By
James
Hirsen
Global
warming advocates are seeking to use a criminal statute that was originally
designed to assist in the prosecution of organized crime figures. Twenty
so-called scientific experts recently signed a letter, which was sent to the
Obama administration. The correspondence included a demand that individuals who
hold an opposing viewpoint on the subject of global warming be investigated and
prosecuted via the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
The
RICO Act is a 1970 federal law, which was passed in order for law enforcement
agencies to be able to make arrests, and the justice system to ultimately
prosecute members of organized crime. The RICO statute includes within it
potential sentences of 20 years in prison for those who are convicted.
"We
strongly endorse Senator Whitehouse's call for a RICO investigation," the "scientists"
wrote in the letter to the president. The writers claimed that the "methods
of these organizations are quite similar to those used earlier by the tobacco
industry," adding that "A RICO investigation (1999 to 2006) played an
important role in stopping the tobacco industry from continuing to deceive the
American people about the dangers of smoking." The politician to which the
letter refers, Rhode Island Sen. Whitehouse, had penned an article, which was
published in the Washington Post in
May 2015, calling for those individuals and institutions deemed to be global
warming deniers to be criminally prosecuted. [more...]
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