{"id":3627,"date":"2011-01-26T14:10:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T20:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/environmentalists-are-communists-wtf\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T12:33:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:33:27","slug":"environmentalists-are-communists-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/environmentalists-are-communists-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmentalists are Communists. WTF?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2023-08-18: this post is 12 years old. I\u2019ve written hundreds of posts since then. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\">Please look around<\/a>. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newmexicoindependent.com\/68690\/martinezs-pick-for-enviro-chief-environmentalists-are-communists\">Martinez\u2019s pick for enviro chief: Environmentalists are communists | New Mexico Independent<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think that there are individuals, [Obama science czar John] Holdren apparently among them, a very large number who have taken the \u2014 shall we say captured the environmental movement and turned it into what was previously considered the communist movement,\u201d Schmitt said in a 40-minute interview with Jones. \u201cAnd that\u2019s just something that people of common sense are going to continue to have to counter and wake up enough so that they can take control of their government again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the interview, Schmitt expanded on the theme saying that this came to be after the fall of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the whole trend really began with the fall of the Soviet Union,\u201d Schmitt said. \u201cBecause <span style=\"background-color: #ffc000;\">the great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement<\/span>. That\u2019s not to say there aren\u2019t some major and significant environmental issues, particularly at the local level, but they converted environmental activism to a political movement and some would say a religious movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed by the state Senate, Schmitt would be in charge of the Mining and Minerals Division, State Parks Division, Oil Conservation Division and Energy Conservation Management Division.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newmexicoindependent.com\/68690\/martinezs-pick-for-enviro-chief-environmentalists-are-communists\">Martinez\u2019s pick for enviro chief: Environmentalists are communists | New Mexico Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023-08-18: this post is 12 years old. I\u2019ve written hundreds of posts since then. Please look around. Thanks. Martinez\u2019s pick for enviro chief: Environmentalists are communists | New Mexico Independent \u201cI think that there are individuals, [Obama science czar John] Holdren apparently among them, a very large number who have taken the \u2014 shall we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/environmentalists-are-communists-wtf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Environmentalists are Communists. WTF?!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8668,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions\/8668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}