Senator: Use RICO Laws to Prosecute Global Warming Skeptics

The Weekly Standard ^ | June 2, 2015 | Mark Hemingway

[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.

[The Great RJ]

No one expects the Global Warming Inquisition.

[Vaduz]

And the senate.

[ManHunter]

No one would have expected the election of a president whose stated intent was to “fundamentally transform America” and that both political parties would stand by and let him do it (facilitate it?) either, but it’s happening...

[MeganC]

Men like Sheldon Whitehouse are why we have a Second Amendment. If his ideas were to take root (and I sincerely hope they won’t) then the only refuge for Americans who prize liberty will be found in steel, powder, and lead.

[HotHunt]

[Wallace T.]

Senator Whitehouse is a descendant of the old line Northeastern elite, with prominent ancestors dating back to colonial times. The Northeastern WASP establishment, which dominated the nation from the end of the Civil War through the 1950s, has been substantially replaced by others, including nonreligious Jews, in the areas of political power, cultural dominance, and financial influence. However, their residual influence is still by and large negative. John Kerry, on his maternal side, comes from the same background.

[SoFloFreeper]

+1

[Grimmy]

I disagree but only on the why of the hanging.

Imo, the scumbag should be hanged as a co-conspirator and accessory to the biggest scam in world history, as well as conspirator giving direct aid and comfort to an enemy who’s bullcrap propaganda was invented solely and only to harm “the west’s” economic capability as part of a destructionist campaign.

A thief, a lair and a traitor.

[HotHunt]

+1? Not sure what this means. I’m a little slow on the uptake today. :-)

[justa-hairyape]

And you global warming zealots should all be charged with mass murder. How many hundreds of thousands of poor people have died in your high cost energy world ? Not too mention the millions that will die when the Earth enters the next Ice Age unprepared.

[PATRIOT1876]

Sheldon Whitehouse is one of the most vile dictators on the Left!

This guy is truly dangerous. I can't even think of anyone else who has done what he wants to do to our free speech.
Hitler, Stalin, Kim Dung,Ceacescu all come to mind but don't quite fit. Big Brother in 1984 fits best.

It is a direct violation of the Constitution to silence people because they have a scientific opinion that is different from that of the State. To make it even more mind bogglingly wrong, the “science” that he is trying to protect by stealing our Rights is a total hoax!!!!

[novemberslady]

Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, offered a curious suggestion for dealing with global warming skeptics - apply RICO laws and prosecute them.

So Sheldon, how much money are you & your buddies making off this global warming thingy?
It's the only reason I can think of, that would make you want to go after people who disagree with you.

And Sheldon if someone uses their position, (based on their own financial interests), to call for the prosecution of these people (or intimidate them into silence), how much time should that person get?

Now I understand people making trying to make a buck off the suckers when they can, but you want to throw folks in jail, and I can't understand that.

Martha Stewart got time for doing much less in my opinion.

[PATRIOT1876]

The global warming zealots have blood on their hands already for the increased poverty and the loss of freedoms that will surely lead to many deaths if the Cap N’ Tradeesque laws go through.

Sheldon deserves to go down in history like the political Catholics a few hundred years ago that put a gag order on Galileo because it made them look bad. I think they understood that the Earth is round and the Bible even talks about it (Job 26:7 and Isaiah 40:21-22) but the official stance was that the Earth is flat.

I suspect that dictators and elites like Sheldon, Algore, Obama and the rest of the Liars that spew the vomit of man-made global warming know that it's a hoax, but it is MUCH more important for them to have power over everything that the citizens do than it is to tell the truth.

[PATRIOT1876]

“Imo, the scumbag should be hanged as a co-conspirator and accessory to the biggest scam in world history, as well as conspirator giving direct aid and comfort to an enemy who’s bullcrap propaganda was invented solely and only to harm “the west’s” economic capability as part of a destructionist campaign.

A thief, a lair and a traitor.”

I agree. This scum should, at minimum, be tossed out of office and tried for treason because he wants to violate our freedom of speech Rights.

Al Gore should be tried for treason deserving the death penalty because of the enormous suffering his Hoax will cause and has already caused.

[ManHunter]

Rhetorical question: Don’t senators, house members and the PRESIDENT swear an oath to “...support and defend the Constitution...?” Even junior enlisted members of our military services swear such an oath and THEY are expected to adhere to it!

[PATRIOT1876]

I f the people of Rhode Island don't make a move to oust this tyrant, perhaps we should kick Rhode Island out of the union and go to 49 states...

[PATRIOT1876]

Rhode Islands rules per Emperor Sheldon:

1. Whatever goes upon two legs and believes in Science above Global Warming rhetoric is an enemy.

2. Whatever goes upon two legs, and believes in the Climate Change Hoax, is a friend.

3. No human shall drive to work.

4. No human shall heat their home.

5. No human shall cool their home.

6. No human shall exhale (breathing produces CO2—only government officials shall be allowed to breath or move about).

7. All humans are equal. (Some humans are more equal than others. Those that work in high places in the government and those who purchase indulgences [writs of Carbon absolution]from Pope Algore (Gaia’s vicar on the Earth) are considered more equal.

[PATRIOT1876]

It's not possible to send an email through the governor of Rhode Island's email on her website.

I wonder why that is?

Too many complains about Sheldon the little dictator I would assume.