Shouting facts
"In July 1989 columnist Warren Brookes surveyed the nation's Independence Day celebrations and noted that Americans were about to 'engage willingly in activities that are thousands of times more dangerous than the "environmental risks" ' President George H.W. Bush and the U.S. Congress were committing hundreds of millions of dollars to stamp out of existence. No, Brookes wasn't arguing for more stringent fireworks regulation. Those taxpayer dollars, he wrote, were 'trivial compared with the dangers to our liberties and our sanity from the risk-free agenda of the newest secular religionists, the "ecotheologians" ... who are now busy shouting "death" on a crowded planet.'
"Eighteen years later, the nation's Fourth of July holiday was spent immersed in the hype over Al Gore's impending series of Live Earth concerts. ... Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would call a disagreement on global warming 'treason' and those who air such skepticisms 'traitors.'
"If Brookes hadn't tragically passed away in 1992 at age 62, he would likely be Kennedy's Public Enemy No. 1 today. Few understood the Green Scam quite so well or so early as Brookes did, and no one was more adept at eviscerating its sacred cows with sharpened facts, common sense — he spent 20 years in business before entering opinion journalism — and, yes, humor. ... After his death the Wall Street Journal eulogized, 'Few voices stand as Warren Brookes did, shouting facts into the gale of fashion.' ...
"We are in desperate need of another indefatigable visionary like Warren Brookes today."
Shawn Macomber, writing on "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow," Friday in the American Spectator Online at www.spectator.org |
