Meet Fidel Lockyer
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Thanks again to The Examiner for a great editorial yesterday that called our attention to a fairly extraordinary step taken by California's Attorney General Bill Lockyer to intimidate people who don't agree with him.
The topic is one of our faves, global warming. In response to a lawsuit filed by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, among others, seeking to block new onerous regs from Sacramento, Lockyer has demanded that all the plaintiffs reveal and and all contact they have had with a group he calls, "The climate skeptics." These folks, contends Lockyer, have spread, "disinformation" on the topic of global warming.
OK, so who are these people? They are at least three well-respected -- and well-credentialed -- climatologists who happen not to buy into the global warming hysteria. They have not been shy about sharing their opinions on the matter, either, and at least one has written a few well-reasoned op-eds in the Wall Street Journal recently. But to Lockyer, the fact that they disagree with the King, that they are ruining a great global warming buzz, it just adds up to so much "disinformation" and so he says, "off with their heads!" Funny how facts and science can become "disinformation" in the wrong hands. Pay no attention to the man behind that curtain!
It does put one in mind of a certain ailing dictator, doesn't it? In fact, Fidel doesn't really tolerate dissent and would likely take the same steps to intimidate any free flow or debate of ideas. For our part, we welcome the work of these scientists and think maybe Generalissimo Lockyer should turn his attention toward a more pressing question, like what the proper temperature of the earth should be.
Stephen Milloy has some of the pre-trial discovery motion here, Amy Ridenour had a nice play on Galileo here and Investor's Business Daily had an equally good editorial here.
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My gut reaction, as a litigator, is that when you file a lawsuit all kinds of stuff is fair game. But I can't see any possible relevance here unless they intend to call these guys as expert witnesses. Lockyer's just using the discovery process to settle a vendetta.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
Remember his jocular comments about his support for extrajudicial punishment, i.e., prison rape? From Tom G. Palmer at Cato, five years ago:
Here's what California Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer said at a press conference about Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay: "I would love to personally escort Lay to an 8-by-10 cell that he could share with a tattooed dude who says, 'Hi, my name is Spike, honey."'Here's why Lockyer should be removed from his office of public trust: First, because as the chief law enforcement officer of the largest state in the nation, he not only has admitted that rape is a regular feature of the state's prison system, but also that he considers rape a part of the punishment he can inflict on others.
Second, because he has publicly stated that he would like to personally arrange the rape of a Texas businessman who has not even been charged with any illegal behavior.
Lockyer's remarks reveal him to be an authoritarian thug, someone wholly unsuited to holding an office of public trust.
I'm not surprised that this has been going on. The Left has had its tentacles into the judicial branch of our government for quite some time now. How else would they get such rulings as the Keelo decision, Roe v. Wade and the one which forced busing on state school districts?
The trend now is for Leftist lawyers to begin acting as the Inquisition against Republicans, conservatives and anyone who just happens not to fit their "Politically Correct" box. Imagine what'll start happening should the moonbats get their wishes in this election cycle or the next.
"Straight Talk Express"? My bum feet! -- Me, on Senator McCain and other "moderates"
of prosecutorial misconduct. He makes Ronnie Earl look competent.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.