Gore Is Right, Cheney Wrong, Fight Global Warming, End the Anti-American Energy Policy

The report today by the National Academy of Sciences should be decisive, persuading any remaining honorable undecideds that global warming does indeed pose a potentially catastrophic danger. No doubt, the same Texas oilmen who raised money for the Swift Boat attack on the recipient of a bronze and silver star, and who financed ads in response to Inconvenient Truth, that were propaganda masquerading as science in the cause of greed, will soon find some way to attack the Academy.

Al Gore and many others are right: this is a moral issue we should take the country. It is bad enough we are burdening future generations with government debt that gives dangerous power to central banks such as mainland China, who finance our economy, buying the debt who's ultimate burden our children will bear. The very least we should do, is give our children a planet that is not in danger of destruction from environmental destruction that we will leave as yet another dark legacy to our children, unless we act.

All Democrats and honorable Republicans should go to the country in the coming election against energy policies that are un-American and anti-American by any rational definition of the terms. This reliance on fossil fuels, gouging historic Goliath profits for the few, robbing today's consumers of their right to fairness and equity, and robbing tomorrow's children of their birthright, an environmentally safe world, is an issue that should be taken to every corner of the Nation.

The very idea of a One-Fuel energy policy, is the moral equivalent of a one-party state. It is a direct attack on American consumers, a direct threat to the American economy, a direct danger to American security, and a direct land grab by our generation, stealing from future generations, addicted to depletable resources, corrupting the livability of our children and grandchildren's planet.

Also: if the budget deficit makes America dangerously dependent on foreign central banks, some of whom are controlled by nations with interests hostile to ours, this anti-American energy policy makes America dangerously dependent on despotic and often corrupt regimes, with some of the money finding its way to the murderers of our neighbors on 9-11.

A special word for the Vice President: it is hard to imagine anyone of his stature who has ever been so wrong, on so many issues, with such deadly consequences, with such harm done to our generation, with a such a legacy of harm to future generations.

It is a moral shame, and no coincidence, that this policy so destructive to American interests was hatched in secret meetings, between the highest officials of our government, many of their largest political contributors, and influence peddlers. We should take to the country a poilcy of freedom and democracy, in which insiders are not allowed to lock in profits and money funnelled to each other, while the American people are locked out of even knowing what they discussed, on issues so momentous, with Americans under under fire, in combat.

Finally, for now: a word about former President Jimmy Carter. President Carter, with Middle East peace between Begin and Sadat, by pioneering a historic policy on human rights that the current Administration could well learn from with our global reputation falling to dangerously low levels, and by developing energy policies that were visionary, courageous and right, deserves a standing ovation.

It is fashionable in some circles on the right, to demean him, as they demean so many. And certainly there were aspects of his tenure that might have been better handled. But the genuine leadership and courage President Carter showed at Camp David; for human rights; and fighting for energy policies that are good for America and future generations; are aspirations for America beyond the imagination of those who met in secret White House meetings, to plot their profits, at our country's expense.

The National Academy of Sciences has spoken; the political leadership of our country must act; our people should demand this on Election Day; and those who are part of the problem, not the solution, should be removed from the offices they no longer deserve to have.