem to this observer to more closely resemble organized crime families than anything else, having simply taken ethical degeneracy to a national level in the process of seeking self-interest, control and access to taxpayer funds to augment their personal wealth and rock-star lifestyle.

Reducing our much vaunted dependence on oil from the Middle East seems like a good thing to most people, but not to the enemies of the United States, especially the communists and socialists among us, and particularly not to those nations who consistently vote against anything that might benefit the United States in the United Nations. That’s the rub. Their unified goal is to strangle the United States economy, i.e., to bring the USA to its knees – to suffocate its citizens.

If you remember nothing else, it is energy and liberty that powers the United States economy. Faith powers culture. Their combination is the oxygen of the United States of America. Our enemies know they can and will suffocate the United States by denying Americans energy, liberty and faith.

As we go about our daily lives, we should be careful that we are never complicit in restricting any of these essential elements unless you are enthusiastic to name your next child Mohammed. Apparently, regardless of protestations to the contrary, many liberals, both in the United States and Europe, seek that outcome, some of my acquaintances among them.

As far as I am concerned, and I can’t express this more strongly, any United States citizen, including elected politicians, unelected judges, domestic environmental terrorists, and particularly candidates for President, who seek to choke off any potential energy source to United States citizens, are in reality but one despicable thing - determined enemies of the United States of America. This specifically applies to any politician in Congress who advocates or votes for any anti-American forms of environmentalism that limits our nation’s access to any form of energy. Clearly, with actions that speak for themselves, we have many determined enemies of the United States that have infiltrated our political system.

Endangered species listings are not a coincidence. There are no coincidences in politics. One can only conclude that congressional restrictions on developing coal-, nuclear- and petroleum-energy resources, are a reckless, deliberate subversive attack on our economy and the national security of our nation.

Remember that simple fact as you encounter politicians in your daily lives, whose actions identify themselves as environmentalists (an enemy of the United States) in the months and years ahead – particularly at the polls in 2008. Treat them with the respect any enemy of the United States deserves.

Why did this happen. We let it happen. How did this happen? It was a combination of orchestrated foreign and corporate financial influence that pervades Congress and influences every vote, greed, domestic terrorism, religious terrorism, indoctrination instead of education, cultural subversion by organizations such as the ACLU, and the decomposition of our nation’s Christian culture, abandonment of the Constitution, repudiation of the Rule of Law, judicial activism and dissolution of our political system into a criminal enterprise … in other words, the pursuit of self-interest over national interest.

What can we do about it? Nothing, short of civil disobedience which should be a last resort, just as it was 230+ years ago! We can try to elect conservatives (regardless of their affiliation as Democrats or Republicans), who in sufficient numbers will someday be able to begin to roll back the tide. And what if we can’t? Think begin thinking about naming your child Mohammed or Hussein.

And the unique beauty of the United States of America is: It’s up to you.

Red State Patriot

P.S. With crude oil above $142 a barrel, gasoline well past the $4 mark, and record heating oil, natural gas, and electricity prices, we learn today that the Bush administration has halted solar energy development.

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Posted June 26, 2008 11:06 AM
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