15 state A-G's will prosecute any company that says anything critical of global warming?
While you were sleeping, the attorneys-general of 15 states (and the Virgin Islands) decided
that speaking or writing anything critical of the theory that a) the
planet is warming at a dangerous rate; and 2) that this is being
overwhelmingly caused by CO2 emitted by fossil fuels--due to human
activity like driving, flying or heating your home--is a criminal act
and can be prosecuted.
Of course you think
that couldn't possibly be true. After all, didn't the First Amendment
supposedly guarantee "freedom of speech"?
Yes it
did. But that was when the Constitution was the "supreme law of the
land." Under the emperor that's no longer true--because last Friday the
A-G of the Virgin Islands demanded that a think-tank (the Competitive
Enterprise Institute) turn over ten years of its records on every
communication with any energy-related company, in an effort to see if
the think-tank had tried to coordinate a strategy for countering the
relentless push by the Left/Democrats to raise taxes on carbon-based energy to sky-high levels.
The A-G of New York noted that his office intended to prosecute any company found to be writing or publishing opinions debunking the idea that global warming was caused by humans.
If this isn't slapped down by a federal court, it will mean the government can prosecute anyone for saying or writing anything they don't like.
"Ridiculous," you may well say. "The government isn't infringing on MY right to free speech, it's merely trying to prevent huge, evil corporations from lying about global warming."
That misses the entire point: If the government can criminalize speech on this topic, what would keep it from criminalizing speech on any other topic it didn't want discussed?
Nothing.
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