Writing in the Washington
Post, Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, offered a curious
suggestion for dealing with global warming skeptics: In 2006, Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia decided that the tobacco companies’
fraudulent campaign amounted to a racketeering enterprise. According to the
court: “Defendants coordinated significant aspects of their public relations,
scientific, legal, and marketing activity in furtherance of a shared objective
— to . . . maximize industry profits by preserving and expanding the market for
cigarettes through a scheme to deceive the public.”
Unless, of course,
we're just going to scrap any pretense of political neutrality on questions of
free speech. Top men like Sheldon Whitehouse can make sure we don't hear
anything that we don't need to hear about scientific research and legally
punish anyone who publicly disagrees. Otherwise, the natives get restless and
start opposing whatever economic restrictions seem necessary to save us from
ourselves. And as we all know, everything about the global warming debate is
guided by altruism. No one's looking to get rich by artificially inflating the
cost of fossil fuels and benefiting from green energy subsidies, right?....To Read More.....
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