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Senator: Use RICO Laws to Prosecute Global Warming Skeptics
The Weekly Standard ^
| June 2, 2015
| Mark Hemingway
Posted on 06/03/2015 5:39:13 AM PDT by ManHunter
Writing in the Washington Post, Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, offered a curious suggestion for dealing with global warming skeptics - apply RICO laws and prosecute them.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: constitution; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; governmentoverreach; popefrancis; rhodeisland; rico; romancatholicism; sheldonwhitehouse; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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First political correctness, now a suggestion that those of us who don't go along with it be prosecuted? Perhaps we should prosecute the "Honorable" Mr. Whitehouse. These truly are the times that try men's souls...
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:39:13 AM PDT
by
ManHunter
To: ManHunter
Democrats: America's fascists.
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:40:07 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(This is Bravo-6, we have Zips in the wire! I repeat, Zips in the wire.)
To: ManHunter
The people who elected this fascist need to spend a week in north korea.
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:41:33 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
To: ManHunter
First political correctness, now a suggestion that those of us who don’t go along with it be prosecuted?
*************
The slippery slope towards tyranny We have already slid a long way down hill. The more power the Left gets, the more it wants.
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:42:00 AM PDT
by
Starboard
To: ManHunter
Now and then one of them gets careless and lets slip what’s really being planned.
To: ManHunter
So here we go... let’s not only marginalize those who don’t buy into the scam, let’s prosecute them.
Soviet America.
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:42:35 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(The election of Obama was a hate crime.)
To: ManHunter
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:44:17 AM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
To: ManHunter
Not nearly severe enough; use the CIA to find ‘em, and, if guilty, cut off their b*lls, too.
To: Obadiah
DemocRats, satan’s clueless dupes.
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:45:01 AM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
To: ScottinVA
So here we go... lets not only marginalize those who dont buy into the scam, lets prosecute them. Soviet America.
And after prosekution, off to the reeducation camps!
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:45:35 AM PDT
by
pa_dweller
(If just one life can be saved, isn't CCW worth it?)
To: ManHunter
Senator, you’re calling for a war.
Period. Stop.
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:46:26 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: ManHunter
This sounds a lot like either Hitler or Stalin. I don’t care which of the two—I have no use for either one!!!!
Next they’ll try to use RICO to silence or imprison those of us who oppose “gay rights”—especially same-sex “marriage”.
PHOOEY!!!!
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:46:39 AM PDT
by
Honorary Serb
(Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
To: ScottinVA
That’s the way it is with all things from the left.
Their end goal is to use the State to punish and exterminate those that hold opinions that they don’t like.
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:47:15 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: ManHunter
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:48:05 AM PDT
by
ManHunter
(You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
To: Honorary Serb
Whatever method they can use to have the State exterminate Christians, they will.
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:48:13 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: ManHunter
Sheesh ! Another going broke state with also inadequate IQ points among their DEMONCRAP elected representatives..
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:48:20 AM PDT
by
litehaus
(A memory tooooo long)
To: ManHunter
This cuts both ways. Actually, it would probably be much easier to go after global warming proponants using RICO this way. Al Gore for his involvement in that carbon-credits scheme, for instance, would be both easier to investigate AND would be a much bigger fish for some prosecutor to land.
Think of using RICO-like powers against those Brit “Climategate” researchers and their backers. I don’t know whether the UK has a RICO-like law or not tho ...
To: ManHunter
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:48:30 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: ManHunter
Most of Congress should be behind bars for financial fraud.
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:48:53 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: ManHunter
Remember that his constituents think and feel as he thinks and feels, else, they would not have elected him.
You now have two choices: 1. Adjust your thinking to where it mirrors theirs. 2. Prepare. I can't say when, but history has shown that they will come.
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posted on
06/03/2015 5:50:15 AM PDT
by
sport
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