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Title: Weaponizing Government 'Crat AGs - secretely targeting AGW "deniers"
Post by: Late-For-Lunch on April 18, 2016, 01:44:00 PM
Email bombshell: Attorneys General worked with Green groups to punish political opponents

Published April 18, 2016 

FoxNews.com

Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) show that the offices of New York Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and those of other politically aligned AGs, secretly teamed up with anti-fossil fuel activists to launch investigations against groups whose political speech challenged the global warming policy agenda. 

These emails, obtained under open records laws, shed light on what followed after a January meeting, reported by the Wall Street Journal on April 14, in which groups funded by anti-fossil fuel Rockefeller interests met to urge just this sort of investigation and litigation against political opponents. 

Recently, after the think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) criticized the AGs' intimidation campaign, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Earl Walker — one of the AGs  working with Schneiderman — subpoenaed ten years of the non-profit organization's records relating to climate change. 

The latest email release strongly suggests a financial incentive for AGs to pursue their political opponents, rather than merely silencing and scaring away support for those who dare disagree with their extreme global warming agenda. 

The e-mail correspondence between Schneiderman's staff, the offices of several state attorneys general, and various activists covers the weeks leading up to a March 29 "publicity stunt" press conference with former Vice President Al Gore, to announce the targeting of opponents of the global warming agenda. 

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/04/18/email-bombshell-attorneys-general-worked-with-green-groups-to-punish-political-opponents.html
Title: Re: Weaponizing Government 'Crat AGs - secretely targeting AGW "deniers"
Post by: supsalemgr on April 18, 2016, 02:13:26 PM
Quote from: Late-For-Lunch on April 18, 2016, 01:44:00 PM
Email bombshell: Attorneys General worked with Green groups to punish political opponents

Published April 18, 2016 

FoxNews.com

Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) show that the offices of New York Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and those of other politically aligned AGs, secretly teamed up with anti-fossil fuel activists to launch investigations against groups whose political speech challenged the global warming policy agenda. 

These emails, obtained under open records laws, shed light on what followed after a January meeting, reported by the Wall Street Journal on April 14, in which groups funded by anti-fossil fuel Rockefeller interests met to urge just this sort of investigation and litigation against political opponents. 

Recently, after the think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) criticized the AGs' intimidation campaign, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Earl Walker — one of the AGs  working with Schneiderman — subpoenaed ten years of the non-profit organization's records relating to climate change. 

The latest email release strongly suggests a financial incentive for AGs to pursue their political opponents, rather than merely silencing and scaring away support for those who dare disagree with their extreme global warming agenda. 

The e-mail correspondence between Schneiderman's staff, the offices of several state attorneys general, and various activists covers the weeks leading up to a March 29 "publicity stunt" press conference with former Vice President Al Gore, to announce the targeting of opponents of the global warming agenda. 

The correspondence shows government officials actively trying to hide their coordination, by using a "Common Interest Agreement."  This sought to protect as privileged the discussions about defending President Obama's controversial global warming rules, and going after political opponents using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).

Most intriguingly, this sought to hide discussions among the AGs, "their staff and certain outside advisors". These communications and coordination included:
Lem Srolovic, chief of the New York Attorney General's Environmental Protection Bureau         
Scot Kline, a Vermont assistant attorney general
Matt Pawa, an environmental lawyer who works with the Climate Accountability Institute and the Global Warming Legal Action Project of the Civil Society Institute
Peter Frumhoff, director of science and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists

Pawa and Frumhoff have been pushing for this investigation for years, at least since a 2012 workshop entitled "Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Denial," a brainstorming session in California for activists on ways to convince state attorneys general to investigate "deniers" using RICO laws.

As the Vermont and New York correspondence show, Pawa and Frumhoff were invited to secretly brief the state attorneys general.  They each received 45 minutes to provide arguments on "climate change litigation" and "the imperative of taking action now" immediately prior to the AGs' press conference, according to schedules prepared by Schneiderman's office.

The next day, March 30, Pawa wrote to Eric Srolovic of Schneiderman's office and Vermont's Scott Kline seeking help. A Wall Street Journal reporter wanted to talk to Pawa, and he asked the two officials: "What should I say if she asks if I attended?"

Srolovic replied: "My ask is if you speak to the reporter, to not confirm that you attended or otherwise discuss the event."

The documents obtained by E&E Legal also include responses to a questionnaire sent to the state attorneys general by Schneiderman's office.  U.S. Virgin Islands AG Walker reveals his interest, having just completed an $800 million settlement from Hess Oil company, in "identifying other potential litigation targets" and ways to "increase our leverage." The Hess money, Walker wrote, was used to create an "environmental response trust".

