Monday, October 19, 2009

By A Scribbled Name

Brian Moreland: Sir, how could they do this?
General Harlan Bache: With the stroke of a pen, sir. Their field of honor was a desktop.


---from the 1981 film "Taps"
Back in February, I put in a post which cited Ronald Reagan's prediction that, if certain events took place, we would one day be old men and women remembering wistfully the days when America was still a free country.

Ladies and gentlemen, just this morning I learned (courtesy of Pittsburgh's radio Rottweiler, Jim Quinn) about something set to happen in Copenhagen in December of this year -- just two months from now -- that might just be exactly the kind of thing Ronnie was warning us about. (Man, what is it with Copenhagen lately?)

In December of this year, according to the information I have been able to gather from around the Web since hearing of this, the city of Copenhagen will be hosting a conference of several international NGO's and environmental groups. According to the NY Times, our own Dear Leader, along with several of the usual suspects, may be planning to attend.

(Oh -- NGO means "non-government organization". Look it up.)

The stated purpose of this conference appears to be to ratify an international treaty similar to the Kyoto Protocols (which will expire sometime around 2012) which would regulate emissions, carbon levels, etc. in all the nations of the world whose leaders sign the treaty.

Yes, those Kyoto Protocols. You remember, don't you...the set of environmental standards that then-President George W. Bush refused to sign on to, recognizing them for what they were: an attempt to drag the United States of America and other developed Western nations down to the same economic level as all the other nations on Earth, developed or otherwise.

Well, that appears to be the stated intent of the upcoming NGO Copenhagen treaty as well...but there's two major differences between the Kyoto Protocols and the Copenhagen Treaty.

The first difference: Though the stated motivation of the Copenhagen Treaty is as the Kyoto treaty was (basically, international environmental regulation), there is an added wrinkle that should send chills down the spine of any liberty-loving human being.

Walter Scott Hudson, the proprietor of the blog "Fightin' Words", has done some digging through the terms of this treaty...and has found language buried therein which seems to actually set up a world-governing body whose authority could possibly usurp the national sovereignty of ANY nation which signs on -- and would possess the power to "balance the playing field" by transferring wealth and resources from those who have to those who don't, as they see fit.

Per Walter, here's the language in question (parenthetical notes are Walter's; boldface is mine):
38. The scheme for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention will be based on three basic pillars: government; facilitative mechanism; and financial mechanism, and the basic organization of which will include the following:

World Government (heading added)
(a) The government will be ruled by the COP with the support of a new subsidiary body on adaptation, and of an Executive Board responsible for the management of the new funds and the related facilitative processes and bodies. The current Convention secretariat will operate as such, as appropriate.

To Redistribute Wealth (heading added)
b) The Convention’s financial mechanism will include a multilateral climate change fund including five windows: (a) an Adaptation window, (b) a Compensation window, to address loss and damage from climate change impacts [read: the "climate debt" Monckton refers to], including insurance, rehabilitation and compensatory components,
(I'll get to the Monckton reference in a minute. Onward.)
(c) a Technology window; (d) a Mitigation window; and (e) a REDD window, to support a multi-phases process for positive forest incentives relating to REDD actions.

With Enforcement Authority (heading added)
c) The Convention’s facilitative mechanism will include: (a) work programmes for adaptation and mitigation; (b) a long-term REDD process; (c) a short-term technology action plan; (d) an expert group on adaptation established by the subsidiary body on adaptation, and expert groups on mitigation, technologies and on monitoring, reporting and verification; and (e) an international registry for the monitoring, reporting and verification of compliance of emission reduction commitments, and the transfer of technical and financial resources from developed countries to developing countries. The secretariat will provide technical and administrative support, including a new centre for information exchange [read; enforcement]."
I don't know what you heard in those words. That's up to you.

What I heard can be summed up in three words:

One. World. Government.

Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to the British Crown, seems to have heard the same thing I did. He's the same gentleman who successfully sued to stop Al "I'm Relevant Dammit" Gore's planet-gots-a-fever movie from forcibly being played in Britain's elementary schools without correcting many of the distortions the film contained, and is a well-known critic of "global warming" alarmism.

He says he read through the treaty, and found the aforementioned passage just as alarming as Walter and I have...and said so, in a presentation given at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN last Friday. Here's the man himself:
But there is a second big difference between the Kyoto Protocols and the Copenhagen Treaty, as it relates to us Americans in particular...and this one may be even scarier.

This time, the man holding the U.S. President's pen isn't a rancher from Crawford, Texas who acted like the leader of a free and sovereign nation when a bunch of thugs sucker-punched us eight years ago.

This time, it's a self-obsessed, grandstand-happy bullshit artist with an ego the size of Chicago who will apparently do ANYTHING to win the accolades of the "international community"...including, quite possibly, selling his country -- and all of his loyal subjects fellow citizens -- straight down the proverbial creek.

And if what Lord Chris says is true...If the rest of the signers want us to stay stuck in this travesty, we won't be able to get out even after the Messiah-in-Training finally gets the keys taken away from him.

In other words: If Prince Barry signs this treaty, there's a good possibility that the rest of us paeans may be living with the consequences of his vain quest for international acceptance...FOR DECADES TO COME.

(Forgive me for a moment, but the little conspiracist in me just raised an ugly thought...Could something like this have been someone's reason for wanting him in the White House in the first place? Just sayin'.)

If you're feeling the same thing I am right now, you already know what to do. Call your congressmen. Call your senators. Call someone else's congressmen and senators. Hell, call the freakin' White House itself. Remind them that we sign their paychecks.

Put them on notice: THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN.

Sound paranoid, do I? Okay, fine. Call me whatever you wish.

But call your representatives first.

That way, if all this really does come to pass, you can at least say you tried.