In case you haven’t heard, UK skeptic blogger “Tallbloke” has had his computers seized by Norfolk police looking for evidence of the intrepid “FOIA” leaker. Josh at Cartoons by Josh can always see humor, even when things look dark. He’s also provided a handy safety notice placard for posting in appropriate places.
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The trouble with computer geeks!
Snort. The cartoon is good, but the sign is hilarious.
I say that until they knock on my door to take my computer. 🙂
Giggle, snort and lol…
Heh, classic Josh!
Thanks for brightening my blog with your talent mate.
Great cartoon, Josh. And the sign?
It’s fair to compare the destructive force of an explosives-laden unattended bag left by a terrorist to the destruction a well-informed, fact-throwing sceptic has on the CAGW cause; however, note that the first is bad while the second is good. Shows you exactly where those supporting “The Cause” stand in a moral argument.
Suddenly Classic!
Because real science uses jackbooted thugs to assault critics!
these aren’t the droids you’re looking for …
Can you change the sign so it reads “Climate Septics” please?
“Obama’s Justice Department joins Britain’s ‘Climategate’ leaker manhunt
To review: The UK police and the US DOJ, Criminal Division, are pursuing a leaker of public records subject to one or more FOIA, records that were unlawfully withheld under those laws, which leaks indicate apparent civil violations (tortious interference by seeking dismissal of certain “skeptics”), and raising reasonable questions of fraud against taxpayers.
And they are pursuing the leaker.”
Washington must feel threatened.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/12/obamas-justice-department-joins-britains-climategate-leaker-manhunt/2006206#ixzz1gcgD0rtQ
wow, the cartoon is already published at the telegraph.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100124397/climategate-obamas-boot-boys-strike-back/
perhaps it could also read
” under the Freedom Of Information Act, would you mind awfully pointing to which one I need to confiscate”
to which the second retorts
“If I close my eyes i can pretend this isnt happening”
Josh; Saw your toon at “Tallbloke’s” Good show! sir. pg
Word to the wise. Back stuff up. I suspect this is going beyond the humor phase. Why didn’t they sieze Manns computer and Jones’?
On the funny side, Jones keeps “losing” his records, this way he can look to see if someone else has them.
When they don’t find anything, I fully expect the Crown Prosecution Service will jerry up a charge of possessing “extreme pornography” of some sort. It’s becoming the fallback to “get” people for failing to be sufficiently criminal and embarrassing the police. They’ll drag his name through the mud, then drop the charges at trial because they’ve suddenly lost the evidence.
I wonder if this will prompt whomever to release the password for the rest of the emails locked up in FOIA2011?
If sceptics are a ‘minority’ shouldn’t they be protected from discrimination?
“Acclaimedly, towards the end of Kaliyuga, when righteousness turns into unrighteousness, light into darkness, good into evil, virtues into vices, believers into non-believing profanes, community of man into thieves and evil doers and the faith in God is lost and the Vedas are misinterpreted to serve adharma, Kalki would be born in the house of Vishnuyashas, a Brahmin and the priest of Yajnavalkya, at the village Shambhala. “
Ben is clever.
“Superstition brings misfortune.”
(V.D.)
This is why we have the 2nd amendment in the United States.
pat says:
December 15, 2011 at 8:51 am
I found this bit from C. Horner’s piece quite interesting
“In the U.S., the academic and political Left have had fits about Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli exercising even more specific, anti-fraud authority to seek further records from University of Virginia in following up on indications from the first Climategate release of possible fraud against the taxpayer.
Apparently, that represented an abuse of the police power. No word yet if they are outraged by DOJ’s current foray or that of the UK raiding team.
The DOJ attorney sending the preservation letters, as it happens in this small world, a graduate of the University of Virginia (UVA). And UVA is also the subject of litigation a group I am associated with, the American Tradition Institute (ATI), that has filed suit on behalf of Virginia taxpayers seeking Climategate-related emails the school holds.
This is a case which has members of the Virginia faculty and establishment beside themselves and demanding an all-out effort to oppose production of the requested documents in an effort to wear us and Cuccinelli down.
So far UVA has spent upwards of $1 million fighting Cuccinelli’s request, and school officials continue to fight us in court every step of the way.
Clearly, this is no small matter in the quarters insisting that this taxpayer-financed information never see the light of day. Even the criminal legal apparatus of the U.S. and UK must be invoked against this threat, apparently.”
The UVA connection of the DOJ attorney involved is evidently just another one of those amazing coincidences that keep popping up in the world of climate science. Isn’t serendipity wonderful!
Who needs a Freedom of Information Act if you need only raid (non-suspect) citizens’ homes and take their computers, provided you are on the side of the powerful and polically correct?
Jackboots don’t need FOIA laws, but honest citizens do need them to determine what the jackboots are hiding.
Unfortunately, jackboots are currently holding the badges, carry assault rifles, and employ all the swat teams. The honest citizen is often armed with just a single vote, which by itself never defends anyone from this type of police-state incursion.
Good one.
But I’m just wondering ………….. Is everyone who posts here likely to get the knock on the door?
And if not, why not?
After all, presumably on we’re all the same “little list”, as Gilbert and Sullivan say.
@RockRoad,
Not in the US. 2nd Amendment. Bust in and try to take my things without a warrant, and your picture will be on the news.
In a way you almost have to almost admire the incredible persistence of these folks. Even as the emails provide ever increasing evidence of their thuggish tactics, they unashamedly take those tactics to an even higher level. This is pure Skinner box stuff. If you are a lab rat pushing the button emblazoned with rising flames, the food pellets continue to drop, the pleasure centers continue to be stimulated. But if you drift over and caress the button with the question mark on it, your life can turn into Dustin Hoffman in “The Marathon Man” in the blink of an eye.