Green Shirts or Brown Shirts?

In the UK, there is a new program to enforce "Green Policy". They are now going to empower environmental inspectors with warrant cards so they can come onto private property to inspect the business's CO2 output. Here is an piece of the article written on the UK online site:

The agency is creating a unit of about 50 auditors and inspectors, complete with warrant cards and the power to search company premises to enforce the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), which comes into effect next year.

Decked out in green jackets, the enforcers will be able to demand access to company property, view power meters, call up electricity and gas bills and examine carbon-trading records for an estimated 6,000 British businesses. Ed Mitchell, head of business performance and regulation at the Environment Agency, said the squad would help to bring emissions under control. “Climate change and CO2 are the world’s biggest issues right now. The Carbon Reduction Commitment is one of the ways in which Britain is responding.”

Let the corruption begin. Throughout history, everytime a country has empowered a group of people to use government force to inspect things, all out corruption and loss of personal freedom has ensued. Hitler used it with his Brown shirts, Stalin had a force to get people to tell on others who were deemed enemies of the state and the US does it with its already existing regulatory statutes. While this program will be used in the UK, it will not take long for our current administration to start looking into this.

Here in America, private property is the one of the biggest virtues of our exsistence. What you do with what you have is your business. I know there are laws on the book for our business's to function by, but any more addition starts to really cripple our founding principles. Business's should have the freedom to function with minimal government intervention. Business sits on private property and serves it customers. The power of the market determines if their practices are worthy of staying in business. Now getting back to these "Green Police", they would not be welcomed here in the US or by the states. If the US did enact this policy, what would happen if the company said your not coming on this property? The Green Shirt could hold up the inspection card all they want, but they couldn't just walk on the property. We all know the answer don't we?

They would call law enforcement and then the policy gets enforced by the barrel of the gun.