Comments by Jay Lehr, Heartland Institute, Chicago, on Nick Gillespie's "Reasons to be Cheerful" in 2010, WSJ, January 2. Lehr says, "This should be required reading for our nation's Nervous Nellies. They lost much sleep in the 1990's over Y2K, woke up to learn they had been scammed and then immediately locked onto global warming and avian flu without comimng up for air to enjoy so much as a single day of relaxed, fear-free living.
Those with an agenda have tremendous ability to gain power over us with fear, while not totally dismissing our need to be alert. Power-seekers have long known that fear of the unknowable and unprovable can keep a society off balance while political solutions are put in place, almost inevitably causing us to give up our freedoms our Founding Fathers fought so hard to bequeath to us. This applies especially these days to the promotion of climate alarmism which appears to be holding much of the rational world in a vice grip of irrational fear, producing unwarranted and costly respones."
I once asked one o our local leaders in Washington why this spreading of fear, especially among the elderly, was so rampant and almost always, untrue. His answer was because "sometimes we are right".
Yes sure, that why no one should drive a vehicle. 40,000 plus are killed in the U.S.A. each year and a million injured. No problem, he has banned text-messaging while driving omitting, kids and dogs in the drivers laps, music so loud an ambulance siren is blocked out, cell-phones glued to a drivers ear while they maneuver to flick the ashes out the window, etc.
Shy do so many military commit suicides? One reason, besides mental problems, is that they led "protected" lives that changed drastically when they entered a new "unprotected culture".
Do I believe in global warming? Yes, and global cooling, too. Both have been going on as long as there was a planet earth. And mankind, including the all-powerful Al Gore, will not stop either happenings.
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