all said by wretched scum that defend cop killers like mumia blew jamal... feh (+)“You’ve got to trust your instincts”
“Cause that’s your best bet”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_galilei
Galileo died of natural causes, you dim wit
Galileo continued to receive visitors until 1642,
when, after suffering fever and heart palpitations,
he died on 8 January 1642, aged 77
Sorta reminds me of people who would dared to claim they could sail around the world without falling off the edge and were scorned and ridiculed and threatened with jail or even worse like death pre 1400’s
fyi
It seems to me that if someone threatens you with death for your opinion, are they not risking the same fate? At the very least I think a person can do time for a death threat. The closer the threat gets, the closer you get to a right to self defense.
The left engages in all these outrageous behaviors and the thing that concerns me is average Americans don’t assemble in anger against these miscreants.
Same goes for “apologizing” because someone insulted Mohammed. As an American citizen my God given right is to say whatever I damn please. Don’t go apologizing for Free Speech. And damn well don’t start talking about executing me for it!
It wouldn’t be the first time a society killed off someone for his or her intellectual views. The Greeks killed Socrates because of his beliefs.
This is why we have a Second Amendment.
No one expects the climate inquisition!
all said by wretched scum that defend cop killers like mumia blew jamal... feh (+)If we solve the problem, assuming there is one, we won’t get any more funding to study it.
Factual thought crime is always punished by death or isolation. What’s new or known?
This Man Made Global Warming non-science does create irrational paranoia in the zero info-bots staring like zombies into their smart phones. Such paranoia can create mob behavior which will call for the deaths of those who have been demonized by Alinsky tactics. I can just see the words flashing on their smart phones, “Exterminate the inferior specis! Death to the Global Warming Deniers!”
Galileo was sentenced to house arrest because he lied to the bishops when he said he would delay publishing his paper on how the earth’s rotation caused tides, but then published it anyway.
Liberals want to take us back to the middle ages...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition
From the link:
Various motives have been proposed for the monarchs’ decision to found the Inquisition such as increasing political authority, weakening opposition, suppressing conversos, profiting from confiscation of the property of convicted heretics, reducing social tensions, and protecting the kingdom from the danger of a fifth column.
They DID ask Galileo to do an experiment: Show us the parallax! He couldn't. The instruments weren't precise enough. He WAS allowed to publish his theory as speculation. He was not allowed to publish it as proven because it wasn't.
But he insisted on doing so. So he was put in house arrest.
The author makes a good point. But the unnecessary and incorrect reference to Galileo makes him look silly, even thou he edited the error about Galileo's being executed.
Global Warming on Free Republic
If global warming was a scientific hypothesis with good supporting data, an actual scientist would say, “Come on, have at me, prove me correct or incorrect.” Polemics can allow no contradictions.
Boy, those ZeroHedgers sure know their history.
I think anyone who would imprison someone for expressing an opinion,,,should be shot like any despot. Just like you would for NKVD, Pol Pots Kymer Rouge, Gestapo, etc.
Free speech is my north star.
Fair is fair after all!