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Dem Party Platform Calls For Prosecuting Global Warming Skeptics
The Daily Caller ^ | 06/27/16 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 06/27/2016 9:08:32 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Democratic operatives responsible for creating their party’s platform this year have unanimously adopted a provision calling for the Department of Justice to investigate companies who disagree with Democrats on global warming science.

A panel of Democrats voted Friday to approve a final draft of the party’s platform to promote “Progressive Democratic Values,” which apparently includes investigating energy companies who “misled” shareholders about global warming.

“Another joint proposal calling on the Department of Justice to investigate alleged corporate fraud on the part of fossil fuel companies who have reportedly misled shareholders and the public on the scientific reality of climate change was also adopted by unanimous consent,” according to the Democratic National Convention’s website.

The drafting committee, led by DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, has decided to back ongoing investigations by mostly Democratic state attorneys general into ExxonMobil’s stance on global warming.

Currently, AGs from California, Massachusetts, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands have launched investigations of Exxon, and at least two AGs have demanded records on conservative think tanks and scientists skeptical of global warming. Such targeting has only fueled calls that these investigations are an attack on free speech.

New York AG Eric Schneiderman was the first to launch an investigation into Exxon, based on reporting from eco-left wing reporters at InsideClimate News and Columbia University. Schneiderman hosted a conference in March with other AGs to announce more investigations into Exxon.

Republican lawmakers and AGs have pushed back, calling the investigations into Exxon and think tanks an assault on free speech.

Some Republican AGs recently warned their liberal counterparts that if skeptics can be investigated for misrepresenting global warming, alarmists can be as well.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016dncconvention; censorship; climatechange; climatechangedeniers; climatechangefraud; democratplatform; democrats; dncplatform; envirowhackos; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hillary2016; liberalfascism; prosecute; skeptics; tolerance; tyranny
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To: Enlightened1

They don’t like the First Amendment any more than they like the Second Amendment.

Except when the former protects homosexuality and abortion-on-demand, global warming screeds, and Marxist economics and economists.


41 posted on 06/27/2016 11:57:26 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Enlightened1

If this is true, Trump had better play it up big time.


42 posted on 06/27/2016 12:06:23 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Vinnie
The drafting committee, led by DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings // The two heavy weights in the cerebral wing of the Dim party.

I know you intend that as sarcasm, but it's scarily close to the truth.

43 posted on 06/27/2016 12:06:25 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Enlightened1

Always always always follow the money gravy train.

Exposing the MMGW fraud will lead down so many paths, expose so many organizations and high profile individuals, and show the huge cost of this fraud to citizens. It’s mammoth. It’s the fraud of the century.

We would need to build a new prison just for MMGW fraudsters.


44 posted on 06/27/2016 12:57:31 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: polymuser
Exposing the MMGW fraud will lead down so many paths, expose so many organizations and high profile individuals, and show the huge cost of this fraud to citizens. It’s mammoth. It’s the fraud of the century.

As a complete and total fraud, it is only surpassed by the fraud which fathered it, the fraud known colloquially as "Marxism"...

the infowarrior

45 posted on 06/27/2016 1:28:38 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: dhs12345

Yeah. Sounds like a new Inquisition.


46 posted on 06/27/2016 3:22:31 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Enlightened1
that if skeptics can be investigated for misrepresenting global warming, alarmists can be as well.

Something like this global warming tyranny can be found in the United Nations Agenda 21.....it is these extremist who would deny the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint...part of the United States Constitution. Oh wait....they don't believe in that either.

Global Warming, an extrapolation from incomplete data.....the earth warms and cools and has for eons....controlling the people is the prime reason for GW/CC.....the 2016 presidential election is about our Constitution/Sovereignty and protection from just such tyranny as global warming.

47 posted on 06/27/2016 3:56:53 PM PDT by yoe (Be very careful whom you vote for....you can't "love" away the enemy...they want to kill you.)
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To: pgyanke
My point was partially a joke with a thread of truth.

Also, I probably have to spell this out — when I refer to nonbelievers I am referring to people who don't believe in the religion of environmentalism. Yes, environmentalism has many characteristics of a religion with Gaia as its god.

Also, my ox is not being gored. I am neither an environmentalist nor am I a member of “the Church.” Apparently, you have a dog in the race, or an ox to gore judging by your reaction. Not me.

Anyway, there are clear parallels between the Spanish Inquisition and the current effort to prosecute and punish anyone who disagrees with AGW. And in both examples, evil men exploited (or are exploiting) a situation for their own gains.

48 posted on 06/27/2016 5:38:22 PM PDT by dhs12345
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My point was partially a joke with a thread of truth.

I know it was. The problem is that you, and others who use this comparison, make a false "thread of truth" because you don't understand the history you're lampooning.

The Inquisition was about reestablishing Christian rule after centuries of Muslim rule. It was intended to find those in government who only pretended to be Christian in their efforts to subvert the Crown.

Your comparison fails because it is reversed. In the AGW argument, it would be the subversives who are on a witch hunt seeking out the Christians who seek rein in their lies. A more apt comparison would have the pretended Christians in government seeking to outlaw Christian doctrine.

It matters because language matters. When you accept the premise of the argument (in this case it would be that the Church did an evil thing because the Inquisition was evil), you validate the truth of the argument. In your comparison, your premise was wrong and I called you on it. It's nothing personal, I'm just tired of the ongoing attacks (subtle or otherwise) on the Church, in particular, and Christianity, in general, especially on a conservative forum.

49 posted on 06/27/2016 6:35:06 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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50 posted on 06/27/2016 7:00:41 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cuckservative: a "conservative" willing to raise another country's ideology in his own country)
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To: Enlightened1
"Democratic operatives responsible for creating their party’s platform this year have unanimously adopted a provision calling for the Department of Justice to investigate companies who disagree with Democrats on global warming science."

These operatives should be prosecuted for their continuing threats to free American citizens.
51 posted on 06/27/2016 7:06:29 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: pgyanke

I do absolutely understand and I see it very clearly.

Men are corruptible and the Church was corrupted by evil men. And to deny whenever someone or something is wrong, is wrong. In addition, it removes all credibility and legitimacy when someone attempts to defend the indefensible. Worst of all: without scrutiny and introspection, evil will continue.

I don’t pretend to know what God might think but it has to bother Him (IMHO). Because people are extremely vulnerable through their faith and for someone to exploit that vulnerability (knowingly or unknowingly) is evil of the worst kind. It is a direct sin against God (IMHO). There is probably a special place in He!! for those people.

Bottom line: whenever I am asked why I can continue to be a Christian when so many so called Christians a bad — my response is: “it is not the messenger that is important, but the message.” The messenger is a flawed human being who will eventually succumb to evil but the message is perfect and perfection.

This is why I avoid all organized religions and seek the Truth on my own.


52 posted on 06/28/2016 6:43:16 AM PDT by dhs12345
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