Radicals Want to Prosecute Big Oil for Murder re Heat-Related Deaths

Public Citizen, a tax-exempt non-profit based in Washington, D.C., and founded by Ralph Nader, is about as far left as a group can go. It’s left of Vladimir Putin (and we’re not joking). Earlier this week, Public Citizen issued a “prosecution memo” (copy below), which is a 50-page report structured like the memos that prosecutors compile before issuing an indictment. The memo purports to make the case for charging oil companies with murder over heat-related deaths. It is STARK…RAVING…MAD. We suppose nothing should surprise us anymore when it comes to the radicalized left, but this one does. Once again, as has happened throughout history, leftists seek to jail (or execute) those who disagree with their twisted view of the world. That’s what this is.
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