Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would like to burn global-warming-denying politicians at the stake
Actually, that headline isn’t true. I lied.
What RFK Jr. would really like to do is to throw them in jail, if he could only figure out what crime to charge them with:
Kennedy Jr. accused skeptical politicians of “selling out the public trust.” “Those guys are doing the Koch Brothers bidding and are against all the evidence of the rational mind, saying global warming does not exit. They are contemptible human beings. I wish there were a law you could punish them with. I don’t think there is a law that you can punish those politicians under.”
Kennedy saved his most venomous comments for the Koch Brothers, accusing them of “treason” for “polluting our atmosphere.”
“I think it’s treason. Do I think the Koch Brothers are treasonous, yes I do,” Kennedy explained.
“They are enjoying making themselves billionaires by impoverishing the rest of us. Do I think they should be in jail, I think they should be enjoying three hots and a cot at the Hague with all the other war criminals,” Kennedy declared.
“Do I think the Koch brothers should be tried for reckless endangerment? Absolutely, that is a criminal offence and they ought to be serving time for it,” he added.
Ah, but at least Kennedy can be excused, because he’s not familiar with the way the law works. What? You say he’s got a law degree? Oops.
And lest you think my comparison to the Inquisition’s methods totally far-fetched, get a load of this [emphasis mine]:
Kennedy Jr. lashed out at skeptics of 2007 declaring “This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors.” In 2009, RFK, Jr. also called coal companies “criminal enterprises” and declared CEO’s ”˜should be in jail”¦ for all of eternity.”
Kennedy is not alone in this rhetoric; there are plenty more who have been calling for death to unbelievers, exposing the totalitarian heart of the left. It starts with words. But it doesn’t usually end with them.
[Hat tip: Ace]
Brad Wardell, Mozilla former CEO.
They’re cleaning house and replacing them, even in the military, with their personal household troops, the stormtroopers that obey their orders no matter what.
http://www.voxday.blogspot.com/2014/09/escalating-gamergate.html
Fast and Furious was a hint. It was a hint that if you didn’t know about it before, the question people should ask is “what else do they not know but which the Left is doing right now”.
I wonder if he thinks what his grandfather would think about such statements.
Missed a coma and an and. The third CEO, I can’t remember. Fiorina perhaps?
This guy is a Kennedy, he should be drug tested before speaking in public. Was he sober?
trofim lysenko
Personally I look forward to no daily bag limit and no license required.
Well alt least he didn’t agitate for immediate execution by explosion as that “funny” British 10:10 video imagined a few years back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Mw5_EBk0g
Can you imagine ever hearing someone from the NRA saying something about gun control advocates like Kennedy did?
Democrats all have dictatorial totalitarianistic hearts. They are all evil and wicked people. There are NO exceptions anymore than there were good Nazis. Deal.
RFK and all Dems need to be fought tooth and nail. It’s us or them.
He’ll be damned if he’ll let those treasonous traitors destroy Nature, that red in tooth and claw Nature, which Kennedy believes knows neither purpose or value.
Perhaps Mr. Kennedy ESQ should consider the fact that legally “treason” does not exist except in times of declared war. The last one of those ended in 1945.
Personally, I would be quite comfortable with the idea of a Congressionally approved war and the legal ramifications that come with that, including the ability to legally level charges of treason. I doubt Mr. Kennedy would feel the same way if he thought his position through enough, but what do you expect? He’s a Kennedy….
The Kennedy Family, in its entirety, is a human disgrace. They are cheaters and liars from the beginning. The only talent they have is politics – and that only for stealing and lording it over others.
Mike:
Then, when I stopped being a Democrat, did I get a heart transplant?
I never had a “dictatorial totalitarianistic heart,” and yet I was indeed a Democrat.
I’ve argued with you on this same point many many times before. I disagree with you profoundly.
Anyone who stands in the way of their lust for power is in danger. If only we could convince them, fully, that they are the one’s standing in the way. It is possible. They do kill their own, fairly often actually. Foster, for example. One of many. Just, not the high profile targets. Those are too useful to be dispensed with, until a Stalin steps forward.
Of course I’d like to see him thrown in jail for all the anti-vaccination non-sense he pulled a few years back. (I mean if we’re throwing people in prison for causing pain and suffering.)
Is this the same soul who Wiki posits plead out when busted for HEROIN?
We have a True Believer.
