Dear editor,Tom Fletcher's significant, eye-opening editorial "Questioning U.S. 'environmentalists" (Jan. 25) was truly frightening.It's no longer even a question; the facts have been revealed 鈥� the hijacking of our very democratic processes and systems is backed by massive foreign funding. The big, multinational organizations that Tom mentions speaks of owe no loyalty to any one country and are therefore a threat to democracy.They have no ethics and only care about the bottom line 鈥� making their donors happy. Soon they will be more powerful than governments.While Tom points out how they have been duping our media into entrenching all our urban minds since the '80s with their job-destroying mantra of "No forestry, No oil, No gas, and No more dams", I've recently witnessed the emergence of more subtle but equally sinister brainwashing tactics by the foreign infiltrators.Right through the centre of urban Courtenay I saw, in broad daylight, a professional protester from Oregon driving a so-called "fuel-efficient" vehicle with a bumper sticker that blared CONSUME LESS, SHARE MORE. Imagine the millions of jobs that would be lost if that notion caught on.Consume less? What a disgusting message for our children to see.Sharing? Imagine our potential loss of oil revenues if one billion people in China strive to share cars instead of having two or three for each family. What would be left of our future?This country needs to counteract the aggressive, radical ideological agenda with a new agenda that's not radical. How about a massive media campaign to encourage everyone to eat more food, drink more, fly more, drive further and faster preferably in big trucks, build bigger houses with five cars in every garage, two TVs in every room, and to just buy more stuff in general. Why not counteract their No mantra with a Yes mantra: something like, "All the trees, All the minerals, All the oil, All the gas, All the coal, pipelines everywhere and damn all the rivers."After all, what's the point of having clean water to drink and clean air to breath and a pattern of consumption that the planet can sustain if there are no jobs. ( Don't forget, no jobs would mean we would all be sitting around like sloths, with nothing to do.)And as for those pesky inferior wild salmon, I say the sooner they're extinct the better; that way the wild salmon huggers can't complain that a couple of little oil tanker spills might cause them discomfort. Get them out of the way of progress asap!Also, don't miss Rick Mercer at http://bit.ly/yLtZPu for actual footage of the foreign infiltrators at work.Andrew Nicoll,Courtenay
