the coming insurrection?

"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that at least he won his own kingdom - Lucifer."
-Saul Alinsky, self-written dedication to Satan inscribed in the forward to his book, "Rules for Radicals."

Titus mentioned "the blaze.com" some posts ago, and I had also caught wind of this. Yes, it's funded by Beck as a "news" source, but it is not a site dedicated to him nor his show. And the commentary, stories and lay out are getting much better, including the following:

October 4th, 2010, by Merridith Jessup, courtesy of theblaze.com -

Environmental activists are working to distance themselves from a violent advocacy video that hit the Internet last week depicting the gruesome murder of climate change skeptics. The four-minute video was produced by a London-based group called 10:10 and was removed almost immediately after it debuted. However, bloggers and news media have replayed the video, sparking critical backlash around the world. Though 10:10 claims the film was intended to be comedic, the response has been anything but funny.

“With climate change becoming increasingly threatening, and decreasingly talked about in the media, we wanted to find a way to bring this critical issue back into the headlines whilst making people laugh,” the group wrote on its website. ”Many found the resulting film extremely funny, but unfortunately some didn’t, and we sincerely apologise to anybody we have offended,” the group said. “Oh well, we live and learn.”

But what exactly has been learned? This most recent case of environmental extremism is similar to an “anonymous” article posted last year on a popular left-leaning political site. A June 2, 2009, article posted to Talking Points Memo was similarly scrapped after objections to its message: “At what point to do we jail or execute global warming deniers?”

NASA’s James Hansen has called for trials of climate skeptics in 2008 for “high crimes against humanity.” Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lashed out at skeptics of 2007 declaring “This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors”In 2009, RFK, Jr. also called coal companies “criminal enterprises” and declared CEO‘s ’should be in jail… for all of eternity.”

In June 2009, former Clinton Administration official Joe Romm defended a comment on his Climate Progress website warning skeptics would be strangled in their beds. “An entire generation will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your beds,” stated the remarks, which Romm defended by calling them “not a threat, but a prediction.”

In 2006, the eco-magazine Grist called for Nuremberg-Style trials for skeptics. In 2008, Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki called for government leaders skeptical of global warming to be thrown “into jail.” In 2007, The Weather Channel’s climate expert called for withholding certification of skeptical meteorologists.

A 2008 report found that ‘climate blasphemy’ is replacing traditional religious blasphemy. In addition, a July 2007 Senate reportdetailed how skeptical scientists have faced threats and intimidation.

In 2007, a then EPA Chief vowed to probe E-mails threatening to ‘Destroy’ careers of climate skeptics and dissenters of warming fears, calling them ‘Climate Criminals’ who are committing ‘Terracide’ (killing of Planet Earth) (July 25, 2007). In addition, in May 2009, Climate Depot (a skeptic's group) was banned in Louisiana! A State official sought to ‘shut down’ a climate skeptic’s testimony at hearing.

Further, the Hollywood starlet lending her voice to the 10:10 campaign — former X-Filer Gillian Anderson — has been in the spotlight before, warning of certain dangers facing the world. In 1999, Anderson said she had been doing “a lot of research” and was sure Y2K was going to “break” everything, but saw a silver lining of a world without computers:

I think what this is about right now is, this is an opportunity for us to get back to basics in a sense, and for us to unite as communities to help each other, so that eventually, if there is a devastating effect, that at least we can join together with the people around us, instead of, you know, acting out of fear and robbing our neighbors for food, or for money, or whatever, because there’s nothing around ...

10:10 had intended to widely distribute its gory film to movie theaters, but has since scratched those plans and environmental allies are quickly retreating from their support. One group, 350.org, has been an official partner with 10:10, but now claims it will sever all ties. Under a post titled, “Days that Suck,” 350.org founder Bill McKibben called the 10:10 video “gross” and lamented how “Climate skeptics are going to make a big deal of this.”

