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Senator: Use RICO Laws to Prosecute Global Warming Skeptics
The Weekly Standard ^ | 6-2-15 | Mark Hemingway

Posted on 06/02/2015 7:37:12 PM PDT by DeweyCA

Writing in the Washington Post, Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, offered a curious suggestion for dealing with global warming skeptics:

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That's right -- a sitting U.S. Senator is suggesting RICO laws should be applied to global warming skeptics. Courts have been defining RICO down for some time and in ways that aren't particularly helpful. In 1994, the Supreme Court ruled RICO statutes could be applied to pro-life activists on the grounds that interstate commerce can be affected even when the organization being targeted doesn't have economic motives.

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In February, Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., attempted a McCarthyite witch hunt against climate scientists he found disagreeable. And Sheldon Whitehouse is sitting U.S. Senator. He's now publicly encouraging legal persecution of people who conduct scientific research and/or those that have opinions about it he disagrees with. He wrote this opinion in the Washington Post on Friday, and no one much noticed or batted an eye at the consequences of what he's advocating here. Such calls for draconian restrictions on speech are becoming alarmingly regular. And if more people don't start speaking out against it, sooner or later we're actually going to end up in a place where people are being hauled into court for having an opinion that differs from politicians such as Senator Whitehouse.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 114th; abuseofpower; cultureofcorruption; globalwarming; nifongism; partisanwitchhunt; radicalleft; rico
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To: Bogey78O

Nationally networked homofascists have made death threats and arsonist threats against legal business owners.

Thing about RICO is you can take ALL of their money (not just ill gotten gains) BEFORE trial (compromising ability to pay for legal defense). Waiting for the Clintons to be RICOed.


21 posted on 06/02/2015 8:05:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: DeweyCA
"This is getting scary.

You are missing the upside of all the Socialist hatred. How much easier is it to generate the contempt it requires to destroy a bully?

22 posted on 06/02/2015 8:10:07 PM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted...)
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To: Nifster

Our line goes back to the 96 Virginia Rangers serving Dan Morgan/Quebec 1775.

I love the smell of musket balls in the morning.


23 posted on 06/02/2015 8:10:18 PM PDT by bigmak007 (They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
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To: DeweyCA

liberalism is a mental disoder...another poster child


24 posted on 06/02/2015 8:19:10 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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To: DeweyCA

I, truly, think I will be in a gulag in the near future.


25 posted on 06/02/2015 8:21:17 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: Baltimore ken

As long as we get to do it slow and painful. Just like the drip drip drip of socialism these pukes have suffered on the populace.

AFTER of course the prerequisite tar and feathers in the blocks on the square.

Or we can just begin with the Jack Bauer approach. Start with their families... oh yea, it is about time...


26 posted on 06/02/2015 8:21:59 PM PDT by apostoli (Time to thump the nose of the parrots.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Gaydar. Flashing. With glitter. And skittles.


27 posted on 06/02/2015 8:22:21 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: Vendome

We should use RICO to go after the Ferguson protestors who were paid to riot and loot and ...


28 posted on 06/02/2015 8:32:30 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: txrefugee

There must be a price paid (and it should be personal as well as political). If you just undo the damage without penalty, so that the persons and agenda are no worse off than if they hadn’t tried to rape your civil rights, then where’s the disincentive to do so. You try and you succeed or you fail, but in no case do you end up worse off than if you hadn’t tried.


29 posted on 06/02/2015 8:33:24 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: DeweyCA

It will happen soon enough. By then they won’t even need the RICO statutes, though they might be trotted out as an excuse the way the Soviets grabbed anyone they wanted to grab and charged them with Anti State Activities.


30 posted on 06/02/2015 8:36:04 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: DeweyCA

Sheldon Whorehouse should be removed from office and imprisoned.

The guy is a freakin’ moonbat nutjob.

Sheldon Cooper makes far more sense.


31 posted on 06/02/2015 8:37:53 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The so-called Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group.)
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To: DeweyCA

well, its the global warming proponents who are pushing for trillions of dollars more taxes with the usual graft and skimming and kickbacks as government has never collected trillions of dollars from us poor taxpayers without such things as either INTENDED or at least resultant

so it would be far more appropriate to use RICO to prosecute the global warming proponents

the opponents are proposing no new taxes (or resulting graft and theft)


32 posted on 06/02/2015 8:46:44 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.")
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To: tbw2

Absolutely.

Those trust fund babies got the money...


33 posted on 06/02/2015 8:48:04 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: DeweyCA

It’s just DC being the District of Criminals.


34 posted on 06/02/2015 8:48:09 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: DeweyCA
.... Well .... the way I see it ..... Liberals are absolutely known to only understand withing the realm of emotions and feelings. They shun common sense.

.... It is time that the RIGHT starts hitting these feeble minds with a few facts!!!! For instance Click on this link for an interesting GIANT revelation release a few days ago ......

..... Hmmmmm Could THIS be the Missing link to Climate Change and Solar Activity?

..... Heck .... If this article is true ... then ....

Questions:....... does it have any affect on the earths atmosphere? Also: ... if there is plasma ejected from the sun ... does it affect these plasmatic structures in the earths atmosphere and therefore .... climate?

...... Wake up Folks .... for Pete's Sake ..... FIGHT BACK!

..... The survival of AMERICA is at stake!

35 posted on 06/02/2015 8:49:45 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: DeweyCA

Oh my goodness. That is unbelievable.


36 posted on 06/02/2015 8:51:28 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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37 posted on 06/02/2015 9:04:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Brian Moore was an exemplary cop. Let his conduct be the example for Baltimore police to follow.)
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To: DeweyCA

2015 Southern Ocean Iceberg Forecast | Mini Ice Age 2015-2035
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4aVclYH5xI


38 posted on 06/02/2015 9:05:46 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: DeweyCA

I have a -political opinion- that global warming is a fraud. I will try to convince others of my belief. If someone tries to arrest me for that, they and the people who sent them instantly become NKVD, Gestapo, ISIS, or Mao’s cultural revolutionaries.

I will defend myself with any means at hand against such legitimate targets.


39 posted on 06/02/2015 9:08:52 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: DeweyCA

Fed Mouthpiece Jon Hilsenrath Furious “Stingy” US Consumers Refuse To Buy The “Recovery” Propaganda
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-02/fed-mouthpiece-jon-hilsenrath-furious-stingy-us-consumers-refuse-buy-recovery-propag

Does this mean that “Recovery” skeptics will be prosecuted under RICO, too?


40 posted on 06/02/2015 9:09:55 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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