David Suzuki, the Canadian scientist/author/media personality, is now calling for jail time for politicians who dare to differ with him on the issue of global warming.Oh wait. Now a spokesman says he didn't mean it literally.
Hmm. Did he not mean it literally when he said it last month too?
The frightening fact is that there are indeed coercive actions already in the works. As the National Post (Canada) story describes:
...The Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act, a Liberal-sponsored private member's bill that passed and was given Royal Assent last year, legally requires the Conservative government to abide by the international pact's short-term environmental targets.
In the event that conditions are not met, government officials are held liable. "Every person who contravenes a regulation made under this Act is guilty of an offence punishable by indictment or on summary conviction, as prescribed by the regulations," the act reads, "and liable to a fine or to imprisonment as prescribed by the regulations."
The act adds that there are further legal measures in the event of subsequent and continuing offences, but does not specify the penalties.
Such a situation is all too typical. For even when liberals cannot make a rational, definitive case for their position (be it evolution, embryonic stem cell research, value-less sex education, homosexual marriage, and so on), they seek to use government action to force their views upon the rest of us.