“The video represents the kind of stupidity that really hurts our side,” McKibben wrote, “reinforcing in people’s minds a series of preconceived notions, not the least of which is that we’re out-of-control elitists. Not to mention crazy, and also with completely misplaced sense of humor.” McKibben’s 350.org — also a cosponsor of this weekend’s 10/2 “One Nation” rally held in Washington, D.C. — claims the group had nothing to do with 10:10′s latest advertising ploy and did not know about the video until it was released on the Internet.

“I think the idea of a comedy is fine, and even the gore and blood is part of our pop culture,” Morano told Greenwire today. “What is not fine, and what is actually very revealing, is that their impulse — the intellectual strain that runs through the alarmist movement — is to try to silence their critics. They blame a handful of skeptics for ruining all their schemes, and this is them expressing their frustrations,” he said.

Perhaps more disturbing, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film shows one of the school children — covered in the fake exploded flesh of a classmate — giving his official endorsement of the questionable messaging medium, saying, “I think it is fine to explode children for a good cause.”

The whole 10:10 video debacle has been unofficially dubbed “Splattergate,” and many are questioning whether it will have as significant negative impact on the environmentalists’ movement as the Climategate controversy from earlier this year.

The commercial is HERE. It's a "green snuff film", no question about it. I can only imagine if this was done by a pro life group.

Now here's my question and concern. This group, 10:10, they have legitimacy in much of Western Europe. That gal at the end of the commercial, doing the voice over, that's Gillian Anderson of X-Files fame. They have resources, organization, the ear of governments and the ability to attract A list stars (or at least B) as spokespeople. This isn't some little whack job expatriated Green Peace zealot in the basement of his mother's house drinking some earth tone blended concoction of wheat grass and rice parfaits.

Consider this - a quote by David Brower, a founder of the Sierra Club: "Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing." And less you think "well, that's the Sierra Club", and it has no real sway with government policy makers: "There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society." -John Holdren, President Obama's Science Czar. And just as an aside, did anyone catch that? The "existing Constituion?" No one is telling me this White House isn't swarming with full fledged radicals ... but I digress.

They (10:10) claim that we have but 4 years to reverse man's damage - "terracide" they call it. That's a real phrase they use, with a straight face. So if they and their green-snuff cohorts (in and out of government) are willing to go this far with four years left, how far will they be willing to go with only 2 years "left?" 1? 4 months?

This is my concern about "radicals" in the West. And let me be specific - leftist radicals. Throughout Western Europe this year we have seen riots and protests. Greece, the birthplace of democracy, saw an explosion in car burnings and lootings in the last year. Why? The threatened denial of social services the government announced was necessary to stave off state bankruptcy. The lavish social welfare state throughout the West, predominantly in Europe (but certainly not exclusively, the US doing its best to catch up) is under threat because of the simple fiscal math - it's unsustainable. My worry is that while this new generation of radicals has also adopted the unadulterated malfeasance on man's individual liberty that is Fabian Socialism, they have rejected the Fabian's incrementalism. Named for Quintas Fabias, the Roman general known for wars of attrition in order to combat Carthaginian forces, they sought gradual change fearing the populations of free nations would reject the whole of their agenda if presented all at once. Not these radicals. They are up against a deadline. 2 in fact. The arbitrary 4 years, and the growing fiscal mood of many first world nations. In the US the Tea Party and the GOP are set to put a stop gap, if not flat out reverse, Obama's attempts to "spread the wealth around", which almost certainly ends any hope of passing their Holy Grail, Cap and Trade, for the foreseeable future. In Europe Germany, Britain, France, and even Greece have moved to more conservative governments. In both cases the reason is the same - we're going broke (and in Greece and Spain's case, they are broke). What will this do to organized socialists, be they green or old fashioned Red, within these nations? Riots? Looting? Murders? Between the Grecian response on the street, the quotes from the above, and this commercial, is that question out of bounds? Will we see Marxist terror groups? Eco-fascism?

" ... [A]ll of mankind is in danger because of the global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories of the major corporations, yet despite that, the representative of these corporations in the White House insists on not observing the Kyoto accord, with the knowledge that the statistic speaks of the death and displacement of millions of human beings because of that, especially in Africa ... You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries."
-Osama bin Laden