...is PIRG, the "Public Interest Advocacy Group," founded by one Ralph Nader, and dedicated to fighting against, among other things, nuclear energy.
(I used to contribute to PIRG, although not intentionally. For years, Nader had worked a deal where he could skim
unaudited PIRG contributions off the top of college tuitions in many state university systems. Finally someone sued, and the practice was abandoned.)
For Nader, it was almost axiomatic that anybody who disagreed with him was a corporate lackey. "Nader sees critics as enemies," wrote Sanford, a former ally. "Those who do not serve him serve the evil elements of corporations." This Manichaean worldview came through in everything Nader did. In the 1970s, he worked to establish automatic funding for Public Interest Research Groups (pirg) on campus--proto-Naderite outfits to train the next generation of like-minded activists. Nader's preferred funding mechanism was for every student to automatically contribute $1; those who objected could go to the college administration for a refund. But the administration at Penn State University in 1975 opted instead for a positive checkoff, whereby each student would check a box if he wanted to pitch in $2 for the pirg. Nader attacked Penn State as "a citadel of fascism" and threatened one Penn State board member: "I would advise Mister Baker to study very carefully the meaning of conflict of interest if he wants to understand the kind of disclosures that will be forthcoming in the coming year."
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040308&s=chait030804PIRG believes that all of the world's energy can be provided by wind and solar. Barring that, they oppose energy completely. They have been getting what the wish all over the United States. Our grid is collapsing.
I recently told a PIRG solicitor to get off my property on the grounds that I don't let Naderites around my children.
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