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Clameur de Haro finds it utterly chilling to contemplate the all-pervading, cross-border, national sovereignty-disregarding, worldwide socialist regime that is going to be imposed on us, irrespective of whether we want it or not, and before we are very much older, if the treaty being hawked around for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is actually signed.
A world government, massive redistribution of wealth, and supra-national enforcement regime are all openly and expressedly envisaged as the first three purposes of the draft treaty -
a) The government will be ruled by the COP with the support of a new subsidiary body on adaptation, and of an Executive Board responsible for the management of the new funds and the related facilitative processes and bodies. The current Convention secretariat will operate as such, as appropriate.
b) The Convention’s financial mechanism will include a multilateral climate change fund including five windows: (a) an Adaptation window, (b) a Compensation window, to address loss and damage from climate change, including insurance, rehabilitation and compensatory components, (c) a Technology window; (d) a Mitigation window; and (e) a REDD window, to support a multi-phases process for positive forest incentives relating to REDD actions
c) The Convention’s facilitative mechanism will include: (a) work programmes for adaptation and mitigation; (b) a long-term REDD process; (c) a short-term technology action plan; (d) an expert group on adaptation established by the subsidiary body on adaptation, and expert groups on mitigation, technologies and on monitoring, reporting and verification; and (e) an international registry for the monitoring, reporting and verification of compliance of emission reduction commitments, and the transfer of technical and financial resources from developed countries to developing countries. The secretariat will provide technical and administrative support, including a new centre for information exchange
This became horrifyingly and undeniably clear in the presentation given last week to the Free Market Institute of Minnesota by Lord Christopher Moncton. In the 1990s, Monckton was one of the principal scientific advisers to the British Government, and he is acknowledged as a true scientific expert on the entire subject of so-called global warming and anthropogenic climate change – so much so that the high priests of the Green Religion, from that inveterate junk science peddlar Al Gore downwards, refuse to engage in debate with him.
His presentation, amplified by a multitude of peer-reviewed data, charts, facts and figures, comprehensively demolished the warmist-alarmist case, but it’s the end of his presentation on the political run-up to Copenhagen which should shock anybody.
Watch it, and weep for our freedoms which the international Green-Left alliance are going to sign away.
A contemporary take on Clameur de Haro, that ancient Norman customary law right of direct appeal to Rollo, the first Duke of Normandy, for justice or protection.
The Clameur still applies in Jersey, but it should never, ever, be invoked lightly, frivolously, or maliciously.
But for classical liberty and those who value it, these are dangerous times: so this Clameur de Haro raises afresh the traditional plea, but for protection from present-day threats to Islanders' freedom, privacy, and prosperity.
Clameur de Haro appeals and argues specifically........
...on economic & fiscal policy -
for a lower-spending, lower-taxing, less activist, government
and a smaller, more economical and accountable public sector
"Government is hardly ever the solution to a problem: government usually IS the problem."- Ronald Reagan
...on social policy -
against ever more excessive & intrusive bureaucracy, and against ever-expanding official databases
against increasing invasion of privacy, all-pervading surveillance, and the overbearing state
“ "Necessity" is the plea advanced to justify every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt
"Tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive: those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C S Lewis
"When the people fear government, there is tyranny: when government fears the people, there is liberty."- Thomas Jefferson
...on environmental & energy policy -
against the pernicious climate change and CO2 falsehoods peddled by the adherents of the Green Religion
against its authoritarian policy prescriptions and its intolerance of dissenting opinion
for the adoption of less economically & socially damaging alternatives
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it." -H L Mencken
"The global warming scam, the greatest and most successful pseudo-scientific fraud I have seen in my long life" -Hal Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara
“The CO2 theory of global warming is not verified by geological and climate records going back thousands of years, or by observed fact. The CO2 theory of climate change is based upon a computer simulation model and flawed data that has been widely criticized in scientific literature." –Terry Wimberley, Professor of Ecological Studies, Florida Gulf Coast University
...and in general -
in favour of libertarian & free-market, rather than leftist & statist, policy solutions
"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy: and the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Spencer Churchill
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