Those of us who are dedicated watchers of the reality show "Deadliest Catch" often marvel at the dedication of members of the rescue teams of the U.S. Coast Guard called to provide emergency services to the crab boats and crab fisherman of the Bering Sea. The Coast Guard teams are dedicated, sober, selfless men and women who do their duty promptly and amazingly in the most of intense conditions.
Their mission, their devotion to it and competence at it, astound us. So it is with a mix of curiosity and depression that we watched last week as Barack Obama spoke at the graduation of the newly-minted Coast Guard officers from their Academy.
He actually said this to them: "... I am here today to say that climate
change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate
risk to our national security. And make no mistake, it will impact how
our military defends our country. So we need to act and we need to act
now. After all, isn't that the true hallmark of leadership? When you're on
deck, standing your watch, you stay vigilant, you plan for every
contingency. If you see storm clouds gathering or dangerous shoals ahead
you don't just sit back and do nothing. You take action to protect your
ship, to keep your crew safe. Anything less is negligence. It is a
dereliction of duty. So to with climate change. Denying it or refusing
to deal with it endangers our national security. It undermines the
readiness of our forces."
Yeah, sure, we get it. But as I wrote back in October, there are more than two sides to the whole global warming story, and at least one of them never gets stated except, I guess, by me. That would be the side that neither confirms nor denies global warming, and it neither asserts nor denies any possible human cause to it. It is the side, or the argument, that states this: If all global warming is is simply the rise in global temperatures over a period of time, then why are only bad effects ever cited by the fear-mongering leftists?
Obama's speech clearly helps answer this. It is not about global warming, because it never was. It was not about "global cooling", feared in the 1970s by the same leftists. It is about control; it is about power. It is about using fear to push more power to a central Federal government and away from the states -- a central government that can control its citizens no less than Stalin did to the Soviet empire, and no less than those Kims do in North Korea.
How do we know this? Look at the words. "Risk to national security" -- fear. "... act and act now" -- Oh, my God, we have to do something!. "Anything else is negligence. It is a dereliction of duty" -- Your job is not to rescue people in peril at sea; no, your role is to further our world view, the one we decide must be above all.
And "their" world view is one where the USA is a country much like Paraguay or Lichtenstein. No more, no less. How do the Obamas of the world make that happen? By devaluing the strongest institutions in our free society, whether the Coast Guard or the local police, diverting them to pointless exercises like fighting global warming, and deterring them from their job making America great.
In a year and a half, Obama will be removed from power by the grace of the Constitution and, God willing, replaced with someone of true love for the USA, its Constitution and what both truly represent. Someone, we pray, will take over with a sense of the mission of the armed services, and the common sense and understanding to know how to deploy them properly, to trust flag officers by simply giving them the requirement and letting them create the strategy and tactics.
Global warming. Really, that's actually the thing that Barack Obama felt the need to focus on in speaking to Coast Guard Academy graduates. Not their mission; not on the greater good that the USA provides to our fellow nations. Nope, global warming.
Dear God, January 2017 cannot come fast enough.
Copyright 2015 by Robert Sutton
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