I wish to have your opinions on a subject both dear and feared to all of us. I believe the malady that afflicted voters last November is the same as what has infected the America haters, the "give me" crowd, and, especially Obama, his wife, and all of his associates, embraced or abandoned. It is as fundamental as the inalienable rights of man and that which has made America the nation she is, or was, and can still be.

America was founded on what major principal? The Declaration of Independence tells the reasons Americans set themselves apart from a king. It was in every pamphlet, editorial, letter to of from, and was the main subject when the contract for the federal government was written. In one, all encompassing word, America’s claim to fame, the fertilizer for the tree of liberty, was, and still is individualism. The inalienable rights of the individual, especially, most importantly, their right to own property and to control that property, were and are the bedrock of America’s greatness. It is the American, the head of the family, the business owner, the mom and dad worker bees, that are each individually responsible for the America of today.

But we, having been raised, mainly, as a religious people, see ourselves as faulty, no, depraved. And down through the decades we, as forthright and honest people, have had a tough time mentally squaring those two in our minds. The depraved, but exceptional and hard working individuals, having the nerve to claim theirs is a nation of values and morals, is just to much at odds to each other to seem real. It would seem that these honest, sincere folks have a point, and that it eats at them, and Obama, all their lives, promoting a putrification of the inner self resulting, eventually, in the bitterness we see, and the aching of their hearts that is so obvious.

The reasoning behind their quandary is simple. Since before all of our births, for over one hundred years and more, America has been known as the nation that acts as savior of the world, the hero of the oppressed wherever they be, the first in the space race and technology, feeding the world. When disaster hits anywhere, it’s America that floats her city on a boat up to their shores and gives all they have to those who need it. America has invented, built, exported, and given away so much, and has never even run slightly short for her own needs. Yes, America is exceptional. The shining city on the hill.

So what’s wrong with that? It isn’t wrong, in and of itself, because America is a country of Americans. But that idea, America, has come to mean sitting back and watching her rise to ever more lofty heights, and not having too much to do with it, thanks to our elected officials in Washington. America is great, but some of the people don’t feel so great. Why? Because they know that they have not been responsible for it. They can’t sit back and just watch our greatness grow and have any pride in it.

Except for those of us who were raised by the previous, patriotic generation, who have taken advantage of our opportunities, worked hard all our lives paying a mortgage, raising a family, and coming to an inner truce with God and our sinful nature. We can feel the pride in being a self provider, and feel it we do. And we make no apologies for being proud. Those who have lived on the doll, or have taken all that America is for granted, or who know nothing greater than themselves that they can put their faith in, can not perceive the reason the rest of us have for being so cocky. They are Americans, but they know nothing of indivdualism and, therefore, they are of the same mind as the proletariats of the former USSR, and can’t fathom our greatness as anything but false.

These people have lost their sense of individualism, if they ever had any, because they have failed to do anything about their own interests. It has become so easy to wait for America to do it all and not have to worry about it. This reign of inner loathing has been cheered on by the degradation of our value system, the decline of our public schools, no parental authority or even concern, and it becomes its own firestorm, creating an ever self-perpetuating downward spiral of individual achievement, and a welling up of disgust and enmity for themselves and those who have any pride in themselves or the fruited plain, or faith in anything godlike.

Ask almost anyone from any background if there is any value to human life and they will think it is a trick question. Press them for an honest answer and you will get something akin to, "Of course human life is valuable," or "Human life is the most valuable thing on Earth,". I believe that the overwhelming majority of people on Earth are of the same belief. There are, of course, those fringe elements in the world, who hold human life as less than the most valuable, while some see it as the least most precious. The current manifestation of radical Islam, Hitler’s Nazis and their final solution, and crazed, sociopathic murderers all see no value to some portion of humanity. But in our world today is a minority group of well educated, highly dedicated people who, in their beliefs and actions, are more dangerous to the existance of humanity than all these other groups combined. This group is the hard core environmentalists. The environmental purists believe that nature, in its most virgin form, is the only thing of value in existence. They see man not as a part of nature, but as a cancerous disease and destroyer of Earth and its non-human occupants. Their core values are such that, unlike Hitler whose murderous crimes targeted the Jews and gypsies of the world, and unlike Islam who see infidels as deserving to die, these environment/nature worshippers seek nothing less than the total eradication of all humankind as the ultimate goal and they are hard at work in everyway they can conceive to see that goal achieved.

Some may say that I am exagerating in my conclusions and that environmentalists just want to reduce pollution and global climate change to insure we don’t ruin our home planet. To those I submit the following, quoted statements…

"Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, are not as important as a wild and healthy planet. I know social scientists who remind me that people are part of nature, but it isn’t true. Somewhere along the line – about a billion years ago, or half of that – we quit the contract and became a cancer. We are a plague upon ourselves and upon Earth.

It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along." ---David M. Graber, biologist with the National Park Service, reviewing The End of Nature by Bill McKibben for the Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 22, 1989.

"Phasing out of the human race will solve every problem on Earth, social and environmental." ---Dave Foreman, founder of Earth First

More like these can be found at … http://www.pushback.com/environment/ecofreakquotes.html

It is the belief in nature, not mankind, as the supremely valuable entity which makes these people dangerous. And it is these people who, under the guise of higher education and expertise, have made the environmental movement the political and social beheamoth it has become. They are responsible for the creation of the EPA, the animal rights movement, the global warming/climate change farce, the push to find alternative sources of energy, and the majority of reasons for the decline and hatred of western civilization in the world. One of the ways they seek to dominate and control mankind is through collectivism, destroying the rights of individuals and making all humankind reponsible for everything detrimental to nature, even if the harm is imagined or fabricated. Collectivivsm is the core for ideologies such as Marxism, the Nazis, and radical Islam. Only humankind as a whole is worthy of life. Individuals are there only for the benefit of all humanity. Any advance or progress by a group of individuals is wrong if the whole of humanity is not included in the benefits of that advancement. If the hardcore environmentalists had their way, which is the case most times today, mankind would de-evolve back to its fundamental, non-technical beginnings and would exist as cave dwelling, hunter gatherers who are at the mercy of their environment.

What they don’t want to admit is that the ability to adapt, humans being the ultimate success stories at adaptation, is built into even the first humans and has naturally evolved into what we are today. It is no more or less natural than the rise of mammals after the jurassic, the survival of the shark and alligator, and the multiple instances of mass extinction of myriads of species by nature itself. Man is naturally inquisitive and that leads to him seeking a better and easier way of life. It is called human nature, and there is no evil in its ideals.

The environmental movement is at the core of the majority of modern man’s social and economic ailments. Their methods are subtle and constitute social terrorism. Only the total annihilation of the environmental movement will insure man’s progress in social, economic, humanitarian, and technological endeavors. We don’t require the guidance of radicals to teach us that we need to do our best at what we attempt. Mankind already has that sense of self-preservation built in and will follow it if allowed the individual liberty to do so.

Glenn Flowers