Czech Leader: Global Warming Alarmists Are Like Communists

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/06/Uncommon_Knowledge_Vaclav_Klaus

President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus compares communist ideologues to global warming alarmists. "They are against individual freedom," states Klaus. "They are both very similar in telling us what to do, how to live, how to behave, what to eat."

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Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1941 during WW II, Vaclav Klaus grew up during the Cold War. After earning a doctorate in economics, he pursued a career in academia and at the Czechoslovak State Bank. Immediately after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, Klaus entered politics. A founder of the Civic Democratic Party, he served from 1992 to 1997 as prime minister of the Czech Republic. In 2003 he was elected president, a position to which he was reelected in 2008.

In retelling his experience of living through the Velvet Revolution, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the lifting of the Iron Curtain, Vaclav Klaus offers his views on what students today need to understand about life under communism. He also defends his opposition to the idea of a European superstate -- "I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic" -- and compares the ideology of environmentalism and global warming alarmism with the ideology of communism.

Finally, he ponders the question of what lessons from history his grandchildren are learning. - Hoover Institution

Vaclav Klaus is the second President of the Czech Republic (since 2003, reelected 2008) and a former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (19921997).

He studied at the Prague School of Economics (majoring in the Economics of Foreign Trade and graduating in 1963), and economics became his lifelong specialist field.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.

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[tralalak4444]

dont worry, czechs with brain appreciate VK as best president we had and about those sheeps voting for social-democratic or communist party nobody cares.

[nichaeloz]

Totally agree, its a pity, most Czech's don't appreciate his brillaince.

[shirleymae30]

The governments, the corporations, and the U.N. have now stolen away all of our natural rights to access all forms of life sustaining natural resources. Sustainability means absolutely nothing, when they have taken away your natural rights to survival and sustinance !!!.

[shirleymae30]

The governments, the corporations, and the U.N. have now stolen away all of our natural rights to access all forms of life sustaining natural resources. Sustainability means absolutely nothing, when they have taken away your natural rights to survival and sustinance !!!.

[shirleymae30]

Even a grade school child knows that it is all about the takeover of all of the worlds valuable and life sustaining Natural Resources. We all know that it is a Corporate controled, Globalist, Socialist take over of all the worlds resources !!!. We are not the corporation's, the government's or U.N.'s Property !!!, and we will not be controled as such !!!. The governments, the corporations, and the U.N. have stolen away all of our natural rights to access life sustaining natural resources,

[SuperBoris81]

@Teeressa It´s not totally the truth. The Czechs/ we Czechs brought there themselves...

[Teeressa]

@SuperBoris81 because communists are dicks and brought this country into shits...

[ahmadfahoum]

@lmacorp They pretty much hate you too!

[reunion503]

So embarrassing.

[Sheviera]

He is right on target.

[SuperBoris81]

What a bullshit from his mouth

[MyshAAkCZ]

@SuperBoris81 Yeah, him and all the citizens in Eastern European countries... that's exactly the point.