This is so well said, I’m going to repeat it in full.
By Kelly McParland at the National Post
Let’s see now…
Robert Mugabe at Copenhagen
Over in Copenhagen, we have Robert Mugabe, perhaps the most brutal and corrupt despot in Africa, whose life’s work has been to destroy the once-prosperous country of Zimbabwe, lecturing the West on the “hypocrisy” of its position on climate change. (Zimbabwe doesn’t have to worry about greenhouse gas emissions, because, thanks to Mugabe, its economy is in a state of collapse.) Update: Here’s Stephen Lewis talking about a new report on Mugabe’s use of rape as a weapon.
We have the government of China, which won’t allow its citizens free access to the Internet, complaining that the climate summit is “not transparent.”
We have Hugo Chavez, who took time off from shutting down Venezuela’s radio stations to fly to Denmark, complaining about western “dictatorship.” (If anyone back in Venezuela disagrees, he’ll toss them in jail).
We have “climate change activists” cutting down and desecrating the Canadian flag. More “activists” disrupting the talks and trying to break into the conference centre, beaten off by police in riot gear using tear gas and pepper spray.
We have the mayor of Toronto telling the world he’s “embarrassed” by his country’s policy while denying he already has a plum job lined up with an environmental organization when he finally, mercifully (and not a moment too soon) quits his job as mayor late next year. (Way to stand up for your country Mr. Mayor! Way to display pride at being Canadian). We have Al Gore, he of the energy-sucking mansion and private jets, who charges $1,200 a handshake to be fawned over by fans, announcing that new hot-off-the-presses data show the Arctic ice cap will be fully melted in seven years, the only problem being that it’s not true.
All this so countries like Canada can pony up something in the range of $100 billion for a climate fund, to be dispursed to people like Mugabe, so they can use it to pad their foreign bank accounts “adapt” their nations to climate change.
Remind me again why I want nothing to do with these clowns and their farce of an international climate crisis, and why I have no faith whatsoever in their ability to mount a credible emissions plan…
No, wait … never mind. I remember!
Kelly McParland
National Post
This reminds me why I have a subscription to the Post – all I want now is for them to feature this on the front page!
Tags: Copenhagen
Politicians like the mayor of Toronto repugnant and all too common. If he is embarrassed of Canada he should move to somewhere he is not embarrassed. Maybe a good place for him, like Micheal Morre, is Cuba. That way they don’t have to be embarrassed.