Our Freedom at Risk, Not Climate - Neal Boortz

The President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus denounced global warming propaganda as a threat to our freedom. I always knew I liked Czechs, especially good Chechs. Rright now in Europe, they are still one of our closest allies.

Klaus calls global warming the same thing I call it: a religion. Now I know that every religion has to have a deity. In this case the deity is clearly OwlGore. All hail the omnipotent and all-powerful OwlGore.

Klaus even goes as far as to say it is "a modern counterpart to communism." Since this man used to live in a communist dictatorship, is there any chance he knows of which he speaks? He says this because bleeding-heart global warming freaks want to make sure of two things: to change your habits and to change economic systems. Communism? Perhaps not. But it certainly is an attack on free market economies.

He says, "As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning."

The temperature of our planet increased 0.6% in the 20th century. Less than one degree. And why the sudden uproar? Because liberals like Al Gore say we are in a crisis. And everyone –including his biggest ally, the liberal media – just eats it up.

Klaus also thinks that there are more politicians out there who are truly skeptical of global warming. What is holding them back ... political correctness. He says, "The dictates of political correctness are strict and only one permitted truth, not for the first time in human history, is imposed on us. Everything else is denounced."

Now there's a nice turn of a phrase: "One permitted truth." Klaus has nailed it. Either you believe that man is causing global warming, or you're a denier ... something akin to a Holocaust denier.

Here are a few suggestions from the Czech President:

■Small climate changes do not demand far-reaching restrictive measures
■Any suppression of freedom and democracy should be avoided
■Instead of organizing people from above, let us allow everyone to live as he wants
■Let us resist the politicization of science and oppose the term "scientific consensus", which is always achieved only by a loud minority, never by a silent majority
■Instead of speaking about "the environment", let us be attentive to it in our personal behavior
■Let us be humble but confident in the spontaneous evolution of human society. Let us trust its rationality and not try to slow it down or divert it in any direction
■Let us not scare ourselves with catastrophic forecasts, or use them to defend and promote irrational interventions in human lives.