Dem Congressmen: First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Global Warming Skeptics(CA)

dailycaller.com ^ | 6/13/2016 | Michael Bastasch

[rktman]

California congressmen wrote a letter to state attorney general Kamala Harris claiming the freedom of speech “is not designed to protect fraud and deceit” of the likes being spread by oil company ExxonMobil about global warming.

Nineteen Democratic lawmakers told Harris her “investigation as to whether ExxonMobil lied about the truth of climate change and misled investors does not constitute an effort to silence speech or scientific research.

[556x45]

The global warming Thing is starting to take on an inquisition feel - Disagree with our understanding and we’ll burn you at the stake, heretic.

[HiTech RedNeck]

There’s such a thing as sawing off the limb that one is sitting on, and these foolish people look like they are getting ready to do just that.

They think that their own arrogance won’t leap right out of the mirror and swallow them up. That the devils they have embraced won’t demand their due, that the wicked piper will gladly go without payment.

Ohhhhhh how mistaken they are!

[unread]

"California congressmen..." Do we need to say more..?

[circlecity]

Isn’t that essentially the same thing they told Galileo?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well hubris has met chutzpah. 2 words, Donald Trump. He already has robustly repudiated this nonsense.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Saying, "prove it" used to be known as the scientific method. Now, politicians turn science on its head, and complicit "scientists" accede - as long as the checks keep coming.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. - Albert Einstein

[Scott from the Left Coast]

These are the same people who tell us Islam is a religion of peace...so there you go.

[Red Badger]

The 2nd Amendment says it does....................

[Red Badger]

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[Texas resident]

This is more than an attack on the 1st amendment of the oil companies. They are making the first move to either extort or nationalize the oil companies. Some dimwit California congresswoman let it slip that their goal was to take over the oil industry. They have taken over so many other industries already.

I hope the heads of the oil companies band together to fight this. Stop all deliveries to the US government entities, then see how the game goes from there.

[ManHunter]

I can’t possibly tell you how much I’d like to take some of these morons, start slapping them around and make ‘em cry...

[Steely Tom]

“Common sense” speech control.

The next logical step after “common sense” gun control.

That's excellent. If you thought of it, you're brilliant.

You were already on my "smart Freeper" list.

[Calvin Locke]

Sort of. Galileo and the pope at the time didn't get along, so it was Galileo's obstinacy to endorsing some book by the pope that got him into trouble.

Unlike today's elite, they weren't adverse to considering consistently reproducible results over some wild theories based on cherry-picked and deliberately manipulated data that falls apart under the slightest of scrutiny.

[Calvin Locke]

“The First Amendment doesn’t protect the free speech of people who disagree with me.”

Thank you Bush43 for signing a bad law that the "USSC will fix." Not. The "fixing", that is.

[Flintlock]

Rope, tree limb, politician’s neck—some assembly required.

[SgtHooper]

Liberalism follows the incremental steps of Islam. Eventually, if allowed, the libidiots will rule this country like the Muzzies would, given the opportunity.