Climate Depot reports that another prominent green, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, has called for climate “deniers” to be jailed. Is it just me, or is there something very wrong with a political landscape in which people find it acceptable to demand their opponents be jailed for disagreeing with them? Watch the video.
RFK Jr wants to jail energy CEO’s for “Treason” Laments no current laws to punish climate skeptics:
RFK Jnr is not alone in demanding people who disagree with him do time – the Google search http://google.com/search?q=jail+climate+deniers returns over 200,000 hits.
The fellow in the video still thinks he is 19.
Probably the last time he had an original thought.
Third generation of inherited wealth? Say no more.
Those who are not old enough to remember the communistic (socialistic) block:
The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet Union foreign policy, first and most clearly outlined by S. Kovalev in a September 26, 1968 Pravda article, entitled “Sovereignty and the International Obligations of Socialist Countries.” Leonid Brezhnev reiterated it in a speech at the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers’ Party on November 13, 1968, which stated:
Eastern Bloc
When forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries.
This doctrine was announced to retroactively justify the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 that ended the Prague Spring, along with earlier Soviet military interventions, such as the invasion of Hungary in 1956
A couple of weeks ago, almost every Democrat in congress voted in support of a proposed new amendment to the constitution that would pretty much eliminate free speech in the US.
Democrats in the Senate. The House hasn’t voted on the amendment, though many in the House have been vocal in their support of it.
“called for climate deniers to be jailed”
Statements like this are common among Alarmists. Alarmists are not really compatible with a democracy like America. They would prefer a totalitarian regime.
If they had their way America would be one such regime. Our current totalitarian in chief hsa been hard at work to make it happen.
if i go to jail i hope it is in the same cell as Mr Watts and all, I would say Jo Nova but guess it is single sex cells. Wow, on this site I mentioned sex.
You could claim you gender identity rights were being violated by sharing cells with other men. That works for bathrooms, at least in California schools. Just hope you don’t have to learn to walk in heels.
This is how statists, communists, dictators, totalitarians, etc., deal with dissent. Free expression is forbidden. The thought police are out there. As climate change is a bigger threat than terrorism, I fully expect the NSA to start monitoring our calls and emails for hints of climate change denialism.
Robert F. Kennedy Junior obviously has lost the climate focused argument. So, he wants to jail his critics.
It is hard to continue to be benevolent toward hate speaking people like Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
John
At 8:41 AM on 24 September, John Whitman had written:
Among the other benefits of growing up in a Sicilian-American family, I am grateful to those who’d nurtured me to manhood for the fact that I feel in no way encumbered by the sort of charitable impulse which would give the average American even the urge to micturate upon someone like this Kennedy creature were he to present in the process of demonstrating spontaneous human combustion.
Managgia Irlandesi.
Wow, P.J. Now tell us what you really think. LOL!
But he makes some good points…
P.J. O’Rourke does not impress me in the least, save as an ill-informed loudmouth.
He blames Joe Kennedy Jr. for being killed while on a dangerous mission in WWII. Even when you’re a hero, you may be “…wholly lacking in sense of consequences… to this flame spewing dimwit.
Peter,
Your misantropic obsession regarding climate is putting my children and grandchildren at risk. And is costing the world the equivalent of a medium sized war daily already.
Take your faux concern and your apocalyptic claptrap and put it where the sun don’t shine.
Why won’t you kooks stick with UFO’s, past lives and Area 51?
Does there exist any scientist who’s views you respect that has produced data that believably explains the observed record? The models don’t work and both sides agree, and the observed record does not abide the rhetoric that accompanies the modeled results. None of the scientists I read can reconcile the travesty that is the divergence between modeled climate and observed climate.
The non-reconciliation has reached criminal proportions, actually.
Steps have been taken recently to keep coal from being shipped to India, where fully a THIRD of their population has no electricity.
We can thank the alarmists for influencing Portland, OR for rejecting plans for a coal-loading facility.
Keeping the people of India in the dark by stopping fuel from reaching them should be a crime against humanity.
At the risk of offending any Americans with fond memories of a certain, fairly mediocre, deceased President, aren’t this mans family renowned for thinking with a part of their anatomy, that is located somewhat lower down than is the norm?
Acting with it, perhaps. Thinking? No.
Are you hinting the Kennedy’s are well endowed? I thought it was the little people who attempt to attain greatness.
One is never offended by fools, only astonished.
The Kennedy curse strikes again.
RFK was born an imbecile.
This guy does probably talk to his house plants like Prince Charles. Aristocracy.
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”- Pogo
To MOD’s.
RFK Jr’s six carbon burning children were listed by me and deleted by you. This was a straight copy/paste off wiki.
So, your morality is high but your action was moot. 😉
RFK, Jr. demands intolerance for anyone expressing an opinion contrary to our government’s climate dogma, reminding me of Orwell’s 1984. As Voltaire stated, “It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong”. No longer is there a search for truth since, as we are told, the science is settled. How long before our government takes seriously such a position as RFK, Jr. espouses?
What a knob
“. . . take the posters at their word unless there is sufficient reason to believe otherwise.”
Admirable sentiment, but on past behaviour (incessant bald-faced lying by CAGW pushers) CAGW pushing in and of itself is more than sufficient reason to believe otherwise.
Sig Heil, Herr Kennedy! I have read that the Nazis started with Robert Jr.’s type of thinking. So much for a legacy of liberty and freedom. This man is a fascist.
dbstealey says (September 24, 2014 at 1:14 pm)
dbstealey says (September 24, 2014 at 1:14 pm)
A little further on in the same piece he makes some even better ones:
Expressing ones views on a subject is generally not a crime in the US. There are some exceptions these days (anything classified as hate speech for example). I suppose if they can get dissenting views on the weather classified as a hate crime, they could start jailing people. At that point, we will need to be careful about comments like “what a nice day it is today”.
What is a crime is to deprive others of their freedom of speech, which is clearly what Kennedy is advocating. I suggest it is Kennedy that needs to be jailed.
People such as RFK jr. Are severely deficient in the area of imperical scientific study and, in the case of the U.S., Constitutional law regarding freedom of speech as well as a host of other federal and state laws. Our governments and the U.N. do not know what their talking about and most of the worlds population knows it. Going on fifteen years of NO AGW and they keep trying to feed us their line. Thanks, but no thanks.
RFK Jr. clearly reinforces the belief that talent typically skips a generation. What a jack hole.
Mr. Kennedy sure is sounding like a Parkinson’s victim. While he is wishing ill upon his political opponents I wish him well with his health.
W^3
You can only be prosecuted for an actual crime that has been proven to have occurred. You can’t punish someone for a crime that you can’t prove even happened. Not believing in AGW is not a crime, unless your actions can be proven to have caused harm to someone. Good luck with that when it comes to the climate.
What ‘crime’ does he think skeptics will be prosecuted for? Making the Earth warmer? Is that a crime?
Certainly you can be punished for a non-crime. Happens all the time.
Are you a member of the Tea [Taxed Enough Already] Party? If you are audited by the IRS because of it, you’re being punished.
The NRA just had an article about banks and other financial instituions abruptly severing all credit lines from gun store owners. Businesses need credit to operate. They have committed no crimes. They are being punished for engaging in lawful business.
The list is getting longer. Kennedy is just a symptom.