….the radical fruitcakes in the pro-abortion movement, that is. Guess what, folks, John Holdren is the poster child of the pro-abortion, pro-death wing of American cretinism.
He wants “forced abortion and mass sterilisation.”
He doesn’t think babies – BORN babies – are human until they’ve been “socialised” for a few years.
He thinks “global warming deniers” should face criminal prosecution.
And now we find out that this fruity-toot wanted to let trees sue people in a court of law,
Since the 1970s, some radical environmentalists have argued that trees have legal rights and should be allowed to go to court to protect those rights.
The idea has been endorsed by John P. Holdren, the man who now advises President Barack Obama on science and technology issues.
Giving “natural objects” — like trees — standing to sue in a court of law would have a “most salubrious” effect on the environment, Holdren wrote the 1970s.
“One change in (legal) notions that would have a most salubrious effect on the quality of the environment has been proposed by law professor Christopher D. Stone in his celebrated monograph, ‘Should Trees Have Standing?’” Holdren said in a 1977 book that he co-wrote with Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich….Stone’s article — “Should Trees Have Standing?” — which Holdren called a “tightly reasoned essay,” was published in the Southern California Law Review in 1972.
In that article, Stone plainly states: “I am quite seriously proposing that we give legal rights to forests, oceans, rivers and other so-called ‘natural objects’ in the environment–indeed, to the natural environment as a whole.”
Stone admits in the article that it may seem improbable to give legal rights to nonhuman objects, but likened it to finally giving rights to black Americans.
“The fact is, that each time there is a movement to confer rights onto some new ‘entity,’ the proposal is bound to sound odd or frightening or laughable,” Stone wrote.
So, this guy basically agrees with the premise that giving rights to trees and ponds is the same as giving rights to black people. I wonder how black people feel about that. Yet, this is the guy that Charles Johnson, the other mouth-breathers over at 1.0, and a host of other socially liberal nutballs think is a grade-A pick by Obama to advise him on science policy. A guy who thinks an oak tree and an African-American are morally equivalent.
To quote, “Good grief.”
Tags: John Holdren, left-wing extremists, Science
