Should we jail politicians who refuse to take global warming seriously?
Is that a fascist approach?
There is (or was) a discussion about those issues here.
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Related -
- "Climate criminals 'arrested' in Ottawa" - October, 2007
- "Greenpeace activists arrested but Harper [deemed] the real climate criminal" - March, 2007
Greenpeace also has used that language while criticizing Exxon -
"Exxon: has climate criminal #1 seen the light?" - January, 2007
Of course, the label "criminal," in these cases, isn't associated with existing laws. It's more of a rhetorical move -- though that language also implies that leading us toward global warming should be against the law.
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I'm not going to take a position on all of this -- not right now, anyway.
Toban Black
(http://tobanblack.net/blog/)