Now here is a group with an important title

Posted by Itheliving 9 years, 7 months ago to News
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The NYC climate change march included a sponsoring group. Boy does these guys sound important. I am going outside and start taking my non electric car apart right now. “We said it would take everyone to change everything -- and everyone showed up,” said Eddie Bautista, executive director of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, in a statement.


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  • Posted by Timelord 9 years, 7 months ago
    I had started to write a comment that said, "Any organization with "justice" in it's name is actually the opposite," but then I remembered IJ, Institute for Justice, a group that litigates from a libertarian point of view usually at no cost to the client. They're the ones that took the Kelo eminent domain case to the supreme court and, unfortunately, lost.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 7 months ago
    Climate change is changing. It's morphing from a calling into a religion. Like a religion, it requires no evidence, only faith. If evidence is demanded, it is either skewed, misrepresented or just plain made up. Some day in the future, as we sit in our cozy caves, with a nice fire going eating bear meat we'll be grateful that the environment is not being polluted anymore as it was by our evil ancestors.
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  • Posted by WBD 9 years, 7 months ago
    Yes. Impressive name for those who don't think.
    Like "The Council of American Builders" in The Fountainhead. A group of 4th rate secondhanders!
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  • Posted by 9 years, 7 months ago
    Everyone included Ban Ki Moon, Al Gore, Bill de Blasio, Sting, Mark Ruffalo and Leo di Caprio. There were also a number of pro immigration signs visible in Spanish preaching tolerance for law breakers. BK Moon is a Korean citizen. Why is he participating in a biased political march in a country other than his own? One of the main messages delivered by key note speakers seemed to be saying that the climate problem wouldn't exist if people only breathed out and only walked to work.
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    • Posted by hattrup 9 years, 7 months ago
      "BK Moon is a Korean citizen. Why is he participating in a biased political march in a country other than his own?"
      BK is the UN guy, and this coincided with a UN event on the same topic. And the UN is still in NYC - I think it would be much better in Cairo - or are least back in Geneva.
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  • Posted by H6163741 9 years, 7 months ago
    Yeah, 'cause it's more important that the temperature might go up 2-3 degrees in a thousand years or so than jobs, terrorists, education, healthcare and all the other crap going on RIGHT NOW
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  • Posted by RevJay4 9 years, 7 months ago
    Ah, NYC..., the bastion of leftness at it again, being special, again. Luv the name of the group, like "justice" has anything to do with the psuedo science of global warming or whatever it is today.
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  • Posted by sfdi1947 9 years, 7 months ago
    Trouble with all these little, really inconsequential groups with big, important sounding names is that in the western cultures today, the media and the government grants them more recognition than it does to the majority.
    The tyranny of the minority, operating on the Squeaky Wheel Syndrome Authority, states that a fancy title will collect a few thousand noisy advocates to a meaningless cause.
    The Freedom from Religion Coalition, for example, based in Wisconsin is a group with a few thousand well-to-do members has virtually parsed the "Establishment {Religion} and Exercise" Clause out of the Bill of Rights, out of the Constitution by sending letters threatening to sue all and sundry for mentioning God [Regardless of how you think of Him] or praying at any kind of quasi official function.
    According to Liz Hasselbeck on Fox and Friends their current target is a group of teenaged Cheerleaders, who when the school system kowtowed, to FFRC and stopped playing the Lord's Prayer before high school football games, began leading the audience in the prayer.
    I am ashamed that we have given these groups, by our apathy, the right to take control of us, like a herd to the slaughter, when we should be countersuing them, for interfering with our guaranteed freedoms, asking for their entire budget + 25 percent for 100 years as punitive damages.
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    • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 7 months ago
      couldn't it be another sign of the times, when we
      think of a countersuit instead of direct action like
      voting or boycotting or picketing? -- j

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      • Posted by sfdi1947 9 years, 7 months ago
        Actually, no, the voting cycle is too long and has almost no control of seated jurists.
        Economic actions require coordination which large apathetic groups seldom if ever achieve. The fact that IRAN will soon have Nukes is proof of that.
        Civil Disobedience only makes noise and doesn't have recognizable results when the noisy minority is well represented and the apathetic majority is not.
        A legal action that leaves them paying for our existence in perpetuity give them something to remember us by.
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  • Posted by rbunce 9 years, 7 months ago
    That march was about "social justice" issues not reduction of CO2 in the atmosphere... it has been a couple decades since the collectivists had to abandon their political movements like communism and move into the background of the environmental movement.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 9 years, 7 months ago
    To: sfdi1947
    I wonder if it's possible to sue that group? If they are a legally registered w/assets maybe a action can be done thru ACLU or FreedonWorks.
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