Coalition of Seven State Attorneys General Has Been Formed to Silence Climate Change Critics

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Al Gore, Democratic State Attorneys Generals Out to Silence Climate Change Dissenters

May 30, 2016

NEWSMAX - In what has to be among the sharpest salvos fired in modern times against free speech and freedom of expression, a coalition of seven state attorneys general has been formed to silence climate change critics.
 
One of those attorneys general filed a subpoena in April to obtain a decade of research and records from a pro-freedom market think tank that questions the findings of global warming advocates.

Last week, the case against the Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) took a new direction when Attorney General Claude Walker of the U.S. Virgin Islands suddenly announced he was withdrawing the subpoena action he filed in the District of Columbia.

But no one at CEI thinks that the assault on them and their arguments against man-made global warming is over — not by a long shot.

Noting that the original subpoena against his group that was filed in the Virgin Islands remains, CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman told reporters that Walker and his fellow attorneys general "apparently think they can continue their unconstitutional intimidation campaign against anyone that challenges their view of climate change."

This latest exchange between CEI and its "legal eagle" antagonists is the culmination of actions that began in April with the launching of the new "Attorneys General United for Clean Power."

"We stand ready to defend the next president's climate change agenda, and vow to fight any efforts to roll-back the meaningful progress we've made over the past eight years," said New York' Attorney General Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

As if to underscore that they mean business when it comes to climate change, Schneiderman and the new attorneys' general group were flanked by another Democrat who has perhaps done more than anyone else to make the issue part of the national political dialogue: Al Gore.

The former vice president and Oscar-winning producer of the pro-climate change film "An Inconvenient Truth," is the country's leading advocate for green projects to mitigate carbon emissions.

Part of the agenda of Gore, Schneiderman, Walker and company was the subpoena against the 20-year-old CEI, which is one of the most respected conservative think tanks in Washington and premier voices for the view that there is no persuasive evidence that the earth faces any severe threat to it.

"And part of the agenda of those who hold the opposite view is to use so-called law enforcement to shut down debate on the issue," CEI's Kazman told Newsmax.


Hence, he noted, "the pursuit of records and documents that will be incredibly time-consuming for us.  So far, we've spent tens of thousands in attorneys' fees just dealing with this action. 

But it has cost us dearly in the Kazman and others at CEI made clear their feeling that prolonged legal action and the resulting publicity will possibly drive away contributors to the organization. 

But, Kazman quickly added, "we have always taken free market positions and actions without regard to what contributors think."

He recalled how CEI opposed the automobile company bailout in 2009 despite have financial backers in the auto industry. In addition, said Kazman, "We opposed the big tobacco settlement.

"Contributors come and go. Issues and the question of which position is right and which is wrong are most important to us."

Kazman also believes that the goal of the attorneys general and climate change advocates in pursuing legal action is to discourage scientists and leaders in the science community from speaking out by questioning evidence of man made global warming.

Whatever the cost to those who question climate change and no matter how long it takes to quash the actions of the attorneys general, Kazman believes His group will emerge triumphant in the end.

In his words, "Al Gore's 'inconvenient truth' has run into an inconvenient Amendment — the First one.'" 

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PILOT wrote at NEWSMAX:

I agree that Democrats, liberism and their "Progressive" movement present their own brand of intolerance. Theirs, is a long term campaign to create an all dependent majority, willing to stand in line for the next federal "freebee", prepared to pay crushing taxes to maintain an elite body of government delighted to allow small scraps to fall from their oppulent table, which is sieved through by a smokestack of even more governing bodies, leaving us with far less than what we could have provided for ourselves.

A shorter translation would read: we have become slaves to our government. We get less than we produce and are no better for it.

Our wilful acceptance of this type of future can not only be supported by the Hilaryzombies (one word) continuing support for Obama's treachery, but also for the fanatic "useful idiots" (Stalin's term) which have gorged themselves on Sander's extremely honest and transparent fairytale of the "benefits" of a Socialistic Oligarchy.

CAN Trump re-ballast the Ship of State? CAN he stop a ship that is already foundering? I don't know if its POSSIBLE to right a foundering ship that is already UNSALVAGABLE, by definition. Obama success is an exploitation of years of insidious, consistent Democratic ground work. ANY actions are going to meet a great deal of political resistance simply because Congress has enriched themselves through the many years of lucrative corruption.

US politics run on the almighty dollar...be it "(re-) election war chests, influence peddling, etc. Bernie Sanders' Campaign proved that huge "small" donations can compete against the Super-PAC and million dollar (plus) corporate donors.

America turned a "blind eye" to the fact that Obama, Clinton, and Sanders were all three using the same playbook: A now deceased author and "Community Advocate" by the name of Saul Alinsky, published a book titled "RULES FOR RADICALS". It was a powerful influence on Obama, who cites Alinsky many times in the books Obama wrote. Hilary chose to defend Alinsky's tenants in her Dissertation in her final year in college. And Sanders...just wouldn't be the independent "Democcratic Socialist" without Alinsky as a good socialist model.

Alinsky proposed a "eight step model" which when enacted, could establish a Socialist Oligarchy out of any government, right under the nose of the governed. Once the government controlled the following: Socialism could be created and maintained: First, must come government controlled Health Care. After that, control the media, education and free speech, disarm the public, maximize national debt, raise personal taxation to chocking level, and raise the number of people dependent on Welfare. Naturally, politicians profit handsomely, and the only solution to improve one's quality of life, is to become part of the problem.

Obama's administration is credited with 20, 462 new "reforms" (to date...and that's no typo!). How many of those do you imagine enforced...and re-enforced again and again, the tenants of Saul Alinsky? Certainly, for all the "secretive" efforts characterizing the Obama Administration, he's been blatant on many of many of Alinsky's tenants that have worked their way into domestic policy and the law books...or he has tried, at the very least: the ACA, Gun Control, high personal taxes, high national, debt...there's NOT a lick of coincidence here.

One threat that has been repeated by unreliable sources has Trump intending to repeal/reverse all of Obama's actions. There is no possible way to undue everything and and its a ridiculous smear action at best.

What WOULD work is using Alinsky's tenants to filter out those very reforms which were designed to force Socialism upon us. It'd be a filter, and there is justice in using as it in that role.