There are some things more fundamental than energy: liberty, justice, and integrity are some of them. These fundamentals are being abandoned by the same weaklings who are blocking the access to energy.
Three examples:
1) Andrew Young was not dismissed for any of his earlier affronts¾his statements that the US had political prisoners just like the USSR; that the Cuban troops in Africa were a stabilizing influence; that there was no difference between the summary mass executions in Iran and the death penalty given to a multiple murderer in Florida; etc. What, then, was so different about his meeting with a terrorist organization and lying about it? Not the terrorism, nor the lies; not defense of democratic Israel, nor abhorrence of PLO atrocities. But a vulgar trade-off in peddling political investments: Leave him in and lose the Jews; kick him out and lose the blacks. There are more blacks, but the Jews are more influential, said the ledgers, and when the net worth was toted up, the right thing was done for the wrong reasons.
As in politics, so in energy. Did Carter's "new" energy policy promote nuclear power because it is reliable, cheap, domestically abundant, and above all, safer than any other source of electricity? No: He virtually apologized for not killing it because "we need all forms of energy," presumably even one as fiendishly evil as nuclear.
2) A Russian ballerina whose husband has defected is "escorted" across New York City by six KGB thugs who then inform the State Department that she does not wish to join her husband. After she has been worked over for three days and two nights, perhaps by physical force, or threats, or drugs, or the other KGB persuaders, the administration agrees to ask her in the presence of 12 Soviet heavies "You really want to go home, lady?" and when she says "Da," they reckon human rights have been vindicated.
As in politics, so in energy. As power plants, coal mines, oil refineries and other energy facilities are being done in by the small and beautiful guerrillas inside and outside the Carter administration, that administration reckons the energy problem can be solved by blaming everything on the oil companies (who cannot sneeze without DoE instructions) and hoaxing the country with promises of energy from sun, wind, and chicken manure.
3) But all this pales beside the most ominous of acute problems: defense. Without energy, there can be no security; but energy by itself will not guarantee it. Did you think that the Soviets shunned nuclear war because of the US nuclear deterrent? Did you think that their missiles could defeat this country only by inflicting, and suffering, heavy losses of life? Then let us disabuse you of these myths of "self-deterrence." Send us a stamped, self-addressed envelope, and we will send you a startling essay by a Washington analyst who holds a sensitive position and does not wish to be identified. But we believe you will recognize the truth when you see it; we believe that you and your family must read this document.
If we are right, this may be one of the most important documents you have ever read. If we are wrong, you will be out 30 cents.
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Vol. 7, No. 2
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Volume 7 Issue/No.: Vol. 7, No. 2 Date: October 01, 1979 02:47 PM Title: More fundamental than energy
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