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Moderate Mammal wrote:
> On Friday, 24 Dec 2004 10:11:53 -0600, "Anti-Multiculty"
> Antimulticulture@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> >
> >[Ed. Another Communist Front group exposed...]
> >
> >Green Group's Recruitment of Grade Schoolers Called 'Shameless'
> >http://www.townhall.com/news/politics//200412//CUL20041222a.shtml
> >23rd Dec, 2004
> >
> >(CNSNews.com) - An environmental group dedicated to "protect[ing]
the
> >rainforest" is under attack for recruiting public elementary school
students
> >to protest the lending practices of a major U.S. bank in New York
City.
> >
> >The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) organized the group of second
grade
> >children on Dec. 16 to protest JP Morgan Chase. A RAN press release
stated
> >the elementary school children attended to "hand deliver over 700
colorful
> >handmade posters from children around the world asking William B.
Harrison,
> >chief executive officer of JP Morgan Chase, to keep his promise and
stop
> >lending money to projects that destroy endangered forests and cause
global
> >warming."
> >
> >But Robert Bidinotto, an editor at the nonprofit watchdog group
Capital
> >Research Center, called RAN's efforts a "shameless manipulation" of
the
> >children.
> >
> >"It's difficult to know which is worse: the factual nonsense
propagated by
> >RAN, the capitulation to them by major corporations or the political
> >exploitation of innocent children," Bidinotto told the Cybercast
News
> >Service. Bidinotto also publishes the website ecoNOT.com, which
chronicles
> >the environmental movement.
> >
> >"I'd have to say it's the shameless manipulation of little kids for
> >propaganda purposes," he added.
> >
> >The children were recruited with the help of Fairfield County,
Conn., second
> >grade teacher Paula Healy. "Children around the world are asking JP
Morgan
> >Chase to invest in their future by doing its part to protect the
world's
> >last remaining rainforests," Healy was quoted as saying in the RAN
press
> >release.
> >
> >"Earth is on loan to us from future generations, and these students
know the
> >value of protecting their natural inheritance," Healy added.
> >
> >But Bidinotto called the use of the children for "these propaganda
campaigns
> >morally disgusting."
> >
> >"Teachers, schools and parents who allow this are guilty of a form
of child
> >abuse. They're hiding their own partisan voices and political
agendas behind
> >the innocent faces of little kids, turning them into propaganda
tools. Why?
> >Can't these grown-ups speak for themselves?" he asked.
> >
> >RAN even held a "best poster" contest, and a sixth grade student
from
> >Dayton, Ohio, won. The winning poster featured a watercolor of a
rainforest
> >scene with a message to JP Morgan Chase.
> >
> >"Be A Hero ... Save the Rainforest. Save the World. Please protect
the
> >rainforest instead of hurting the Earth for oil," the winning poster
stated.
> >
> >'Anti-industrial revolution'
> >
> >Bidinotto said RAN does not have the best interests of children in
mind.
> >"Ran has no respect for law, for private property, for human
productivity or
> >for free trade," Bidinotto said.
> >
> >"Operating like a goon squad, they violate the rights of people to
freely
> >produce and trade, using intimidation and scare campaigns as a
weapon.
> >They're exploiting their tax-exempt status to undermine every pillar
of the
> >free enterprise system," he added.
> >
> >Bidinotto said RAN's main goal is to stop all industrial
development.
> >
> >"RAN's real interest isn't protecting 'old growth forests.' Because
they
> >believe nature should be left entirely undisturbed, these radicals
want to
> >stop all logging -- everywhere. And shut down all mining. And auto
> >manufacturing. And oil exploration. They represent what has been
called 'the
> >anti-industrial revolution'," Bidinotto said.
> >
> >RAN's attempts to scale back industrial development are going to
impact the
> >developing world's poor the most, according to Bidinotto.
> >
> >"Ending all development of timber, fossil fuel and mineral resources
in the
> >Third World will only guarantee that these people remain jobless,
backward
> >and impoverished. Is that what they call 'being socially
responsible'?" he
> >asked.
> >
> >"Whatever they are, these environmentalist radicals are no friends
of the
> >world's poor -- and no respecters of the innocence of the world's
children,"
> >he added.
> >
> >Tracy Solum, director of Rainforests in the Classroom, a program
sponsored
> >by the Rainforest Action Network, has a ready response for critics.
> >
> >"Today, young rainforest heroes from around the world are reminding
JP
> >Morgan Chase that its most important stakeholders are future
generations,"
> >Solum stated on the RAN website. "This is education in action, and
these are
> >kids the Earth can count on. These posters represent the wisdom and
> >creativity of a new generation inspired to protect the Earth."
>
>
> What's wrong with saving the rainforest?  The destruction of the
> forest "shameful" of which 'multi-culturalism' is partly to blame.
>
> --
> Keith
> _____
>
> "Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the
death
> of a sparrow in the corner of a barn." -Anouk Aimee, French Actor
> _____
>
> "Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny", Aeschylus
(525BC-456BC),
> Agamemnon
> _____
>
> "I wear no Burka." - Mother Nature
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