Other AGs across the country have criticized these investigations. West Virginia AG Patrick Morrisey has said, "You cannot use the power of the office of the Attorney General to silence your critics."

Oklahoma AG Scott Pruitt and Alabama AG Luther Strange issued a joint press release stating, "It is inappropriate for State Attorneys General to use the power of their office to attempt to silence core political speech on one of the major policy debates of our time."

AG Jeff Landry of Louisiana said, "It is one thing to use the legal system to pursue public policy outcomes; but it is quite another to use prosecutorial weapons to intimidate critics, silence free speech, or chill the robust exchange of ideas." 

In the end, it seems the only parties that may be breaking the law are those colluding  AGs in their scheme to silence political opposition, while seeking funds for their preferred policy agenda.  It is they who need to come clean.

Chris Horner is an attorney in Washington, D.C. who obtained the email records for the Energy & Environment Legal Institute.  He is also a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute

All sane folks should leave the state of NY. Let the leftists tax and regulate to their own satisfaction.
Title: Re: Weaponizing Government 'Crat AGs - secretely targeting AGW "deniers"
Post by: tac on April 18, 2016, 02:42:10 PM
Thou shall be a believer or face the consequences. Nazi Germany Redux.
Title: Re: Weaponizing Government 'Crat AGs - secretely targeting AGW "deniers"
Post by: walkstall on April 18, 2016, 02:49:22 PM
Quote from: tac on April 18, 2016, 02:42:10 PM
Thou shall be a believer or face the consequences. Nazi Germany Redux.

Reeducation camp!
Title: Re: Weaponizing Government 'Crat AGs - secretely targeting AGW "deniers"
Post by: admin on April 18, 2016, 03:19:24 PM
It's a copyright violation to post entire articles without permission of the owner.
Also always post a link to the original source.
Title: Re: Weaponizing Government 'Crat AGs - secretely targeting AGW "deniers"
Post by: tac on April 18, 2016, 03:30:43 PM
Quote from: walkstall on April 18, 2016, 02:49:22 PM
Reeducation camp!

I hope I get a room with a view!
Title: Re: Weaponizing Government 'Crat AGs - secretely targeting AGW "deniers"
Post by: Late-For-Lunch on April 19, 2016, 01:33:28 PM
Quote from: admin on April 18, 2016, 03:19:24 PM
It's a copyright violation to post entire articles without permission of the owner.
Also always post a link to the original source.


Noted. Sorry about that, Chief!
Title: Re: Weaponizing Government 'Crat AGs - secretely targeting AGW "deniers"
Post by: Late-For-Lunch on April 19, 2016, 01:38:22 PM
BTW, I am convinced that one of the reasons that the far leftists are ratcheting up the radical, inflammatory rhetoric and lawlessness in general is to try to provoke some sort of violent response from some self described conservative in order to use it as a bludgeon with which to hit the conservative movement over the head politically.

Some of the leftist drones may simply be aping their ideological exemplars without understanding that they are being encouraged to do so in order to incite murderous violence as a propaganda tool. But the really appalling thing to me is that many who do this may be conscious of what they are doing and don't really care at all if innocent people are harmed because their excessively radical, lawless actions push some poor desperate SOB over the edge into violent insanity.

Years of experience and observation have convinced me that the greater repository for people who are misanthropic and who hate Humanity with a venomous, homicidal contempt are to be found on the anti-conservative side of the political spectrum.
BTW, I define "anti-conservative" as any militant anarchist (a al Noam Chomsky and the Unabomber) Marxist or quasi-Marxist (such as people who call themselves "democratic, revolutionary or radical socialists" but who claim to have no affiliation or affection for Marxism, militant ecoparanoids (including AGW fanatics, ecoterrorists and fanatical anti-Capitalists who want to return the world to non-technological culture) and of course atheists and Satanists (who are remarkably similar in their murderous hatred for Christians and militant opposition to Christianity). 
Title: Re: Weaponizing Government 'Crat AGs - secretely targeting AGW "deniers"
Post by: Solar on April 19, 2016, 02:13:54 PM
Quote from: Late-For-Lunch on April 19, 2016, 01:33:28 PM
Noted. Sorry about that, Chief!
You're new, I understand. The message is for everyone, since we always have new people joining.
Title: Re: Weaponizing Government 'Crat AGs - secretely targeting AGW "deniers"
Post by: quiller on April 19, 2016, 03:26:15 PM
Quote from: Late-For-Lunch on April 19, 2016, 01:33:28 PM
Noted. Sorry about that, Chief!

Generally speaking, "Fair Use" is 200 words or not more than three or four average-length paragraphs. This is a topic of intense concern overseas. Don't provoke these clowns, since Hussein gave away the Internet and our present way of on-line commentary is inevitably going to change. (Anti-muslim speech censored, etc.)