RFK Jr. is the poster boy for the CAGW religion. He couldn’t be a good Catholic, but this faith is right up his alley.
All you have to do to shut these people up is to ask them how they are going to provide terra watts of electricity with solar or wind. And how they’re going to power electric vehicles without those terra watts of electric power. They have no answer except that, if we put our minds to it, we can do it. Yep, and hippos can fly, if they put their minds to it.
If traitors in America were treated as traitors. RFK Jr would be something like a cross between a lamp post decoration and a pinata.
Kennedys are all a loathsome lot & any woman that hooks up with them is shortening her life span. When will they realize their non monetary misfortune in life is pure Karma, for having always put themselves first. Even in the face of death & profound harm, they always put themselves first.
Neo-Neocon
“Then, when I stopped being a Democrat, did I get a heart transplant?
I never had a “dictatorial totalitarianistic heart,” and yet I was indeed a Democrat.
I’ve argued with you on this same point many many times before. I disagree with you profoundly.”
Sorry to butt in, but this is something I wondered about for a long time.
Take another example of a neocon, Roger Simon of Pajamas Media.
I remember reading a comment of him from a few years back were he states (I have to paraphrase since I don’t have the original comment);
– in the seventies I was a big admirer of Mao
– even though he killed more people than the nazis
– it was no big deal at the time
Now to me that means that Mr. Simon was worse than a nazi in the seventies (the “killed more …” part), and then there is the “no big deal” part too.
The same can be said of most of those people who were hit on the head by 11 September 2001. They seem to have forgotten there own responsibilities before they were “hit on the head”.
Compare this to a Bernard Nathanson. He didn’t just “change his mind”, he repented of what he had done. In fact, that’s one of the reasons he stated for converting to Catholicism, because he felt a great need for forgiveness.
The inescapable responsibility of the Germans for the nazis is fairly regularly stated, but has it never come to your mind that that same question of responsibility can be asked of you?
Ps. I understand I rather sound self-righteous here. Be assured that this isn’t what I want. While I’m no admirer of Pope Francis in this case I can totally agree with his “Who am I to judge”.
The fact that JFK, who was probably a decent man, has such a contemptible heir is a sad commentary on the moral destitution of the left. Former Democrats have nothing to be ashamed of. I too was once a Democrat before the Democrat party made a radical left turn. The party left me, I am still the same.
The thing that interested me the most in Kennedy’s statement is this:
“Those guys are doing the Koch Brothers bidding and are against all the evidence of the rational mind, saying global warming does not exit.”
The fact that an apparently smart man from the left can not distinguish between beliefs derived from the mimetic process from beliefs based on hard science and observation is appalling. While scientists are usually very intelligent people, science is not based on reason or logic but on the results of experiments. Scientists are not prophets or gurus. Most fundamental scientific breakthroughs are the result of skeptical minds who question the existing paradigm and propose new experiments to verify the new interpretation of data.
The reason people who actually use their reason and avoid the mimetic process are skeptical is because the global warming dogma is based primarily on computer models. So far the computer models have failed miserably in predicting the future. To compensate for this failure the left has made unexplained adjustments to the records
(homogenization) which inevitable end up lowering the temperatures in the past and raising the temperatures in the present. Even with those adjustments the computer models have continued to miss observed data.
I do wish we could make corrections to posts. I meant to say that Robert Kennedy is JFK’s close relative not a direct descendant.
Perhaps lawyers will band together in a professional association, then police their own profession, and in doing so, rein in this wild man with a degree.
It would help bring some measure of respectability to the profession if obvious kooks were excluded.
His Uncle should have been thrown in jail. Probably a lot more of his family too. STFU Robbie, you are irrelevant. Kennedys should just go away.
Neo – You stopped being a Democrat because being a Democrat meant having the heart I described.
Did you get a heart transplant? Yes. You call it your “change” story.
Next question.
I’ll give you credit. You will be the last German to say “Oops; maybe those Nazi guys weren’t so great after all”. Loyalty is an admirable trait; but not always.
Re Neo’s conversion.
This is probably not so much a matter of “heart” as “head”.
Neo has already explained that while her heart was liberal in the sense it was soft, her head was unable to accept the antinomies implicit in modern liberalism, once she began to think through the issues.
The modern liberal heart is less soft than socialist, less liberal than managerial; though it promises to satisfy the soft-hearted if they simply place their trust in the vanguard class and its programs, and don’t think too long or too hard about the actual mechanics of the process, or what is logically implies for their own somewhat fuzzy aims as hopeful followers.
