The Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

It seems that, sensing yet another opportunity to get his name in the paper, Jesse Jackson has taken up the cause of environmentalism. After a green jobs rally Jackson attended, his bicycle electric hybrid Cadillac Escalade SUV was stolen.

If you're asking, "What business does a gas-guzzling SUV have at a green jobs rally?" then you aren't very familiar with the environmental movement. It is standard procedure for the speakers at such rallies to travel via private jet and be whisked to the site in SUV's, which run with the AC on full while they speak lest they not have to sweat on the way back to their 4500-square feet hotel suite.

Do we really need to point out the contradiction of advocating for green jobs and against "dirty fuels" while traveling in a vehicle that averages 14 miles to every gallon of gasoline? Convincing people that saving the environment requires some sacrifices such as higher cost for fuel begins at difficult; doing so while not just avoiding sacrifices, but squeezing the very resources one wants conserved can only be read as hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy? Please. The author gives them far too much credit. It is worse than hypocrisy.

It is feudalism, a caste system - one in which the self-appointed lords and ladies who have arrogated for themselves the task of deciding what is best for all us peasants by virtue of their superior intellect (don't believe it, just ask them) are to be feted and revered and pampered with all of the finest food and drink and accommodations and entertainment the world has to offer, whilst lecturing the rest of us on the sacrifices we will be required to make and the impositions on our freedom we will be forced to endure and the reductions in our life spans and lifestyles that will be necessary in order to create a world as they wish it to be.

It is condescension camouflaged as concern, gluttony disguised as austerity, selfishness masquerading as altruism.