RE: Free market superior to regulations

Big Red opines:

Despite myself, I got riled up by this article, typical BS hyperbole. That's what I get for reading it. No point except whining about successful environmentalists and praising the almighty free market. Get your guns! The environmentalists are coming!

"Government-types would like everyone to think that only they know what is good and must impose that view on the rest of us, lest we fall into despair." What is a "government type"? Is that just not a way of saying "anybody who lobbies the government for things I don't agree with?" How is it knowing what's best for others when THE people lobby the government for change and regulations? By the free market standard, let's sell nuclear arms to Iran -- there's a market for it!! But oh no, those commie "government types" have regulated that, they think they know what's best, and don't think we should sell nukes to our potential enemies. How dare they impose their will on "us!"

There can be a middle ground where the need to reasonably protect the common good is actually considered, but God forbid a propogandist admit that.

"The environmentalists have infiltrated the government and are now particularly onerous in their regulatory ambition." Perhaps we should add descriptions of enviromentalists to the suspicious persons lists to keep them from terrorist targets. It's awfully dangerous to say of FELLOW FREE CITIZENS that they have "infiltrated" anything. I thought only the bad guys infiltrated things. So have Republicans infiltrated the White House?

"But, it will be ignored by radical government environmentalists who wield the club of coercive power to achieve their ends." And what murderous, treacherous ends are we talking about here? I infer by the tone that it must be total world domination and forcing Conservative Republicans to eat soy burgers, admit their deeply hidden homosexual urges, and sing "Kum Bu Yah" with Jesse Jackson.

And by the way, I thought that's how successful politics works: you "wield the club of coercive power" to get your way. I guess that's only ok when you agree with the one yielding the club.

It's really quite scary to me that a rational human being can write, let along believe, such inciteful crap. Sounds like a revival, or more accurately, rhetoric preparing troops for war. Implies that if the writer had his / her way, those dangerous environmentalists would be banished to some remote island that would never be useful for human purposes (oil drilling).