Big Brother of the Climate Crisis

There was a certain desperate humor--gallows humor maybe--in the stories about Florida's rabid right governor Rick Scott forbidding state employees from murmuring the words "climate change."

Yes, it's outrageous and deserves investigation.  And yes, such policies are not unknown in other states.

But a new story has emerged that takes this over the line into Big Brother territory, into an actual and consequential action of the Thought Police.

When an employee of the Florida environmental protection who says he "didn't get the memo" about the ban, used the term "climate change" in a report on a coastal managers forum where climate change was discussed, he was sent home for two days.  And he was told he had to receive a mental health evaluation from his doctor before he was allowed to return to work.  Because only a dangerous and deluded maniac would say the forbidden words, and have the forbidden thoughts.

Forget the irony that we're all talking about "climate change" instead of the climate crisis because the media has been successfully lobbied by Frank Lunz, the Republican-paid pollster, who thought the term up as a way of neutering the issue.  Now even their neutral substitute of "climate change" is heresy.

This is an incident that can't be permitted to just disappear.  Sending dissidents to mental health prisons is the obvious next step in the Stalinization of Florida.   This has to be stopped now.