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Post by fretslider on Sept 1, 2019 6:47:54 GMT -5
From WUWT:
BERNIE SANDERS WANTS TO PROSECUTE OIL AND NATURAL GAS COMPANIES, BUT DOESN’T KNOW WHAT LAWS THEY VIOLATED
AUGUST 27, 2019 | WILLIAM ALLISON
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is out with yet another climate proposal, this time to prosecute fossil fuel executives for causing climate change.
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The attack continues on his campaign website: berniesanders.com/issues/the-green-new-deal/
“Bernie promises to go further than any other presidential candidate in history to end the fossil fuel industry’s greed, including by making the industry pay for its pollution and prosecuting it for the damage it has caused.”
The problem? Sanders didn’t explain what laws these companies have broken. Spoiler alert: Providing affordable, reliable energy isn’t a crime anywhere, least of all in the United States.
But because Sanders personally doesn’t like what these companies do, he believes they should be taken to court.
eidclimate.org/bernie-sanders-wants-to-prosecute-oil-and-natural-gas-companies-but-doesnt-know-what-laws-they-violated/
wattsupwiththat.com/2019/08/31/the-bern-vows-to-prosecute-oil-gas-industry-law-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-law/
Bernie Sanders
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Fossil fuel executives should be criminally prosecuted for the destruction they have knowingly caused. #GreenNewDeal
Bernie clearly hasn't been keeping up with things for the last few years, has he. Has he heard of Bill Nye the [anti-]science guy? From 2016...
Bill Nye “the science guy” says in a video interview released Thursday that he is open to the idea of jailing those who deviate from the climate change consensus.
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/14/bill-nye-open-criminal-charges-jail-time-climate-c/
And what law to use, hmm... the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, of course.
Again from 2016...
Attorneys general participating in this scurrilous persecution, such as New York’s Eric Schneiderman, claim the First Amendment doesn’t apply to scientific debate and dissent on climate change because apparently Mr. Schneiderman knows the “truth”: “Climate change is real.” In his view, the targets of their investigation are committing “fraud” and are therefore not protected by the First Amendment.
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The first victims of this new Inquisition include ExxonMobil and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a Washington think tank. The attorney general of the Virgin Islands is targeting the gas and oil giant for supposedly defrauding consumers by lying about climate change. He is claiming violations of the Virgin Islands version of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO — a law designed to prosecute organized crime and major drug cartels.
www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/prosecuting-climate-change-deniers-abuse-power
His green credentials seem questionable at the very least.