FOR YEARS readers of The Herald have had to endure Stirling Hamilton’s views of the world which try to portray him as a philosopher but instead are blatantly left wing and anti-conservative (and indeed anti-freedom) rantings.
His increasing extremism is evident in last month’s article criticising intently democratic nations such as the US and Israel and glorifying the despotic regime that is Iran.
If Iran is such a nice, well-run country why doesn’t he go and live there?
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Does he spare a thought for women in Iran (and most Islamic countries) who have little or no freedom and can expect to have their existence terminated if they express their freedom in ways that Western women do?
Socialism doesn’t work, Stirling.
Look at Venezuela, look at former Soviet ruler Josef Stalin – once a hip, intellectual atheist socialist who wanted equality for the people but when he got into government killed 60 million of his own citizens.
And Ol’ Blind Joe certainly puts on the blinkers when it comes to falling hook line and sinker for Aunty ABC’s green religion – climate change.
No, the science is not settled, CO2 (carbon dioxide) is a harmless gas and is helping greening of the planet, sea levels are not rising and the Paris Agreement will severely damage our economy while doing no measurable benefit whatsoever to the world’s climate.
And doomsayer predictions of runaway warming, environmental catastrophe etc. are continually proved hopelessly wrong, just like the Millennium Bug, acid rain, hole in the ozone layer, etc..
Yet I do agree with Stirling that Julian Assange is a hero and unfairly treated – for the reason, however, that Stirling insidiously omits.
Assange blew the whistle via WikiLeaks on the grubby, dirty cheating and lying tactics used by University of East Anglia boffins and the International Panel on Climate Change to shut down dissenters to the mantra of global warming, known as Climate Gate Scandal.
It would be a breath of fresh air for The Herald to have a contributor to counter Ol’ Joe’s loony left ravings.
Paul Michael
Wattening
