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.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Jeb Bush: ‘I’m Upset’ About ‘False,’ ‘Dangerous’ Narrative of Civil Liberties Threat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3296260/posts
Will Jeb Bush go after civil liberties skeptics, too, using RICO?
“truly, think I will be in a gulag in the near future.”
Those people didn’t know what one was until it was too late. Same for the Nazi camps. We know. NO American should ever see the inside of a gulag. When they come to arrest, that’s where to stop it.
Some say that he’s a homosexual pedophile who enjoys torturing his victims.
A phenomenally stupid man.
Let that SOB come after me personally. I’m a skeptic you coward senator!
I will one-up that. Send all liberals to Cultural Revolution style re-education camps, where they will do actual manual labor for the first time in their sorry lives during the day and study the Constitution at night.
It is becoming more and more obvious that the Ballot Box cannot curb a politician from LYING ... There may be another way to cure this recent phenomenon, I believe it was applied (and was about 100% successful) not that many years ago.
TT
Nah. The last thing we need is another plantation.
Just strip them of Government jobs (no re-hire or consultants) and government funds including benefits obtained through fraudulent behaviour and grant money), and let them find their own way.
Good Luck with the AG backing you on that ...
They only enforce “Some” Laws
Any Laws that YOU break will be Fiercely Enforced with Malice and Forethought.
Pay Attention! We are no longer a Nation of Laws, we are a Banana Republic “For Sale” by any POS elected or appointed DirtBag... even if the perceived DirtBag is only rumored to have even the slightest access to those that hold the reins of power, there will be a Dirtbag in Uniform right behind him to make sure YOU PAY UP.
I was in Construction ... the Katrina aftermath cured me from ever wanting to ever do that again... I was very Happy to see Ray Nagin (Mr Chocolate City) go away ... (Club Med)... although his minions in Uniform (Muscle) are still there and in business. Never Go to New Orleans, ever!
TT
PS I lived there for 10 years and I will NEVER RETURN, I moved to Texas on purpose (see my handle?)
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**** “Some say that he’s a homosexual pedophile who enjoys torturing his victims.” *****
I heard the same thing.
I think we have a Consensus... Everyone Agrees! It is Settled! No Room or Time for Discussion! Way too Dangerous to wait!
Anyone that disagrees is a Denier!
What is the penalty for a Denier?
(Might be a Thread all it’s own just to discuss the Penalty Phase)
TT
Well yeah, what is even scarier is how progressives have gotten away with being tyrants with no real pushback from any of us.
I don’t see any mass outrage anywhere.
Libs don’t fight man to man.. they lawyer up. Hiding behind the skirts of their created and unequal justice. It is scary to think these people vote on laws... when really what they desire is their personal gain. Term Limits.
No They “MAKE” Laws for us ... (much worse)
TT
When you know your dishonesty will be exposed if there is an open and honest debate, working to avoid the future guilty conscience and public shame requires that the debate opposition is shutdown. Use of strawman tactics is a layered cover for it further insulating the demon from repercussions.
“Well some of us told people what would happen when they empowered liberals. Some people refused to listen.”
Sadly true, as it was in Germany when the Jews (or at least some of them) helped empower the Nazis. “That’s just talk”, they no-doubt said. Never happened, never will.
I can talk about the liberals that I knew in college (who are now in power) and what their plans are. The usual reaction is hoping I shut up before they have to send to 72 hours at the happy house. They are CLUELESS.
Sheldon Whitehouse? At this present time..the esteemed inane senator is most appropriately named...?
such people are to be shunned...
we will all be tattooed.... with the word UNCLEAN on our foreheads
The criminal Lois Lerner must be executed and her head hoisted on a pike on the Arlington Bridge
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