White supremacists are pro-environment?!
January 19th, 2008
This is weird.
I read this story about the dastardly Council of Conservative Citizens and their support for Mike Huckleberry, or, rather, Huckleberry’s support for them.
Now, on their Statement of Principles, you get the usual claptrap such as:
We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called “affirmative action” and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races.
And:
The traditional family is the basic unit of human society. We believe in the traditional family as the basic unit of human society and morality, and we oppose all efforts by the state and other powers to weaken the structure of the American family through toleration of sexual licentiousness, homosexuality and other perversions, mixture of the races, pornography in all forms, and subversion of the authority of parents.
BUT, as well as these crazy “principles”, check out their last one:
Protection of the Environment and Natural Heritage. We believe that the natural environment and resources of a nation are among its most precious, valuable, and irreplaceable treasures. We believe in the protection of the environment from reckless greed as well as from irresponsible government. We support the protection of truly endangered species of wildlife and areas of natural beauty.
That’s really pretty interesting, no? When even the most far-right fringe groups start to support conservation, well, you know that the tipping point has tipped, and that there’s vast, vast, vast public support for conservation, limits on reckless development (and greed… thanks CCC!), and support for endangered species. Let’s hope that this next slate of candidates realizes that!
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4 Comments Add your own
1. poetryman69 | January 19th, 2008 at 6:42 am
sometimes people forget that world war two Germans belonged to the National Socialist party. In fact, that it what Nazi stood for. You have to judge by what people do as well as the totality of what they say.
I am almost always for high tech solutions. Separatists who refuse to go off into the woods and leave sane people alone should get their own L5 habitat. Where they can inbreed themselves into oblivion. I bet you could calculate how man generations they would last like that given a thousand or so of the most virulent of them goes into space and leaves non Satanic people alone.
2. Kyle Rogers | January 19th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Conservatives were the first conservationists in the United States. Conservatives in general have done the most to protect the environment. It is the conservatives who go hunting, fishing, and camping. We pay all the money into the government funds that support wildlife and the environment.
3. Stacy6 | February 2nd, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Sorry, Kyle, but your comment is not really accurate. I’m a proud liberal, and I go camping from May to September or October every year. So do a lot of my liberal friends. We’re talking primitive camping, too; I can’t stand manicured park-type campgrounds full of RVs. I used to fish, just haven’t had much of a chance lately. I know liberals who hunt, fish, and camp, not to mention volunteering for clean-ups year after year. It doesn’t sound like you even know many liberal types.
When you start talking about how conservatives have done the most to protect the environment, you might want to provide some evidence to back it up, because it certainly isn’t self-evident. Clearcutting timber stands, mocking the idea of organic agriculture, fighting any additions to the endangered species list, arguing against protections for land or animal - these are the conservative activities most apparent to me when it comes to the environment.
It seems to me that if you were really interested in protecting and nurturing the environment, you’d talk about that, rather than making false and divisive claims about liberals vs conservatives.
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