Rod Serling’s famous prologue to the old T.V. series “The Twilight Zone” is most apt when considering the brainwashed nature of the ‘pro-sustainable development’ comments made at the last Roanoke County Board of Supervisors meeting on January 24: “You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead — your next stop, the Twilight Zone.”
Let’s call this new episode ‘The Cult of Sustainability.’
Those who still bother with the truth of things definitely entered ‘The Zone’ that night and ran right smack into that signpost made up of three supervisors zoned out with the rest of the neo-environmentalists. It doesn’t matter that Moore, Altizer, and Flora support fraudulent data gathering for their reports to ICLEI. It is no matter that County employees are driving public policy via an NGO with no credibility. It doesn’t matter that the ‘fringe elements’ are conservationists or concerned with the environment. When the truth doesn’t matter anymore, you have finally arrived in… The Twilight Zone.
On that evening, the M.A.F. team of Moore, Altizer and Flora were predictable to varying degrees. Charlotte Moore is well known for her neo-green agenda regardless of anything sensible that might be in the way. Mike Altizer thinks there ‘might’ be some benefit to being in ICLEI and so envisions himself as Harry Truman with “The Buck Stops Here.” Richard Flora then brought up the specter of ‘McCarthyism,’ a red herring tossed out there in a feeble attempt at demonizing those ‘fringe elements’ that might actually care for truth. A time warp seems to have occurred that evening with these ghosts of the past … so we will travel back in time and space to the boundaries of imagination. Who better to confound fact and fiction than Diana Christopulos, whose self-renowned fame as savior of the planet is already written. Oops! That is a sequel episode. On with this one…
Cristopulos is likely a well-meaning individual in some inter-dimensional world, but here she poses a threat to sanity. In this reality she could be likened to a modern day Siren, one of those mythological creatures lulling those who are amenable to believing the persistent call of fabrication and false promise. In this episode we have the realm of credibility stretched beyond belief by Chrisopulos as follows…
“I thank you for the opportunity to speak on behalf of Roanoke Valley Cool Cities Coalition, a nonprofit organization of all volunteers, no staff, no building, but we do have 250 affiliates representing over 25,000 citizens in this region; the vast majority of them live, work or do business in Roanoke County.”
Really? That comment is eerily similar to the fictitious carbon reduction numbers put out by Roanoke County staff to ICLEI. We continue…
“Just a couple of quick points. One of the speakers said that the scientists used to talk about global warming and now talk about climate change. Actually, scientists have always talked about only climate change, just to make it clear about that there wasn’t any change.”
If you aren’t in ‘the zone’ yet, that comment eases you into the world of half-truth and half-fiction. While true that science has used the term climate change, the belief of this cult is based on the belief that global warming is due to the activities of man. The nomenclature change for these cultists reflect the growing body of science that dispute those alarmist claims. The episode gets better…
“Secondly, there has not been any debate for the last ten (10) years among scientists. Our own National Academy of Sciences has been very clear about global warming. They did a poll of their members last year. This is the most distinguished, academic, scientific gathering in America. 98 out of one hundred (100) climate scientists said a) global warming is happing and b) we are cognizant. Just to be clear, those are actually facts.”
You are now fully in ‘the zone” conjured up by Christopulos. She contradicted herself by using the National Academy of Science’s statement that global warming is happening and that ‘we’ are cognizant. Global warming or climate change? Does it matter that the National Academy of Sciences is a laughingstock in the academic world of climatology due solely on their reliance on U.N. data coming from the IPCC (U.N. International Panel on Climate Change)? It gets better still…
“We endorse the efforts of RCCLEAR, a committee of this Board of Supervisors to help local residents, businesses and others save energy and save money and frankly, we are puzzled by the Tea Party’s ongoing efforts, not only in Roanoke County, but in well-funded, well-planned effort, all over the Country funded by groups like the Heritage Foundation to discourage energy conservation. Who benefits from wasted energy?”
The innuendo suggested by Christopulos’ last question is near climactic with the intended misdirection of casting blame for non-adherence to the cultists belief system. By inference and direct statement, any opposed to this cult want to encourage energy waste. Almost macabre, but the story continues…
“When Governor McDonnell visited Roanoke County is 2010, one of the local Tea Party leaders who spoke tonight attacked him for wanting to make Richmond more green and the governor replied, “Part of being conservative is conservation.” We agree with the governor. I was in a public meeting here in Roanoke County about a year ago where a speaker was talking about energy conservation and gave examples of how much energy we were wasting here in America and one of the local Tea Party members who spoke here tonight, a different one, interrupted the speaker to say, “but that is what makes us so special.” Really?”
There is nothing appalling about that quote from Governor McDonnell. but the last quote smacks of dementia on the part of somebody. We are still in ‘the zone’ though…
“Is wasting energy what makes America special? I grew up in a military family. Now, I will guarantee you that my parents did not teach us that wasting energy made us special except for being singled out for criticism. My mom is 87 years ago and she still makes sure they turn out the lights when we leave a room. Our friends in the Tea Party have had their say about ICLEI and energy conservation and the Board of Supervisors has listened and listened and listened and listened. We have heard many examples tonight of information from the Tea Party in Rockbridge County, Franklin County, Botetourt County about the United Nations and Soviet Union, the Environmental Protection Agency, interpretations of climate science and many other things, but very little about the work of RCCLEAR, very little about the voluntary work that is being done here and we ask you to continue the membership…”
The Siren of the local cultists finally makes herself known in entirety. Any opposed to the call are ‘energy wasters’ and she goes so far as to invoke her mother as proof that her call is true. The epilogue of this false diatribe, er, episode…
“and heed the words of St. Paul, instead of the rancor that we have heard from some of the others her to encourage one another and build each other up and we hope that is the action you will take.”
Finally, a cry to Christians with the words of St. Paul and victory is complete! The vessel of truth is now destroyed by the Siren and shall be heard no more.
That concludes this journey into madness and I hope you enjoyed the show.
Terry Franklin
Dear Fellow Patriots,
I was one of the unfortunates to receive the ACS. It is an absurd invasion of privacy and I REALLY don’t want to fill this out, but the 4 notices that I have received “reminding” me to fill it out also “remind” me that it is a Federal offense to not fill it out. Do you folks know how close we are to the law making it optional, or who I should contact to get an exemption? This is ridiculous.
Sincerely,
Sandra Sosnoski, member, Lynchburg Tea Pary