Lefty Scientist: Jail Pols Who Deny Global Warming; PBS Host Worries There's Lack of Prison Space

NewsBusters ^ | May 19, 2014 | Paul Bremmer

[2ndDivisionVet]

Left-wing extremism has a home at PBS – and that home, to be specific, is the set of Moyers & Company. Host Bill Moyers kicked off Sunday’s episode with a flashback to the previous week’s broadcast, in which scientist and environmental activist David Suzuki had announced that he believes society should literally punish politicians who don’t believe in global warming. [Video below. MP3 audio here.]

This is what Suzuki told Moyers:

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

Our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness. If we are in a position of being able to act, and we see something going on and we refuse to acknowledge the threat or act on it, we can be taken to court for willful blindness. I think that we are being willfully blind to the consequences for our children and grandchildren. It's an intergenerational crime.

Sane people can see the major problem with such a suggestion. It would be completely un-American to jail anyone, let alone politicians, for what amounts to political dissent. Such a move would be reminiscent of George Orwell’s 1984, not a first-world democracy like ours. And even if it's said simply in jest, it's hardly a joking matter to say a dissenting point of view merits imprisonment.

However, Moyers didn’t see the sheer radicalism of Suzuki’s plan as a problem. He saw a different problem, and he explained it to his audience:

The problem is, if that should happen, if politicians were to be convicted of willful blindness to the fate of the Earth and future generations, there would have to be mass arrests and lots more funding for new prisons. We're not talking about a mere handful of culprits. It's hard even to know where to start.

Ah, of course, the logistics would trip us up. We don’t have enough prison space in this country for all of the skeptics, and we probably don’t have enough police officers to make all the arrests, either. I guess that’s all that’s preventing us from carrying out this brilliant scheme.

As for Suzuki, he's has been pushing this crackpot idea for years. As the late Noel Sheppard documented, he also called for the jailing of skeptical politicians in at least two speeches in 2008. Six years later, you and I are subsidizing the airing of that radical idea with our tax dollars.

Below is a transcript of the segment:

BILL MOYERS: Welcome. Last week, the scientist David Suzuki was here to tell us what he thinks should happen to politicians who ignore or deny evidence that the Earth is heating up.

DAVID SUZUKI: Our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness. If we are in a position of being able to act, and we see something going on and we refuse to acknowledge the threat or act on it, we can be taken to court for willful blindness. I think that we are being willfully blind to the consequences for our children and grandchildren. It's an intergenerational crime.

MOYERS: The problem is, if that should happen, if politicians were to be convicted of willful blindness to the fate of the Earth and future generations, there would have to be mass arrests and lots more funding for new prisons. We're not talking about a mere handful of culprits. It's hard even to know where to start. Perhaps with Marco Rubio, Republican senator from Florida. Back when he was a state legislator, Rubio favored cutting carbon emissions that contribute to global warming. But now he's thinking about running for president in 2016 and has changed his tune, as ABC's Jonathan Karl learned this past weekend.

SEN. MARCO RUBIO: I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it. That's what I do not. And I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it. Except, it will destroy our economy.

[Secret Agent Man]

who do you think doesn’t believe this?

[DesertRhino]

Interesting. My own belief is that anyone trying to imprison someone for their beliefs and speech should be summarily shot dead.
Suzuki has his belief, I have mine.

[beethovenfan]

This new orthodoxy (climate alarmism) is exactly analogous to the orthodoxy
of the earth-centered universe in the time of Galileo. Science advances by skepticism, not “consensus”.

[molson209]

and then how will you pay for your liberal utopia

[Telepathic Intruder]

Yes, and their gunpowder would release butterflies instead of CO²

[DuncanWaring]

I believe the correct answer is “Neither”.

Galileo Galilei was put under house-arrest for claiming the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the solar system.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Sieg Heil Mr. Suzuki!!! You greedy, Nazi bastard.

[freedumb2003]

>>My mistake, it was Galileo, not Newton.<<

Which is why we don’t have a cookie named “Fig Galileo.”

[freedumb2003]

>>Sieg Heil Mr. Suzuki!!! You greedy, Nazi bastard.<<

I was thinking more along the Mussolini lines — Fascism.

[oldbrowser]

It's an intergenerational crime.

I feel the same about these climate hoaxers, looting the country on fraudulent claims.

[bamahead]

Using your generous donations (c/o the IRS) to squash viewers like you, one program at a time.



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[Gene Eric]

Today’s Leftists are the new Nazis.

Keep it up, scumbags.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Canada’s algore studied genetics and zoology.

[zeugma]

Sorry, we're heavily armed, you nuts.

You can have all the guns that you like. Until you are willing to use them, they are as irrelevant to the discussion.

That's the main reason these people are so dangerous. The guy referenced in this article is deadly serious about his idea, and as soon as he can convince enough people that it's a good idea, he'll have anyone who disagrees with him over any political matter rounded up and sent to prison. When the prisons fill up, you'll simply be shot by the side of the road.

We've seen this multiple times.

There is nothing at all new with this.

These people don't even see you as a human being, and they are perfectly willing to send men with guns to kill you in the middle of the night. The men with guns won't have a problem with it. They're amped up for it. You can see them any day playing with their MRAPS. They've gotten lots of practice with the war on drugs that was cheered on by conservatives, and they'll use the same people who daily demonstrate that they will kill you or just beat you to a bloody pulp for not being subservient enough (in their opinion of course). We see the articles on this daily on this website.

Anyone who thinks the vast majority of police and other assorted government thugs employed by the hundreds of local, state, and federal agencies that have been armed to the teeth like an occupying army won't willingly do anything their masters in power tell them to do have simply not been paying attention.

Yeah, at some point, way down the line, it will start getting dangerous for them to walk out of their houses in the morning, but by that time, the vast majority will have been terrorised into submission. A lucky few will get their licks in before they are killed, but overall, I suspect the actual numbers will be pretty low, and will be easily propagandized away by the media who will have their talking points read to them by their masters as well.

If you live 20 more years, there is no doubt in my mind that you'll be a victim of, or a witness to killing fields like have never been seen on this planet. No doubt at all.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[norwaypinesavage]

"Which is why we don’t have a cookie named “Fig Galileo."

But we do have a hamburger named after Sir Isaac Newton. (The metric unit of force is the Newton. There are about four Newtons to a pound, so in Metric, a "Quarter-Pounder" is a "Newton Burger".)

[norwaypinesavage]

"Our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness. If we are in a position of being able to act, and we see something going on and we refuse to acknowledge the threat or act on it, we can be taken to court for willful blindness. I think that we are being willfully blind to the consequences for our children and grandchildren. It's an intergenerational crime."

This sounds like a good plan to me. Provided, of course, that we include voting in favor of the federal budget deficit in the ordinance.

[GOPJ]

Here’s the left’s ‘integrity’ on parade in Hollywood... they’re more than willing to sell out the United States...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/05/20/James-O-Keefe-Dupes-Hollywood-With-Fake-Anti-Fracking-Film

[MrB]

So “denial” of global warming is an “intergenerational crime”,

but spending more money than 3 future generations can pay back isn’t?

[MrB]

Leftists never debate with those that disagree with them.

They acquire power and eliminate them.