Posted on 03/09/2016 12:57:43 PM PST by PROCON
(CNSNews.com) – Attorney General Loretta Lynch acknowledged Wednesday that there have been discussions within the Department of Justice about possibly pursuing legal action against so-called climate change deniers.
“This matter has been discussed. We have received information about it and have referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for which we could take action on,” Lynch said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department operations.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) raised the issue, drawing a comparison between possible civil action against climate change deniers and civil action that the Clinton administration pursued against the tobacco industry for claiming that the science behind the dangers of tobacco was unsettled.
“The similarities between the mischief of the tobacco industry pretending that the science of tobacco’s dangers was unsettled and the fossil fuel industry pretending that the science of carbon emissions’ dangers is unsettled has been remarked on widely, particularly by those who study the climate denial apparatus that the fossil fuel industry has erected,” Whitehouse said.
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This is what Founding Father James Madison told us:
“Gradual and silent encroachments”.
Research the phrase and it will be enlightening.
It is my settled opinion that everyone in the universe who believes my opinion should be grounds for criminal prosecution and/or incarceration should be summarily shot dead.
Deal with the Flat Earther’s first!
Flood them with letters.
I dont think they can jail 50,000 people...
Bring it on, Warmists! Can’t wait for discovery!
This sounds like something out of 1930’s Germany!
1984, the Old Soviet Union, and Anyone’s darkest nightmare come to life.
Am I in an episode of the Twilight Zone?
Is his uniform going to be based on the old Nazi uniforms or the Roman emperors like Caligula?
Even in my college days I never suspected that discussing whether or not an obvious hoax was nonscientific would land people in jail.
“Government Science: It's what we tell you it is”
This is why defense of the 2nd Amendment is so very critical
I agree. We’d best get ready.
Thanks.
I suppose opening gulags is just around the corner and especially if Hillary or some other corrupt Commie wins.
“You’re going to jail because.....Settled Science!”
Settled Economics too. When I was in college(a while ago) communists had NO PROBLEM running around and DENYING economic reality.
Did Republican presidents investigate them for their views? Of course not. What would have happened if they did? Impeachment - that simple.
What’s different this time? Easy answer - just look in Michelle Obama’s mirror.
“Hillary will steal the election and there won’t be a thing we can do other than CWII.”
I can see a scenario where we will see two presidents elected this November - one elected legitimately by the people and the other elected by obvious and massive voter fraud.
Just remember folks...tyranny begins at home. Get mad at the commies in DC, but your real enemy is the stupid little Progressive next door, at your workplace, or across the dinner table.
You win.
Hey, Loretta Lynch, you fascist b*tch, and Sen. Sheldon Whorehouse, climate change is a bunch of bullcrap....a big FAT lie!
Go ahead and sue me, b*tches!
Terrifying, but not surprising.
I don’t know about climate change but it seems the Tree of Liberty has been languishing in a drought for some time now.
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