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Senator: Use RICO Laws to Prosecute Global Warming Skeptics
The Weekly Standard ^ | 6-2-15 | Mark Hemingway

Posted on 06/02/2015 7:37:12 PM PDT by DeweyCA

Writing in the Washington Post, Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, offered a curious suggestion for dealing with global warming skeptics:

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That's right -- a sitting U.S. Senator is suggesting RICO laws should be applied to global warming skeptics. Courts have been defining RICO down for some time and in ways that aren't particularly helpful. In 1994, the Supreme Court ruled RICO statutes could be applied to pro-life activists on the grounds that interstate commerce can be affected even when the organization being targeted doesn't have economic motives.

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In February, Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., attempted a McCarthyite witch hunt against climate scientists he found disagreeable. And Sheldon Whitehouse is sitting U.S. Senator. He's now publicly encouraging legal persecution of people who conduct scientific research and/or those that have opinions about it he disagrees with. He wrote this opinion in the Washington Post on Friday, and no one much noticed or batted an eye at the consequences of what he's advocating here. Such calls for draconian restrictions on speech are becoming alarmingly regular. And if more people don't start speaking out against it, sooner or later we're actually going to end up in a place where people are being hauled into court for having an opinion that differs from politicians such as Senator Whitehouse.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 114th; abuseofpower; cultureofcorruption; globalwarming; nifongism; partisanwitchhunt; radicalleft; rico
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To: DeweyCA

Jeb Bush: ‘I’m Upset’ About ‘False,’ ‘Dangerous’ Narrative of Civil Liberties Threat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3296260/posts

Will Jeb Bush go after civil liberties skeptics, too, using RICO?


41 posted on 06/02/2015 9:11:17 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

“truly, think I will be in a gulag in the near future.”

Those people didn’t know what one was until it was too late. Same for the Nazi camps. We know. NO American should ever see the inside of a gulag. When they come to arrest, that’s where to stop it.


42 posted on 06/02/2015 9:12:24 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: DeweyCA
Too bad there is no penalty for a sitting Senator violating that portion of his oath of office where he swears he will protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Seems like Senator Whitehouse is, at a minimum, guilty of dereliction of his duty to protect the First Amendment rights of those with whom he disagrees.
43 posted on 06/02/2015 9:23:26 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Snickering Hound

Some say that he’s a homosexual pedophile who enjoys torturing his victims.


44 posted on 06/02/2015 9:39:31 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: spokeshave

A phenomenally stupid man.


45 posted on 06/02/2015 9:55:30 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: DeweyCA

Let that SOB come after me personally. I’m a skeptic you coward senator!


46 posted on 06/02/2015 10:14:56 PM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: DeweyCA

I will one-up that. Send all liberals to Cultural Revolution style re-education camps, where they will do actual manual labor for the first time in their sorry lives during the day and study the Constitution at night.


47 posted on 06/02/2015 11:46:49 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: DeweyCA

It is becoming more and more obvious that the Ballot Box cannot curb a politician from LYING ... There may be another way to cure this recent phenomenon, I believe it was applied (and was about 100% successful) not that many years ago.

TT


48 posted on 06/03/2015 12:51:56 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: The Antiyuppie
Send all liberals to Cultural Revolution style re-education camps, where they will do actual manual labor for the first time in their sorry lives during the day and study the Constitution at night.

Nah. The last thing we need is another plantation.

Just strip them of Government jobs (no re-hire or consultants) and government funds including benefits obtained through fraudulent behaviour and grant money), and let them find their own way.

49 posted on 06/03/2015 1:04:11 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: tbw2

Good Luck with the AG backing you on that ...

They only enforce “Some” Laws

Any Laws that YOU break will be Fiercely Enforced with Malice and Forethought.

Pay Attention! We are no longer a Nation of Laws, we are a Banana Republic “For Sale” by any POS elected or appointed DirtBag... even if the perceived DirtBag is only rumored to have even the slightest access to those that hold the reins of power, there will be a Dirtbag in Uniform right behind him to make sure YOU PAY UP.
I was in Construction ... the Katrina aftermath cured me from ever wanting to ever do that again... I was very Happy to see Ray Nagin (Mr Chocolate City) go away ... (Club Med)... although his minions in Uniform (Muscle) are still there and in business. Never Go to New Orleans, ever!
TT
PS I lived there for 10 years and I will NEVER RETURN, I moved to Texas on purpose (see my handle?)


50 posted on 06/03/2015 1:19:15 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: R_Kangel

Bookmark


51 posted on 06/03/2015 1:21:22 AM PDT by misanthrope (Liberalism; it is not unthinking ignorance, it is malignant evil.)
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To: kiryandil

**** “Some say that he’s a homosexual pedophile who enjoys torturing his victims.” *****

I heard the same thing.
I think we have a Consensus... Everyone Agrees! It is Settled! No Room or Time for Discussion! Way too Dangerous to wait!

Anyone that disagrees is a Denier!

What is the penalty for a Denier?

(Might be a Thread all it’s own just to discuss the Penalty Phase)

TT


52 posted on 06/03/2015 1:29:58 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: DeweyCA

Well yeah, what is even scarier is how progressives have gotten away with being tyrants with no real pushback from any of us.

I don’t see any mass outrage anywhere.


53 posted on 06/03/2015 1:30:13 AM PDT by dforest
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Libs don’t fight man to man.. they lawyer up. Hiding behind the skirts of their created and unequal justice. It is scary to think these people vote on laws... when really what they desire is their personal gain. Term Limits.


54 posted on 06/03/2015 2:17:03 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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To: momincombatboots

No They “MAKE” Laws for us ... (much worse)
TT


55 posted on 06/03/2015 2:37:00 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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When you know your dishonesty will be exposed if there is an open and honest debate, working to avoid the future guilty conscience and public shame requires that the debate opposition is shutdown. Use of strawman tactics is a layered cover for it further insulating the demon from repercussions.


56 posted on 06/03/2015 3:46:37 AM PDT by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: Norm Lenhart

“Well some of us told people what would happen when they empowered liberals. Some people refused to listen.”

Sadly true, as it was in Germany when the Jews (or at least some of them) helped empower the Nazis. “That’s just talk”, they no-doubt said. Never happened, never will.

I can talk about the liberals that I knew in college (who are now in power) and what their plans are. The usual reaction is hoping I shut up before they have to send to 72 hours at the happy house. They are CLUELESS.


57 posted on 06/03/2015 5:16:39 AM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'about' page))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Sheldon Whitehouse? At this present time..the esteemed inane senator is most appropriately named...?

such people are to be shunned...


58 posted on 06/03/2015 5:19:04 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

we will all be tattooed.... with the word UNCLEAN on our foreheads


59 posted on 06/03/2015 5:20:31 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: DeweyCA

The criminal Lois Lerner must be executed and her head hoisted on a pike on the Arlington Bridge


60 posted on 06/03/2015 5:37:33 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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