Posted on 06/02/2016 10:22:57 AM PDT by jazusamo
A landmark California bill gaining steam would make it illegal to engage in climate-change dissent, clearing the way for lawsuits against fossil-fuel companies, think-tanks and others that have “deceived or misled the public on the risks of climate change.”
The first-of-its-kind legislation — Senate Bill 1161, or the California Climate Science Truth and Accountability Act of 2016 — is scheduled for floor action Thursday after clearing Senate committees in April and May.
The measure would allow state and local prosecutors to pursue claims against climate-change skepticism as a violation of the state’s Unfair Competition Law [UCL], as well as extend the four-year statute of limitations for such claims retroactively to Jan. 1, 2021.
“This bill explicitly authorizes district attorneys and the Attorney General to pursue UCL claims alleging that a business or organization has directly or indirectly engaged in unfair competition with respect to scientific evidence regarding the existence, extent, or current or future impacts of anthropogenic induced climate change,” says the state Senate Rules Committee’s floor analysis.
While the measure enjoys broad support by a bevy of environmental groups, the bill has also been described as an effort to ban free speech on climate change as well as chill donations to free-market groups.
Stephen Frank, editor of the conservative California Political Review, called the bill a “totalitarian statement by Democrats that the First Amendment is now dead.”
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Will they have to wear a Yellow Star ?
This country has been overthrown in a nearly bloodless revolution.
I miss America.
Wow, how anyone could live in that state escapes me.
“Will they have to wear a Yellow Star ?”
Not bad. The second post. FReepers are great.
5.56mm
Will be shot down in the SCOTUS like a cheap drone.............................
Amen
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To the extent that the democrats are saying this, it's the first time they have told the truth in generations. The First, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments are dead, and they are now trying to murder the Second and Fourth through Eighth Amendments.
Coming soon to the internet.....truth will be punished.
I’ll gladly wear the star, or a big yellow “CD” on my arm. Let ‘em come for me. This is absolutely the more head-on assault on the first amendment in my lifetime. Nothing close.
oh good, the salem witch trials of the modern age
Ping.
The California Crazy’s version of “I need some muscle over here.”
If passed, it will be headed for the courts, and make it all the way to SCOTUS. Gov. Moonbeam will be enriching the states coffers in the meantime.
No wonder these people don’t care about Hillary’s racketeering.
To liberals freedom of speech means freedom from ever having to hear speech that they don’t like.
“Wow, how anyone could live in that state escapes me.”
In my final job I dealt with a director of a Fortune 500 company that had been entirely located in California. They had several manufacturing plants and design facilities in LA alone employing thousands. He told me the company had begun buying facilities in right to work states and was slowly transferring its operations. The plan was to let the major products run their lifecycle and then close their California plants when they died. Eventually, they would be entirely out of California. He said that when they opened a plant in the south they offered a move package and management was stunned that everybody of importance took the package.
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