I recently watched former Vice President Al Gore’s award-winning “documentary,” A Planet in Peril, and I am once again amazed at how much our media and some “leaders” can make out of nothing.
First, he forgot what the old general said; “Want to sell it?
Get a professional briefer.”
The Pillsbury Dough-boy (he was a military man you know) delivers like a fifth-grader, and his logic is not just questionable but
criminal. It ranks right up there with the recycle
scam that put another big plastic container next to
your house.
This was based on a bogus claim that we
were running out of landfill space, and they were
emitting dangerous methane gas. Our landfills are the
safest in the world. The methane is a real
moneymaker, piped and pumped off and sold.
We are paying for this scam in taxes to the tune of $8 billion
per year. You think you are making money by taking your plastic and aluminum to the recycle site? Your taxes are paying for it.
Now in California your local market makes you pay
for a plastic bag for your groceries and a deposit on
those little drink containers for the kids — “To save
the environment.”
No, pal.
You will throw a certain number in the recycle bin, and your taxes will pay for a company to hire people at a mandated wage to sort
the junk. Some is processed to be remade, but a full
40 percent goes into — you guessed it — the landfill.
If you lose a bottle on the street and a bum,
impersonating a Vietnam veteran, of course, collects
it, you get to pay twice when he takes it down to the
recycler, paid for by your taxes. The market just
pockets your deposit.
We are a stupid people.
A former Vice President shows video of Los Angeles
back in the 1960s during a smog alert, and he lets you
believe the scene was shot yesterday.
No, that is what much of the rest of the world looks like because they still burn trash downtown and refuse to mandate
cleaner fuels.
These are the same countries we are going to buy “emission credits” from so that Al Gore can sell you an electric car.
But Al and the political Left make it sound as if we are environmental criminals robbing the rest of the world of their share.
They are driving a Mercedes and a BMW. They got their share by
stealing the copyright of every American invention.
What About the Ozone Layer?
But only you, my fellow Americans, who gave the world
the technology and U.S. taxpayer money to recover from
war and to advance, are to blame for ‘”global warming”
and “holes in the ozone layer.”
Notice the prevalence of bugs you never saw, or only in limited quantities, before? Malaria and other vile diseases are making a
huge comeback, even on our continent. Why is this
happening? It is pretty simple if one merely looks at
the huge outcry by different groups about DDT and
other bug killers;
“This beetle is going to be extinct because of man,” we are told. Then we find out that the beetle was never threatened at all, and if it were, I would still smash it if it got in my cupboard.
They are at every mall with their hand out. They tell
us the children are starving in Africa or Asia, and it
is our fault.
What Constitutes a Crime?
Then I get taxed here at home because
our politicians want me to pay for a “starving” or
“undernourished” child, sired by another, to get a
free lunch at school.
If this is actually true, about hungry American children, then why are is collecting money for Africans, while ours have no lunch, not a crime?
I reside, for the most part, in Asia, and begging is a business. I exercise early enough, in the morning, to
see the van drop off the “poor” to beg. I have seen
children drugged, starved, even blinded, to be used
as bait in begging.
“Global warming,” DDT, defoliants and American bombing in a long-ago war did not produce these “victims.” Their local boss did. But we pay.
Gore, Front Man for a Scam?
Around the world, we are the victims of a scam. Al Gore is
but a front man for a criminal element that has sent
us on a guilt-trip about people in the Amazon cutting
their own forests and Asians trying to make money by
sawing on shells and bombs that everyone of them knows
can kill them.
My honest opinion?
If you are that stupid, then the bomb/shell is gone and so is another fool who has been told the danger. Ninety percent of
“global warming,” “millions of landmines,” disappearing species and America as the bad guy are all part of an elaborate scam to steal our money and make us militarily impotent.
In four decades overseas and going to the grocer, I
have never heard “paper or plastic?”
I get10 plastic bags every trip. Nobody would dare try to
charge me for the bags.
The guy who wants to trade in my plastic or aluminum cans, digs through the trash and is grateful to have them. I require no separate bin.
Misdirected Anger
While PETA screams that we are to blame for everything
happening to animals, foreign hunters are killing them,
and we get the blame. They get tired of a dog, they
drop it off in an alley and they join mange-ridden
packs of vicious mongrels.
When governments try to clean up the problem, the local branch of PETA shows up and screams that they are killing the dogs. Then they claim that guys like me are to blame because I have a
pedigree dog and have not taken in a mutt. I just knew
the white guy from America would somehow get blamed.
Is this an Asian bias towards us? No, but some fat
white woman in sensible shoes told them we were to
blame, and they have all seen Al Gore on a pirated VCD.
Nightmare in War
Not long ago, a young relative of mine stood in a
street in Iraq and protected his platoon under
withering fire. His platoon leader wrote of his heroism
in glowing terms. He was shot three times, once through
the leg, once through the hand, and again through the scrotum.
He was decorated with the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He is, of course, most proud of earning the Combat Infantry Badge to wear
over his Jump Wings. But if we believe our fight for
our wounded Vietnam veterans solved the problem, think
again.
A board, constituted of his fellow soldiers of
superior rank, decided to “recycle” this Army loving
Corporal back to civilian life. They initially deemed
his two gunshot wounds to hand and thigh to be worth
10 percent disability.
More Serious?
After some pointed comments, they raised this to 20 percent. At 30 percent, it is a whole different game.
The Army Board claimed in Iraq, which treated the wounds initially, about the obvious wound through his scrotum. They claimed this
young NCO bore the responsibility to get the rest of
his records from Iraq.
They seem willing to pay for recycled plastic, paper and aluminum
but even our Army is reluctant to pay for a recycled
soldier.
Perhaps he is viewed as simply damaged goods
now.
But I must tell you that the American government, the U.S. Army and the Veterans Administration will care more about this American soldier and all wounded American warriors than any darned penguin sitting on an iceberg by the time I and mine are
finished.
Before we give one dime to buy a bogus
“global warming” credit from some unappreciative
foreign land, they better take care of wounded
warriors.
Whoever our next President might be, Gore may consider this as a warning shot across their bow. Recycle that sucker!
Different Values
So, Al, Baby, take your bogus award and sit on it. Then
get yourself a professional briefer before you try to
tell me about the sky is falling. Thank a soldier
in an airport enroute to your corporate jet or limo.
After all, he pays in blood and sweat for you to get
rich on your scams in the only nation dumb enough to
buy it.
That soldier,Marine,sailor or airman will not
complain.
This time he won't have to because we who
have borne the battle before will take care of this
and any politician or media member who does not
listen.
Check John Kerry and Dan Rather for our
references.
Major Mark A.Smith, U.S. Army (Ret.), served in Vietnam and Cambodia. He also was a Prisoner of War.
