Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

September 26, 2011

Lokuda Losil, a 60-year-old farmer, lived with his eight children and six grandchildren on 30 acres of land in Kiboga, Uganda. About three years ago, a motley assortment of police, soldiers, and mercenaries in the hire of the British New Forests Company arrived ?and started destroying crops and demolishing houses and they ordered us to leave,? recalls Losil.

He was just one of roughly 20,000 Ugandan peasant farmers who were driven from their land between 2006 and 2010. Their lands were confiscated, and their homes, farms, churches, and schools were demolished. This was done so that the New Forests Company, which is subsidized by the World Bank, could establish forest preserves in order to sell carbon credits in an international market established through the UN?s Kyoto Protocol.

At least one Ugandan government official objected to the mass expropriations: ?These acts against our citizens should stop immediately?. Human beings are more important than trees.?

The point of this enterprise was not to protect nature, but to enrich politically connected investors ? such as Al Gore ? who profit from the Kyoto climate change scam.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.