Where Did the Global Warming Go?

National media kept busy last week whitewashing another left-wing street theater production, this one symbolically protesting a poorly-understood, uncontrollable phenomenon. At the People’s Climate March in New York and other cities, anxious protesters amped up their rhetoric even as their climate case is falling apart.

Ignoring the unambiguous daffiness of many of the attendees, media suppressed the reality that the march was only nominally a "climate" event, because its polyglot activists were overshadowed by socialist/communist political zealots. Even though Communist China is the world’s worst polluter, Park Avenue was a sea of communist banners.

Correspondent Kevin Williamson wrote: "People’s March. People’s Republic. Listen to the Left, and they’ll always tell you who they really are."
The People’s March left behind its people’s mess, recalling another phenomenon, Occupy Wall Street, which the media overhyped as the liberal antidote to Tea Parties.

Like the People’s March, OWS misfired, too.

America’s Bill of Rights expresses no right of occupation, no right to take over private property and no right to disregard federal, state or local laws.

Yet, for months in 2011, the rabble at various Occupy events squatted on public and private property and disregarded the law with near impunity.
But, despite their small numbers, OWS behavior became so flagrantly lawless that even sympathetic progressive administrations governing the various jurisdictions in which the demonstrators assembled were forced to contain or disband them.

Even though they were organized and funded by unions and radical political groups, for the most part, American media supported the occupiers in the same way they’re sugarcoating People’s Marchers.

OWS crime data had to be gathered from local reports. The multitude of arrests and criminal allegations were largely ignored by a national press that has repeatedly and maliciously misrepresented the peaceful, law-abiding Tea Party movement.

Despite media enthusiasm, other than adding "1%’ and "99%" to the urban dictionary and turning portions of cities into malodorous slums, OWS accomplished nothing, while, according to the left, the Tea Party controls Congress.

Ironic, huh?

In 2011, New York Post eye-witness observer, Michael Goodwin, viewed OWS as a learning experience: "…the socialist-inspired movement with a union face is at a crossroads. The insistence that there are no leaders and that everybody gets a say on everything is yielding a gridlock to make Washington proud.

"Most protesters still can’t define their goals beyond ending capitalism and making life more fair, which means they want other people’s money.
"’The "Lord of the Flies’ descent from utopia to petty power struggles…is a political-science lesson…"

The People’s March was similarly ineffective.

People’s March and OWS sympathizers advocate amorphous concepts of "fairness" and "justice," both of which the protesters reserve the right to define. For committed activists, debate is superfluous — the time for taking is always now.

The OWS and People’s March phenomena provided excellent opportunities to observe what all of America could look like if the radical left were ever permitted to take charge.

In his book, The Road to Serfdom, Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek wrote: "To weld together a closely coherent body of supporters, the leader must appeal to a common human weakness. It seems to be easier for people to agree on a negative program — on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of the better off — than on any positive task."

All negatives, OWS and the People’s March confirmed Hayek’s wisdom.
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