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 tobaccos 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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The first amendment has been null and void for several decades now. This comes as no surprise.
The Republicans put her in office, so anything goes.
It’s a good thing we’re not talking classified emails on a private server, or abandoning a ambassador to terrorists, or lying about the reason an ambassador was murdered, or a money for access foundation by a cabinet member.
Affirmative Action toy liver lips Lynch knows where she can shove this. Unenforceable poppycock.
Not Communists.
They want to bring back the Inquisition.
NAZIS !!!
The article is a re-direct from the Onion. It has to be.....
Her name is Letum Lynch for a reason.
Note the target is corporations.
They are being threatened with lawsuits if they advocate for or support “climate deniers”.
This is pre-emptive suppression to reduce campaign financing this year for conservative advocacy groups, most of which have an “anti-climate” stance.
If you want to see pure evil, go to the link and watch the testimony.
Do
You
BELIEVE?
Please note: It was the DEMOCRAT who brought this out because he wants a thug government.
Of course not the republicans. That would be rude.
I am an anthropogenic climate change denier.
True - newest targets for shake-down cash.
Unbelievable! Let them try!
Mark Steyn is in court mopping the floor with NASA’s Michael ‘Elevator Shoes’ Mann.
The data download showing scientific fraud and misconduct from the UK’s University of East Anglia’s Climate Unit can wipe any smirk off the face of a climate liar.
The tables should be turned on these frauds for grand larceny in pursuing and perpetrating a tax robbery on selected industrial nations in the name of false claims of fake science.
Throw the bastards in jail starting with non-scientist Robert Kennedy Jr. for inciting his followers to attack, punish and imprison real scientists who disagree with his non-science political persecution.
Reason # 1,765,324 why we cannot allow Hillary or Bernie a anywhere near the White House
And we thought the Thought Police weren’t yet entrenched in this appalling Government!
That ad may have been funny in 2010. It’s not so funny any more!
They will go broke on my medical expenses.
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