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Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents
Layzej writes "Bloggers around the world have been commenting on recently leaked Heartland Institute documents that reveal their internal strategies to discredit climate science. These posters are now under threat of legal action. According to the Heartland Institute 'the individuals who have commented so far on these documents did not wait for Heartland to confirm or deny the authenticity of the documents. We believe their actions constitute civil and possibly criminal offenses for which we plan to pursue charges and collect payment for damages'"
That this comment got moded up to 5, shows us just how far Slash Dot has degenerated since the early years. I guess that is why I don't come around here much any more.
Right wing shillery RELIES on two things: the echo chamber and the chilling effect. Ever noticed how a Fox News viewer screams about the "liberal media" nonstop? It's because if they ever listened to both sides, they'd realize their side's argument is more full of holes than a loaf of aged swiss cheese.
And Left wing shillery relies on two things: vilification of your enemies and the chilling effect.
I have almost no hope that our system will survive.
As a point of proof I'd ask you to try this.
List all the foreign policy items that Obama has accomplished in his first term:
Killing Osama, Bombing Libya, Assassinating Terrorists, Withdrawing from Iraq, Expanding the troops in Afghanistan.
Now, just imagine that instead Bush had done those things. If Bush had done them (apart from killing Bin Laden) he would have faced IMHO HUGE protests from the left, Obama saw nothing. In reverse, the republicans ridiculed and questioned Obamas actions, yet would have been 100% behind Bush if he were doing them.
Politics has become a @#$%$#% sporting event with teams people root for. They're using play books with very similar plays and they've agreed to the rules of the game and how the playing field is laid out.
Yet every is cheering for their team with total zeal.
Comments like yours talking about THEY and THEM and how bad THEY are, make me sick.
We're losing OUR country.
Well, I suppose that is one way of looking at it. Another would be that there was a global cooling scare in the early 1970s, for which the solution was also to shut down industrial development, and then there was the abortion that was Kyoto, which would wreck the world's economies in return for delaying the rise in global temperature by something like five years (in the best case scenario!). The fact that the science has become certain rather than merely strongly suggestive in the intervening two decades does nothing to improve the policy suggestions, and the fact that we were much more certain of this from the get-go than we were of cooling in the 70s makes no difference to the average man in the street, who sees people proposing higher taxes on his gas to give grants to politically connected businesses.