Monday, July 6, 2009

Birds and Bees Get to Sue Obama? Green Energy's Fifth Column

Logic isn't exactly a valued asset these days, but some days even a casual observer must stop to wonder if anybody in the administration thinks anything through--ever.

Obama has decided that his latest czar, the "Regulatory Czar" should be Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor "who has suggested 'that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives,'" against human beings in the civil court system.

I get it.
  • Deer and pheasants could sue hunters, thus eliminating the need for many weapons, seriously weakening support for the Second Amendment.
  • Fish could sue fishermen, putting Sarah Palin's commercial fisherman husband out of work: a nice touch.
  • Cattle could sue burger joints, making cattle ranching a thing of the past, thus greatly reducing methane and CO2 production.
  • Chickens could sue everybody else except vegetarians.
  • The state bird of California, the California Quail, surely would find sympathy--make that empathy--in the 9th Circuit Court for some transgression or other against its species; its image must have been slapped into the California seal without remuneration, or something. (There are people in Hollywood who can figure that out.)
With animals suing people, socialist progressives could get rid of all the bad guys in a few fell swoops, not to mention killing even the remotest possibility of an economic slowdown among ranks of ACLU lawyers.

Wait a second, are the Green Inhabitants of the future Emerald City on a Hill really as innocent as they believe they are? Hikers never swat a mosquito? Vegetarians never sneak a bite of tuna sushi? Progressives never prefer to use drug that's been tested on an animal first? Or choose a brain surgeon who didn't practice exclusively on a plastic or computer model of a human brain, but on an animal brain. (Unpleasant questions, I know, but reality beckons at times. Ask Ted Kennedy.)

All right. I'll start out with the premise that Greenies are perfect, perfect in every way: virtuous guardians of (almost) every kind of life, especially if it's not human life.

But their technologies aren't.

Take wind energy for example. Nice, clean, animal friendly, except for all the animals those enormous turbines kill each year. According to a 2004 California Energy Commission report, spinning "windmill" blades at the Altamont Wind Resource Area in California kill several thousand (up to around 5,000) wild birds per year, especially golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, American kestrels, and burrowing owls, but also waterfowl and songbirds with formerly glorious voices. Any critter flying by. After all, there's nothing like getting sucked up by a wind turbine and then being chopped to bits with a dull blade to help reduce CO2. Greenies call these incidents "avian collisions."

It's worse for bats, though. Useful little mammals that dine on mosquitos and other bugs at night while you sleep and live otherwise peaceful, non-invasive lives for about 30 years, producing a couple of offspring a year, unless they wander into the turbulence of a wind turbine, where the changed air pressure does truly horrible and wicked things to their bodies that are definitely not in Nature's scheme. At two wind "farms" in Virginia, researchers estimated that about 3,000 bats suffered a terrible fate in a mere six weeks, the length of the study.

The more recent the study, the higher the estimate of wildlife kill.

Will a fifth column of "extremist" birds and bees sue Obama and Congress? Or will a Congress made up almost exclusively of lawyers legislate that animals can sue not only people, but other animals. (Mice suing cats? PETA might like that, because it would be one less pet category to worry about.)

In the meantime, do a golden eagle a favor. Contact your Senator here, please, and register your opposition to Cap and Trade. Or, better yet, send an animal rights activist a copy of the image to the left and ask him or her to do the right thing too.
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousJuly 7, 2009 at 6:28 PM

    Flippin' awesome post. LOLOLOL. I like it. America. What a Country!

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