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16 Democrat AGs Begin Inquisition Against ‘Climate Change Disbelievers’
The Daily Signal ^ | 4/4/16 | Hans von Spakovsky. Cole Wintheiser

Posted on 04/04/2016 9:02:12 AM PDT by Nachum

Beginning in 1478, the Spanish Inquisition systematically silenced any citizen who held views that did not align with the king’s. Using the powerful arm of the government, the grand inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada, and his henchmen sought out all those who held religious, scientific, or moral views that conflicted with the monarch’s, punishing the “heretics” with jail sentences, property confiscation, fines, and in severe cases, torture, and execution.

One of the lasting results of the Spanish Inquisition was a stifling of speech, thought, and scientific debate throughout Spain. By treating one set of scientific views as absolute, infallible, and above critique, Spain silenced many brilliant individuals and stopped the development of new ideas and technological innovations. Spain became a scientific backwater.

As an old adage says, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. So we now have a new inquisition underway in America in the 21st century—something that would have seemed unimaginable not too long ago.

Treating climate change as an absolute, unassailable fact, instead of what it is— an unproven, controversial scientific theory, a group of state attorneys general have announced that they will be targeting any companies that challenge the catastrophic climate change religion.

Speaking at a press conference on March 29, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said “The bottom line is simple: Climate change is real.” He went on to say that if companies are committing fraud by “lying” about the dangers of climate change, they will “pursue them to the fullest extent of the law.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Connecticut; US: Illinois; US: Iowa; US: Maine; US: Maryland; US: Massachusetts; US: Minnesota; US: New Mexico; US: New York; US: Oregon; US: Rhode Island; US: Vermont; US: Virginia; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: change; climate; climatechange; disbelievers; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; inquisition
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To: Nachum

Pennsylvania, here I come!


21 posted on 04/04/2016 9:20:49 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man.)
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To: Sasparilla

We saw this happen in China in the 1960s.


22 posted on 04/04/2016 9:20:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Some actual evangelism could help change that story.

People get the idea that there is a competent God at the helm of things, and they won’t fall as easily for the panic du jour.


23 posted on 04/04/2016 9:21:02 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
This would actually be a lovely spectacle. Bring on the discovery.

True, ...IF ya get a true Rule of Law Constitutionalist judge.


24 posted on 04/04/2016 9:21:46 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Nachum

Bookmark


25 posted on 04/04/2016 9:23:02 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Nachum

Hitler would be so proud of them.


26 posted on 04/04/2016 9:23:22 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Nachum

[[He went on to say that if companies are committing fraud by “lying” about the dangers of climate change, they will “pursue them to the fullest extent of the law.”]]

Yes because only politicians can lie legally-

[[“The bottom line is simple: Climate change is real.”]]

Was this determined BEFORE or AFTER you all fudged the satellite data to fit your agenda? (NASA or whoever was monitoring satellite data changed the satellite data from several satellites using hte excuse that ‘they had drifted off course slightly and weren’t giving accurate readings’


27 posted on 04/04/2016 9:23:48 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

That’s what I like about Trump - he calls a spade a spade.


28 posted on 04/04/2016 9:25:59 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: CaptainAmiigaf
That's groovy!


29 posted on 04/04/2016 9:26:41 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Nachum

From the article:

The coalition of 17 inquisitors are calling themselves “AGs United for Clean Power.” The coalition consists of 15 state attorneys general (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, and Washington State), as well as the attorneys general of the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. Sixteen of the seventeen members are Democrats, while the attorney general for the Virgin Islands, Claude Walker, is an independent.


30 posted on 04/04/2016 9:28:14 AM PDT by ChessExpert (The unemployment rate was 4.5% when Democrats took Congress in 2006)
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To: Nachum

31 posted on 04/04/2016 9:30:34 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Bob434

Of course “Climate change is real” and “Humans have had squat to do with it compared with natural factors” do not equate to the same thing.

BRING the debate out. I think the average redneck will not be fooled. Same as that the average redneck knows that what has been brought forth as theories of evolution couldn’t work without some massive help on the side, making the attempt to distinguish it from a work of God rather moot.


32 posted on 04/04/2016 9:30:58 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
This would actually be a lovely spectacle. Bring on the discovery.

. If I remember correctly the last time a judge looked at this issue via "an Inconvenient Truth" he found a lot of flaws in the arguments made. As you say Discovery should be interesting.

If Michael Faraday was still with us he'd want one of his own cages to shelter from this nonesense.

33 posted on 04/04/2016 9:31:14 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: ChessExpert

Riding the latest wave of fame and opportunism.


34 posted on 04/04/2016 9:32:34 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: jmaroneps37
Hitler would be so proud of them.

So would Mao...


35 posted on 04/04/2016 9:32:38 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Noumenon; Travis McGee; Southack; Squantos; Jeff Head

We are literally weeks away from a Go.


36 posted on 04/04/2016 9:33:39 AM PDT by Lazamataz (When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.)
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To: Timocrat

The ancient form that the tinfoil hat had :-)


37 posted on 04/04/2016 9:34:55 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Nachum

All i know is that it’s April 4 and it’s 20 degrees out right now, snowing- but I’m thankful for global warming because without it i might be 0.010 degree colder than i am right now and I might not survive it


38 posted on 04/04/2016 9:35:53 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: VTenigma

“I can’t wait for the “Salem climate change denier trials”.

It must be some kind of nasty genetic streak with Northeasterners. No wonder 17th, 18th and 19th century Europe dumped them.


39 posted on 04/04/2016 9:36:31 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: Nachum

The simple answer is, fewer Democratic liberal AG’s.


40 posted on 04/04/2016 9:37:39 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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