‘The Light of Day’ Exposes the Green Movement’s Roots in Tyranny
by Alvaro Alvillar
This book, by emerging author James Byrd, paints a telling portrait of the true agenda of the Green Movement. It successfully exposes the underlying agenda of collective power in the hands of the State; at the expense of the individual. Mr. Byrd creates a world of dynamic characters, their interrelations, and the societies in which they are cast. It is a powerful first book, by an author who has a firm grasp of the way in which an oppressive government uses propaganda and fear to control the general population. The Light of Day is the story of Jeff O’Hara and his struggle for personal freedom and the realization that the things most worth having sometimes require the greatest sacrifice.
From the first paragraph, the reader is thrust into the O’Hara family dynamic.
Old Man O’Hara comes from a time before The World Consortium forced the people of the earth into a subterranean existence, where some never experience the simple pleasure of feeling sunlight on their skin. Those who live in the lower levels never have the opportunity to see the sky, even through the barrier of an observation window. It is a world of grime and florescent lighting, where people don’t care about their surroundings. The bleak artificial nature of their world has deprived them of a sense of accomplishment and the desire to maintain their surroundings. The concept of individuality is virtually nonexistent.
Jeff is the grandson of Old Man O’Hara. He is inquisitive, headstrong, and intelligent. Because these are all qualities discouraged by the collective, Jeff soon finds himself at odds with his situation. A conflict between his grandfather and the guards who grant access to the surface leads to Jeff’s determination to escape the oppressive environment of his birth. Subsequent events lead to Jeff’s banishment to a prison compound and his personal quest for Liberty. Through the kindness of others and his own strength of character, Jeff escapes and joins up with The Revolution of which he had heard rumors.
The Light of Day is a must read for anyone who is concerned with the veracity and motives of the modern environmental movement. The reader will find themselves cast into a world that may not be far off, where the needs of the individual are superseded by the ‘virtues’ of nature. It is a gripping first novel and a testament to the integrity of the human spirit.
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"tyranny".
this word does not mean what Alvaro Alvillar thinks it means,.
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Well, umm, enlighten us poor, benighted Conservatives. Pray do, pray do!
Is there tyranny in the unconstitutional provision that all Americans must, upon pain of imprisonment (and death, if one resists arrest), purchase health insurance?
Is there tyranny in the punitive taxation your hero wishes to impose on a basic necessity, fuel for heat?
We await your wisdom. Shower us with it, oh wise one.
stick to the topic of the threads please. there are plenty of open threads in the health care post that you can use in a feeble attempt to explain how universal health care is unconstitutional.
THIS post on THIS thread is about the overuse and watering down of the term "tyranny" to basically apply to anything you happen to disagree with.
a bit absurd, i must say.
I repeat: Please educate us.
Please demonstrate to us how the author misused the word "tyranny." I thought the author used the term correctly. Of course, I'm just one of them there dumb-masses ya hear about alla time on CNN, the sort who, if you believe Janeane and Fidel and Jimma, just purely can't abide seeing a black man in the White House.
We're waiting. Say, you're not evading my request, are you?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/TYRANNY
i am honestly at a loss for how to try and reconcile the definition of tyranny with the green movement.
environmentalists are not in power. it is (pardon the pun) the ultimate grass roots movement. they are opposed at every turn by big $$$ industrial concerns, and politicians fighting for status quo,
Ask the farmers in the San Fernando Valley what Green Tyranny means to them. You say they are not in power but that in no way means they do not wield power. The EPA has a veto on nearly every aspect of our lives that they deem to be harmful. they answer to no one.
The story this author is telling almost writes itself, or would if the msm ever gets their collective heads out of the big O's back side.
Michael Crichton changed camps once he figured out the agenda of the greens. http://www.crichton-official.com/speech-environme...
He wrote a fictional book about it http://www.crichton-official.com/books-stateoffea... with well documented sources for a lot of the sub topics and statements made in the book.
Once he was a hero of the greens but then he caught on and was painted as a deranged maniac or a simpleton, dissent is not allowed, debate is not allowed, only slavish obedience. If you disagree you will be destroyed.
Now that fits a definition of tyranny all too well but I think I will skip this book, we have our own non-fiction story to participate in with the global treaties and cap-n-steal systems that a lot of "status quo" politicians and corporations are trying to ram down the throats of private enterprise for nothing more than power and profit.
