Posted by
AJH on Sunday, February 01, 2009 8:20:07 AM
Czech President Vaclav Klaus doesn't mess around playing nice and I like it. The man has style and panache. (In other words, unlike many in modern politics, he has some balls.)
The setting is the playground of the rich, who apparently don't have anything better to do than have a pretend Model UN. In this instance, the particular place is Davos, Switzerland where the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, more a club for the jet-setting wannabe good doers, is underway, and I do mean under. Can you imagine a more dull assembly of people to hang with for a weekend? And in the beautiful snow-covered Alps no less?
According to the idiot who wrote it, Klaus is waging “a frontal attack on the science of global warming.” Klaus is great, but he is the only prominent leader I know willing to take on this thankless, but quite mandatory task. Most have been cowed into a sort of helpless submission.
“I don't think that there is any global warming,” he said bluntly. “Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom.”
And he cited Al Gore as an important person in the campaign.
“I'm afraid that the current crisis will be misused for radically constraining the functioning of the markets and market economy all around the world,” he said. “I'm more afraid of the consequences of the crisis than the crisis itself.”
We need more enlistments! We need more attacking!
AJH