Beware the Science Gestapo comes!

Governor Kate Brown’s heavy handed political maneuver that demanded the Obama administration’s Justice Department  “take action” in the “Burns Oregon standoff” resulting in the violent execution of Utah rancher, LaVoy Finicum, was bad enough.  But what her administration is preparing next, is not only unprecedented in Oregon history, but will likely result in a huge political, economic , and social upheaval in the state, leading to even greater federal intervention.

Oregon’s democrat Attorney General, Ellen Rosenblum, joined 15 other Attorneys General as they launched an all-out assault on scientific inquiry and free speech, by vowing to pursue those in the fields of energy, scientific research, climatology or academia who don’t toe the leftist line on anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming, threatening to “pursue them to the fullest extent of the law”.  

In Oregon one of the primary targets for this crackdown on dissent will certainly have to be Dr. Art Robinson and his son Noah Robinson who spearheaded the world famous Global Warming Petition Project that garnered the signatures of more than 31,000 American scientists, now known as “deniers”, who rejected the false and doctored claims of those who are pressing for a global climate regulatory and taxation scheme.

According to Dr. Art Robinson;  “The Petition Project (see www.petitionproject.com) featured a review article “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide” by Arthur B. Robinson, Noah E. Robinson, and Willie Soon, Journal of  American Physicians and Surgeons (2007) 12, 79-90. This is a definitive review of the research literature with 132 references, through 2007. Additional information available since 2007 has not changed the conclusions of this review.” Measuring by Google, this article was the most read article of its kind in the world for quite some time.

An article by The Daily Signal (front page this issue) likens the move to the Spanish Inquisition of 1478 in which “the grand inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada, and his henchmen sought out all those who held religious, scientific, or moral views that conflicted with the monarch’s, punishing the “heretics” with jail sentences; property confiscation; fines; and in severe cases, torture and execution.”

By now we all know that Al Gore, contrary to his claim, did not invent the internet, but what he and his accomplices have invented is the biggest hoax in the history of mankind; the so-called global warming hoax, now climate change.

The claims made by Al Gore and his fellow climate alarmists have been proven to be completely false, and many were based on computer models that have been proven to be fraudulent. Case in point: the earth hasn’t seen any warming in the past seventeen years! In fact, according to John Casey, a former White House space program advisor, NASA consultant, and Space Shuttle engineer, NASA’s own data shows that  the world has only warmed a mere 36 hundredths of a degree over the past 35 years.

But under Kate Brown and Ellen Rosenblum’s new plan, perhaps even writing this column will soon be an arrestable offense.

Eric Schneiderman, the Attorney General of New York, said in a press conference March 29, 2016 “The bottom line is simple: Climate change is real” and that companies [individuals] are committing fraud by “lying” about the dangers of climate change. He added that they will pursue them to the fullest extent of the law”. And this man is the top law enforcement official in the state of New York! He is the one committing fraud by lying. Note his use of the words “climate change is real”.  Yep, it sure is, just look outside. But it isn’t caused by driving SUV’s or coal fired energy plants, and he knows it.

They plan to get around the pesky First Amendment issue by asserting that those rejecting the bogus claims of the climate alarmists are committing fraud which is not protected speech.

This ought to make every American’s blood run ice cold, just thinking about the sweeping powers this type of police action over free inquiry, thought, and speech could mean.   

Today they want to get the climate deniers, but who’s next? Don’t ever think, that just as in the Spanish Inquisition, opposing the king’s religious beliefs, or moral views couldn’t land you in jail. Oh, wait, that’s right, they already can. Try not baking a cake for someone who has a different moral view than your own. You will be fined or imprisoned for exercising your religious beliefs.

And if you don’t comply, like LaVoy, maybe you’ll be shot in the back!

What this latest move by our nation’s attorneys general signals to me is just how bold they’re becoming. They no longer seem to have any restraint on their totalitarian agenda.

The funny thing about tyranny is that it just creeps in, one law, one bureaucrat at a time, until you wake up one morning and there’s no liberty left. My hope is that we as a nation awaken from the slumber born of our complacency, and face down this evil before it’s too late. 

David Jaques, Editor