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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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.
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?
Our line goes back to the 96 Virginia Rangers serving Dan Morgan/Quebec 1775.
I love the smell of musket balls in the morning.
liberalism is a mental disoder...another poster child
I, truly, think I will be in a gulag in the near future.
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...
Gaydar. Flashing. With glitter. And skittles.
We should use RICO to go after the Ferguson protestors who were paid to riot and loot and ...
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.
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.
Sheldon Whorehouse should be removed from office and imprisoned.
The guy is a freakin’ moonbat nutjob.
Sheldon Cooper makes far more sense.
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)
Absolutely.
Those trust fund babies got the money...
It’s just DC being the District of Criminals.
Oh my goodness. That is unbelievable.
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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.
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?
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