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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.”

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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

Remember George Soros funding the rise of Attorney Generals?


61 posted on 04/04/2016 10:22:07 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you.")
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

An overly “religified” state is probably the main causes of obscene taxation today. It’s your civic obligation to give, give, give and be “blessed” for it.

More secularist states, e.g. China and Singapore, even Russia, are lighter on the taxes. They’re proving out the Laffer curve.


62 posted on 04/04/2016 10:22:43 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

Republicans in those states, which are all blue states, should immediately initiate impeachment resolutions in those states state houses.

Granted, it is likely that all of these resolutions would fail. But it will still hit home to these corrupt officials that their actions are intolerable, and that they may eventually pay a price for their misuse of office.


63 posted on 04/04/2016 10:24:16 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Nachum

how do they prove oceans will rise 500 years from now ?


64 posted on 04/04/2016 10:25:41 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Nachum

While watching TCM last week there was a “Traveltalks” short on about Glacier and Waterton parks from 1942.

It was mentioned then that the glaciers were then receding and would be gone in several hundred years.

This was long before the glo-bull warming scam.


65 posted on 04/04/2016 10:44:45 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: fruser1

And it only takes a few before the rest lose their religious fervor to persecute the non-believers.


66 posted on 04/04/2016 11:04:39 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: butlerweave

Get a continuation of each case for 500 years and then look at the evidence. The lawyer meters are ticking the entire time.


67 posted on 04/04/2016 11:12:30 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Nachum
will “pursue them to the fullest extent of the law.”

What "law" might that be?

68 posted on 04/04/2016 11:16:50 AM PDT by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yes. Hope we see them chewed on by their own follies.


69 posted on 04/04/2016 11:18:10 AM PDT by amihow (l)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Good.


70 posted on 04/04/2016 11:18:25 AM PDT by b4its2late
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To: wita

No one on the left would be left.


71 posted on 04/04/2016 11:19:00 AM PDT by b4its2late
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To: Nachum

Global Warming Hoax deniers are at it again!


72 posted on 04/04/2016 11:24:09 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (No vote has been changed due to an FR post in about 2 months. Chillax.)
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To: IamConservative

The one they will beg the courts to make up, of course.


73 posted on 04/04/2016 11:30:01 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

This casts an ever greater pall on the NY AG’s office. If no evidence constitutes reasons for prosecution, one must seriously re-explore all of the prosecutions managed by this man’s office.


74 posted on 04/04/2016 11:43:20 AM PDT by Cyman
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To: Cyman

Oh, if some sense ever returned, it would flush out a lot of miscreants.


75 posted on 04/04/2016 12:53:54 PM 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: Lazamataz

Zig Zag Eric.......don’t silhouette yerself ........


76 posted on 04/04/2016 3:50:15 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Nachum

“”pursue them to the fullest extent of the law.””

And the law pertaining to that is WHAT? Please tell us!


77 posted on 04/04/2016 4:51:04 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Bob434
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

9'' of snow in Plymouth MA. Imagine the toll if global warming did not reduce it!

78 posted on 04/04/2016 7:18:14 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: yoe

That is one creative artist.


79 posted on 04/04/2016 7:23:24 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: centurion316; redleghunter; Springfield Reformer; kinsman redeemer; BlueDragon; metmom; boatbums; ..
Climate change sceptics, bakers, and wedding venues proprietors are the first victims of this tyranny. Those of us who are none of the above will be prosecuted for some other affront to the Liberal dogma.

With economic sanctions and more. Following the Inquisition model:

The head of state or ruler must force [by torture if needed] all the heretics whom he has in custody... to confess their errors and accuse other heretics whom they know, and specify their motives, {9} and those whom they have seduced, and those who have lodged them and defended them...

The head of state or ruler must carefully investigate the sons and grandsons of heretics and those who have lodged them, defended them, and given them aid,and in the future admit them to no public affairs or public office....

The head of state or ruler must, within ten days after the accusation, complete the following tasks: the destruction of the houses, the imposition of the fines, the consigning and dividing-up of the valuables that have been found or seized...

The head of state or ruler must divide up all the property of the heretics that is seized or discovered by the aforesaid officials, and the fines exacted from these heretics, in the form and manner following: one-third shall go to the government of the state or district. The second as a reward of the industry of the office shall go to the officials who handled this particular case. The third shall be deposited in some secure place to be kept by the aforesaid Diocesan bishop and inquisitors,and spent as they shall think fit to promote the faith and extirpate{11} heretics... - Pope Innocent IV, Ad extirpanda; http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/01p/1252-05-15,_SS_Innocentius_IV,_Bulla_%27Ad_Extirpanda%27,_EN.pdf

Secular authorities, whatever office they may hold, shall be admonished and induced and if necessary compelled by ecclesiastical censure...

But if a temporal ruler, after having been requested and admonished by the Church, should neglect to cleanse his territory of this heretical foulness, let him be excommunicated to exterminate in the territories subject to their jurisdiction all heretics pointed out by the Church;

But if a temporal ruler, after having been requested and admonished by the Church, should neglect to cleanse his territory of this heretical foulness, let him be excommunicated ...that he may declare the ruler’s vassals absolved from their allegiance and may offer the territory to be ruled lay Catholics... - Canons of the Ecumenical Fourth Lateran Council (canon 3), 1215:

80 posted on 04/04/2016 7:34:27 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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