What Liberals REALLY Think: Deciphering the Deceptive Message of Earth Hour

Tonight at 8:30PM (irrespective of time zones) you can celebrate Earth Hour with occultists, elitists, envirofascists, and the easily-led around the world by turning off all your lights for one hour. This will, logically enough, help us to "save" the Earth from the evil capitalists, earth destroyers, and, one presumes, possibly even from former president George Bush. Of course we should all want to do our part. It's the right thing to do.

The net result of attaching an enviro-morality to silly acts like turning off your lights for an hour of group-think and meditation may not be obvious to those of you who are less preoccupied with things like the art of psychological manipulation. However, I think that even the most cynical among us has to agree that there is a certain demonic brilliance in convincing millions of people around the world to harmonize their thoughts and actions for an hour as a first step to defend our world against a nonexistent threat. Especially when Step 2 is a police state.

Make no mistake about it. The powers of tyranny, globalism, and deception will be on parade tonight in your neighborhood. No doubt that some of your neighbors will be going dark to celebrate the event and do their part to "save the Earth." Whether you want to believe it or not, there are many people who want to see America and her sovereignty crumble, and Plan A is to drown our nation under a flood of needless environmental regulations. Tonight's UN-sponsored Earth Hour is a direct attack on our prosperity, our liberty, and our sovereignty. Many Americans won't see it that way, but that doesn't change the facts.

It attacks our prosperity by calling for the regulation of carbon as a threat to our environment. The same harmless gas that is in every form of life in the universe is demonized and it's production is used as a convenient excuse to destroy businesses and discourage entrepreneurship. It attacks our liberty by demanding that we conform our actions for the good of the group- even if the actions are meaningless. I suppose that at one time bowing was meaningless, too. Think of Earth Hour as a long, deep bow to global governance. Which is why it attacks our sovereignty as well. All these carbon schemes have one thing in common, and that's to stifle growth in America at the expense of growth in other parts of the world. Great news for my Malawian readers, but those of use here in the USA have no reason to celebrate.

For my part, I think I'll mark the occasion by turning on every light in my house, doing a devotional with my kids, and possibly setting a few tires on fire. Hopefully the flames will help show an alternative way to the darkness that is to come.

Tuvalu to Taiwan; Nations Switch Off For Earth Hour

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Landmarks such as Sydney's Opera House, Beijing's Forbidden City and Taiwan's Taipei 101 office tower temporarily went dark on Saturday as nations dimmed the lights for Earth Hour 2010 to call for action on climate change.
The symbolic one-hour switch-off, first held in Sydney in 2007, has become an annual global event and organizers World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said they expect this year's to be the biggest so far.
The remote Chatham Islands was the first of more than 100 nations and territories to turn off the power at 8.30 p.m. local time, in a rolling event around the globe that ends just across the International Dateline in Samoa 24 hours later.
Tiny Tuvalu, which fears being wiped off the map from rising sea levels, tried to go carbon-neutral for the event, pledging to cut power to its nine low-lying Pacific atolls and asking car and motorcycle owners to stay off the roads, WWF said.
Far to the south in Antarctica, Australia's Davis research station pledged to dim the lights.
Event co-founder Andy Ridley told Reuters that 126 countries and territories had so far signed up, with thousands of special events scheduled, including a lights-out party on Sydney's northern beaches and an Earth Hour 'speed dating' contest.
The number of participants is significantly up on 2009, when 88 countries and territories and more than 4,000 towns and cities took part. Organizers have estimated between 500 million and 700 million people were involved last year.
In Singapore, more than 1,000 people gathered for an Earth Hour carnival in the city center to watch the lights go out at office towers, hotels and other landmarks.
However, lights could still be seen from some buildings and construction sites, disappointing some in the crowd.
"I'm disappointed because most of the buildings' lights are not switched off," said Mat Idris, 26. "I had expected more support from companies," he added.
Thousands, many of them wearing black Earth Hour T-shirts, joined the main switch-off event in the Philippine capital Manila at the sprawling SM Mall of Asia.
Around 15 million Filipinos were expected to participate, according to WWF, to save the equivalent of 5 million pesos (nearly $110,000) worth of electricity.
Taipei 101, the world's second tallest building, turned off all exterior lights and persuaded 99 percent of its tenants to do the same for an hour, the tower's spokesman said.
"FRUSTRATION"
Ridley, WWF's executive director of Earth Hour, said he believed the perceived failure of last year's Copenhagen conference on climate change had stimulated interest this time.
"There is real frustration with the politics around climate change," Ridley told Reuters.
Business had shown strong support, he said, including the world's major hotel chains, which he said are responsible for a significant chunk of global emissions.
In India, Delhi's Red Fort will go dark, as will the pyramids and the Sphinx in Egypt and Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue.
Lights will also go out on all the bridges over the Seine in Paris, London's Buckingham Palace and Tower Bridge, while in the United States, more than 30 of the 50 state governors have lent their support.
Some, though, criticized the event.
"To hold a candles-and-champagne party indoors, on the mildest night of the year, for just one hour, shows that the whole thing is green tokenism," said Viv Forbes, chairman of climate change skeptic group the Carbon Sense Coalition.