Since we are talking about fiction as a reflection of reality I am watching the remake of the prisoner, it's as weird as the first one but a bit funnier. If a progressive were to watch this I believe they would think it was a fun filled wonderland and not a despotic hell hole.
Freedom is traded for safety, everyone watches and reports on everyone else, good thought is the only thought allowed and you go for treatment if you think incorrectly, people are simply disappeared that wont conform to the complete control of the system.
I imagine it's what they hope for if Obama is re-elected in 2012 and the gloves can finally come off and they can usher in a new age of prosperity, like Mao, and Stalin, and … well you get the idea.
this book is not about the Environmental Protection Agency (which, does in fact, answer to the EPA administrator, who answers to the duly elected president of the United States of Amerca. who happens to answer to The People.
rather, this book is apparently a work of fiction.
http://www.spinpolitico.com/forum/topics/sustaina...
It's all the explanation you need for the reference to tyranny. The book is a novel, by definition, fictitious. Perhaps we should all read it before we chime in. The point of the article, after all is to review the book.
"He wrote a fictional book about it "
that one word says it all.
FICTIONAL.
fictionalized, yes…
but heavily annotated, with resultant index and historical perspective from a man considered by many a scientific genius.
By refuting it- without reference- you once again display your left wing talking points advocacy to all present…
it was a terrific read as well…
And he was excoriated by the left wing media for his apostasy. Stopped getting invites to all the tony parties, too.
However his comparisons of the Eugenics movement with the Climate Change crowd are apt- and chilling.
He is missed…
With tryanny there is no choice. We the people who believe in our foundings fathers have to come together, no matter who we are, are where we are to STOP this socialist idelodgy. if this does not stop, people will rise up and it will be more then Tea Parties.
You don't know what it means, scotty boy. To you, Dem lies = "truth" and tryanny is "freedom".
George Orwell wrote a couple "fictional" books, too.
Animal Farms and 1984 ring any bell to you?
i just refuted it.
it was a work of fiction. heavily annotated or not, when you take a work of fiction over extensively peer reviewed science, that is folly.
Great speeach by Crichton.
I don't think the term "grassroots" applies to the President and more than half of both houses in Congress, all of them salivating to screw the American taxpayer to enrich their cronies.
Al's gonna be a whole lot fatter than he is today, if they get Cap and Trade pushed through.
Actually, the grassroots are the people you're stupidly arguing with, right here on this site. We're the ones trying to prevent this GREEN TYRANNY, this monstrous lie, being made the law of the land.
scotty,
"YOU" just refuted it? By whose authority, yours? What would that authority be? I see you are positionig yourself as self appointed thread monitor. Good luck………….
Refuted? the moderator must have removed it. Fictional does not prove as false. There is more truth in Swift's 'A modest proposal' . A fictional story by Harriet Beecher Stowe had more truth than all the Democrats in government, and Robert Anson Heinlein offers more truth in the notebooks of Lazarus Long than all your underwhelming troll prattle. TANSTAAFL!!
Gee, scotty boy………………………Gore's books and fictionmentary are all FICTION, yet I bet you eat all that up like a staving man.
Absolutely LOVE the original THE PRISONER, was trepidacious about the remake, watched the first hour and didn't care for it at all.
Still and all it still is what the lefties see as UTOPIA.
This sounds like a power novel that exposes the atrocities of socialist governments and it's affects on the human spirit. It sounds like a preview of Obama's next three years.
Sounds like Ayn Rand meets enviromental alarmism. Looking forward to checking out the book.
A Boy and His Dog–Don Johnson at his best–or, maybe Brazil?
"Fictional does not prove as false"
fictional proves as fictional.
just as A is A.
are you having a hard time understanding the difference between works of fiction and works of peer reviewed science?
it appears that you are.
For those who are criticising the book, have you even read it?
The environmentalist movement focuses itself far too much on unworkable idealism, whilst ignoring science, reality, and practicality.
Just because people quote from The Princess Bride to refer to your general cluelessness doesn't mean you can look clever by doing the same.
