UNESCO’s 2019 climate-themed magazine includes an article titled Climate crimes must be brought to justice. It may as well have been called Off With Their Heads!
Writer Catriona McKinnon, a professor of political theory at the University of Exeter, thinks she’s the Queen of Hearts in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alternative perspectives shall not be tolerated. Non-compliance isn’t an option.
McKinnon wants to criminalize free speech. She wants to strip you and me of the right to determine our own destiny at the ballot box. Specifically, she wants to invent a new crime. The time has come, she says, to prosecute this crime.
Normally, laws get made by politicians. WHO ARE ANSWERABLE TO VOTERS. There’s supposed to be a shared understanding, in the jurisdiction in which a new law applies, that a particular behavior harms the community, and that punishing it is therefore necessary.
In many countries, adultery isn’t a criminal matter. Elsewhere, it ends in death by stoning. Laws are an expression of a community’s values. We decide what’s a crime – and what isn’t – within our own borders.
From the heights of her ivory tower, however, Queen McKinnon has unilaterally declared that people should be charged, dragged before an international court, and convicted of crimes that aren’t actually crimes in their motherland.
Here’s how her article begins:
A fire has started in the theatre, from which there are no exits…Some people are trying to warn everyone so that the fire can be contained before it spreads out of control.
Another group…is trying to shout loudly that there is no fire, or that it is not serious, or that there is plenty of time left to put it out…Many people in the theatre are confused by these…fire deniers…those shouting “no fire” ought to be silenced… [bold added]
In McKinnon’s fevered imagination, climate skeptics are evil villains who occupy “the most expensive seats” in the theatre. Rather than trampling everyone else on their way to the exits, they inhale smoke and perish.
But first, they take the time to shout in “emotive language” that the fire isn’t real and that the other side “is not to be trusted.” Yeah, that all sounds coherent.
On the basis of such outlandish nonsense, McKinnon argues that:
…international criminal law should be expanded to include a new criminal offense that I call postericide. It is committed by intentional or reckless conduct fit to bring about the extinction of humanity…
Just as international criminal law holds military leaders to account for genocide committed by their troops, it should hold political and economic leaders to account for postericide committed under their authority. These leaders should go to trial at the [International Criminal Court]…
It’s clear McKinnon thinks US President Donald Trump is guilty of this crime, due to the fact that he withdrew his country from the Paris Climate Accord.
According to this UK professor, American voters don’t get to decide. They don’t get to elect someone who opposes international climate treaties.
In her universe, there’s only one permissible position. Either the US signs up, or its president gets charged with murdering posterity. Off with his head!
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shouting “Fire!” in a theater where there is no fire
Trump pulled America out of that wretched UNESCO just as Reagan had done now its time to dump the entire UN into the trash bin
Catrona McKinnon is not just an idiot for her views, but a villain in her own rite for proclaiming that freedom of speech should be denied to those, in particular those who really are speaking the truth. It may be that Professor McKinnon has been thoroughly duped by the global warming propaganda and truly believes that there is a climate crisis. Cooler and smarter heads know better. Global warming is a lie, climate crisis is a hoax and climate emergency measures are designed ultimately to stop our civilication in its tracks and reverse it.
The analogy here is not that there’s a fire in the theater and some people within are saying there is not. The opposite is the case in that there is no fire, but some people have decided to shout that there is. More and more people err on the side of caution and uncertainty and go along with it. Eventually, it could be that everybody in the theater believes there’s a fire, but the truth remains that there is none. Such a waste! Such a pile of nonsense! I believe there are already laws in place that are meant to prevent, if not punsh, those who create a false panic.
Well, who gets to decide who the climate criminals are? I consider those committing theft of funds of people living now to benefit those who aren’t born yet as scammers. The only ones that matter are those living now – not the hypothetical people who are hypothetically going to suffer in a hypothetical future. All we have to go on is what’s happened in the past. There is nothing new happening, hence they are scamming us out of trillions of dollars. They are no different than the phone scammers telling me that my Social Security payments are going to stop unless I do thus and so. The only climate crisis I’m facing is paying my heating and cooling bills. I’m living frugally. THEY ARE NOT, so they are scamming me.
Another effort towards a World Government.
Just another one of those Univsersity Professors with all the brain power of a Flea