Friday Follies: Kill the children for Mother Gaia edition

It seems that the guy behind the very funny Blackadder TV series made a film that's even funnier: children who are skeptical of the whole Global Warming Climate Change Climate Disruption ZOMG Thermageddon schtick get blown up in class by their teacher:

The reaction across the world to this "Comedy" was predictable, and it seems that the Grown Ups rapidly took over running the company responsible, pulled the video off Youtube, and put up this message:

Of course, it's a pretty typical non-apology apology:

Many people found the resulting film extremely funny, but unfortunately some didn’t and we sincerely apologise to anybody we have offended.

See?  If you didn't like the film, they're sorry you don't have a sense of humor (unlike "many" other people).  Or something.  Fear not, some places do not shrink from saying this explicitly - that the problem is you:

It’s only offensive if you have a sense of humour failure

Yeah, OK then!  I mean, you don't want to be accused of not getting the joke (wink wink).

Ooooh kaaaay.  Let's count the FAIL, shall we?

1. Teachers blowing up kids in class because they think the wrong thoughts.

2. Thinking that #1 is just a hoot, and that all Right Thinking People will giggle.

3. Thinking that once you post a video to Al Gore's Intarwebz, you can turn it off or something.  Youtube is taking these down as fast as they can, but people keep putting it back up even faster.  Dudes, the Internet interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.  I heard that somewhere.

4. Thinking you can get away with a Aw shucks, we wuz just joshing attitude.  Perry de Havilland once wrote:

The problem I have with this whole discussion is that it grants what is a monstrous totalitarian perspective a polite hearing rather than the sort of response it truly deserves. It strikes me to just dignify the proposition "the state should spay women and castrate men" with "wouldn't it be better if we just find a way to reduce the fuel we burn?" is to in effect tolerate the intolerable. A far better response, and dare I say a more ethical one, would be "your policy will indeed reduce the world's population because people like me will put a 10mm hole between the eyes of totalitarian scum like you."

I'm partial to .30 caliber myself, but I do remember to say it with a smile.  If the person I'm talking to objects, my reply is "Jeez, can't you take a joke!?"

It might be different if this were a one-off, and outlier, a black swan.  Sadly, it's pretty typical.  I'm a little mystified as to why the Green Left is so anti-children, but that's what .30-06 is for.

UPDATE 1 October 2010 18:58: DirtCrashr has a recommendation on what you can do.

UPDATE 1 October 2010 19:30: This is pretty lame spin from the Green Freaks. I've found out where it came from, and it isn't pretty ...

UPDATE 1 October 2010 19:38: To Gillian Anderson (who starred in this film) and to Radiohead, who provided the music, all I have to say is Dance, Monkey!

UPDATE 1 October 2010 20:03: With a tip o' the уша́нка to the late, lamented Politburo Diktat, I leave a comment over with the Greens.  Feel free to go leave your own.