Ready for EnviroCops?
This is the question asked by Ed Morrissey at Hoit Air, who informs us of a London Times article about such a development:
Whether the British public is ready or not, here come the EnviroCops. The Times of London reports that simply selling carbon credits hasn’t been enough to keep companies from potentially violating carbon-emissions limits. Now they will send green-jacketed police to monitor their operations. […]
Of course, the British authorities do not have a Fourth Amendment to limit them, but even this may be a bit much for Brits to swallow. Green-jacketed inspectors can descend on any business at any time and demand access to facilities. They can look up utility bills without even informing the business. Not for nothing did George Orwell set 1984 in Great Britain.
How long after we pass cap-and-trade will the US see the arrival of green-jacketed EnviroCops? Probably more quickly than the British did. The entire point of cap-and-trade is to punish those who dare release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and slapping an artificial-shortage system on an almost unmeasurable process will guarantee fraud as well as genuine lack of capability for compliance. Fines will accrue even more revenue to the federal government. The big question is whether Congress will bother adhering to our Fourth Amendment, or simply stick with the British invasion-of-privacy plan for better “efficiency”.
As “jellytoast,” who blogs at Libertas, says: Green is the New Brown (Shirt)! Never in their fevered little imaginations could all those liberals/Democrats scared of the supposed fascist police state Bush-Cheney-Ashcroft were creating dream up this. For all such folks who have no clue what “fascism” is, this is fascism. First they came for the SUV drivers … As I type this, I’m listening to the podcast of yesterday’s Mark Levin Show, during which he just said: “‘Gee, I flipped the switch and the light doesn’t go on …’ Welcome to liberalism!” Indeed. No doubt this idea will be coming to America soon. Welcome to the future, suckers.
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