Tyranny of the Elites

The EU decision to tax airlines for carbon emissions is one of the more ridiculous decisions of the year.  Instead of taxing investment banks, hedge funds and private equity - if for no reason other than the tremendous harm they have caused to the global economy - the cowards and corrupt bureaucrats go after one of the industries most hard hit by the recession and also higher energy prices.  Of course, these taxes will be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher fares.  However, this will have a damper effect upon demand since the hard pressed consumer can ill afford higher air prices when alternative choices are available.  Here is the NY Times article

I find this whole global warming scam to be galling example of corruption with the financial banksters and politicians teamed together once again to create a false potential catastrophe and then profit from it in the form of taxes to the government and trading income to the banksters.  These same corrupt individuals in the United States as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down are beefing up the internal security within the country to counter potential terrorism.  

Just who is the damn enemy that we are afraid of?

Iran - I haven't heard of any terrorist plots lately aimed at the USA

Iraq - They will be busy killing themselves for the next couple of decades to bother with us

Syria - I think Assad has his own problems

Russia - They are too busy socking the money away in Swiss bank accounts

China - They are more worried about the economies of the West and their own corrupt system

Afghanistan - What?  the Taliban?

North Korea - They will be in mourning for years........more a South Korea and Japan issue anyway.

Mexico - There narco war is caused by our War on Drugs.  They have their own problems.

The internal security threat is a power grab by a centralizing federal government and a threat to the civil liberties of the citizenry.

Listen to General Robert E. Lee's reply to a letter to Lord Acton a year after the War between the States ended in 1866.

"I can only say that while I have considered the preservation of the constitutional power of the General Government to be the foundation of our peace and safety at home and abroad, I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it. I need not refer one so well acquainted as you are with American history, to the State papers of Washington and Jefferson, the representatives of the federal and democratic parties, denouncing consolidation and centralization of power, as tending to the subversion of State Governments, and to despotism."

We have met the enemy and it is us..............Charlie Brown