Anthropogenic Global Warming. "Genic" created by "anthropos"—us.

It is nothing more or less than a scam inflicted upon people for money and power; there is no scientific basis that human activities are damaging the global environment. We can pollute a city or a lake, but just barely... and of course, we should not... but the Earth and its natural mechanisms dwarf anything we can do short of a full-out nuclear exchange. And even then the Earth would rebuild itself to a life supporting state; we just wouldn't last long enough to see it.

The nature of Government is to expand its power, but here's the catch-- rational, productive, moral people need very little Government. They accept the protection of the police and military, and operate in the security of the courts and legal system, and that's all they need or want. Government has no power over people who do not aggress against others, who go about their business creating their own wealth and offering it for free trade. Government must create artificial needs in order to expand its power-- and that's exactly what they do. "Fear" is a great way to create a need, but an appeal to any emotion would do, and does.

Government is at its most repulsive when it takes advantage of the good in people and turns that good to its own purposes.

You're told that people have a "right" to a job, a "right" to medical care (it takes another leap when it specifies "affordable medical care"-- who decides what "affordable" is?), a "right" to a home and food... and the best parts of people, the best parts of human nature, respond to that rhetoric.

Now, if you'd like to know a secret that the typical Government will never teach its kids, follow along. They don't want you to know any of this; then again, they don't have to stop people from spilling the beans like this, because one little story isn't going to reverse all the Government disinformation we're inundated with from cradle to grave. At least, not yet.

Let's take the "right" to a job. How does a person get a job? Someone else has to "do" something. A blacksmith has to look around his shop and say, "Man, I sure could make more horseshoes if only I could get somebody else to pump the forge, carry in the coal, keep the quench tub filled..."

Already some assumptions arise: that people would buy—there's a market for—more horseshoes, and that he wants to make more. Maybe he's content with what he's producing, maybe there aren't enough horses around, and maybe neither. A point in passing is that the blacksmith is the best guy to decide all that, not the shoemaker, not the baker, not the ladies' sewing society, not the town council, not the sheriff, and for sure not the sheriff in a town ten miles away; none of them knows more about his business and his ambition than he does.

So either he hires a kid to do his dirty work or maybe he doesn't. And maybe as part of the contract he'll pay the poor kid just enough to live BUT also teach him smithing. And maybe he talks to ten kids, and none of them takes the deal, or one does, or three do. If no one takes the deal he ups the pay or he doesn't; and if several do then he picks the kid he wants, on whatever basis he wants.

Say he takes a kid on, and the kid does all the things, and he gets to eat and sleep under a roof, and he learns to make horseshoes... but one day the kid decides he wants to make tools. He likes knives, axes, adzes, hammers, chisels, and thinks he could make them and sell them. Either his boss can teach him that or he can't. If not, he has a decision to forget it and stay, or to find another smith to work for who can train him; if so then he strikes a deal to use the smith's tools and forge, make his own kind of stuff, and pay the smith a percentage of the tool sales-- and the smith takes that deal, or again, not.

Anything "could" happen... but history has shown that when people act freely everyone benefits. Look what DID happen through history. You notice, just by the way, through all this that no one has forced anyone else to do anything. Free choices freely offered, freely accepted or rejected, is what has driven this narrative so far.

So one day there's a knock at the door. It's the sheriff, and he tells the smith he has this kid who has a "right" to a job. The smith replies that he has the right to do as he pleases as long as he violates no laws, and he'll hire some kid, maybe that one and maybe not, if he pleases to hire a kid and not before.

The sheriff informs him that there is now a law that installs everyone with the "right to a job" and "it's been decided" that this kid has a right to a smith's helper job. If the smith doesn't take the kid on as his helper-- he is in violation of the law.

Well, the smith cannot quite understand how he can be made into a criminal overnight simply by going about his biz the way he chooses to, and asks, "Or else what, if I don't?"

The sheriff steps aside to allow the smith to see three deputies with cocked and loaded crossbows. They aren't pointed at the smith, but they sure could be, in one second... or else THAT, is the answer. It's the Law, sir.

Another decision point, and the smith decides not to acquire three grisly perforations-- he takes the kid on. Maybe the kid does well and maybe he doesn't, but it's not a good start to a relationship, and even a kid can see the state of things and wonder what the point is to improving himself if all it gets him is bullied by armed thugs in the name of The Law...

...and perhaps that point is driven further when the sheriff comes by again and informs the smith that everyone has the "right" to cheap horseshoes, and he will sell them only for X price instead of the usual 2X. This time there are no armed deputies standing there, but the smith is bright enough to realize that they could be, on command, if he doesn't submit again. So he goes back to try to figure out how to cut costs, or make do with less, or take less care in manufacture...

At that point the kid may see the point of becoming a deputy and maybe a sheriff, but somehow, maybe just not a blacksmith. They only produce and trade goods. The sheriff produces nothing, but what a sweet job... and the more laws there are, the more sheriffs there will have to be to enforce them... and therefore fewer producers... which is another story. Time for the wrap.

The right to produce and trade freely... infringes no one else's rights. The "right" to a job... elsewise...

That's how you tell the difference between a right and a "right"; how many wrongs it takes to make and maintain them.

—Ron Copis