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Dem AG Targets 90 Conservative Groups in Climate Change Racketeering Suit
Washington Free Beacon ^ | May 3, 2016, 5:10 PM | BY Lachlan Markay

Posted on 05/03/2016 3:04:45 PM PDT by Swordmaker

Subpoena demands Exxon correspondence with Heritage, Cato, Mercatus, Hoover, and Reason, among others

The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands is targeting dozens of conservative and libertarian organizations in a racketeering lawsuit against climate change skeptics that has been widely described as an effort to silence political opponents.

In a subpoena issued in March, the office of USVI attorney general Claude Walker demanded from Exxon Mobil copies of communications between the oil company and 90 different political and policy organizations “and any other organizations engaged in research or advocacy concerning Climate Change or policies.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: claudewalker; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; overreach; slapp; virginislands
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1 posted on 05/03/2016 3:04:45 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker

Tell them to take a hike, them and their unconstitutional subpoena. There is nothing wrong in what they are doing. The AG’s should be disbarred, except the American Bar is a joke and a disgrace.


2 posted on 05/03/2016 3:07:15 PM PDT by winner3000
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To: Swordmaker

Criminalize the opposition.


3 posted on 05/03/2016 3:07:44 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Swordmaker

When are the boys at Exxon/Mobil gonna wise up?

Immediately STOP ALL BUSINESS IN EVERY STATE THAT IS A PARTY TO THIS, Including the Virgin Islands. It would be a conflict of interest and ethical dilemma if they continued to do business in these places.


4 posted on 05/03/2016 3:08:22 PM PDT by eyeamok
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Immediately STOP ALL BUSINESS IN EVERY STATE THAT IS A PARTY TO THIS, Including the Virgin Islands. It would be a conflict of interest and ethical dilemma if they continued to do business in these places.

This is exactly what needs to be done to these libtard punks. I also believe fast food companies should shut down their restaurants in cities that impose a $15 a hour minimum wage.


5 posted on 05/03/2016 3:16:22 PM PDT by hdbc (FUBO)
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To: Swordmaker

None of this makes sense. According to the article, the AGs met with miscellaneous environmental groups in January and issued a subpoena in March. The article mentions a ‘federal lawsuit’ but doesn’t say in which federal court it was filed If the lawsuit was filed in federal court, who are the named defendants, and any such named defendants’ attorneys would have filed a motion to dismiss before any discovery, including subpoenas, took place.


6 posted on 05/03/2016 3:16:27 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Swordmaker

Climate Change is a theory. WTF?


7 posted on 05/03/2016 3:16:44 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Swordmaker

Wow....they are going to get this too. Next they will come for us for just telling the truth.


8 posted on 05/03/2016 3:16:45 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: Swordmaker

Perhaps president Trump will get the chance to pursue RICO charges against political and policy organizations “and any other organizations engaged in research or advocacy concerning the Climate Change hoax”.


9 posted on 05/03/2016 3:16:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Swordmaker

Exxon ought to buy up all the distribution terminals in the VI, and then cut off their supplies of fuel.


10 posted on 05/03/2016 3:17:02 PM PDT by PAR35
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Weather Channel founder calls Bill Nye ‘a pretend scientist in a bow tie’ “I have always been amazed that anyone would pay attention to Bill Nye, a pretend scientist in a bow tie,” Coleman said Friday, according to ClimateDepot.com. “As a man who has studied the science of meteorology for over 60 years and received the AMS (American Meteorological Society’s) ‘Meteorologist of the Year’ award, I am totally offended that Nye gets the press and media attention he does. And I am rooting for the ‘Climate Hustle’ film to become a huge hit — bigger than ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ by Al Gore,” Coleman said. nypost.com/2016/04/29/weather-channel-founder-calls-bill-nye-a-pretend-scientist-in-a-bow-tie/


11 posted on 05/03/2016 3:17:42 PM PDT by StCloudMoose
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To: hdbc
I also believe fast food companies should shut down their restaurants in cities that impose a $15 a hour minimum wage.

Most fast-food restaurants are franchises, locally owned and operated. They only pay a percentage of revenue to the franchiser.

In many of those cases, it's a small businessman's ONLY business. Shutting it down would put him out of business, without any income.

12 posted on 05/03/2016 3:26:20 PM PDT by justlurking
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Well, first there has to be a crime ....


13 posted on 05/03/2016 3:28:07 PM PDT by Fhios (Going Donald Trump is as close to going John Galt as we'll get.)
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To: winner3000

Post Claude Walker’s home & address on google.earth along with directions.


14 posted on 05/03/2016 3:28:57 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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Claude Walker, Caribbean Climate Guy and Shakedown artist:

Maybe he's a relative of Sharpton....

15 posted on 05/03/2016 3:31:57 PM PDT by Regulator
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It’s time someone targets the left for abuse of power. Take it to them on so many fronts. Climate change hoax, energy independence stonewalling, trade imbalances that favor adversaries of the US, educational usurpation by centralized FedGov, military social experimenting, surrendering national sovereignty. There is one candidate running that has spoken about doing just that. And he wrongly gets accused of being a leftist by those that have done nothing but aid and abet the leftward rot. Trump 2016!


16 posted on 05/03/2016 3:35:00 PM PDT by Kudsman
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Immediately STOP ALL BUSINESS IN EVERY STATE THAT IS A PARTY TO THIS, Including the Virgin Islands.

In a quick search, I can't find any evidence that ExxonMobil does any business in the US Virgin Islands. There are only a handful of retail outlets, and they all appear to be locally operated.

I could find only one distributor, which imports gasoline from Puerto Rico:

Petroleum Brokers, LLC

17 posted on 05/03/2016 3:36:48 PM PDT by justlurking
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To: Regulator

Gee, and how did we know he was an oppressed member of a “Protected Class”?


18 posted on 05/03/2016 3:51:08 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#BoycottTarget)
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This is just the opening salvo from the RAT brigade. Of the first actions from Clinton 45 after she is sworn in will be an all out assault on the FIRST and SECOND amendments. Take that to the bank. The RATS are still livid over the SCOTUS "error" on Citzens United, and of course we all know what Queen Shrillary believes about the Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment
19 posted on 05/03/2016 4:16:18 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: winner3000

I would not cooperate with their orders. They are little fascists trying to control free speech and make oil illegal.


20 posted on 05/03/2016 4:25:43 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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