Don's Tuesday Column

    THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson Red Bluff Daily News   4/27/2021

   Enviros in error, never in doubt

Whether it’s Earth Day, May Day (“celebrating” Communism), or the day in 1619 when 20 or so slaves were sold from a Portuguese ship (one of a 36-ship fleet carrying many thousands of Ndongo slaves to Latin America), that was seized by pirates who landed in pre-United States North America—significant events in the leftist/progressive calendar are built on erroneous, but never doubted, foundations.

 Consider the verdict in ex-officer Derek Chauvin’s trial, wherein “reasonable doubt” is the standard for judgement. Reasonable people can, in fact, have doubts 1) that the legal standards for murder or manslaughter were met; 2) that the jury was sufficiently free of outside intimidation to dare give the “presumption of innocence” to Chauvin; or 3) that courts of appeal will ignore the certainty that rioting, looting, arson and loss of life will follow “protests” over any reversal of verdicts.

A fair-minded person could easily see that keeping the trial in Minneapolis denied Chauvin fairness, or that—as liberal constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz asserted—"Maxine Waters Used KKK Tactics to Intimidate Chauvin Jury” (pjmedia.com, 4/22). “The Klan would march outside of courthouses and threaten all kinds of reprisals if the jury ever dared convict a white person or acquit a black person.”

Remember that the Democrat Party was the party of slavery (the Republican Party was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery), and held all political power in the South. They enforced Jim Crow laws, the disenfranchisement, the segregation and the disarmament of “Negroes” (acceptable, legal term then; southern Dems used another n-word). Without large Republican support, African-Americans would not have seen Civil Rights laws enacted.

Before writing to lambaste and demonize me, do the honest thing and look up Mr. Dershowitz’s article by title. Also, read Joy Pullmann’s piece, “There’s No Way Americans Can Trust The Jury’s Chauvin Verdict; A fair trial might have come to the same conclusion. But we'll never know, and never be able to trust this outcome, because America's left purposefully made a fair trial impossible,” (Thefederalist.com, 4/21).

I am also sympathetic to conservative firebrand and lawyer, Kurt Schlichter’s conclusion: “This Trial Was A Disgrace.” If incisive, informed legal analysis is desired, see John Hinderaker’s “Thoughts on the Chauvin Trial and Verdict.”

Democrats have eagerly supported the violent, hateful “antifa-BLM” movement; in June, 2020, at the height of rioting, looting and arson, “House Dems Unanimously Block Resolution Condemning Violence and Rioting; Resolution also decried efforts to defund the police,” by Collin Anderson (6/25/2021, Freebeacon.com). Rep. Greg Steube’s (R.-Fla.) resolution condemned George Floyd’s killing, supported peaceful protesters and decried “the deliberate targeting of law enforcement officers.”

You may say Dems just want “police reform,” “reimagining law enforcement” and “equity” (all empty, hypocritical euphemisms). “Don't Forget: Democrats Crushed a Senate Police Reform Bill Because They Didn't Like the Black Man Proposing It,” by Kira Davis (4/20). Last June, Senator Tim Scott (R.-S.C.) proposed a reform bill designed to curb police brutality; it was not only voted down but also not even acknowledged by the media. The Dem/media cabal didn’t want a Black Republican to get any credit for a serious proposal to help solve the biggest complaint they had.

So without doubt are the levers of (Democrat-run) government agencies, that the Postal Service has tasked itself—with statutory authority, technical capability and police powers—to “quietly run a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.

“The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not previously been made public. The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as ‘inflammatory’ postings and then sharing that information across government agencies.” See “Lee Smith Nails It Again, The US Postal Service Surveillance Scandal is Targeting Trump Supporters, Not All Americans,” (with 5-minute video, Sundance, 4/23, Theconservativetreehouse.com)

Erroneous mask mandates and lockdowns are also exempt from doubt and criticism; for another column.

“Enviros always in error, never in doubt” would describe Earth Day predictions over the decades. Before allowing your, or your children’s, anxiety—over new predictions of environmental doom—to lead to stress, consider the universal failure of “green” projections: “(15) Failed Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day predictions of 2009,” (4/22/2009);

“Earth Day Turns 50; Half a century later, a look back at the forecasters who got the future wrong—and the one who got it right,” by Ronald Bailey (5/2020, reason.com); “History Confirms Democrat’s 1988 Senate Global Warming Hearing Got Everything Wrong from Start to Finish,” (Larry Hamlin, wattsupwiththat.com, 4/22/2021).

A 2017 Amazon bestseller, “Inconvenient Facts; The science that Al Gore doesn’t want you to know,” by Gregory Wrightstone, was updated for “Earth Day 2020—Celebrating 50 years of failed forecasts”:

“By 1985 city dwellers will need to wear gas masks; By 1989: 4 billion people will die. By 2000: England won’t exist; No crude oil; 75-80% of all species extinct; Entire nations gone; Civilization will end. 50 million climate refugees by 2010; another 50 million by 2020. Life expectancy decreases by 42 years.”

Reality: “Air pollution, deserts, wildfires, tornados, infant mortality, extreme weather-related deaths, temperature-linked deaths—all declined. Vegetation increased; polar bear population doubled; life expectancy increased 30% to 78.8 (U.S.).” Inconvenientfacts.xyz: “Wrightstone presents the science to assess the basis of the threatened Thermageddon.”

Not to be left out of the climate nuttery, Time’s cover: “Climate is Everything—How the Pandemic can lead us to a better, greener world.” Being a “Green lefty” means never having to admit errors, and never undoing government policies or power based on said errors.