Comments on: Because witches come not singly but in covens

By: mattS

mattS — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:13:47 +0000

In reply to David C. David, Forget proving beyond a reasonable doubt that they knew they were wrong. Proving beyond a reasonable doubt that they were wrong would be impossible.

By: David C

David C — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:49:00 +0000

You can’t claim your product causes no harm if it does cause harm and you know it causes harm, right?

If it can be proven that they were saying things they *knew* were false to put their product in a positive light, then that would at the least be false advertising. But if we cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they knew they were wrong, then we should not prosecute.

By: HFB

HFB — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:35:31 +0000

In reply to wfjag.

Wfjag,

I believe that if you “found” the opposite from what you stated (read: guessed/modeled/pulled-out-of-your-nether-regions) and then made the above statements anyway, they may try it. Nay, Nay…they would definitely try it.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:13:44 +0000

If Justice assents, this will complete the transformation of the Justice Dep’t into a wing of the Democratic party.

I doubt that even Lynch will obey the request…but the message to Exxon is clear.

By: wfjag

wfjag — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:38:47 +0000

Let’s see if I understand this First Amendment thingie?

If I wear the uniform of a military service in which I’ve never served, grant myself a rank I never was promoted to, and wear medals, badges and ribbons showing valor and honorable service which I never performed, the First Amendment protects me against prosecution.

However, if I note that the computer programs relied upon by the IPCC provide results wildly at variance from reality, reveal that data from ice cores covering several hundred thousand years shows that the variation in the climate now being experienced is well within norms, discuss that the slight warming since the Little Ice Age and increase in atmospheric CO2 has resulted in longer growing seasons and crop yields of 10% to 20%+, or state that the current average temperature now being experienced is slightly below the average for the Holocene epoch — all of which are objectively verifiable facts — I can be prosecuted for having the wrong position on the issues.

We must be having a “Failure to Communicate” moment.