Neo if I understand her properly, was a “let’s all be nice” liberal living in a circle on mostly the same: just like many of those with whom she is still in contact. The difference is that her head eventually impelled her in another direction.
As for Simon, I know little or nothing of him, so I cannot put the pieces of his “conversion” together or “opine” on what it really means.
As a woman I had some antagonistic discussions with once grudgingly remarked, (paraphrase) “The one good thing I can say about libertarians is that they really don’t care about you; and if they will do nothing for you, they will leave you alone at least. ”
Liberals are not libertarians, as we all know.
I wish vaccinations had not become politicized. I am vaccine-sensitive and there are many sensitives in my family. Sensitivity clearly does not follow political lines, because here I am, a conservative. And this is where many conservatives become totalitarian, i.e., everyone should be forced to have vaccinations. Weird.
Here’s the house RFK Jr. will be sharing with his new (third) wife in Malibu:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2765736/Robert-F-Kennedy-Jr-Cheryl-Hines-s-5-million-Malibu-mansion-complete-recording-studio-two-storey-tree-house.html
$5 million, carbon footprint not included!
Priceless.
RFK,Jr, the Lefty Clown Pinhead says above: “(Koch Brothers)…make themselves billionaires while IMPOVERISHING the rest of us.”
Please File Immediately Under: CANNOT Possibly Make This S*** Up!!
“Impoverished” are ya, Bobby,you insufferable, blathering Pinhead? Uh-Huuuuhhhhh…!!
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Oh, and Bobby Honey, when’s the last time your vastly rich clan built a $100,000,000 Children’s Hospital?? The Kochs did that and far, far more Good Things.
The fact that JFK, who was probably a decent man, has such a contemptible heir is a sad commentary on the moral destitution of the left.
You ever notice what Reagan junior was doing? The blood one, not the adopted scion.
It’s a matter of fact that aristocratic tradition produces… bad stuff. Aristocracy was a kind of human breeding system, to produce leaders. These days, bottom up crowd sourced methods are far superior to the aristocratic system of excellence. Maybe because that system broke down in WWI, since most of the best ‘blood’ got themselves killed.
Lulu,
It’s split. Some of us believe in absolute individual determination and free will. Others take the advice of the Political and Doctor Credentials as being the Word of Science and God. But things will change on that matter sooner or later, especially with ObamaCare.
Once the doctors start killing and euthanizing the useless, people will have to think for themselves or perish. Credentials won’t be worth what they paid for in college. In fact, if you aren’t Ivy, it isn’t worth it now except for some.
Most of the standard criticism, which isn’t even a policy or bill, is that the Left likes to use alternative science to the vaccination proven science. Even though the issue is bipartisan, since conservatives don’t like seeing systemic shock due to allergies to vaccination either in their family.
Foster, for example. One of many. Just, not the high profile targets. Those are too useful to be dispensed with, until a Stalin steps forward.
Just manufacture some Democrats criticizing the Prophet as a homosexual and child rapist. Watch what happens then. If HC Rodham can make fake videos from their Muslim agent, so can other people.
neo-neocon, @ 9:38 pm:
To be more precise about Democrats:
There are plenty of people of goodwill in the lower ranks. But the party apparatus acts as a filtering mechanism. Almost all people of goodwill are screened out, because they aren’t sufficiently loyal to the party first.
This is the same mechanism in many corrupt movements. It’s why you can’t find many moderate Muslims to speak out against extremism.
The good ones have no power, and so are functionally irrelevant.
As far as the AGW crowd and Kennedy, they know that AGW is losing credibility. They can feel their religion slipping away.
This is them lashing out. The good thing is, nutty totalitarianism on display is not a turn-on for most voters.
I am vaccine-sensitive and there are many sensitives in my family.
I’m assuming you are talking medically here. There are people who absolutely should NOT be taking vaccines. People who have immunity disorders, for instance. People who are allergic to say, chicken eggs. That is not who people are talking about when they have concerns that children are not being vaccinated. The more vaccinated people there are, the less the likely of an outbreak, which benefits those people with compromised immune systems who cannot take vaccines as well.
The problem here is bad science scaring people from vaccinated their children, which leads to more of diseases we had formerly been rid of, which are more damaging to society as a whole than the vaccinations ever could be.
Now, I’m talking here about the old school vaccines, not the new ones.