One of these quotes is from Discovery Channel terrorist James J. Lee.  The others are from the leaders and founders of the so-called “mainstream” green movement.  Can you tell the difference?

A) “Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process . . . Capitalism is destroying the earth.”
B) “To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem.”
C) “The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.”
D) “To capture the public imagination, we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have. Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective and being honest.”
E) “Saving the Planet means saving what’s left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population.”
F) “Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets…Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.”
G) “If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
H) “We’ve already had too much economic growth in the United States. Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure.”
I) “We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.”
J) “A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect.”
K) “I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.”
L) “Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.”

The correct answer is E.  The others are just some of the radical rhetoric from “mainstream” green leaders. 

And no matter who spouts or backs it, violence is unacceptable and condemned by WTP.  While any death is unfortunate, the staff and volunteers here at WTP are pleased the terrorist situation has been prayerfully resolved with no harm to innocent people.  Americans must be vigilant and informed to prevent future acts of violence such as this.

The speakers and authors behind each quote are:

A – Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
B – Lamont Cole, Yale University zoologist and noted environmentalist
C – Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
D – Stephen Schneider, Lead author of the 2007 UN IPCC report and Obama administration adviser (deceased)
E – Discovery Channel terrorist and environmental activist James J. Lee
F – David Graber, National Park Service biologist
G – Prince Phillip, Former UK President of the World Wildlife Federation
H – Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford’s Center for Conservation Biology
I  – Clinton administration Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt in his introduction to the League of Conservation Voters’ 1991 Environmental Scorecard
J – Ambassador Richard Benedick, Chief U.S. negotiator and a principal architect of the Montreal Protocol on protection of the ozone layer and current President of the National Council for Science and the Environment
K – Paul Watson, Founder of Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
L – Dave Forman, Former Sierra Club board member and co-founder of Earth First!

The Washington Post reports a radical environmentalist is behind the currently ongoing hostage situation, with shots fired, at the Discovery Channel’s Washington-area headquarters.

James J. Lee — the man federal and local law enforcement sources say is holding hostages at the Discovery Channel building — was legally bound not to step near the property…

…Wednesday, as police tried to get the situation under control, details of Lee were emerging. His MySpace page shows a 43 year old who wanted to meet “environmentalists, scientists, readers of Daniel Quinn, and people who want to work toward a real change.”…

…Federal officials also confirmed that he was the creator of this Web site, which detail his complaints against Discovery. Among them was this one that seems to be aimed at the overpopulation of the planet: “All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs’ places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.”

…His crusade, he told the paper, began after losing his job in San Diego, reading ”Ishmael,” a novel by Daniel Quinn and watching Vice President Al Gore’s documentary ”An Inconvenient Truth.”

WTP urges everyone to pray for the safety of all involved and a peaceful resolution to this violent act.

From the Monday, Aug. 30 Wall Street Journal (Page A4)

The [Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement] has issued only three new permits to start wells in shallow water since the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, according to the agency’s website. The agency issued three to six permits a week prior to the accident, industry officials say.

Louisiana’s lieutenant governor, Scott Angelle, who has participated in talks with Mr. Bromwich’s agency, said the government was effectively shutting down shallow-water drilling.

“Someone is slow-walking this deal,” Mr. Angelle said, referring to shallow-water permits.

The Obama administration says that there is no moratorium on shallow-water drilling…

Despite the fact shallow-water rigs have had no spills and a stellar safety record, radical green activists have targeted them — and the jobs they provide — for extinction.  The elimination of offshore energy exploration would not only send a shattering new ripple of unemployment through an economy already broken by radical green activism, but would send gasoline prices even higher.

Under legislation sought by Western Tradition Partnership, Washington bureaucrats would no longer have the unchecked power to simply make up their own regulations.

Dear WTP activist,
 
Thank you!
 
As you remember, I asked you Friday to contact the EPA and demand they drop their radical plan to make up their own rules creating a national ban on lead bullets.
 
Well, thanks to overwhelming opposition from supporters of WTP, the National Association for Gun Rights and others, within hours the EPA issued a press release announcing they were dropping the ban.
 
For now.  As we’ve learned about the Obama administration, they don’t simply give up on their power grabs.
 
So, thank you to all of you who called, e-mailed and left your comments.
 
But stay alert.  WTP will let you know if Obama tries this radical power grab again.
 
Sincerely,

Donald E. Ferguson
Executive Director
Western Tradition Partnership

This morning’s New York Times reports on the popular uprising against the Obama administration’s radical green policies.  As the nation’s leading citizens’ lobby for responsible resource development, WTP reminds lawmakers they represent working families, not radical green activists.

Democrats in Appalachia are running away from the Obama administration’s coal record like their political lives depend on it…

…Along with the president’s push for limits on greenhouse gas emissions — a proposal panned by most U.S. coal companies — U.S. EPA in April singled out the six states for special restrictions on mountaintop removal coal mining. EPA also stopped the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from issuing permits for 79 surface and mountaintop mines in the region, saying they would have violated the Clean Water Act. To date, six of those permits have been approved.

“I think there is a danger for Democrats that being seen as a Democrat means being seen as being a supporter of Obama’s EPA,” said Phil Smith, a spokesman for the United Mine Workers of America.

You may read the entire article at The New York Times website.

Once again Barack Obama and his radical green allies are on the wrong side of public opinion.

Rasmussen Reports, rated as one of the most accurate political polling firms, find sixty-one percent of voters agree with Western Tradition Partnership, saying finding new sources of energy is more important now than reducing the amount of energy Americans now consume.  That figure is consistent with findings since the beginning of 2009. 

Fifty-five percent also support offshore oil drilling, despite opposition by Barack Obama and biased media reporting intended to misrepresent the safe, clean process.

Additionally, only thirty-eight percent of voters believe the radical green myth there is a conflict between economic growth and environmental protection.

It’s this backing by majorities of Americans that powers WTP and makes us one of the nation’s fastest-growing and most effective citizen lobbying groups.