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This Earth Day Celebrate Vladimir Lenin's

Birthday!

Alexander Marriott (2004.04.21 ) Environment

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 Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Premier after Joseph Stalin, decided in 1955 that the country shouldcelebrate their national political philosophy, communism. He chose as the day, April 22,

Vladimir Lenin’s birthday, a tribute to the founder of the Soviet Union. When environmentalists

decided that the Earth deserved a day of celebration in 1970, they could have picked any day of 

the year, as no one knows the exact day date of the Earth’s birthday. They chose Lenin’s birthday, just as Khrushchev had done. Was this just a coincidence? I think not.

Think of the parallels between Lenin and environmentalists. Lenin once said that, “It is true that

liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.” Environmentalists second thiswholeheartedly when they restrict the ownership and control of private property through the

guise of saving the environment. The Endangered Species Act is used voluminously to take the

 property of anyone if an endangered species is living on it. President Clinton cordoned off 

thousands upon thousands of acres of land in the form of national parks with the alleged concern

of saving the natural resources thereon from development. The federal government now controlsnearly forty percent of all land in the continental United States. Lenin’s goal was to destroy

 private property and this goal is obviously shared by environmentalists.

Lenin’s political philosophy knew nothing of morality, he once said that, “There are no morals in

 politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a

scoundrel.” Some environmentalists take this to heart as well, placing metal spikes in trees sothat when these trees get to lumber mills the spike will ruin the saws and have in some cases

injured or even killed mill workers.

 Noted environmental genius, former Vice-President Al Gore, said in his book  Earth in the

 Balance (not too melodramatic is it?), “Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking

on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, every treaty and

alliance, every tactic and strategy, every plan and course of action to use, in short, every means

to halt the destruction of the environment.” He doesn’t condemn any action by individuals in this

 pursuit, nor does he at least advocate amending the constitution to make his goals legal. It is this

mentality that Lenin was talking about, and that Al Gore encouraged; doing whatever is seen as

necessary to gain victory for their cause. At least Lenin had the guts to call it what it was,communism, as opposed to Al Gore and others who claim to be protecting the Earth.

Lenin’s birthday is less well known and Lenin’s history is shrouded in leftist propaganda,

 portraying his legacy as one of the many victims of Joseph Stalin. However Lenin’s reign of 

terror was just as deadly as Stalin’s and had Lenin not succumbed to death so soon into his rule

he surely could have killed just as many as any other madman in the twentieth century.

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Environmentalism is merely a politically viable excuse for the government to steal land,

ironically in the name of future generations even though those future generations also can’t use it

or benefit from any of the wealth contained in that land.

If you want to save the planet then get rich liberals like Ted Turner, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet,and Oprah to buy it up and not let anyone use it. But the wholesale violation and destruction of 

 private property rights is the method these people use, not because they are concerned for 

animals or the environment, but because they hate the rich (even the ones I just mentioned,

except perhaps the celebrities) and the capable people of the world who use their reason to

change worthless rock and elements into great inventions, food, buildings, and all the things that

every environmentalist takes for granted, from the streets they protest on to the clothes they

wear.

I’m almost half tempted to advocate eliminating private property around the world for a year so

that everyone can see the catastrophe that would set in and the famine that would sweep the planet. Perhaps this would force the environmentalists to acknowledge the lunacy of their 

irrational hopes. But this would require them to look at reality and then act accordingly,

something they have yet to do, so why should they start?

 About Alexander Marriott 

 Alexander Marriott is currently a graduate student of the early republic at Clark University inWorcester, MA. He earned his B.A. in history in 2004 from the University of Nevada - LasVegas, where he was an Op-Ed columnist for the UNLV Rebel Yell. Marriott grew up in Chicago

and lived in Saudi Arabia for four and a half years and has resided in Las Vegas since 1996.