Liberty Minute November 4 2013

Plato?s Republic describes a supposedly benign totalitarian state ruled by an elite caste called the Guardians. Among the instruments of social control employed by the Guardians would be the use of ?Noble Lies? that legitimize their power and encourage submissiveness on the part of their subjects.

The self-appointed Power Elite has propagated many noble lies about the environment, the most important of which deals with Global Warming. An immense political infrastructure has been established to regulate all human activities in order to prevent what we are told are catastrophic and irreversible changes to the climate. Those policies impose huge costs on energy consumers and crippling regulations on energy producers, and if fully implemented would subject all economic activity to intrusive bureaucratic micro-management. Yet there is no reliable scientific confirmation that global temperatures are rising dramatically, or that human activity ? as opposed to natural variations in solar output ? is responsible for any measurable changes.

Where science can?t confirm the threat, political means are used to mold attitudes by force. This explains Barack Obama?s recent executive order requiring federal, state, and local governments to deal with the impact of a problem that almost certainly doesn?t exist. This is forcible indoctrination in an officially sanctioned lie ? a tactic Plato?s totalitarian Guardians would recognize.

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