No scotty,
It appears I am not. I understand things precisely, and can sum things up quite succinctly. I completely understand fiction; further I grasp reality. Peer reviewed science? Would that be where school mates from the same Alma Mater, say Harvard, or Yale, or Princeton perhaps, who have vested interests in their own fields, corrupt their morals and ethics and get behind an issue, say perhaps Al Gore, and promote said issue, in the interest of self promotion and self aggrandizement and monetary gain? Ok. I follow you.
It appears you are merely a figment of the reality of immagination.
A is A?
ACORN + SEIU = Corruption?
Obama + Holbrook = Aiding and abetting?
Mmm, mmm, mmm!
Scott likely sees them as manuals.
Green is the new Reds. Easy to see what is going on. Lord Monckton explained the path to global government, by the UN in the current treaty wanna bee. The UN wants to be the world’s politburo, and energy taxes will run it all.
I think our dear reader wants to be the titular head of the UN’s politburo.
Sorry, That don't cut it. That is like saying that Saving Private Ryan's recreation of the Omaha Beach landing is irrelevant because it was in a work of fiction.
the books premise is on target. we are only one, perhaps two generations away from losing societies "grandfathers", the last who remember what living in a free country is. as we hear axelrod, spin the recent democrat loses in nj and virginia, which he claims was the failure o the youth vote to turn out, we over look that these children have never known anything better than what they were born into.
who will teach them what a great, free country this once was, certainly not the schools. as we hurdle into our uncertain future, bludgeoned numb by pc, it may be the elders around the camp fire, passing the oral tradition, who guide the youth and save the country.
I've been around–at Yale College (1980), no less–long enough to see it all. Scratch a "Greenie" and you'll find a Red–it never fails. Worse yet, some people here are behaving exactly as I would expect the villainous city police in this book to behave. Why is it that "progressives" never fail to conform to the worst stereotypes?
Based upon the review (which is all any of us can comment on at this point) I am remembering Ayn Rand's "Anthem." Some of the trolls on this site are up in arms, virtually screaming into their keyboards to make sure everyone knows that this is a fictional work.
Why would they be so concerned if it is fiction (which we all know already — it says so in the review)? I once heard that novelists use lies to reveal the truth, while politicians use the truth to hide their lies. Who said that?….Oh yeah, it was me.
Anyway, one of the most important tools of collectivists (which is what enviornmentalists really are) is the distortion of the meanings of words. When words loose their objective meaning, then they become the subjective tools of manipulation and rationalization.
I plan to buy the book and read it before I form an opinion. I invite scott_z to do the same. Literacy is a good thing.
yeah, because we have elected officials, our massive bureaucracy could never be tyrannical….. no, never.
Quick, get the disinfectent ready. We have a lot of cleaning to do.
It's very clearly defined on Merriam-Webster: "a rigorous condition imposed by some outside agency or force." The Green Movement exerts its influence on — among other things — the EPA, which is an agency that imposes rigorous conditions on the people. We are three steps away from signing a global treaty in the name of Climate Change, an off-shoot of the Green Movement (like the "Population Bomb," global warming, global cooling, and on and on), which will likely impose more regulations on the developed world. Color it red or color it green, the limitation of liberty through coercive force is tyranny.
"Environmentalists are not in power," that is true. Just politicians claiming to be environmentalists, exploiting whatever valid movement there ever was (long, long ago), levying tax and pouring away money in their name. You must be an imbecile.
Then your argument refutes "Animal Farm"? After all, it involves talking animals!!!
If you have not read Mark Levin's book "LIBERTY & TYRANNY" you are not as well informed or intellegent as you think you are……….
"Acceptably low levels of lead or arsenic in your drinking water? tyranny!!! "
What about REQUIRING levels of arsenic lower than those naturally present? Levels lower than those people had been — quite healthily — drinking for centuries?
Isn't it absurd for the law to force people to go beyond nature in a quest for "purity"?
you refute without basis. What he posited was truth, albeit in a fictionalized setting. Your core concept- as is almost all of your poorly conceived
logic- is flawed.
You like to make sweeping assertions using the thoughts of others. You show your utter lack of intellectual heft when you do so…
What if the "extensively peer reviewed science" was not actually peer reviewed? What if, when it is actually peer reviewed, seriously flaws and even out-and-out lies are uncovered?
