By Henry
Lamb
� 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Everyone agrees we must do something to make sure a recurrence of the
multi-state blackout never happens again. That's where the agreement
stops.
The finger-pointing, and the political blame-gaming that fill endless
hours of TV time, only shields the magnitude of a fundamental choice that
reality is thrusting upon us. We must now choose to apply the remedy
prescribed by the Third
Sector, or we must choose to let a free market meet the demands of a
free society.
The recent blackout occurred because the free market has failed to meet
market demands. The free market has failed to meet the demand because it
has been blocked by the Third Sector. The blackout is only one symptom of
the side effects of the Third Sector medicine. The forest fires that
annually destroy the nation's un-managed forests; the rapidly rising
property-tax rates caused by the massive transfer of private property to
"conservancy" and government ownership; the sagging economy caused by the
systematic elimination of natural-resource production industries; the job
losses caused by the export of the manufacturing sector; exploding budget
demands caused by unrestricted inflow of illegal aliens � all are effects
resulting from the Third Sector agenda.
The Third Sector � that highly organized, well-funded network of
non-government, special-interest organizations � says the nation should
solve the blackout problem by taking a double dose of the same medicine
that caused the present illness: phase out fossil fuels and hydro-electric
dams that hinder fish runs and, instead, rely on windmills (except, of
course, those proposed near the Kennedy compound, off Cape Cod), phase out
SUVs (except, of course, those given to the Nature Conservancy by General
Motors), and to "conserve," as prescribed by the U.N.'s Maurice Strong,
by eliminating single-family houses, air conditioning and convenience
foods, (except, of course, for those Third Sector executives who occupy
multi-million dollar facilities in Washington and New York).
The Third Sector has effectively prevented the expansion of energy
production since the mid-1970s. An explosion of regulations and lawsuits
have so cluttered the market that it is no longer a free market � it is a
managed market.
This is the objective of the Third Sector agenda: a managed market
serving a managed society, to ensure that economic development is
harnessed so as not to harm the environment, while providing equitable
access to the earth's resources for all people. This is the meaning of "sustainable
development." This is what Agenda 21 is designed
to produce. This is the future, should this nation choose to apply the
remedy proposed by the Third Sector.
Fifty-million Americans got a taste of "equitable access to the earth's
resources" when they had to find ways to survive a day without
electricity. Much of the world has no electricity at all.
The objective of a free market is to provide electricity to all who
need or want it, and to create private prosperity in the process. The
Third Sector hates private wealth (except, of course, their own)
in the hands of greedy capitalists.
The Third Sector is convinced that if a free market is allowed to meet
the demands of a free society, the environment will be plundered, and the
planet will turn to toast. Therefore, government, guided by the Third
Sector, must manage the market, the planet and the people.
The recent blackout is, indeed, a wake up call � not for the president,
but for the urban dwellers who send their contributions to the Nature
Conservancy, and believe that if the Sierra Club is for it, it must be
good. These are the Third Sector people who caused your blackout, who want
government to force you to share your prosperity with people who are not
free to create their own.
This nation must decide. Soon.
We should reject the Third Sector prescription. We should immediately
open the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge, and other "public" and private land, to secure the oil and gas
and coal that can provide the energy we need until a free market can
develop a better alternative.
We should immediately stop funding these Third Sector organizations,
and vote their representatives out of office at every level of government.
As a nation, we have acquiesced to their demands for more than a
generation. The fires burning in the West, the outflow of jobs to
developing nations, and now, the reality of an inadequate energy supply,
is our reward.
The blackout should be the beginning of our enlightenment.
Henry Lamb is the executive vice
president of the Environmental
Conservation Organization and chairman of Sovereignty International.
