[EL] Robert Kennedy Jr. & funding for climate change dissent

[Sean Parnell]

I thought this article might be of interest to the list, since it touches on
so many of the issues regularly addressed here: Jailing Climate Deniers
<http://ecowatch.com/2014/10/01/jailing-climate-deniers-robert-kennedy-jr/> 

 

A few of the most interesting points:

 

I do, however, believe that corporations which deliberately, purposefully,
maliciously and systematically sponsor climate lies should be given the
death penalty. This can be accomplished through an existing legal proceeding
known as "charter revocation." State Attorneys General can invoke this
remedy whenever corporations put their profit-making before the "public
welfare."

 

. Laws in every state maintain that companies that fail to comply with
prescribed standards of corporate behavior may be either dissolved or, in
the case of foreign corporations, lose their rights to operate within that
state's borders. These rules can be quite expansive and, in contrast to the
U.S. Supreme Court's ----recent rulings on campaign finance law, companies,
under state laws, enjoy far less protection than human beings. New York, for
example, prescribes corporate death whenever a company fails to "serve the
common good" and "to cause no harm."

.Among the groups that have received millions from Exxon and Koch Industries
are the Cato Institute, The Heritage Foundation, Cooler Heads Coalition,
Global Climate Coalition, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC),
Americans for Prosperity, Heartland Institute, Committee for a Constructive
Tomorrow (CFACT), George C. Marshall Institute, State Policy Network,
Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and American Enterprise Institute
(AEI).

. these front groups are snake pits for sociopaths. Run by venomous carbon
industry toadies, they stable a craven menagerie of propaganda wizards,
slick biostitutes, tobacco scientists, snake oil hucksters, voodoo
economists and other so called "experts" employed to publish beguiling
studies, appear on TV and radio, and write deceptive articles critiquing the
"flawed science" predicting climate change. They broadcast zany theories to
bolster policies that encourage increased energy consumption, torpedo
renewable energy, attack pollution rules, maintain Big Carbon's obscene
government subsidies and, in general, provide the philosophical
underpinnings  for a system of cushy socialism for the "dirty energy"
tycoons and bitter, savage capitalism for the rest of mankind.

.Any state attorney general with the will, resolve and viscera to stand to
up to the dangerous and duplicitous corporate propagandists, has authority
to annul the charters of each of these mercenary merchants of deceit. An
attorney general with particularly potent glands could revoke the charters
not just oil industry surrogates like AEI and CEI, he or she could also
withdraw state operating authority from the soulless, nationless oil
companies that have sponsored "Big Lie" campaigns and force them to sell
their in-state assets to more responsible competitors.

 

Koch Industries and ExxonMobil have particularly distinguished themselves as
candidates for corporate death.

 

Interesting.

 

Sean Parnell

President

Impact Policy Management, LLC

6411 Caleb Court

Alexandria, VA  22315

571-289-1374 (c)

sean at impactpolicymanagement.com

 

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