Another "Live" Concert

This also appears at the blog site of the Democratic Party. To read any comments that people have made about this brief essay please read it there.

On July 4 we celebrate yet another year of our independence as a nation and as a people. Almost every person, regardless of age, race, religion, or gender has heard, or knows by heart, Jefferson's words:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Over the years I have been on this planet, and a citizen of this great nation for those same years, we seem to have forgotten those words and what they really mean or should mean.

So it's disheartening to read stuff like this:

Live Earth is a musical show being put on ostensibly to bolster the global warming alarms being raised by Al Gore and other environmentalists. Former Vice President Al Gore, whose Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" jump-started the debate about global warming and environmentalism, says Live Earth will be the start of a "worldwide, mass persuasion communications campaign" that will last up to five years. (Link)

What happened our right to Liberty? The liberty to think what we want without having to have a "mass persuasion?" Are the holes in the global warming theory (and make no mistake, it is a hypothesis, a conjecture of what might happen) so big and the evidence so flimsy that we now need to be persuaded on a mass, global basis?

I'm sorry. People can believe Al Gore all they want. They can start buying Priuses or other energy efficient vehicles, cut their lawns and shovel their sidewalks by hand, recycle, and whatever else they want to do to save the planet. All the more power to them.

But when people like Big Al start talking about "mass persuasion" it should be a big red flag to people who truly believe in freedom of thought. It's just propaganda. And propaganda is nothing more than brain-washing. And woe to anybody who disagrees with the propaganda.

And some people want Al to enter the race for 2008? He scares me more than Hillary sometimes.