Covering Up Islamic Terrorism for Fun and Profit
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
If the weather is too hot or too cold, if there
is a natural disaster, if a plane crashes, if crime
increases, if crime decreases, if the Ebola virus
rampages across of Africa or stays home to read a
good book instead, if the price of coffee goes up or
if a war breaks out… it will eventually be connected
to Global Warming.
Even the rise of ISIS has been blamed not on the
Koran, but on Global Warming.
Meanwhile a Muslim terrorist can blow himself up
at Ground Zero on September 11 while screaming, “I
am doing this because I am a Muslim and I hate you
all” and those same experts will tell us that it had
nothing to do with Islam, but it was caused by the
impact of Global Warming on the molecules of his
brain.
It’s all a matter of how you connect the dots.
Democrats think that Global Warming is a bigger
threat to America than Al Qaeda. That’s the
profitable notion that Al Gore has been selling for
some time. When ISIS began making headlines, lefty
publications scurried to explain how ISIS had been
caused by Global Warming. If you can’t get rid of
ISIS, you can always promise to make it go away with
another few billion for Bay Area Green Tech liberal
donors.
That’s why Homeland Security is focusing on Global
Warming. Why bother with Islam when the root cause
of Islamic terrorism turns out to be neither Islam
nor terrorism, but your failure to buy recycled
toilet paper and pay much higher prices for energy.
Instead of droning ISIS, we will drone on about
sustainable sustainability and how eagles would
rather be killed by wind turbines than by oil
spills.
Ideas are roads to conclusion and conclusions lead
to policies. If you want to control the policy, you
have to control where the roads go. The media
narratives are roads. If you take them, you can
never reach the right conclusions because they just
don’t go there. The media’s map of America has
highways going from climate change to marriage
equality to death panels. The policies we end up
with are based on that map and the policies
determine where all the money and the power end up.
If Islamic terrorism is a major threat then the
money will go to defense contractors and security
consultants, to building more drones and bombs. That
means guys named Earl and Amos who wear sunglasses
and have a background in the Agency and the Mossad
are suddenly in demand. Transguys named Meaghan and
Tad who wear retro eyeglasses ironically and did
their thesis on using non-linear histrionic
narratives to educate inner city children about
climate change suddenly have to get real jobs.
But if Global Warming is a major threat, then money
goes to environmental consultancies and non-profits,
to propaganda for education and the arts, to Green
Tech companies and Wall Street. And the consultants,
bureaucrats and regulators gain a vast suite of
expanded domestic and international powers. Meaghan
and Tad are back and running every aspect of your
life through their gigs at some non-profit you never
heard of funded by a family foundation with Ford or
Rockefeller in its name.
The War on Terror expanded the powers of domestic
law enforcement, but it’s nothing compared to what
the War for the Environment has done to the power of
every bureaucrat large and small to raise your
heating bill, outlaw your washing machine, eliminate
your water supply and root through your trash. If
you thought the TSA was bad, the carbon regime puts
a carbon footprint value on everything you do from
driving to the grocery store to buying a beer to
viewing this website.
And then it decides which of your behaviors have to
be changed and how.
Global Warming and the War on Terror empower
different parts of the government and the assorted
consultants and contractors who plug into them.
Those people not only have political differences,
but also major cultural differences. It’s no wonder
that the media, whose writers, producers and talent
are culturally a lot closer to Meaghan and Tad than
to Earl and Amos, favors their narrative.
The Warmist side of government is also the more
liberal side. The side that bombs ISIS doesn’t even
understand why anyone would stand on line for two
hours to buy fair trade artisanal pancakes.
A shift to the terror side of the dial means
restrictions on immigration, more strong male role
models and more domestic oil drilling. Tilt to the
Warmist side and the emphasis is on letting Meaghan
and Tad decide what you can buy, where you can live
and whether you can live.
However only one of these crises is real and it
isn’t the one that involves the planet burning up,
the polar bears riding surfboards to San Francisco
and Al Gore revealing that he was sent as a
messenger from a distant alien civilization to
convince us to change our ways. But that has never
mattered before.
The left has a long history of diverting attention
from real problems by inventing urgent crises.
Liberals rarely go two decades without declaring a
major crisis in education. They were doing it
throughout the twentieth century with invariably
disastrous results. Common Core is only their latest
effort at imposing a reviled educational reform plan
funded by corporate giants and opposed by parents
and teachers.
Liberals did their best to divert attention from the
Cold War with a poverty crisis. The Cold War was
won, while the War on Poverty made a lot of
sociologists very rich and enabled the
transformation of the country without actually ever
being won. That war has morphed into the obesity
crisis, the equality crisis and a dozen other
smaller crises which all add up to power and wealth
tilting to the left.
Then there was the crisis of the uninsured which
couldn’t wait to be solved until someone in Congress
actually read the bill meant to solve the problem or
until anyone at HHS learned how to write code. It
still isn’t solved, but ObamaCare has driven a lot
of money and power to all the right parts of
Maryland.
The Global Warming crisis is only the latest
incarnation of a range of environmental alarmism
about everything from a coming ice age to worldwide
famines. Eventually another term and another threat
will replace Climate Change, but schoolchildren will
still be coloring in posters crying out, “Save the
Planet.”
These crises divert attention from a real crisis
that would weaken the power base of the left while
inflating an imaginary crisis that will put cash and
power in their pockets. The left accused the right
of inventing foreign enemies to justify wars of
profit. But Communism and Islam were and are real
threats. It’s the left that invents phony threats
and fights phony wars for money and power.
We aren’t being allowed to recognize the threat of
Islamic terrorism because the left wouldn’t profit
from it. At least not until someone finally proves
that the Koran was caused by Global Warming.