Every
day I step outside my house I am reminded that every person born in this
country is an American but not every American is a patriot. A patriot contributes
to America’s exceptionalism, making it a better place for all. Americans rebuild
what others have destroyed without propaganda and grants from the government.
Real
Americans defend freedom around the world and do not apologize for their
kindness, generosity of time, treasure, sweat, and blood. Real Americans love
their country and wish to protect and preserve the land and waters they have
inherited from Americans before us so that our children and grandchildren can
enjoy it free of any interference from government, foreign powers, or United
Nations.
Then
there are those Americans who think our society is an “unjust” society. They
are usually the brain washed, trust fund beneficiaries, who have never had to
live under the “socially-just” utopian societies they so desire. They’ve never
had to be subjected to the indignities of communism in Cuba, Russia, North
Korea, Iran, and other dictatorships they consider “paradise.” With every
breath they take, these Americans want to fundamentally change our society to
their desires and their terribly misplaced dreams that the rest of America
loathes and despises. These are the “green environmentalists,” the “non-profits”
who want to shape, influence, and change your consumer choices via “green
options.”
You
don’t have to take my word, just visit the upcoming Green Festival in
Washington, D.C., September 29-30, 2012, a project of Green America: Economic Action for a Just Planet (http://www.greenamerica.org/) and Global Exchange (http://www.globalexchange.org/).
The
sponsors are:
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Ford Community
Green Grant
(http://www.greenfestivals.org/national/ford-community-green-grant-2012-nyc-chicago)
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Ford Motors.
“Global Exchange is an international human rights
organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice
around the world.”
No
American objects to cleaning and protecting the environment in which we live,
and we do not purposefully pollute it, but we must admit that the “greening” of
America agenda is really the “reding” of America, turning us finally into a
communist country. We are already so socialist, we can only recognize a smidgen
of the former capitalist glory.
The
Green Festival in D.C. is a “non-profit event, dedicated to celebrating social
justice and sharing a vision of a healthier and more just future for us all.” I
already live in a socially just society with equal opportunity for all
citizens. What individual citizens choose to do with their time and the choices
they make determine their future. It is not society’s responsibility to see
that sloth and laziness are rewarded equally to those who work hard to achieve.
Who
knew that social justice and a just future involved bicycle maintenance,
container gardening, home brewing, recycled crafts, yoga classes, NAACP,
Washington Peace Center, 350.org (http://www.350.org/)
(350.org is building a global
grassroots movement to solve the non-existent and manufactured climate crisis.), local non-profits, and national
initiatives to speed up the transformation of America into the UN Agenda 21’s
idea of one-world communist governance?
Recognizable
speakers include consumer advocate Ralph Nader, Congressman Dennis Kucinich,
and Medea Benjamin, cofounder of the infamous Code Pink. The 125 progressive
speakers tackle topics of sustainable economy, social justice, the expensive
and so far often bankrupt green energy, community organizing (where did I hear
that term before), Fair Trade, green business, ecological balance, urban
farming, healthy home, environmental advocacy, green building, and toxic free
living.
Urban
farming sounds interesting. The EPA and the federal government are taking more
and more land away from agriculture, either confiscating it or paying farmers
not to farm, and giving land back to the wilderness but we are supposed to feed
313 million Americans via urban farming from high rise, densely populated
tenements in the city?
The
orgy of sustainability celebration includes green office, green pets,
eco-travel (it must be paddling your own canoe to Europe with a bicycle
attached to it), green media, the phantom green jobs that never materialized,
eco-arts and crafts, organic food, green building and renovation, and “unbelievable
green shopping.”
Ford
Motors is promoting test driving its new Ford Focus Electric and C-MAX Hybrid. At
the same time, Ford is awarding a $5,000 grant for “sustainable,
forward-thinking ideas for improving the environment in local communities.”
A
bike valet is provided if you are still alive after biking for miles to get to
D.C. and the traffic did not kill you before exhaustion. Plant-based diet, raw
food, raw fruit pie, raising urban chickens (that should be quite smelly and
unsanitary), vegan sushi, brew your own “sustainable beer” (you will need to
get drunk on that after all the weirdness in your daily life), and vegetarian
food demonstrations will teach how to build a vegan pantry. (Do vegans live
longer than the rest of us?) Sustainable cats, raw pet diet, how pets can help
heal the planet (that is rich), and fashion for 4-paw friends should be
interesting.
The
festival teaches “how to break up with your bank,” changing a flat bike tire, how
to be a responsible tourist, and about “electric bikes and the sustainable
transportation revolution.” Electric bikes must be designed for those who are
fat or handicapped and cannot traditionally bike or walk miles to work, grocery
store, and school.
It
appears that “sustainability can save humanity from itself,” create clean
energy for all, provide “no stink indoor composting with worms,” and help
humans to “find fullness: mindful eating.” We are so fat and such pigs that we
must have the federal government tell us what to eat and when to stop eating.
If
you are not that much into having your life changed into sustainable
everything, there are other topics at the Green Festival on political agitation,
Occupiers, community organizing, AIDS, and voter fraud:
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Billionaires and the Ballot Bandits: the Theft of 2012 (wishful
thinking)
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How the 99% can occupy peace (Medea Benjamin)
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Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism: Latin American Leadership
(this one is rich; I did not know the term neo-liberalism; tin pot dictators as
leaders – that is laughable)
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We can save the world while we are young (Chicken Little,
the Sky is Falling)
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Vibrant living: From healthy choices to political action
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Global collapse, prophecies, the future, and you
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One Earth, one people, one nation, one chance (we are
global citizens now under one world government, no more pesky borders,
sovereignty, language, nationality, culture)
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The silenced majority: Stories of uprisings, occupations,
resistance, and hope
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AIDS activism from DC to Durban
If
the festival attendance was free of charge, I would love to go for the
spectacle component of it. But I refuse to spend $49 for green schools, green
kids, and red Marxist environmental green indoctrination sold as two days of
fun.
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