Watermelon Alert

Good on Vaclav Kaus for pointing out the Red interior of many in the Green movement:

Czech President Vaclav Klaus said on Wednesday that fighting global warming has turned into a a "religion" that replaced the ideology of communism and threatens to clip basic freedoms.

The right-wing president, a free-market champion, wrote to the U.S. Congress that adopting tough environmental policies to fight climate change would have destructive impact on national economies.

"Communism has been replaced by the threat of an ambitious environmentalism," Klaus wrote in response to questions from the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce.

That's not to say Granny is a stinkin' Commie because she separates her glass and plastics. But don't forget the old line about the ultimate totalitarian pipedream being to outlaw bad weather.

Klaus said poor nations would also be hurt by efforts to impose limits and standards on emissions of gases believed to cause global warming.

"They will not be able to absorb new technological standards required by the anti-greenhouse religion, their products will have difficulty accessing the developed markets, and as a result the gap between them and the developed world will widen," he wrote.

"This ideology preaches earth and nature and under the slogans of their protection -- similarly to the old Marxists -- wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central, now global, planning of the whole world," he added.

It says much that both Fidel Castro and Gorby have become big time Greens. Centralized global planning - just think of how many millions of souls have been carried off as a result of such ideas over the years.

But as long as they make the flowers bloom on time, right?

Yips! to Rachel.