Senator: Use RICO Laws to Prosecute Global Warming Skeptics

The Weekly Standard ^ | June 2, 2015 | Mark Hemingway

[ManHunter]

Writing in the Washington Post, Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, offered a curious suggestion for dealing with global warming skeptics - apply RICO laws and prosecute them.

[ManHunter]

First political correctness, now a suggestion that those of us who don't go along with it be prosecuted? Perhaps we should prosecute the "Honorable" Mr. Whitehouse. These truly are the times that try men's souls...

[Obadiah]

Democrats: America's fascists.

[I want the USA back]

The people who elected this fascist need to spend a week in north korea.

[Starboard]

First political correctness, now a suggestion that those of us who don’t go along with it be prosecuted?

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The slippery slope towards tyranny We have already slid a long way down hill. The more power the Left gets, the more it wants.

[Junk Silver]

Now and then one of them gets careless and lets slip what’s really being planned.

[ScottinVA]

So here we go... let’s not only marginalize those who don’t buy into the scam, let’s prosecute them.

Soviet America.

[OttawaFreeper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUMkcBctE7c

[Jack Hammer]

Not nearly severe enough; use the CIA to find ‘em, and, if guilty, cut off their b*lls, too.

[MHGinTN]

DemocRats, satan’s clueless dupes.

[pa_dweller]

So here we go... let’s not only marginalize those who don’t buy into the scam, let’s prosecute them.

Soviet America.

And after prosekution, off to the reeducation camps!

[MrB]

Senator, you’re calling for a war.
Period. Stop.

[Honorary Serb]

This sounds a lot like either Hitler or Stalin. I don’t care which of the two—I have no use for either one!!!!

Next they’ll try to use RICO to silence or imprison those of us who oppose “gay rights”—especially same-sex “marriage”.

PHOOEY!!!!

[MrB]

That’s the way it is with all things from the left.

Their end goal is to use the State to punish and exterminate those that hold opinions that they don’t like.

[ManHunter]

Hmmm... Curious why the link doesn’t appear. Apparently, there’s a precedent for such idiocy.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/sen-whitehouse-d-ri-suggests-using-rico-laws-global-warming-skeptics_963007.html?page=1

[MrB]

Whatever method they can use to have the State exterminate Christians, they will.

[litehaus]

Sheesh ! Another going broke state with also inadequate IQ points among their DEMONCRAP elected representatives..

[tanknetter]

This cuts both ways. Actually, it would probably be much easier to go after global warming proponants using RICO this way. Al Gore for his involvement in that carbon-credits scheme, for instance, would be both easier to investigate AND would be a much bigger fish for some prosecutor to land.

Think of using RICO-like powers against those Brit “Climategate” researchers and their backers. I don’t know whether the UK has a RICO-like law or not tho ...

[Travis McGee]

[Paladin2]

Most of Congress should be behind bars for financial fraud.

[sport]

Remember that his constituents think and feel as he thinks and feels, else, they would not have elected him.

You now have two choices: 1. Adjust your thinking to where it mirrors theirs. 2. Prepare. I can't say when, but history has shown that they will come.