I've read this book and I think the comparisons to Rand are apt in two ways. Ideologically it's spot on. It's a worst case scenario of what could happen if we igonore those parts of our society that would drown us in the collectivism that masks itself as environmentalism. Also, like Rand, the writing is a bit juvenile and over the top. The characters are one dimensional and the baroque style reeks of angry college sophmore. It's a good allegory – just like Atlas or Anthem…. and about as enjoyable to read.
from a historical perspective, Saving Private Ryan's recreation of the Omaha Beach landing is indeed, entirely irrelevant.
lots of "what if's" there that do not exactly pan out in the real world.
no, 'an inconvenient truth' and 'the assault on reason' are both works of nonfiction.
it was the righties that gave us the dept of homeland security, warantless wiretaps, the erosion of habeaus corpus, the "patriot" act, etc. etc. etc.
seems more like a far right wing utopia to me.
That one word certainly sums up the majority of your points Scott, keep it up though, you are quickly becoming white noise on this site
Too much autoerotic asphyxiation Scott?
Really man take the rope from around your neck and breath for 5 minutes before posting, it might not help, but it couldnt hurt.
It got better, in the end ( there was an end, only three parts ) the protagonist became what he sought to destroy for the "Greater good" it really was a morality tale, intended or not, about the progressive movement and dangers of "compassionate" conservatism.
Thank you Alvaro for the wonderful review, and thank you to everyone who has purchased a copy based solely on Alvaro's opinion. He received an advance copy, as did a few others. I hope to see more positive reviews as you, the first readers, finish the book. I spent a great deal of time and love writing the Light of Day, and I look forward to reading all of your comments, both positive and negative. Please send any correspondence to jay@snookielane.com.
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To Scott_z…….you state "how the green movement could practice tyranny or assume tyrannical form is beyond me."
Scott, I encourage you to research and learn about Agenda 21…..which is behind the entire Green Agenda, Green Movement, Smarth Growht, Sustainable Development , or WHATEVER you want to call it.
Agenda 21 is a brainchild of the UNITED NATIONS. The entire so called "green agenda" is absolutely a tyranical operation. While it uses nice terms like "sustainable development", smart growth, etc., it is a measured and step by step approach to remove this country's sovereignity.
It's goal is to remove mine and yours private property rights. Please do the research. I have not read this book listed above, but, I have done and am still in the process of doing research on AGENDA 21. It is going to be the final cause of all of our remaining manufacturing industry to go overseas.
People here in the USA need to grow up, and learn to educate them
selves on what is going on around you on a daily basis.
Disclaimer: I'm completely biased because I know the author.
I read the book when Obama was still just a community organizer. At the time it was an entertaining read. I enjoyed the characters, the scenery and the fast moving, well developed plot. But, like most sci-fi, the story line, though completely plausible, seemed many years, if not generations, off.
Now, as I start to reread The Light of Day, in all it's bound and printed glory, I fear it's going to seem much more believable.
Over- use of the word tyranny???? What's next? Other words that describe the truth like communist and socialism?? How about Museum. OOooOOoOo. Scary hu???
If you want to cry about words being over used lets start with a lib favorite~ the word "racist".
Now go get in line for your free health care like a good citizen.
Berry can NEVER claim grass roots anything… There is no grass in Kenya.
You ain't wrong, txFirehawk, and you sure as HELL ain't lyin'!
And, y'know, we really are the grassroots. Our problem (and our salvation) is that we're invidualists, not so much herd animals as are the Dims. Also, we're up and out the door and working during the day, when they're doing their "organizing" and other nefarious activities. We don't have time for demonstrations and confrontations. Although, for one glorious weekend, the tea partiers went to Washington, D.C., and made me proud.
That is one thing that hurt's a lot of us… Being at work instead of in the streets beggin for that "social/ economic etc etc justice"
I guess the American Dream where people get up and go out and get what they want is not taught to dems. Instead it's "everyone wants to hold ya down, those rich bastards are evil"
Give me a break.
And what the hell happened to "ask not what your country can do for you…" Kinda ironic that he was a Dem but now it's "what can the government do for me"
Well said!
No they aren't, scotty boy; they are works of fiction………unless you would rather I just say full of lies, inaccuracies, and fairy tales.
Your "dear leader", the empty suited, feckless ditherer and massive expantioner of the government is STILL USING THE "WARANTLESS WIRE TAPS" !
