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.

Be A Patriot! Be An Informer!

Thus reads a phone-number-equipped sticker that was affixed to store-bought copies of a recent concept album by Nine Inch Nails called "Year Zero". The plot, ostensibly, is a near-future sort of thing where humanity has become so religiously judgmental, paranoid and mean-spirited with each other that beings from the stars come down and proceed to kick the human race's collective fifth-point-of-contact. (Disclaimer: Politics aside, I'm a pretty big fan of Trent Reznor's music. No one else in the business does things quite the way he does. What can I say.)

Anyway...The aforementioned sticker referenced a fictional government agency called the "U.S. Board of Morality" and basically encouraged one to rat out one's fellow man if one saw or heard something unorthodox (for lack of a better term) committed or uttered by said fellow man.

Again...the phone number and referenced agency noted above are fictional.

THIS...from the White House's official website...is real.

Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, "facts are stubborn things."

Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to "uncover" the truth about the President’s health insurance reform positions.

In this video, Linda Douglass, the communications director for the White House’s Health Reform Office, addresses one example that makes it look like the President intends to "eliminate" private coverage, when the reality couldn’t be further from the truth.

In the video, Ms. Douglass singles out a Drudge Report link to a video which shows the One True King speaking to a chapter of AFL-CIO in 2003 and directly telling them: "I happen to be a proponent of single-payer universal health care". Direct quote from the video clip.

From there, she goes on about how opponents of His Royal Barry-ness take him out of context all the time, blah, blah, blah. Watch it yourself before it goes down the memory hole.

Let's get back to the text coming up after the video...and the real reason for being just a little more nervous about our Dear Leader's intentions (emphasis mine):

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

As my wife said when she pointed this out to me last night: "George Orwell is jumping up and down in his grave."

If "1984" hasn't become your default textbook by now for how this guy seems to want to nose-dive America into the ground, start reading.

There are, of course, several far-more-able bloggers than I referencing this little gem. Here's a quick list:

JammieWearingFool
Allahpundit, via Hot Air
Matters of Truth
DoublePlusUndead (See? "1984", folks.)
The Jawa Report

Read 'em while you can.

Send In The Clones

This is apparently one of the ways our Dear Leader plans to address that problematic little concept of "patriotism".



Seriously, guys...HE WON. FOUR MONTHS AGO. You can stop now.

Hey, here's one now. Let's see if we can find out what's up with this.

Excuse me, I have a question about...(waving a hand in front of clone's face)...Hello?

Clone: ....SIIIGN THIS....SIIIGN THIS....

Uh...right. So, what happens if I decide not to sign this little petition-pledge thingy?

Clone (advancing): ....JOIIIN USSSS....JOIIIN USSSS....

(Backing up a few steps) ...Okayyy, let's try an easier one. What happens if I DO sign this thing?

Clone (shuffling closer): ....IMM-HO-TEEEP....IMM-HO-TEEEP....

(Turning and running) ...Well, there we have it, folks, a picture of the grand vision of Hope-n-Change, Inc. Tune in next time, when we'll hear President Teleprompter say....

....uhh...uh...uhhh....

We are apparently experiencing technical difficulties with the President's enabler crutch magic screen. Please stand by.

UPDATE - August 5, 2009: The previous video was taken down by YouTube for "terms of use violations". New copy found and posted; same clip.

Reagan Was Right

Don't take my word for it. Listen for yourself.

"One of these day, you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children's children, what it once was like in America when men were free."
---Ronald Wilson Reagan

"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America!"
---Barack Hussein Obama

Thanks to Texas Rainmaker and the Anchoress for passing this along to the rest of us.

Les Etats Unis du l'Une

Well, folks, it's official...



That's right, friends...That impeccable authority on all things political, Newsweek, has declared the inevitable to have come to pass: We're turning French.

And, as one might expect, they can't even get through the second paragraph without finding someone conveniently absent to blame it on:

...The U.S. government has already—under a conservative Republican administration—effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries. That seems a stronger sign of socialism than $50 million for art.

...and again in the third...

We remain a center-right nation in many ways—particularly culturally, and our instinct, once the crisis passes, will be to try to revert to a more free-market style of capitalism—but it was, again, under a conservative GOP administration that we enacted the largest expansion of the welfare state in 30 years: prescription drugs for the elderly.

...and again...

The architect of this new era of big government? History has a sense of humor, for the man who laid the foundations for the world Obama now rules is George W. Bush, who moved to bail out the financial sector last autumn with $700 billion.

There's a whole lot more in there about how "the political conversation" has changed, and the perils of fighting 21st century battles with 20th century tactics, blah, blah, blah.

More telling, however, is what is NOT in there.

The words "Fannie Mae", "Freddie Mac" and "Countrywide". NOT ONCE.

"Mortgage" is mentioned twice. "Housing" is mentioned once. All three instances are used only to mention that there is a problem.

There is, however, apparently not enough time or textspace to air any whiff of how the problem came about. Except (duh) to blame Bush, during whose term the trap was sprung.

Never mind who started the mortgage avalanche...who gleefully egged it on...and who made a pretty nice pile of hay on it before the trigger was pulled.