Of course they are. This is what happens to modern day heretics, per the Daily Signal’s Hans Von Spakovsky
California Attorney General Kamala Harris has joined New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in trying to prosecute Exxon Mobil for supposedly lying to its shareholders and the public about climate change, according to the Los Angeles Times. The Times reported that Harris is investigating what Exxon Mobil “knew about global warming and what the company told investors.â€
Neither Harris nor Schneiderman recognizes the outrageousness of what they are doing – which amounts to trying to censor or restrict speech and debate on what is a contentious scientific theory. In fact, they don’t want to just stop anyone who questions the global warming theory from being able to speak; they want to punish them with possible civil sanctions or even criminal penalties. As I said before about Schneiderman, Harris needs a remedial lesson in the First Amendment.
Warmists have long called for criminalizing dissent from the approved doctrine of anthropogenic climate change (also, straight jailing Skeptics and/or killing them), and this is a ready made issue for them. At one time Exxon was concerned, then they did more research and realized that the concern of doom from CO2 was vastly overstated. But, the latter is Wrongthink
These investigations are reminiscent of the old Soviet Union, where Joseph Stalin persecuted those who he thought had the “wrong†scientific views on everything from linguistics to physics. Besides sending them a copy of the Constitution so they can review the First Amendment, residents of both New York and California might also want to include a copy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s book, “In the First Circle,†in which he outlined the Soviet government’s suppression of dissenting scientists and engineers.
Let’s not forget that a US Presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, wants to “bring climate deniers to justice”. This is all a threat to Free Speech and liberty, as well as unfettered scientific investigation. It goes with the calls that “the debate is over.” They did this stuff in two other countries in Europe in the 1930’s and early 1940’s, as well.