The lefties in CONGRESS pushed "HOMELAND SECURITY" on President Bush. But that and the wire taps have worked.
Seems as though you missed quite a few talking point handouts, there, wee scotty boy.
Oh well, that sounds as though they completely ruined it, then. That's nothing like the original.
But I'm glad you enjoyed it.
"peer reviewed science?"
Today's code word for "academic circle-jerk by the like minded."
In fact, one of the key elements of Green Tyranny is their claims to possess the One Truth, dissent from which is climate thoughtcrime- its practitioners, according to leading Greens like James Hansen, to be hauled before Nuremberg Tribunals.
Have you ever worked in academia? Do you have a clue how the peer-review process is routinely abused?
"the dept of homeland security, warantless wiretaps, the erosion of habeaus corpus, the "patriot" act, etc. etc. etc."
And perhaps you could give us chapter and verse as to what, precisely, the actual enormities are which the Left ideograms with those phrases? Hm? Go on, we're waiting.
because there are cases of abuse, it doesn't mean we should throw the whole system in the garbage bin and start believing wholesale whatever fiction people with an obvious political agenda (such as the author here) choose to write.
Scott is watching the prisoner too, he wonders what it would be like to 2, he actually gets aroused.
Again, please remember I am just his concious, I dont agree with anything he does, and he forces me to live in a dark and empty space between his ears.
I am sorry, Scott does actually know them all, he even knows that Rendition, the practice of outsourcing torture was a Clinton policy.
He doesnt really mind torture believe me, the things I could tell about the schools he visits and the fantasies he has during his lunch break at McDonalds. The problem he has is that if terrorism is ever erradicated that he wont have anyone that agrees with his positions to talk to anymore.
Also he was really pissed when they turned him down as a torturer, apparently the CIA doesnt actually have that as a position.
Again, please remember I am just his concious, I dont agree with anything he does, and he forces me to live in a dark and empty space between his ears.
Sometimes he even abuses me, which is a glass half full kind of thing because he always forgets we are inseperable and while it hurts, it's also pretty funny dang funny to watch me punch myself in my face.
Gotta run, Scott wants to review his talking points in front of the mirror again, I told him people on the internet can't see him, but he doesnt believe me.
Sorry, scott kind of didnt know what to say, this is his version of humor, embarrasing I know, in his defense his dad used to take him to the woodshed for knock-knock jokes, you don't want to know what daddy did to us if we got the answer wrong, ever since then humor has not been our strong suit.
Again, please remember I am just his concious, I dont agree with anything he does, and he forces me to live in a dark and empty space between his ears.
Sadly this is true, when he first read Mao's little Red book he was under the impression that Mao was still in the torture and killing business, he got as about excited as we get, which is disturbing in too many ways to go into detail.
Our little heart just broke when we found out that Mao wasn't taking any new job applicants, being dead and all, but now that Obama and Peolsi are running the country he has renewed hope in pursuing his career, he even made a name up for it "Psycho Sexual Re-education"
I am telling everyone here seriously, if Obama ever pulls the trigger get out of the country, the things that Scott would do to people, well the title kind of says it all.
Again, please remember I am just his concious, I dont agree with anything he does, and he forces me to live in a dark and empty space between his ears, it's terrifying inside his head.
Giving scott attention, even the negative kind like his dad used to do in the woodshed when mommy was out dancing at her job excites scott.
Really the best thing to do is just ignore us, irrelevancy is the thing we fear most. Scott is going to beat the crap out of me for this, I just know he is.
Does anyone know if a mans concious can get a restraining order against it's host?
Again, please remember I am just his concious, I dont agree with anything he does, and he forces me to live in a dark and empty space between his ears, it's terrifying inside his head.
Scott was sad when 2 blew himself up, he cried.
When he realized 6 was now 2 he kind of got confused, scott gets confused easily, I tried to explain it to him but he kept screaming something about the 16th Amendment, though he was quoting the articles and mixing things all up like he tends to do when he forgets to take his pills.
Please does anyone know if a mans concious can get a restraining order against it's host?
Please remember I am just his concious, I dont agree with anything he does, and he forces me to live in a dark and empty space between his ears, it's terrifying inside his head, there really should be some kind of law.
What a clever post; BRAVO !
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