[Jeff Higgins]

Something tells me that if you showed up at say, an NRA convention, it would be harder to fool the people. Bring an anti-gun petition cleverly worded to appear to be pro-gun and I doubt you would get nearly as many to blindly sign it.

Environmentalists are perhaps too easy of a target, especially the ones dedicated enough to go to a rally such as this. They are driven far more by the heart than the mind. Most of them simply do not have the background to understand the (lack of) scientific principals behind their chosen position. All they see is the evil corporate world trying to destroy the planet, and anything that rings that bell for them is a sure sell. No matter how valid or absurd.

I know their hearts are in the right place, and they have done a great deal of good. I also see them being very easily manipulated by some of the very interests they despise. I see them being led these days by some very big money; big money that does not walk their talk.

The environmental movement has, as a result of this and other influences, become a parody of itself. It harbors some of the most intellectually vapid followers and leaders, and some of the most violent terrorists in the Western World. Not many outside of their own ranks take them very seriously anymore. It's too bad because, like I said, they have done some good things. Boy have they ever lost direction today, though.