Al Gore should be arrested

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=14034

Today, the Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Al Gore (and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - The IPCC).

We’re very happy for him at RAN.

And we think he belongs in jail.

Specifically, he should go to jail with a lot of young activists on RAN’s November 16-17 Day of Action Against Coal Finance.

As reported in Nicholas Kristof’s NYT column on August 16, Al is on record as saying: “I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers … and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants.”

So we’re calling him out and asking him to put his peace prize where his mouth is. We’re telling Al Gore that we want him to get arrested, Nobel prize around his neck, for blocking the construction of coal-fired power plants.

But we’re telling him to do it strategically.

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I'm sick of people saying Gore needs to put his (oscar/emmy/nobel) where his mouth is. That's EXACTLY what he's been doing his entire life.

Another lost tribe of mental pygmies located in the jungle of ideas.

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many men would have crumbled after having the presidency stolen away and a media filled with lies to tear Al down whichever way he turned.

Also there is much more on the link.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh102704.shtml


Is George Bush a liar? Kristof says no. Then he offers a “charming” example:

KRISTOF (10/27/04): Let me offer an example—not from Iraq but from Mr. Bush's autobiography. In it, he tells a charming little story involving his daughters in 1988, on the eve of the presidential debate between his father and Michael Dukakis.

The “charming little story” comes from the book published by Bush during Campaign 2000. Kristof’s column includes his account of Bush’s charming tale—you can read it there if you like—but let’s move right to brass tacks. According to Kristof, the charming story, which involves George Bush senior, is factually inaccurate in at least several ways. Bush describes his father engaging in charming conduct—conduct he actually didn’t quite engage in. And Bush is wrong about when the incident occurred—and this second misstatement of fact also makes his story more pleasing. In short, Bush told a heart-warming story about his dad—a story which was factually inaccurate. But that doesn’t make him a liar, Kristof says (we agree). Here’s his more nuanced assessment:

KRISTOF: The current president's hyped version of the incident reflects his casual relationship with truth. Like President Ronald Reagan, reality to him is not about facts, but about higher meta-truths: Mom and Dad are loving grandparents, Saddam Hussein is an evil man, and so on. To clarify those overarching realities, Mr. Bush harnesses ''facts,'' both true and false.

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credible hack.

We knew the poisonous fangs would be out for Gore if he won the Nobel Peace Prize for making a difference..they're out everytime Gore says or does something brilliant.

They can't stand that Gore is making a difference in the world and they're left in the dust with their dangerous, petty, inane accusations.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/101107.html

Al Gore's Moral Imperative

By Robert Parry
October 11, 2007

When Al Gore encountered New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof at a recent conference on climate change, the former Vice President lamented the lack of public urgency toward the looming catastrophe from global warming.

“I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers … and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants,” Gore told Kristof, who was accompanied by his teenage son.

Yet, if Gore means what he says – that global warming is such a threat to the future of mankind that young people should throw their bodies in front of bulldozers – then the obvious question to him is: “Why won’t you submit to the personal unpleasantness of another presidential campaign so you can lead the fight to save the planet?”

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i'm sure you can't run for president with a felony conviction--but what about a misdemeanor charge?

Felonies prevent someone from holding office in many states, but I don't believe the constitution says anything about it.

It would take someone like Al Gore to lead the movement into more effective direct action tactics.