Progressives are the most dangerous people in the United States. If they don’t like your politics, they’ll look for ways to shut you up. They usually employ government bureaucrats to harass and intimidate opponents. Now they’ve found a more effective means to silence those who are bold enough to question their assertions and motives.
A group of state attorneys general are using the
courts to quash dissent on man-made global warming. Here is an excerpt from the Daily Caller.
“Instead of honoring
legitimate academic and scientific inquiry, the far-left has gone to extremes
to silence those who disagree,” Inhofe told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“This is not about the science, it is about personal attacks and politics at its
worst.”
Inhofe’s referring to investigations
launched by the attorneys general of California, Massachusetts, New York and
the U.S. Virgin Islands into ExxonMobil’s global warming activities over
the past 20 years or so. Virgin Islands AG Claude Walker has subpoenaed Exxon
and a libertarian think tank for records under the guise the oil giant was
violating the territory’s anti-racketeering law.
But it wasn’t until
Tuesday night that an un-redacted copy of the subpoena Walker sent Exxon was
obtained by reporters. Walker’s subpoena asked for information from 88
mostly-right-leaning think tanks along with 54 scientists and policy experts
skeptical of global warming.
Progressives will abuse
their authority. Republican Majority
Leader Tom Delay can attest to that. A politically
motivated District Attorney fished for a pliable Grand Jury until he got the
people he wanted. Delay’s conviction was
a travesty of justice. He was later
exonerated by a Texas Court of Appeals.
It’s unfortunate that democrats have to resort to such tactics.
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