Climategate: All it takes is one.

Society has an interesting way of suppressing its own beliefs.  Deep resentment, even revolution, can foster and grow under the surface: the true extent of which remains undetectable even at its boiling point: until one action unleashes it.  The world saw this principle in action during World War One, where a single assassination unleashed a furor of military aggression that had been waiting for a chance to get out.

The American civil war was a crisis that brewed under the surface for decades before, as was the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.  Often, society doesn’t speak up until it feels it has to: the bullied against a wall syndrome.  Government constricts individual rights more and more until finally citizens find they have had enough and revolt, either at the ballot box or in the streets.

Nearly every situation has a defining moment: an event that begins a cascade of emotion.  Every event has a leader, or a conspirator, or a hero, or a villain, or all of the above.  Rick Santelli’s January “rant” on CNBC was a defining moment.  Joe Wilson shouting “you lie!” was another.  Most recently ClimateGate, the scandal involving leaked emails showing falsified climate change data and attempted cover-ups, was such a moment.

Resentment has been brooding under the surface for decades now.  As more and more legislation restricts or threatens individual rights under the guise of preventing human-caused environmental damage and catastrophic climate change, Americans and individuals around the world have felt bullied, pushed against a wall, and shoved aside in the name of preventing a faceless fear.  Eventually many spoke up, criticizing the poor science, ludicrous hypotheses, and ‘end of the earth’ fear being driven into our lives by hypocrites, liars, and fear-mongers.

True to form, these ‘nay-sayers’ were dismissed as ‘crazy’ ‘unintelligent’ ’skeptics’ in ‘denial’ of the ‘blatant truth.’  How inconvenient though the real truth is.  This moment just got them at their own game, revealed all their true colors, and squashed their ability to leverage ‘don’t you care about the earth’ power over Washington, London, Canberra, Copenhagen, and everywhere else worldwide.

So here is a toast to great moments in the history of mankind: let all the lies employed to control us be dispelled, let all the fear tactics be dispersed, and let all the bullshit be revealed.

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