Only a Liberal…

John Holdren is the Science and Technology adviser to President Obama.. one of his many czars. In an interview he gave in 2007 in the virtual reality “Second Life” game, he said this:

I think ultimately that the rate of growth of material consumption is going to have to come down, and there’s going to have to be a degree of redistribution of how much we consume, in terms of energy and material resources, in order to leave room for people who are poor to become more prosperous. (watch video at Hotair.com)

I suppose pointing out that one of Obama’s czars believe in redistribution of wealth isn’t that damning, considering Obama himself already admitted that in his exchange with Joe the Plumber.

Forced abortions and sterilization

I actually brought him up for much worse comments, like supporting forced abortions and sterilizations to control overpopulation. You can’t make this stuff up. From Fox News:

Those plans include forcing single women to abort their babies or put them up for adoption; implanting sterilizing capsules in people when they reach puberty; and spiking water reserves and staple foods with a chemical that would make people sterile.

Holdren co-authored a book in 1977 called Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment. That is the source Fox News is talking about.  You can view scanned portions of the book here.

It would even be possible to require pregnant single women to marry or have abortions, perhaps as an alternative to placement for adoption, depending on the society.

So he co-authored a book recommending forced abortion. Here’s a sterilization quote:

Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control…To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements.

Dr. Holdren, there is no situation where that is “acceptable.” Zombietime.com has a ton of quotes from this book that all fit the same ideological mold.

Dr. Sterilize in charge of billions of federal dollars

Its hard to pinpoint how much in federal funds Dr. Holdren is in charge of allocating, but its billions according to the website for his department.

Does that worry anyone?

Denial

Of course in the typical liberal fashion, Holdren’s office denies all of it.

“Dr. Holdren has stated flatly that he does not now support and has never supported compulsory abortions, compulsory sterilization, or other coercive approaches to limiting population growth,” the statement said.

Dr. Holdren, YES YOU DID. Then his office clarified…

“Straining to conclude otherwise from passages treating controversies of the day in a three-author, 30-year-old textbook is a mistake.”

If he never supported such things, why mention that something happened 30 years ago? I’m fairly certain 30 years ago is not “never.” If he “never” said something, then no one could “strain to conclude” anything from a book he co-authored.

‘Willing suspension of disbelief’

How often do you suppose someone puts their name on the cover of a book they so strongly disagree with? If he “never” agreed with sterilization, perhaps he said so immediately after the release of the book. If he had, perhaps his office would be citing the non-existent 1978 interview where he said he disagreed with sterilization and forced abortions. They didn’t cite it, because it never happened.

I am amazed at the number of politicians or their appointees who still operate in a pre-internet world of misinformation. They think they can say something and then literally deny they said it in the face of concrete evidence that they did.

So how many more kooks does Obama get to be friends with before a majority of Americans accepts he might be one too? Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger, Bill Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis, Rashid Khalidi, Van Jones, John Holdren, etc. Why does he hang out with such radicals if he’s such a moderate?