Sussman - Eco-Tyranny

How the Lefts Green Agenda Will Dismantle America

BRIAN SUSSMAN

Bestselling Author of Climategate

ECO-TYRANNY

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Copyright Brian Sussman 2012

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For Elisa, Sam, Ben, Josh, Makayla, and the next generation of patriots.
That you may able to stand your ground.

ONE
Tyranny Spawned

TWO
Green the New Red

THREE
Unveiling the Agenda

FOUR
Gores Welt on America

FIVE
Global Whining

SIX
Green Gospel

SEVEN
Solar and Wind: The Inconvenient Truth

EIGHT
We Own ItLets Drill It

NINE
Oil Independence

TEN
Nuke It

ELEVEN
Dam It

TWELVE
Red, White, and Green

WHILE I CANT LAY CLAIM to being a lifelong conservative, I can declare that Ive always been vehemently opposed to communism and socialism. No doubt, my parents influenced my convictions, particularly the story my dad told regarding his fathers coming to America from Russia, shortly after the start Russian Revolution in the early 1900s. My grandfather was only thirteen years-old when his parents sent him to the United States with a single admonition: Make money, send for your brother.

Indeed, Grandpa did just that. Without knowledge of the language, or the culture, he immediately embraced Americas free-market system, buying used goodsa.k.a. junkand reselling the merchandise door-to-door. Eventually, he sent for his brother, and they became wildly successful entrepreneurs.

Had my grandfather remained in Russia, the pall of communism would have darkened his life, as it did for millions of others. Instead, he came to America, eagerly partook of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and became a self-sufficient, contributing member of society. He was proud to be an American.

My grandfathers experience was just as the founders of this nation had intended. He was able to utilize his personal abilities to freely and independently engage in useful commerce. He would eventually purchase a home, construct a store (which he also owned), provide for his family, and create meaningful jobs for other citizens. Like millions of others, Grandpa was able to succeed because the government stayed out of his way, allowing him the opportunity to either make it, or fail, on his own accord.

My grandfathers success led to the overriding political philosophy espoused by my parents throughout my upbringing: Government is but a necessary evil. Of course, this quote was actually extracted from Thomas Paines pamphlet, Common Sense, published in 1776, in which Paine states, Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

What Grandpa escaped was the intolerable ideology of Karl Marx, which was sweeping his homeland when his parents put him on a ship bound for Ellis Island, New York. The core of Marxs message was the denial of private property. What Grandpa found in America was the antithesis of Marxismthe pursuit of happiness via his right to personal property, and a property in his personal rights.

The term property, as understood by Americas founders, does not limit the meaning to merely land or material possessions. Property includes ones thoughts, opinions, beliefs, ideas, and unalienable rights. No one articulated this ideology better than James Madison who, in a 1792 essay entitled, Property, stated:

[Property] embraces every thing to which a man may attach a value and have a right; and which leaves to every one else the like advantage. In the former sense, a mans land, or merchandize, or money is called his property. In the latter sense, a man has property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions, and in the profession and practice dictated by them. He has property very dear to him in the safety and liberty of his person. He has an equal property in the free use of his faculties and free choice of the objects on which to employ them. In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

While much could be written regarding the usurping of property rights involving the non-physical, this book is dedicated to the tyranny that befalls the United States in the form of the physicalspecifically land and natural resources. Even more so, this book exposes how environmentally-based government policies are being used as the lever of choice to engage in this travesty.

For many decades, the U.S. federal government has been instituting laws and regulations purposefully designed to smother physical property rights. Simultaneously, the feds have been engaged in amassing millions of acres of landexactly what the founders did not want to occur. What the government is doing is part of a centralization of power, which Thomas Jefferson labeled the feudal-ruler form of government. In the feudal-ruler scheme, the rights of the government become superior to the rights of citizens. Such a system is foundational to Marxism in that the government demands control of property, because he who controls the land and its resources, controls the people. Thus, when citizens are unable to own land and property to grow crops, establish a business, or build a home to shelter their family, they are at the mercy of those who hold that power. Likewise, when a countrys natural resources, necessary to sustain life, are withheld from the populace, or doled-out like airline peanuts, the citizens are beholden to the control of those in authority above them.

In other words, when the government controls the land, the water, the minerals, timber, oil, and gas, they control us.

In 2010, WND Books published my first book, Climategate, A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam. What makes that book unique is that in it I reveal the political and financial foundation driving those who are pushing the theory of anthropogenic global warming and climate change. However, while I was researching Climategate, I was astonished by a recurring theme: since the inception of the environmental movement, its leaders have been consumed with eliminating capitalism and ushering in a global era of socialism. Their call for being green goes far beyond demanding clean air, pure water, healthy forests, and alternative sources of energy. The leftists at the helm of the environmentalist hierarchy want to control the air, water, forests, and natural resources. Because I only touched on this research in Climategate, I felt it necessary to write another book that would provide the most comprehensive expos of how the lefts green agenda is trashing American liberty.