NY AG Schneiderman Launches the Climate Witch Trials

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Once a witch-hunter catches the scent of a suspected witch--better watch out! It struck us as we read about the drummed up false charges New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is alleging against ExxonMobil--charges that the company has knowingly made false statements about their own complicity and contribution to mythical climate change--just how doomed we really are to repeat history. Schneiderman's actions reminded us of something, and then we found it: "Rebecca Nurse, a sick and elderly woman of seventy-years old, stood for examination before the court on charges of practicing witchcraft on March 24, 1692. Judge John Hathorne, assisted by Judge Jonathan Corwin, conducted the examination in the meeting house of Salem Village before a crowd of people from Salem Village. The examination of "Goody Nurse" developed into a spectacle worthy of the attendance of so many onlookers, as a number of afflicted women launched into "grevious fitts" and openly denounced Rebecca Nurse as the cause of their torment. In the end, after one of the great confrontations between an accused and the infamous Judge Hathorne, the Judges found cause to bind Rebecca Nurse over for trial after which she was executed on Gallows Hill on July 19, 1692." (University of Virginia). We're facing the Salem Witch Trials all over again--some 323 years later. Apparently we didn't learn anything the first time around. MDN calls Schneiderman's current campaign the Climate Witch Trials--the prosecution and persecution of innocent companies based on a false belief that mankind causes global warming by burning fossil fuels. Now we learn Schneiderman may be gunning for more than just ExxonMobil...

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